Flow

by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar
Internationally acclaimed dance troupe Capacitor uses video to add texture and depth to performances.

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”?

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.

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.

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.

By: Marnie R. Binfield and Jean A. Lauer / The University of Texas at Austin
In the next two issues of Flow, we will be running a special feature: a two-part interview with student filmmakers and screenwriters who also teach filmmaking at the University of Texas. Look for it here in the May 12th issue (Vol. 4 Issue 5) and the May 26th issue (Vol. 4 Issue 6).

By: Amanda D. Lotz / University of Michigan
How network branding, promotion and scheduling determine the success or failure of network shows.

By: John Corner / University of Liverpool
The problem with propaganda? The misleading deployment of the term.

By: Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar
A look at the mutual influence of television between US and Britian.