Archive for March, 2010
Time Wasted
Ernest Mathijs / The University of British Columbia
An investigation of the role of “Free Time” in the formation of cult viewing strategies.
Buffy Failed: True Blood and the Accommodation of Vampires
Jon Stratton / Curtin University of Technology
An examination of the notion of race in HBO’s True Blood.
The Spelling Bee, Model Minorities, and American Citizenship
Shilpa Davé / Brandeis University
A consideration of media narratives of spelling bee winners.
Gourmet Drama: A Tasty Case of Narrating the Nation
Jiwon Ahn / Keene State College
Why has the genre of gourmet drama not translated to American television that nonetheless relishes reality food-based drama?
How Chatroulette Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About the Internet
Tama Leaver / Curtin University of Technology
A consideration of the social networking video chat site Chatroulette as a microcosm of today’s Internet.
Logorama’s Chaotic Critique of Corporate Rule
Esteban del Río / University of San Diego
Logorama: risky corporate trademark satire or straight product placement marketing via the doctrine of “fair use”?
Flow Favorites: The Bronze Fonz
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Michael Z. Newman’s “The Bronze Fonz” explores not only the relationship between art and popular culture, but between cultural memory and urban space.
Flow Favorites: Digg, Flickr, and the Colonizing of Bridging Texts
Vanessa Au / University of Washington
Discourse around the author’s image on Digg and Flickr highlight the fact that social media are shot through with race and gender codes.
Flow Favorites: Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara
Lisa Parks’ article revisits the infrastructure of communications media and examines the stakes of devices masked as “nature.”
Flow Favorites: Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin
This piece sparked a vigorous discussion within the television studies community with its call to think more rigorously about why, exactly, we are drawn to aesthetically and narratively complex TV.
Flow Favorites: A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University
By raising the specter of “dead white men” theorists and their applicability to the 2008 Economic Meltdown, Jefferey Sconce provoked one of the most highly-charged debates on Flow in some time.
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