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by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
Mimi White explores the differences and similarities between television as an everyday practice in the U.S. and in Finland upon returning from abroad.

by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
A report back from the live Contender finale, which turns out to be a familial arena as much as a fighting one.

by: Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Megan Mullen unwraps the ideological twist underneath the nostalgic programming strategies and family oriented programs delivered by AmericanLife TV.

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.

by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
The troubling ironies of GE’s “ecoimagination” campaign.

by: Elliot Panek / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 7.

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.

by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK
Is Austrialian television closer to American or British TV?

by: Brian Ott / Colorado State University
There is no more destructive, deleterious, and dangerous institution in society today than the mainstream news media.

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?