Playing in the Technological Sandbox
by: Rochelle Rodrigo / Mesa Community College
On the value of “play” in the course of implementing new technologies in the classroom.
Leader of the Pack: The Charisma of The Dog Whisperer
by: Mary Desjardins / Dartmouth College
The Dog Whisperer might be telling us just as much about the gendered behavior of humans as it does how to control the behavior of our four-legged companions.
Life’s So Good When You Have a Credit Card
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
Spectacles of Youth and Entitlement on My Super Sweet Sixteen and Tiara Girls.
What’s Happening on the Soaps? And Why Should We Care?
by: Elana Levine / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The paradoxically expanding and shrinking world of daytime soap operas.
Continued: An Interview with Student Writers and Filmmakers
by: Marnie R. Binfield and Jean A. Lauer / University of Texas
A Supplement to The Velvet Light Trap issue on Authorship: An interview with student filmmakers and screenwriters who also teach filmmaking at the University of Texas. Part 2 of 2.
Editorial Special Feature: An Interview with Student Writers and Filmmakers
by: Marnie R. Binfield and Jean A. Lauer / FLOW Staff
A Supplement to The Velvet Light Trap issue on Authorship: An interview with student filmmakers and screenwriters who also teach filmmaking at the University of Texas.
The Dancer or the Dance?: Uses of Television and Video
by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar
Internationally acclaimed dance troupe Capacitor uses video to add texture and depth to performances.
Enforced Talk: Crime and Confessional in Family Forensics
by: Yvonne Tasker / University of East Anglia
What revelations does Family Forensics uncover?
“New Media”? Please Define.
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
New gaming systems are acting as sites of hyper-convergence for media. But is media convergence all that “new”? Should we be reconsidering the “new” in “new media”?
Zoey 101 and the Tween Supertext Circa 2006
by: Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside
A new aggressive commercialization in TV programming is in tune to a new multiple-technology and multiple-platform entertainment that most in the electronic entertainment industries believe is the wave of the future.
Buy Robot
by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
The mimicking of commercial promotional forms to hawk fictional wares has become a potent tool for the creation of verisimilitude in entertainment.
Fox News and the Redefinition of “Objectivity” in U.S. News Media
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas at Austin
In the world of 24-hour cable news, Fox News has emerged as the dominant channel by redefining journalistic “objectivity” as only a path toward a greater goal.