A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
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. Maps of building layouts and roundtable rooms will be provided in your registration packet. Texas Union (UNB) – 2308 Whitis Ave. Site of the first Flow Conference, the Texas Union will once […]
Read moreFormer conference coordinator and journal editor (and roller-derby aficionado) Alexis Carreiro muses about the anxieties and joys of organizing the first Flow conference, and presents her ideas for three iterations of Flow – the journal, a manuscript, and biennial conference.
Read moreFaculty advisor to the inaugural Flow conference, Michael Kackman, reflects on the importance of place and space for cultivating meaningful engagement and lasting community, and suggests ways for Flow to continue fostering both.
Read moreRemembering Flow’s origins and its objective to challenge the status quo, 2006 coordinator Christopher Lucas proposes three ways for the journal and conference to continue experimenting with interdisciplinarity.
Read moreAllison Perlman, one of the organizers for the inaugural Flow conference, assesses the potential and potential difficulties of bridging the divides between diverse communities who come together for a roundtable conversation.
Read more2006 conference organizer Avi Santo discusses the origins of Flow’s “un-conference” model, and provides his thoughts on how the conference might continue to flip conference conventions by conjoining conversation and production during roundtable sessions.
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 moreThe 2016 Flow co-coordinators are proud to welcome you to our 10th anniversary conference in Austin, Texas! We hope the following information will be helpful as you plan your conference visit. Lodging and Accommodations Hotels are available in both Downtown Austin and around the University of Texas at Austin. We know that lodging in Austin can be expensive, and we […]
Read moreLesley Willard examines the industrial logics and consequences of the television industry’s creation and distribution of GIFS on Tumblr, as well as the potential implications for fandom’s gift economy.
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.
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