An Analog Form in a Digital Box: Sitcoms, Mitcoms, and New Media Pliancy
by: Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister / University of Arizona
Everyone Frags Raymond — When Computer Games & TV Forms Collide
War, Incendiary Media, and International Law (Part I)
by: John Nguyet Erni / City University of Hong Kong
The first of a three part series on media and warfare from a human rights perspective, this column focuses on defining what media/information intervention is.
by: Marnie R. Binfield and Bryan Sebok / FLOW Staff
It is with heavy hearts and deep sympathy for the victims of Katrina that the editors of FLOW usher in our third volume.
Teen Choice Awards: Better Than The Emmys?
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
Hidden behind the surfboards is an awards show that celebrates much of what the Emmys have overlooked.
Bring the War Home: Iraq War Stories from Steven Bochco and Cindy Sheehan
by: Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia
What Over There and the coverage of Cindy Sheehan can tell us about who has a stake in the current war in Iraq.
Celebrity Nepotism, Family Values and E! Television
by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
A closer look at families, wealth and Filthy Rich Cattle Drive.
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Global Frequency and the future of fan communities.
To Have and Have not (You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone)
by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
The afterlife of Dead Like Me on Australian cable television and the pleasures and perturbances of watching an already-in-the-grave series.
by: David Golumbia / University of Virginia
David Golumbia takes the Lost discussion one step further.
How Much Do I Love myTunes? Allow Me to List the Ways…
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
With the proliferation of mp3 players, CD burners and cheap CD-Rs the art of the mix is practiced now more than ever.
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
For better or worse, contemporary TV dramas ask a lot of their audiences.
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
Building on his last column, Jason Mittell offers up a gripping example of evaluative criticism to support his claim that “Lost is the best show on American broadcast TV.