This Issue on Flow (24 June 2005)
by: Elliot Panek / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 7.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
This Issue on Flow (24 June 2005)
by: Elliot Panek / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 7.
Some Good News about the News: 5 Reasons Why ‘Fake’ News is Better than Fox ‘News’
by: Brian Ott / Colorado State University
There is no more destructive, deleterious, and dangerous institution in society today than the mainstream news media.
Why Fiske Still Matters
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Despite Aniko Bodroghkozy’s claim that McChesney “rules”, Fiske still matters.
Legal Fictions
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)
by: David Gurney / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 5.
Pass the Remote: The iGeneration
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)
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
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.
Pass the Remote: Catch and Release
by: Chris Terry, Cate Racek, and Cory Maclauchlin
What’s the appeal of fishing shows?
Evaluating TV Smarts in the Public Sphere
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Steven Johnson (Everything Bad is Good for You) writes that television can be a “cognitive workout.” Whose television is he talking about?
“Roswell! Roswell! The People Have a Right to Know!”: The State of Fluff, part 2.
by: Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University
“Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing,” serves as an example of the state of network news reporting.
This Week on Flow (April 29, 2005)
by: Marnie Binfield and Bryan Sebok / FLOW Staff
Welcome to FLOW.