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by: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe / Manchester Metropolitan University
Within the context of religious fundamentalism and right wing politics, HBO’s Big Love offers up some surprising critiques of feminism and female relationships. Here, women are represented as a source of empowerment as well as a site of feminine censure and policing.

by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
While the ability to watch an hour of prime time television in forty-two minutes, at four in the morning, in a plane,
on a mobile phone, is certainly a break from an earlier era of television, celebrations of temporal mutability have overshadowed the importance of a related phenomenon
— temporal conspicuity.

by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University

The media has succeeded at channeling advertisers’ messages and at creating a world where labor is decentered, consumption is centered, and good
parenting is done with a credit card.

by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology

We hear that convergence technologies such as BitTorrent are going to change television viewing habits and allow for personal schedules. But is it really true?

by: Flow Staff
Let us know what you think in our Flow Poll.

by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
Britain’s Jeremy Kyle demonstrates why television’s need to maximize emotional performances and responses means that producers invest in those most likely to offer confessional behaviour for public consumption.

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Canadian television texts and the field of Canadian television studies appear to be enjoying a surge of development and visibility, but there is one major stumbling block to this work… there is no archive of Canadian television where materials could be made available to the public, scholarly or otherwise.

by: Joan Hawkins / Indiana University, Bloomington

The fact that rural dish users reside in the country whose culture—without the dish—is so frequently unavailable to them is one of the things we need to
take into account when we discuss audience.

by: Ray Cha / Independent Scholar

YouTube and other video on demand services are changing the terms of television programming and distribution, as well as control and access over
televisual material.

by: Olivier Tchouaffe / FLOW Staff

The recent media focus on former child soldiers from Africa serves to not only draw attention to the plight of similar youths, but make a compelling argument in favor of
pacifist politics.