A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Lesley 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.
Read moreLane Mann looks into SVOD audience constructions, brand strategies, and definitions of success in order to understand the industry’s ever-changing views of audiences.
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 moreBritta Hanson examines the politics of cross-dressing and gender-bending performance on the popular show Lip Sync Battle, which ultimately contains such performances and reifies heteronormative gender roles.
Read moreSelena Dickey analyzes the way industry rhetoric shaped understandings of new telecommunication satellite technology and Hawaii’s regional identity, often configured as both a part of the domestic and apart from it.
Read moreKaitie Hilburn examines the dual role of gamers as both performers and audience within the speedrunning community using the charity marathon Games Done Quick as a case study.
Read moreThe reveal trailers for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Battlefield 1 have become the most disliked and liked trailers on YouTube, respectively. Cameron Lindsey thinks this says less about the games themselves, and more about the marketing.
Read moreDylan Levy examines the shōjo image through the character Mima and her alter-ego in Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue .
Read moreFlow 2016 is organized by a committee of PhD and Master’s students in the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow Conference 2016: Co-Coordinators: Kate Cronin Selena Dickey Laura Felschow Britta Hanson Pete Kunze Dylan Levy Cameron Lindsey Anne Major Tim Piper Yang Wang Lesley Willard Hannah Whitman Kyle Wrather
Read moreWhitten Overby continues his series on Mad Men, this time arguing how the show provides a “televisual geneology” of neoliberalism through characters Don Draper and Peggy Olson.
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