Embodied
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
A consideration of the various uses of mediums in the new Patricia Arquette series Medium.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Embodied
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
A consideration of the various uses of mediums in the new Patricia Arquette series Medium.
The Loss of Value (or the Value of Lost)
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
I wish to make a claim that may be the most controversial position as yet argued in Flow‘s brief but vibrant first year: Lost is the best show on American broadcast television.
“Can There Be Television Without Star Trek?”
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman
Canceling shows such as Enterprise is amputating parts of our collective history with television.
Northeastern India: Satellite TV’s Forgotten Spectator
by: Kallol Bhattacherjee / Jawaharlal Nehru University
Did satellite TV help to change the identity of Northeastern India?
Evaluating TV Smarts in the Public Sphere
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Steven Johnson (Everything Bad is Good for You) writes that television can be a “cognitive workout.” Whose television is he talking about?
The Seeds of Doom?
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
What the new Doctor Who can tell us about the machinations of cultural globalization.
The Media and Death: The Case of Terri Schiavo and the Pope
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
Why does the “Culture of Life” movement reek of death?
Disappointment and Disgust, or Teaching?
by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
Is ‘disappointment’ and ‘the teaching of disgust’ the ‘core of our discipline’? Or might teaching better be accomplished by inspiring positive civic action. Either way, doesn’t reality TV do it better than we do?
This Week on Flow
by: Chris Lucas and Avi Santo / Coordinating Editors
Welcome to the first issue of Flow Volume 2.
Television For Swing States
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How television can help to create common ground among citizens.
Terrordome
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
A consideration of the dynamics of cable cop shows The Shield and Kojak.
Everything Will Flow
by: Will Brooker / Richmond University
In an article from 2000, seeking a word to describe the cross-platform convergence of early 21st century popular culture…I fixed on “overflow” as an update of Raymond Williams’ 1974 coinage, “flow.”