5.13 – Special Issue: Flow Conference 2006

The Conference in Brief…

November 18, 2006 Flow staff Leave a comment

by: Flow Conference Participants
Read what folks had to say about the conference in review and on blogs.

Passion is No Ordinary Word

November 17, 2006 Tim Anderson / Denison University 2 comments

by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
Flow, the conference, worked for the same reason that the online journal does: it simply doesn’t feel careerist in any conventional way, shape or form.

Flow Fuzzies and Forget-Me-Nots

November 17, 2006 Avi Santo / Old Dominion University Leave a comment

by: Avi Santo / Old Dominion University
What will be the legacy of the Flow Conference?

Collaboration, Community, and Interdisciplinarity

November 17, 2006 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame Leave a comment

by: Michael Kackman / University of Texas-Austin
Like most interesting things, the Flow Conference was an experiment. And like most experiments, it generated some unexpected results.

Considering Flow

November 17, 2006 Doug Battema / Western New England College One comment

by: Doug Battema / Western New England College
The FLOW conference tackled many of TV scholars’ favorite topics, but other aspects of the medium, such as television advertising and sports programming, need to be examined with the same critical regimen we apply to narrative, fictional programming.

A Fair Use Bill of Rights

November 17, 2006 Bernard Timberg / University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2 comments

by: Bernard Timberg / East Carolina University
The proposed “Citizen’s Fair Use Declaration of Rights” redefines fair use as a legal issue that has become a political issue.

“Don’t Know Much About History”:
What Counts as Historical Work in Television Studies

November 17, 2006 Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia 2 comments

by: Aniko Bodroghkozy / University of Virginia
What are the parameters of scholarship in television history and why archival research matters.

Are Smart Communities Necessarily more Socially Engaged?

November 17, 2006 Ana Boa-Ventura / University of Texas-Austin One comment

by: Ana Boa-Ventura / University of Texas-Austin
The FLOW panel on Public Sphere and the InCommunity event “flow” together to the extent that they both questioned alternative “places” for social responsibility and political involvement, at a time when “government” does not seem to offer that engagement anymore.

Audience Segmentation: The Lonely Crowds

November 17, 2006 David Marc / Syracuse University 3 comments

by: David Marc / Syracuse University
The entertainment-industrial complex that dazzled the world for a century by attracting “the undifferentiated mass audience” has since worked to disassemble its prime creation into as many differentiated segments as marketers can imagine.