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Finance, Decadence, and Me You Madness
Andrew deWaard / University of California, San Diego

Andrew deWaard discusses how Louise Linton reflects the issues surrounding capitalism both on and off-screen.

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And You Love The Game: Stream-Pop as a Never-Ending Scavenger Hunt
Eric Harvey / Grand Valley State University

Eric Harvey discusses how contemporary music stardom pulls fans and commentators into a rabbit hole of never-ending engagement.

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The Higher the Hair, The Closer to God: On Queen Charlotte’s Wigs
Jacqueline Johnson / University of Pittsburgh

Jacqueline Johnson examines the deeper significance of the wigs in Netflix’s Queen Charlotte.

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Extreme Weather as Everyday Genre in Subway Flood Videos
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez / University of Pennsylvania

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez explores how subway flood videos transform extreme weather from spectacle into genre. As infrastructure crumbles under climate-induced disasters, viewers shift between individual frustration and collective crisis awareness. These videos blend intimate, smartphone-captured perspectives with a wider, omniscient view of urban vulnerability, bridging personal experience with public crisis. In doing so, they force audiences to confront their roles in a destabilising climate.

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Legal Fictions

June 10, 2005 Eric M. Greenfield 54 comments

by: Eric M. Greenfield
What the law has to say about the distortion of character that is a staple of fact-based entertainment.

This Issue on Flow (27 May 2005)

May 27, 2005 David M. Gurney / Northwestern One comment

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

Media Studies for the Hell of It?: Second Thoughts on McChesney and Fiske

May 27, 2005 Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia 25 comments

by: Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia
Why and how do you study media?

Pass the Remote: The iGeneration

May 27, 2005 Jessica Birthisel, Lindsay Bosch, and Beth Bonnstetter One comment

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

The Loss of Value (or the Value of Lost)

May 27, 2005 Jason Mittell / Middlebury College 14 comments

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.

I Got Plenty of Nothing (and Nothing’s Plenty for Me): Television’s Politics of Abundance

May 27, 2005 Dana Polan / New York University 4 comments

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.

“Can There Be Television Without Star Trek?”

May 27, 2005 Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman 3 comments

by: Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman
Canceling shows such as Enterprise is amputating parts of our collective history with television.