How to Contribute to the Journal: 1) Submit an article to Over*Flow Flow invites contributions to our new space for responses to breaking TV and media news: Over*Flow. This feature allows time-sensitive, one-off pieces to be published on our homepage alongside our monthly columns. To be considered for Over*Flow, please submit completed short essays (of 1,000-1,500 words, along with at least […]
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Exploring the design and economics of the newsletter platform Substack, Austin Morris considers both its positive and negative implications for the future of digital media work.
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Using new media cooperative Defector as a case study, Austin Morris explores the ethics of online content production and what it means to do “good work” in the digital content industries.
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Hazem Fahmy analyzes Netflix’s recent acquisition of Egyptian films, television series, and plays.
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Ash Kinney d’Harcourt examines the complexities in the later in life female-to-male (FTM) transition narratives shared on YouTube. The stories of these late bloomers, and trans elders more broadly, are significant at a time when trans futures are uncertain.
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Kit Hughes writes about the necessity of solidarity in academia along with other workplaces in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Laurel Westrup examines the partnerships and production constraints of various music videos to illustrate its collaborative creative labor.
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The second installment of his three-part series sees Taylor Miller consider the implications of edits made to syndicated TV programs on their textuality and reception.
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Drawing from her own experiences working for ESPN and applying Sara Ahmed’s concept of “complaint as diversity work,” Courtney M. Cox interrogates the lack of diversity in sports media and offers a multi-pronged approach to improving inclusivity in a notoriously white male industry.
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Selena Dickey and Kate Cronin, the Managing Editors for Volume 25 of Flow, introduce a special issue intended to make FLOW Conference 2018: Preservation, Praxis, and Precarity not only more accessible to those who were unable to attend but also a springboard for further consideration of these themes in future issues of Flow.
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Amanda Halprin explores the role of fansubbers as linguistic gatekeepers by examining the role of fansubbers on Viki.
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Looking at the most recent issues of the “New Super-Man” comic series, Woo analyzes and codes the paratextual promotional material to assess the relative value of fans to the comics industry.
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