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by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology

You want to work in television, do you? These seven steps might prove useful.

by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University

Presidential caricature on television has come a long way from the days of presidential impersonators on late-night talk shows or sketch comedy send-ups on Saturday Night Live. The bookending of the Bush presidency by Comedy Central’s That’s My Bush! and
Lil’ Bush announces a bold new era in the satirization
of a sitting president.

by: Flow Staff

Vote for your favorite comedic and dramatic actors and actresses in Part Two of our Emmy Nominations Poll.

by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California

In contemporary animated feature films for kids, a genre I call “pixarvolt,” certain topics which would never ever appear in adult films are central to the success and emotional impact of the narrative.

by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford

What is talent now? A starry rope-ladder to the celebrity scaffold? Or a gift? You decide…

by: Joan Hawkins / Indiana University, Bloomington

People work long hard hours in multiple jobs to make ends meet, and they frequently have little money left over for the kinds of services that many of us consider essential—services like communication.

by: Raymond Cha / Independent Scholar

Typically, stories covering telecommunications’ complex economic and regulatory issues are fifth-page Business or Technology section news items, if they get mentioned at all. However, when Google weighs in on an issue, the news media perks up.

by: Flow Staff

If you were in the other Academy, who would you vote for?

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University

The airline seat is an often-overlooked signpost of convergence — a site of convergent media, convergent functionalities, convergent spaces, and convergent
subjects.

by: Alex Munt / Macquarie University

Can the death and destruction–of the feature, of celluloid, and cinema-going–be a good thing?