11.09 - Special Issue: Flow Favorites 2010 
Flow Favorites: The Bronze Fonz
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (3)
March 5, 2010
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.