Flow

by: Elliot Panek, Kristen Grant and Elaine Baumgartel
Considering the internet as a primary news source.

by: Michael Curtin / University of Wisconsin-Madison
Four concrete suggestions for reforming media.

by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Despite Aniko Bodroghkozy’s claim that McChesney “rules”, Fiske still matters.

by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
A consideration of the various uses of mediums in the new Patricia Arquette series Medium.

by: Anna McCarthy / New York University
Why the recent interest in British comedy? McCarthy examines the BBC’s Benny Hill Show marathon, Little Britain, and The Office.

by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
How digital creative tools blur the lines between fantasy and reality, creation and cutting-and-pasting, and why that might not be such a good thing.

by: David Gurney / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 5.

by: Jessica Birthisel, Lindsay Bosch, and Beth Bonnstetter
A consideration of the Internet generation’s experience of human-to-human relations.

by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
I wish to make a claim that may be the most controversial position as yet argued in Flow‘s brief but vibrant first year: Lost is the best show on American broadcast television.

by: Dana Polan / New York University
Increasingly, U. S. television reveals itself to have a voracious appetite for material, and there seems to be no limits to its ability to generate new subject matter. There is no visuality or topic so eccentric that television can’t go after them.