Rachel Maddow, School Marm
Janet Staiger / University of Texas at Austin
How Rachel Maddow plays the role of the “school marm” to get her point across.
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Could it Be? It’s Becoming Chic to be Geek
Mary Vanderlinden / Averett University
The Big Bang Theory, television, and geek tropes.
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Stephen Tropiano / Ithaca College
Obama, Partners, The New Normal, and the question of marriage equality.
Read more“A hole new fashion”: The Polo mint campaign in India
Shanti Kumar/University of Texas at Austin
Nestle, Polo, and the collision of high-end fashion with low-end merchandise.
Read moreBeing Guy Fieri: The “chef-dude” and the geography of a bro kitchen
Irina Mihalache / American University of Paris
Irina Mihalache explores Guy Fieri’s kitchen and demonstrates how the geography of the space and the objects in the kitchen transform a space for cooking into a space for play where even men with tattoos, 1960s red convertibles and electric guitars can feel at ease.
Read moreThe Medical Gaze, Your Health and You Black Hawk Hancock / DePaul University
Black Hawk Hancock draws attention to the ways that direct-to-consumer advertisements (DCTA) work as mirrors to induce us to think about ourselves as bodies, as selves, as patients, and as consumers.
Read moreHow We Talk About Media Refusal, Part 2: Asceticism
Laura Portwood-Stacer / New York University
Digital diets, fasts, cleanses, and the politics of asceticism.
Read morePigmalion: Animality and Failure in Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Andrew Scahill/George Mason University
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the “white trash spectacle”
Read moreFaux Gender and the New Popularity of Drag Culture
Keara Goin / FLOW Senior Editor
RuPaul’s DragU, while rejecting normative and essentialist gender roles, exposes an “ideal” femininity that is framed in notions of masculinity and leaves us with only the charades of faux gender.
Read moreProstitution or Oprah: The Impact of Dichotomous Images of Black WomenMary Vanderlinden/Averett University
Mary Vanderlinden shares the results of her study on the influence of televisual portrayals of professional women on college-age African American women.
Read moreThe Hunger Games and Obama’s “Post-racial” America
Camille Debose / DePaul University
A consideration of post-racial America through the lens of The Hunger Games.
Read moreComedy and the Social Contract: The Surprisingly Conservative Vision of Louis C.K.
Carrie Andersen / FLOW Marketing Editor
An exploration of the surprisingly conservative vision of Louis C.K.
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