Belmont, BRAVIAs, and Barcraft: Video Content and Game Consoles
Steven Boyer / University of Glasgow
A look at the continuing convergence of games, TV, and the web.
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XXX Litigation: The Seedy Underworld of Copyright
Brett Caraway / FLOW Staff
Piracy suits in the realm of pornography.
Read moreGarbage Collectors
Scott Webel / Museum of Ephemerata
An exploration of the relationships between collecting, migration of garbage, and artwork responding to waste.
Read moreEmbarrassing Bodies: Public Sphere or Spectacle?
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University
Faye Davies asks: how can we use cultural theory to make sense of shows whose success is owed to graphic bodily investigations?
Read moreSpying while “Black”: The curious failure of The Undercovers
Camille DeBose / DePaul University
Perhaps the curious failure of the Undercovers highlights our own failure to see blackness in all its diversity. More importantly it highlights the effects of an unwillingness to produce diverse representations of blackness in media with black Americans being complicit in that failure.
Read moreThe Revolution Was (Not) Televised: Libyan Rebels and the Accessibility of Amateur Video
Daniel Mauro / FLOW Staff
A consideration of amateur videos produced during the Libyan Revolution and the broader limitations of online distribution and accessibility.
Read moreCollecting the Trash: The Cult of the Ephemeral Clip from VHS to YouTube
Iain Robert Smith / Roehampton University
The culture of the clip forms part of a longer history of collecting and re-presenting ephemeral media that is often ignored or forgotten.
Read moreLe Petit Mort: Toddlers and Tiaras and Economic Decline
Hollis Griffin/Colby College
Hollis Griffin writes about Toddlers and Tiaras as a representation of economic anxiety.
Read moreHow Long Will it Last, and Do You Really Own It?
Wheeler Winston Dixon / The University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Winston Wheeler Dixon wonders: what will happen to ownership when media content will cease to be material?
Read moreAmaranth Weed
Scott Webel / Museum of Ephemerata
A discussion of amaranth, garden blogs, and affective gardening.
Read moreCaptain America’s hybrid masculinity, or the [r]emasculation of the 21st century hero
Feliks Garcia / FLOW Staff
A look at changing body types in contemporary superhero cinema.
Read moreAcrophobia: IRT: Deadliest Roads and the Pitfalls of Neoliberal Globalization
Jacob Hustedt / FLOW Staff
Ice Road Truckers’ manufactured collision of cultures, and how the politics of old colonialism continue to reverberate in the transnational tides of neoliberal capitalism.
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