A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
With the casualization of labor and the instability of the job market, precarity has become an increasingly pressing issue for both the media industries and the academy. Equally precarious is the state of preservation, as the production and circulation of media content outstrips the resources and workforce assigned to preserve it. Woven throughout and between precarity and preservation is praxis, […]
Read moreAmanda Phillips writes about the representation of masculinties, particularly through the representation of penises, the omnipresent hardness, and the always absent softness or flaccidity.
Read moreEvan Elkins discusses live television piracy, questions its disruptive power, and contrasts it with former understandings of media piracy and televisual flow.
Read moreAnnie Berke discusses Mary Tyler Moore’s portrayal of Laura Petrie to examine the fluid boundary between work and home in The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Read moreRoopali Mukherjee discusses racial (in)visibility and the modern technical malfunctions that misidentify people of color while organizing and reifying powerful epidermal schema of differentiation and discrimination.
Read moreIn his contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Colin Beckett discusses the GIF — the most visible looped media form — in relation to the conventions of early cinema, news and online journalism, and avant-garde art, as well as social media self-promotion.
Read moreDavid Uskovich, 2006 conference coordinator, recalls the effort to consider non-mainstream forms of television and media-making at the first Flow conference, and contemplates how we might discuss “radical” forms of television after a decade of technological development.
Read morePeter C. Kunze proposes greater consideration for theater within media studies, especially in an age of convergence and conglomeration.
Read moreKiwi Lanier examines the ways in which HBO’s The Leftovers allows an audience with waning participation in organized religion to explore a variety of spiritual attitudes and beliefs in a compelling fictional environment.
Read moreThe Flow 2018 organizers are proud to present our preliminary conference schedule featuring 31 roundtable panels. Check back later for more details about our receptions and other events. This year’s conference roundtables will take place at the Texas Union (UNB) and the Belo Media Center (BMC) on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Please see our conference […]
Read moreDan Herbert explores the interaction of entertainment media retail sites, particularly video rental stores, with Somali and Hmong diaspora populations over time in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN.
Read moreThank you to those who have submitted both questions and responses for this year’s Flow Conference. The response call is closed, but please continue checking in for more updates. Audience Generations: Millennials, “Becomers,” and Beyond Generational logics guide TV programming, marketing, and branding. These logics are in a state of flux as TV producers reimagine the youth audiences that come […]
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