A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Jacqueline Johnson demonstrates how looking at audience response to TV cancellations on Twitter can illustrate new themes in race and audience reception.
Read moreCasey Walker explores how Disney is using synergy between its content library and its theme parks as it prepares to launch a new streaming service to compete with Netflix.
Read moreRusty Hatchell examines the shift in economic assertions regarding runaway production in Vancouver, British Columbia through high-budget sci-fi television.
Read moreKatrina Margolis considers the genre-bending of “Jessica Jones,” it’s blending of superhero and noir conventions, and the ways this bending of genre represents larger social and political issues for audiences.
Read moreAmanda Halprin explores the role of fansubbers as linguistic gatekeepers by examining the role of fansubbers on Viki.
Read moreOutgoing Flow editor Lesley Willard compiled and contextualized UT Austin grad student coverage of the 2018 ATX TV Festival.
Read moreOnline registration is now open for the 2018 Flow Conference! In keeping with one of this year’s themes of precarity in academia, the Flow Conference planning committee has reduced the normal registration fee for graduate students and independent scholars, with an even greater savings for the early registration rate. It is the goal of the planning committee for this small […]
Read moreMichelle Cho explores the impact of multi-platform fan engagement on television consumption through K-pop boy band BTS’s fans are expanding and redefining mediated liveness.
Read moreRamon Lobato considers discoverability. Apps, portals, and platforms each have algorithms meant to surface particular content over others and media industry scholars should be paying attention.
Read moreElizabeth Affuso explores the dewy aesthetics and commodity feminism of Glossier, a makeup, media, and lifestyle brand.
Read morePaul Reinsch discusses the intricacies of audience interaction with official—and unofficial—film soundtrack albums.
Read moreJorie Lagerwey and Taylor Nygaard examine white-cast dystopias and people of color-cast utopias in contemporary sitcom aesthetics.
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