Life on Animal Planet
By: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Animal Planet documentaries offer a disturbing mirror through which to view the pathologies of our current social reality.
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Religious Tolerance versus Tolerance of Religion: A Critique of the Cartoon Controversy in Jyllands-Posten
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas at Austin
Given this diversity of viewpoints in Islam, what prompted the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten to marginalize the tolerant views of a majority of religious believers in the editorial commentary that, ironically enough, claims to rescue traditions of tolerance from the clutches of “some Muslims” who are intolerant extremists?
Rating the Runway: Project Runway and New York Fashion Week
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
Project Runway is an example of how recent reality television shows rely on viewer responses to help construct the narrative. the show maintains a distinct textual presence while they advocate viewer participation, play with the idea of permeable and non-permeable textual boundaries and highlight the different ways in which we can access ‘the real world.’
Lessons from the Undead: How Film and TV Zombies Teach Us About War
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
How zombies are used to make potent anti-war statements.
Let’s Get Small: The Year When the Record Industry Broke and Listeners Became Crazy, Mixed Up, Downloading, File-Sharing Freaks
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
As digital music sources expanded both their catalogues and user bases in 2005, music distribution continues its shift from the record store to the download store.
When Mullahs Ride the Airwaves: Muslim Televangelists and the Saudi Connection
by: Nabil Echchaibi / Indiana University-Bloomington
An examination of Irqa’ TV’s role in the promotion of Islam in a post-9/11 media landscape.
This Week on Flow… (7 October 2005)
by: Elliot Panek / FLOW Staff
Celebrating a year of FLOW!
“C’mon Get Happy!” Partridge Family Values
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Why the Partridges are better than the Bradys.
Fluff: “The Final Frontier”
by: Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University
Part three of Meehan’s series on the state of fluff television: more on Peter Jennings’ report on UFOs and how it fails to satisfy as either news or fluff.
Flowers Powers: Mars or Venus?
by: John Hartley/ Queensland University of Technology
Is media studies in need of planetary realignment? Or, how learning to appreciate Benny Hill might solve the Fiske/McChesney divide.
This issue on Flow (10 June 2005)
by: Susan R. Pearlman / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 6.
This Week on Flow (April 29, 2005)
by: Marnie Binfield and Bryan Sebok / FLOW Staff
Welcome to FLOW.