ATX Television Festival 2018
Outgoing Flow editor Lesley Willard compiled and contextualized UT Austin grad student coverage of the 2018 ATX TV Festival.
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A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Outgoing Flow editor Lesley Willard compiled and contextualized UT Austin grad student coverage of the 2018 ATX TV Festival.
Read moreRamon Lobato considers discoverability. Apps, portals, and platforms each have algorithms meant to surface particular content over others and media industry scholars should be paying attention.
Read morePatty Ahn explores the dichotomous feelings captured in K-Pop and “Arirang,” their relation to South and North Korea’s national and global identities, and the role each musical iteration played in Team Korea’s presentation at the PyeongChang Olympics.
Read moreJustin Wyatt considers discourses on digital and television advertising and considers how the truisms of television marketing are being revised, reformed, and sometimes simply rejected by the new variety of options for TV consumption.
Read moreAmanda Phillips writes about the representation of masculinties, particularly through the representation of penises, the omnipresent hardness, and the always absent softness or flaccidity.
Read moreUsing Lifetime’s UnReal as a case study, Jorie Lagerwey and Taylor Nygaard examine the representation of white, liberal, middle-class, educated women in the emerging “Horrible White People” genre on cable and streaming platforms.
Read moreJuan Llamas-Rodriguez considers how the use of cuteness to market VPN privacy and security services illustrates the ideological negotiations with which these user-friendly services must engage.
Read moreTim Havens considers Netflix as a case study to develop a typology for studying the role of algorithmic audience analysis in commercial African American streaming culture.
Read moreCameron Lindsey and Lesley Willard, the Managing Editors for Volume 24 of Flow, introduce a special issue that ushers in the journal’s new, broader focus on media and culture.
Read moreChelsea McCracken considers Revry – the LGBT Netflix – alongside historical responses and successes of LGBTQ production companies, distribution platforms, and film festivals.
Read moreIn this column, Caetlin Benson-Allott argues that the reaction to James Eagan Holmes’ 2012 shooting in an Aurora, Colorado theater was driven by white privilege and an ahistorical view on theater shootings in general.
Read moreRooplai Mukherjee explores how post-truth/post-fact political scripts are contested by empirical and racial counter-knowledges of the marginalized public spheres that they simultaneously attempt to silence.
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