A Fair Use Bill of Rights
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.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
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
Muslim-Mania and the Liberal Impulse on British TV
by: Sarita Malik / Brunel University
British factual television is widely considered to be the best in the world, yet the coverage of stories foregrounding Muslims has been both sensationalist and simplistic.
More Food for Thought…
by: Janet McCabe and Kim Akass
Vesuvio, Artie Bucco, and Melodramatic Melancholy on The Sopranos.
Editorial: A Netroots Majority
by: Katherine Haenschen / FLOW Staff
Progressive Internet groups are finally changing the political map.
by: John Corner / University of Liverpool
The limits and possibilities of political critique on Spooks.