A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
The YouTube Community
by: John McMurria / DePaul University
While the idealization of YouTube as a self-organizing, radically democratic community for sharing clip culture certainly helped to buffer what could be considered an act of selling “the community” as property to corporate giant Google, the image of YouTube as a revolutionary alternative to corporate media culture has nevertheless been a powerful one.
How Do I Explain This?
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.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: Channeling Howard Beale
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?
Segregados: Why it is OK to Ignore Spanish-Speaking 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.
Paris Hilton–Anthropologist: The Production of Cross-Cultural Difference in First-Person Adventure Television
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.
Wasn’t That Show Cancelled? – part two
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?
Cold Case: Ripped from the Headlines
by: Melissa Jane Hardie / University of Sydney
The proliferation of “ripped from the headline stories” impose the task of harmonising “real” events into more predictable narratives of frustration.
Editorial: Performing Politics
by: Nick Marx / FLOW Staff
Can Stephen Colbert bully Democrats back into power this midterm?
Welcome to Flow, Volume 5
by: Marnie Binfield and Matt Payne / FLOW Coordinating Editors
See what the new volume has in store.
How TV Met Narrative Sophistication
by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
That atypical narrative strategies now appear, without fanfare, in successful if unremarkable mainstream broadcast shows demonstrates that television may be ready to fulfill its potential as a sophisticated narrative medium.
Redefining Television
by: Ray Cha / Independent Scholar
Advances in technology require new uses of old phrases.
Wall to Wall
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
Why would hundreds of millions of people around the world watch Dallas? What strange hypnotism could it exude? It must, of course, be an expression of the unfettered power of America to impose its own culture on that of other countries. What other reason could there be for its success?