A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Kate Edwards uses a geopolitical issue to consider the many “unknown risks” of generating media content within the modern context of global business, product creation, and community interaction across boundaries.
Read moreIn this article, Jeremy Wade Morris writes about the importance of archiving audio on the Internet and the absences in current web archives.
Read moreLooking at the most recent issues of the “New Super-Man” comic series, Woo analyzes and codes the paratextual promotional material to assess the relative value of fans to the comics industry.
Read moreDr. Adrienne Massanari discusses how the “alt-right” deploy the term “Social Justice Warrior” and what it has come to mean and represent in online discourses.
Read moreJuan Llamas-Rodriguez considers how the aesthetic fetishism of subway design risks distorting the materiality of and politics of transportation and communication infrastructure.
Read moreTim Havens discusses newer developments in high-end transnational television dramas, specifically noting the turn toward a stronger sense of place through “conspicuous localism.”
Read more(CLICK THE IMAGE TO VIEW THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM) The 2018 Flow Conference showcases some of the exciting topics that will be discussed in our 31 roundtable panels this year, including the preservation of television and the precarity of streaming media, theorizations of digital and analog flows, and the representational shifts of a transnational media landscape, to name just a few. […]
Read morePatty Ahn explores the dichotomous feelings captured in K-Pop and “Arirang,” their relation to South and North Korea’s national and global identities, and the role each musical iteration played in Team Korea’s presentation at the PyeongChang Olympics.
Read moreRamon Lobato discusses the emergence of IPTV (internet protocol television) piracy and considers the trend’s implications for global television markets, cultures, and flows.
Read moreElizabeth Affuso considers Taylor Swift’s use of banal imaging via social media as a promotional technique.
Read morePaul Reinsch explores the complicated definition of soundtracks, and its meaning for the media industries more widely.
Read moreJorie Lagerwey and Taylor Nygaard analyze Broad City as a case study for the racial discourses of female friendships in television’s Horrible White People comedies.
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