A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Alfred Martin’s Flow Favorite: Randall Livingstone challenges the myth behind the “Get a Mac” ads.
Read moreCourtney Brannon Donoghue’s Flow Favorite: Charles Acland wonders whether James Cameron’s Avatar is a “game-changer,” or business as usual?
Read morePaul Gansky’s Flow Favorite: A look at how the DVD industry’s use of packaging mirrors and contrasts that of deluxe vinyl and CD sets.
Read moreWilliam Moner’s Flow Favorite: Bridget Conor examines the politics of transnational cultural labor in last fall’s Hobbit dispute.
Read moreColin Tait’s Flow Favorite: Marshall explores the homosocial “bromance” of Alan Shore and Denny Crane in “Boston Legal” leading up to the series’ climax.
Read moreCaroline Leader’s Flow Favorite: Jayson Harsin’s exploration of WikiLeaks provides a wide shot of the famed web scandal within a larger political, global and ideological landscape. By presenting five theses, his article creates endless potential for further research.
Read moreA discussion of the role of social media in producing public exhibition spaces for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
Read moreThe final season of Friday Night Lights has concluded on DirecTV but will be resurrected in April, 2011, on NBC. This column is equal parts clear eyes and full heart in delivering the show’s eulogy.
Read moreThe myriad controversies surrounding Wikileaks holds lessons about changing relations between new and old media forms and production; attention, circulation, media capital and celebrity; political economy and journalism; and even democracy and international relations.
Read moreFans hold their objects of study to a higher standard. How can the critical study of any text succeed without the passionate and knowledgeable participation of the scholar?
Read moreIs Aca-Fandom still a useful theoretical trope? Does it privilege some objects and remove the possibility of discussing others? Is aca-fandom merely a way to justify and privilege some tastes and thus reinforce them?
Read moreIn this article, Jayson Harsin reconsiders the definition of news in response to the emergence of the rumor bomb and convergence culture.
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