Flow Favorites: Gaycoms in a Progressive Age? Partners and The New Normal
Stephen Tropiano / Ithaca College
Obama, Partners, The New Normal, and the question of marriage equality.
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Flow Favorites: Gaycoms in a Progressive Age? Partners and The New Normal
Flow Favorites: Ethics of Exposure
Brad Gyori / Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy
A consideration for reality stars’ expected ethics and behavior.
Read moreFlow Favorites: Downtown Abbey and Mad Men: The End of the World as We Know It
Kristen Hatch / University of California Irvine
Between the relations of subordination and domination in the American south and the English countryside.
Read moreA (Last?) Word on Incompletion
Sarah Keller / Colby College
Current Calls
Flow Calls for Proposals: Volume 27, Special Issue #2: “Essentials, Dilemmas, and ProTips: Teaching Media Studies” Our second Special Issue of Volume 27 welcomes submissions on media studies pedagogy. For consideration, completed 1200-1500 word columns must be submitted by Friday, February 19th. The full-text of our CFP is below and a PDF is available. Please share! CALL FOR PAPERSFlow Volume […]
Read moreEditorial team
Below is a list of the editorial staff members working to publish the current volume (27) during the 2020-2021 academic calendar year. Managing Editors Maggie Steinhauer Nathan Rossi Senior Editors Laura Brown Ash D’Harcourt Paxton Haven Andy Fischer Wright Brett Siegel Social Media Manager Laura Springman Column Editors Haden Edmonds Eric Forthun Lily Kunda Maria Skouras Jackson Wright Ryan Briggs […]
Read moreWaking People Up, pt. II: Because There’s a War on For Your Mind
Michael Kackman / Independent Scholar
Radio and the move of fringe politics into the mainstream.
Read moreThe Great Wikipedia Blackout, The Stop Online Piracy Act, and You
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln
What underlie the Internet blackout are protection of content on the one hand and freedom of access and information on the other.
Read moreRepresentation, Politics and Publics
Herman Gray / University of California Santa Cruz
In selecting Sharpton to anchor MSNBC clearly aims to challenge its main competitor, Fox News, and to cultivate brand visibility among liberal audiences, especially African Americans.
Read moreSpying while “Black”: The curious failure of The Undercovers
Camille DeBose / DePaul University
Perhaps the curious failure of the Undercovers highlights our own failure to see blackness in all its diversity. More importantly it highlights the effects of an unwillingness to produce diverse representations of blackness in media with black Americans being complicit in that failure.
Read moreUndercompensated Labor in Life in a Day
William J. Moner / FLOW Staff
Life in a Day relies on the labor of the “crowd” to achieve its groundbreaking achievement, but fails to provide fair compensation to the members of the crowd willing to share the products of their creative labor.
Read moreFlow Favorites: Modern Family, Glee, and the Limits of Television Liberalism
Alexander Doty / Indiana University
Jessalynn Keller’s Flow Favorite: Alexander Doty’s column on the 2010 Emmy broadcast reveals the tensions of a liberal politics of representation in the shows Glee and Modern Family.
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