Volume 7 
Introduction to The Writers’ Strike Issue(2)
May 22, 2008
An introduction to this special issue of FlowTV.
Internships, Idealism, and the WGA Strike
Shelley Jenkins / Cal-State Fullerton
How undergraduate film and television majors mitigated their own need to cross the picket line, or risk not graduating on time.
The WGA Strike, the Internet and Media Decentralization
Dante Atkins / Founder, UnitedHollywood.com
How the UnitedHollywood.com blog helped the WGA control the traditional-media narrative
Fan Support and Its Effect (Or Lack Thereof) on the Strike
Erin Giannini / University of East Anglia
Did fan organizing have any “real” bearing on the outcome of the WGA strike?
More in this category:
- “We Write, You Wrong”
Jennie Chamberlain / Screenwriter and Daniel Chamberlain / USC - Deal of a “Lifetime”? A New Future for Project Runway
Alisa Perren / Georgia State University - Modern Marvels: Celebrating How It Works
Janet Wasko and Carlos Calderon / University Of Oregon - The Weigh-in as National Money Shot
Jennifer Fremlin / Huntingdon College - TV Cooking Shows: The Evolution of a Genre
Kathleen Collins / John Jay College, CUNY
- Adapting to DVRing: Narrative Franchises and Advertising
Rochelle Rodrigo / Mesa Community College
- Of Pirates, Pacifiers and Protectionism
Ellen Seiter / University of Southern California - More than Meets the Ear: Dubbing and Accents on TV
Karen Lury / University of Glasgow
- Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes
Christopher Jordan / St. Cloud University
- A Tale of Two Fan Girls
Bambi Haggins and Anna Jonsson / University of Michigan
- It’s a Kid’s World
Aaron Delwiche / Trinity University - Horribly Guilty Television
Ron Becker / Miami University
- “Why in the world won’t they take my money?” – Hulu, iTunes, and the value of attention
Joshua Green / MIT
- Critical Art on Trial
Joan Hawkins / University of Indiana, Bloomington
- Follow the Money: Let’s be Upfront about the Infronts
Jennifer Holt / UCSB
- Has the DTV Tsunami Arrived?
Mitchell Szczepanczyk / Chicago Media Action
- Do We Need a Gay Rights Saving Time?
Kathleen Battles / Oakland University
- We’ve Gotta Have Faith: TV Lawyers, Prophets & Visions
Steve Classen / Cal State, Los Angeles
- The Thirtieth Anniversary of Roots and the Deferred Dream of Black Drama
Tim Havens / University of Iowa
- Welcome to Flow Favorites
- Celebrity Social Gospel
Mara Einstein / Queens College
- Celebrating Television’s Spotty Memory
John W. Jordan / UW-Milwaukee
- Cybernetic TV
- To Pee or Not to Pee: On the Politics of Cultural Appropriation
- Ready, Set, Go! Stopping Time in Its Corporate Tracks
Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
- Do Good TV?
- Intellectuals
- Pass the Remote
- Awkward Conversations About Uncomfortable Laughter
- Don Knotts: Reluctant Sex Object
- The 2008 Academy Awards… and the Evil Just Outside the Frame
- What’s Good for General Motors…
- A Place at the Table: Aliens in America and US policy in the ‘Islamic World’
- 1001 Arabian Plights: On Mediated Resistance
- From Cynicism to Sentimentality: The Rise of the Quirky Indie
- Uncle Stevie vs. Aca-Fan: What CopyBlogger can teach us about Popular Scholarship
- Mobile TV: Do We Want It?
- Snaring a Global Television Audience: The Case of Survivor
- How to Monetize Friends and Influence Distribution: Lessons from Four Days at NATPE
- Rock History and Visual Culture
- Confessions of a Television Academic in a Post-TV World
- The DTV Tsunami Approaches
- Breeding Our Way Out of Trouble? Children of Men and Lost
- Darkly Dreaming of Dexter, Part 2: Sympathy for the Devil
- Watchin’ the Noggin: For-Profit/Non-Profit Co-ventures and Children’s Television
- The Hidden Cost of Virtual Sociability
- 1001 Arabian Plights: On Persistent Media Denigration
- Pardon the Competition: ESPN Turns Sports Talk Into a Game
- From Irrelevance to On-Demand: Changing Models of Dissemination
- What (Public?) Television Was Meant To Be?
- Screen Memories: The Pioneers of Television
- Therapy is Complicated: HBO’s Foray into Modular Storytelling with In Treatment
- Revisitations and Constant Auditions: The Politics of Placing People
- Where Babies Really Come From…
- The Anachronism of Television Subscription Packages
- Television Conceptions: Introduction to “Re/Producing Cult TV: The Battlestar Galactica Issue”
- Is it Religion or is it Entertainment?
- Signal to Noise: The Paradoxes of History and Technology in Battlestar Galactica
- Toaster-Frakkers and Remote Controls: Technophilia, Cylons, and the Archival Drive
- Cataloging Knowledge: Gender, Generative Fandom, and the Battlestar Wiki
- On the Relevancy of Radio
- Hera Has Six Mommies (A Transmedia Love Story)
- Ownership and Desire: Fans’ and Producers’ Polymorphous Triangulations
- Exogenesis: Mind Children and Cultured Images in Battlestar Galactica
- Downloads, Copies, and Reboots: Battlestar Galactica and the Changing Terms of TV Genre
- Battlestardom: Conversations with Mary McDonnell
- Online Fun Comes with a Cost
- Spoilers at the Digital Utopia Party: The WGA and Students Now
- I Never Promised You A Rose: Exposing the Unreality of the Dating-Reality Program
- Mobility, Mobilities and Communication Studies
- Television, Film and Creative Labor
- Launch Texts, Rebound Texts and Commentary Montage: Al Gore’s Appearance at the 2007 Academy Awards
Bernard Timberg, Erick Green, and Hsaio Chu / East Carolina University - Becoming the Other: Multiculturalism in Joss Whedon’s Angel
- New Flow Conference Poll
- Technofetishized TV: CSI, Bones, and ReGenesis as Science Fiction Television?
- Missing in Time: Madeleine McCann and the Media
- Huntsman v. Soderbergh and Copyright Law
- Darkly Dreaming of Dexter: If Loving Him Is Wrong I Don’t Want To Be Right
- Post-Closet Television
- What Does an American Television Network Look Like?
- Defining Virtual Words: An Emerging Medium Collides With Popular Culture
- Burning Down the House: Community Access TV and the Downtown Art Shows
- All I Want for Christmas is Some Cultural Policy in the Public Interest
- SURF TV
- The Forthcoming DTV Tsunami
- Putting the ‘F’ Back in Art
- The Good, The Bad, and the Best
- A Tale of Two Slackers
- ‘Screenifying’ Choreography: The New Parameters of Social Interaction as Envisioned by Bill T Jones’ Blind Date
- Sports Commentary and the Problem of Television Knowledge
- Guy-Coms and the Hegemony of Juvenile Masculinity
- How Not to Format (or, What the Global Format Trade Could Teach Tim Gunn)