A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Passion is No Ordinary Word
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
Flow, the conference, worked for the same reason that the online journal does: it simply doesn’t feel careerist in any conventional way, shape or form.
Flow Fuzzies and Forget-Me-Nots
by: Avi Santo / Old Dominion University
What will be the legacy of the Flow Conference?
Collaboration, Community, and Interdisciplinarity
by: Michael Kackman / University of Texas-Austin
Like most interesting things, the Flow Conference was an experiment. And like most experiments, it generated some unexpected results.
Considering Flow
by: Doug Battema / Western New England College
The FLOW conference tackled many of TV scholars’ favorite topics, but other aspects of the medium, such as television advertising and sports programming, need to be examined with the same critical regimen we apply to narrative, fictional programming.
by: Bernard Timberg / East Carolina University
The proposed “Citizen’s Fair Use Declaration of Rights” redefines fair use as a legal issue that has become a political issue.
“Don’t Know Much About History”:
What Counts as Historical Work in Television Studies
by: Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia
What are the parameters of scholarship in television history and why archival research matters.
Are Smart Communities Necessarily more Socially Engaged?
by: Ana Boa-Ventura / University of Texas-Austin
The FLOW panel on Public Sphere and the InCommunity event “flow” together to the extent that they both questioned alternative “places” for social responsibility and political involvement, at a time when “government” does not seem to offer that engagement anymore.
Audience Segmentation: The Lonely Crowds
by: David Marc / Syracuse University
The entertainment-industrial complex that dazzled the world for a century by attracting “the undifferentiated mass audience” has since worked to disassemble its prime creation into as many differentiated segments as marketers can imagine.
Taste and Fandom
by: Louisa Stein and Kristina Busse
Two Responses to the “Watching Television Off-Television” Roundtable.
Response to the “Taste and Television” Panel
by: Leigh H. Edwards / Florida State University
Cautionary comments about the place of taste in television studies.
Studio 60 and the Limits of Self-Critique
by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip promises a “behind the screens” look into the television industry. Here viewers sit ringside in the battle between art and commerce, as a team of actors, writers, and producers work frantically to broadcast ninety minutes of Saturday-Night-Live-style sketch comedy each week.
Intervention and the Kodak Moment
by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
Photographic objecthood, migratory patterns and the familial gaze in A&E’s Intervention