A journal of television and new media

11.09 - Special Issue: Flow Favorites 2010 rss

<strong>Flow Favorites: The Bronze Fonz</strong> <br /><em> Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee </em>

Flow Favorites: The Bronze Fonz
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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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.

<strong>Flow Favorites: Digg, Flickr, and the Colonizing of Bridging Texts</strong> <br /><em>Vanessa Au / University of Washington</em>

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.

<strong>Flow Favorites: Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility</strong><br /><em>Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara</em>

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.”

<strong>Flow Favorites: Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity</strong> <br /><em>Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin</em>

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.


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