What is Commercialism?
by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
What is exactly wrong with for-profit television industries? Thomas Streeter refocuses the conversation over the dangers of commercialism.
Little Green Men
by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
The troubling ironies of GE’s “ecoimagination” campaign.
Postfeminism Lost and Found: Tracking the “Runaway Bride”
by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
Diane Negra discusses the media coverage of the “runaway bride.”
This Issue on Flow (24 June 2005)
by: Elliot Panek / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 7.
Discovering the Art of Television’s Endings
by: Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh
A consideration of the aesthetics of the television season finale.
Flowers Powers: Mars or Venus?
by: John Hartley/ Queensland University of Technology
Is media studies in need of planetary realignment? Or, how learning to appreciate Benny Hill might solve the Fiske/McChesney divide.
TV Down Under
by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK
Is Austrialian television closer to American or British TV?
Some Good News about the News: 5 Reasons Why ‘Fake’ News is Better than Fox ‘News’
by: Brian Ott / Colorado State University
There is no more destructive, deleterious, and dangerous institution in society today than the mainstream news media.
What Do We Want from TV Studies?
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
On a practical level, how do we as scholars, teachers, and activists manage to address the many facets of TV today? What do we want from TV Studies?
If We Are So Smart….
by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
How can media studies address television’s impact on contemporary politics? A further consideration of the political economy/cultural studies debate.
This issue on Flow (10 June 2005)
by: Susan R. Pearlman / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 6.
Evaluation, Analysis, Reform, and the Peabody Awards
by: Horace Newcomb / University of Georgia
On the purpose of media studies and the many guises of reform.