Battlestardom: Conversations with Mary McDonnell
FlowTV welcomes acclaimed actress Mary McDonnell in this event summary and extended interview about her perspectives on Laura Roslin and Battlestar Galactica.
Read moreOnline Fun Comes with a Cost
Spoilers at the Digital Utopia Party: The WGA and Students Now
Production students’ thoughts on entertainment guilds, and the rhetoric of digital utopianism, is examined in the context of the WGA strike.
Read moreI Never Promised You A Rose: Exposing the Unreality of the Dating-Reality Program
How an honest decision on a dating show lays bare the falsity of reality programs and the complicity of the audience.
Read moreMobility, Mobilities and Communication Studies
The place of “mobility” and “mobilities” in Communication Studies.
Television, Film and Creative Labor
An examination of labor and class in the fields of television and film.
Launch Texts, Rebound Texts and Commentary Montage: Al Gore’s Appearance at the 2007 Academy Awards
Bernard Timberg, Erick Green, and Hsaio Chu / East Carolina University
A look at how Al Gore’s appearance at the Academy Awards was reprocessed by other texts in the twenty-four hour period after it was aired.
Read moreBecoming the Other: Multiculturalism in Joss Whedon’s Angel
Due to both its location and characters, Angel can be viewed as politically progressive commentary on immigration.
Read moreNew Flow Conference Poll
New Poll on Proposed Flow Conference Date Conflicting with Yom Kippur.
Technofetishized TV: CSI, Bones, and ReGenesis as Science Fiction Television?
Contemporary science fiction series question the bounds of the genre and the rise of infallible technology.
Missing in Time: Madeleine McCann and the Media
How Madeleine went missing in an inundation of media coverage.
Huntsman v. Soderbergh and Copyright Law
How companies such as Cleanflix and Clearplay have led to new interpretations of copyright law and fair use.