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Finance, Decadence, and Me You Madness
Andrew deWaard / University of California, San Diego

Andrew deWaard discusses how Louise Linton reflects the issues surrounding capitalism both on and off-screen.

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And You Love The Game: Stream-Pop as a Never-Ending Scavenger Hunt
Eric Harvey / Grand Valley State University

Eric Harvey discusses how contemporary music stardom pulls fans and commentators into a rabbit hole of never-ending engagement.

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The Higher the Hair, The Closer to God: On Queen Charlotte’s Wigs
Jacqueline Johnson / University of Pittsburgh

Jacqueline Johnson examines the deeper significance of the wigs in Netflix’s Queen Charlotte.

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Extreme Weather as Everyday Genre in Subway Flood Videos
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez / University of Pennsylvania

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez explores how subway flood videos transform extreme weather from spectacle into genre. As infrastructure crumbles under climate-induced disasters, viewers shift between individual frustration and collective crisis awareness. These videos blend intimate, smartphone-captured perspectives with a wider, omniscient view of urban vulnerability, bridging personal experience with public crisis. In doing so, they force audiences to confront their roles in a destabilising climate.

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Facebook and the Return of the Repressed, or Watching Political Comedy on a Social Network
Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M – Corpus Christi

February 20, 2009 Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi 10 comments

An examination of the personalized nature of political videos on Facebook.

“Pain can be controlled: you just disconnect it”: Terminating Public Access Television
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University

February 19, 2009 Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University 4 comments

A call to action to save public access television.

**Rage Against the Machine: Does The Sarah Connor Chronicles Have a Future?**
Heather Hendershot / Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center

February 19, 2009 Heather Hendershot / Queens College 2 comments

Can a thoughtful, if depressing, sci-fi spinoff make it through its second season?

Minding the Gap: Barack Obama and the Demise of Representational Politics

February 18, 2009 Ingrid Hoofd / National University of Singapore 3 comments

Ingrid Hoofd / National University of Singapore

10 Years Younger: The Women Deemed ‘Too Old’ For TV
Lisa W. Kelly/ University of Glasgow

February 7, 2009 Lisa W. Kelly / University of Glasgow 23 comments

An analysis of the replacement of host Nicky Hambleton-Jones with the younger Myleene Klass on British series 10 Years Younger.

The Dog Whisperer as Leader of the Pack
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon

February 7, 2009 Julia Lesage / University of Oregon 8 comments

Analyzing the televisual presence of Cesar on The Dog Whisperer.

Hip To Be Square: Nerds in Media Culture
Christine Quail / McMaster University

February 7, 2009 Christine Quail / McMaster University 29 comments

An exploration of the transformation of “the nerd” in popular media and its significance in our society.

Malia Obama, Girl Photographer
Mary Celeste Kearney / University of Texas – Austin

February 7, 2009 Mary Celeste Kearney / University of Texas - Austin 11 comments

A look at how President Obama’s eldest daughter both upholds and challenges long-held notions about girls and technology.

Reality Television Is No Ground Breaking
Michela Ardizzoni / University of Colorado – Boulder

February 6, 2009 Michela Ardizzoni / University of Colorado - Boulder 13 comments

A critique of the representation of gender and relationships on Italian reality television programming.

Climate Change TV
Chris Russill / University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

February 6, 2009 Chris Russill / University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 4 comments

An inquiry into the present and future state of climate change news on television.

Nowhere to Go but Up: Redeeming HBO’s Eastbound & Down
Nick Marx / University of Wisconsin – Madison

February 6, 2009 Nick Marx / Colorado State University 9 comments

Critiquing and contextualizing HBO’S new show Eastbound & Down as the latest ‘cringe’ comedy

Top 10 TV Shows

February 6, 2009 Flow staff 5 comments

The Top 10+ TV shows of 2008.

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Finance, Decadence, and Me You Madness
Andrew deWaard / University of California, San Diego

And You Love The Game: Stream-Pop as a Never-Ending Scavenger Hunt
Eric Harvey / Grand Valley State University

The Higher the Hair, The Closer to God: On Queen Charlotte’s Wigs
Jacqueline Johnson / University of Pittsburgh

Extreme Weather as Everyday Genre in Subway Flood Videos
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez / University of Pennsylvania