People I Want to Know: Twitter, Celebrity and Social Connection
Digg, Flickr, and the Colonizing of Bridging Texts
Vanessa Au / University of Washington
A consideration of the use of social media sites to contest dominant constructions of Asian Americans.
Read moreIt’s Contagious: Twitter and the Palimpsest of Authorship
Louisa Stein / San Diego State University
A consideration of fanvids, twitter, and the decontextualization of authorship.
Read moreTwitter: Democratizing the Media Versus Corporate Branding
Leigh H. Edwards / Florida State University
The Grace Case Project: An experiment in collaborative journalism using social media tools
Nadia White / University of Montana
How journalism and law students used new media to cover a landmark criminal pollution trial and discovered along the way the advantages and challenges of large group do-it-yourself journalism via social networking media.
Read moreGender in the Media Studies Blogosphere
Melissa A. Click and Nina B. Huntemann
A look at the gendering of the media scholars’ blogosphere.
Read moreObserve and Report What?
Peter Lehman / Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College
A consideration of masculinity, perversity and the spectacle of the penis in the new Jody Hill film Observe and Report.
Read moreBeing in treatment on TV
Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh
Public Television in a Small Country: the New Zealand ‘Experiment’ 20 Years On
Trisha Dunleavy / Victoria University of Wellington
A reassessment of New Zealand’s public service television experiment on the twentieth anniversary of its implementation.
Read moreInteractivity and Awkward Comedy: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Live!
Drew Morton / UCLA
Special Features CFP: Social Media
Flow Editorial Staff
Carla’s, Callie’s, and the Suárez’s Long Lost Ancestors: ESAA-TV and ¿Qué pasa U.S.A.?
Yeidy Rivero / Indiana University-Bloomington
An examination of the Emergency School Aid Act and one of its media ‘children,’ ¿Qué pasa U.S.A.?
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