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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.

by: Janet McCabe and Kim Akass
Vesuvio, Artie Bucco, and Melodramatic Melancholy on The Sopranos.

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.

by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar
At Burning Man, everywhere you look, there are art installations and art cars and art bikes and art camps and artful people.

by: Chuck Tryon / Fayetteville State University
NBC’s “quality” television offering questions the quality of television. But will it provide further insight into the institution of television?

by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
The segregation of Spanish-speaking entertainment from the rest of mainstream television serves not only as a barrier to Latino integration into American society, but also reinforces the idea that there is something logical and reasonable about segregating Spanish from our English-speaking lives.

by: Adam Fish / UCLA
With emphasis on cultural encounters, first-person, reality-based adventure television shares formal and theoretical similarities with select phases in the history and methodology of ethnography.

by: Nichola Dobson / Independent scholar based in Scotland
DVD’s sales, TV cable reruns and support from fans have been essential in the comeback of some TV programs; however these demonstrations have not worked evenly for all the cancelled shows. Which are the programming-industrial logics and politics behind a TV program’s come back?

by: Nick Marx / FLOW Staff
Can Stephen Colbert bully Democrats back into power this midterm?