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Flow Poll #1: Flow in the Classroom
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by: Flow Staff
Let us know what you think in our Flow Poll.
The Joys of “Civic TV,” or
Television You Probably Don’t Watch
Television You Probably Don’t Watch
by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University

Government access television is often much more than boring city council meetings. With an increase in quality productions in communities across the nation, “Civic TV” may be as close as we get in the U.S. to the public
service broadcasting tradition of other nations.
Kyle-Time: You Can’t Touch This
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
Britain’s Jeremy Kyle demonstrates why television’s need to maximize emotional performances and responses means that producers invest in those most likely to offer confessional behaviour for public consumption.
The Empty Archive: Canadian Television and the Erasure of History
by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Canadian television texts and the field of Canadian television studies appear to be enjoying a surge of development and visibility, but there is one major stumbling block to this work… there is no archive of Canadian television where materials could be made available to the public, scholarly or otherwise.