Volume 9 
Shooting for Fame: The (Anti-) Social Media of a YouTube Killer
Michael Serazio / University of Pennsylvania
A consideration of high school shooters and their use of video, the internet and social media as anti-social media.
More in this category:
- Shut Up and Sit Down: Singapore’s Social Movements through Twitter
Alicia Tan Min Qi / National University of Singapore - Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics
Kristina Busse / University of South Alabama - ‘We’re Making Our Own Paparazzi’: Twitter and the Construction of Star Authenticity
Anne Helen Petersen / University of Texas – Austin - People I Want to Know: Twitter, Celebrity and Social Connection
Liz Ellcessor / University of Wisconsin – Madison - Digg, Flickr, and the Colonizing of Bridging Texts
Vanessa Au / University of Washington - It’s Contagious: Twitter and the Palimpsest of Authorship
Louisa Stein / San Diego State University - Twitter: Democratizing the Media Versus Corporate Branding
Leigh H. Edwards / Florida State University - The Grace Case Project: An experiment in collaborative journalism using social media tools
Nadia White / University of Montana - Gender in the Media Studies Blogosphere
Melissa A. Click and Nina B. Huntemann - Observe and Report What?
Peter Lehman / Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College - Being in treatment on TV
Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh - Public Television in a Small Country: the New Zealand ‘Experiment’ 20 Years On
Trisha Dunleavy / Victoria University of Wellington - Interactivity and Awkward Comedy: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Live!
Drew Morton / UCLA - Special Features CFP: Social Media
Flow Editorial Staff - Carla’s, Callie’s, and the Suárez’s Long Lost Ancestors: ESAA-TV and ¿Qué pasa U.S.A.?
- Mobile Music South of the Border
Patrick Burkart and Christopher Joseph Westgate / Texas A&M - Fine Intentions and Dire Delusions: The Simulated Ethos of the Greenhouse Effect
Ingrid Hoofd/National University of Singapore - Raymond Williams on the Elliptical
Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi - A Long-Tailed Media Omnivore’s Dilemma
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University - Jung and Lost
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta - Mediating Urban Cultural Borders
by Michela Ardizzoni/ University of Colorado Boulder - Margaret Cho’s Televisual Trajectory: From All-American Girl to The Cho Show
Jane Park / University of Sydney, Australia - You’re Fired! Reflecting the Economic Crisis in the Business Entertainment Format
Lisa W. Kelly /University of Glasgow - The End
Cynthia Chris / College of Staten Island, CUNY - I’m a Loser, Baby
Christine Quail / McMaster University - House, FB: A Consideration of Convergence Marketing
Jacqueline Vickery / Flow Staff - Whale Wars: A Deeper Shade of Green on the Public Screen
Chris Russill / University of Minnesota - “Scared Crazy” and Torture
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon - Aurally, Visually, Virally: Choreographing Race From Fosse to Beyoncé
Priscilla Peña Ovalle / University of Oregon - P2P TV: Ethical Considerations
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Blogotheques and Black Cabs: Popular Music and Urban Place
Ben Aslinger / Bentley College - Life on Mars as Seen From the United States: The Cultural Politics of Imports and Adaptations
Serra Tinic/ The University of Alberta - The Girl from Pawnee
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University - The Right to Play: Youth, Video Gaming, and the Law
Carly A. Kocurek / University of Texas – Austin - Crowdsourced Advertising: How We Outperform Madison Avenue
Daren C. Brabham / University of Utah - “I’m Riding a Panda!”: Japanese Cult Media and Hipster Cosmopolitanism
Martin Roberts / The New School - “Weekend Update” and the tradition of new journalism
- Give Me That Old Time Virality
David Gurney / Northwestern University - Who’s Going to Play Michelle Obama?: Saturday Night Live and Its Lack of Women of Color
Phillip Lamarr Cunningham / Bowling Green State University - Pitchforking Andy Samberg’s Hipster Appeal
Alyx Vesey / Independent Scholar - Gilda Rader and ‘Jewess Jeans’: Breaking the Jewish Ethnicity Taboo on Network Television
Bernard M. Timberg / East Carolina University - Michael O’Donoghue, SNL, and the Comedy of Cruelty
Evan Elkins / University of Texas-Austin - ‘Using One of its Lifelines’: Does Politics Save Saturday Night Live from Oblivion?
- Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara - Spinning off, crossing over
Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh - Orientalized Masculinities in Contemporary Australian Cinema
Jane Park / The University of Sydney - Strategies of Innovation in ‘High-End’ TV Drama: The Contribution of Cable
Trisha Dunleavy / Victoria University of Wellington - Are You Smarter Than a Cuban Customs Official?: Reassessing Cuba’s Commercial Television Influence in Latin America
Yeidy M. Rivero / Indiana University – Bloomington - “You Can be Dead but You’re Never Really Dead:” Six Feet, Six Inches Under
- Strat-O-Matic and the Baseball Tarot: Sense and Synchronicity in Sports and Games
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta - On the Digital Music Wars: Where Are We Now?
Patrick Burkart / Texas A&M University - Facebook and the Return of the Repressed, or Watching Political Comedy on a Social Network
Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M – Corpus Christi - “Pain can be controlled: you just disconnect it”: Terminating Public Access Television
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University - Rage Against the Machine: Does The Sarah Connor Chronicles Have a Future?
Heather Hendershot / Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center - Minding the Gap: Barack Obama and the Demise of Representational Politics
- 10 Years Younger: The Women Deemed ‘Too Old’ For TV
Lisa W. Kelly/ University of Glasgow - The Dog Whisperer as Leader of the Pack
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon - Hip To Be Square: Nerds in Media Culture
Christine Quail / McMaster University - Malia Obama, Girl Photographer
Mary Celeste Kearney / University of Texas – Austin - Reality Television Is No Ground Breaking
Michela Ardizzoni / University of Colorado – Boulder - Climate Change TV
Chris Russill / University of Minnesota – Twin Cities - Nowhere to Go but Up: Redeeming HBO’s Eastbound & Down
Nick Marx / University of Wisconsin – Madison - Top 10 TV Shows
- Top 10 Failures
- Top 10 Under 10: 2008 Election Edition
- Top 10 Under 10
- Top 10 Video Games
- “Top 10″ Lists
- This Was England: British Television And/As Cultural Heritage
Martin Roberts / The New School - TV Binge
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Brave, New [Branded?] Online World: wakinguphannah.ca
Serra Tinic/The University of Alberta - Will Hallucinate for Licensed Product
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University - The Rise of the Active Audience and Stephen Colbert
Rebecca McCarthy / Kaplan University - Head & Shoulders Gives Good Hair: Dance, Hair, and Latina Representation
Priscilla Peña Ovalle / University of Oregon - Soundalikes and Disrupted Pleasures
- A Señora Drinks Café with a Fea in Bogota, the New Hip TV Production Place in Latin America
Yeidy M. Rivero / Indiana University - Goodbye Rabbit Ears: Thoughts About the Digital TV Transition
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara - Californication: Trouble in Body Guy Paradise
Peter Lehman / Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College - Hybridity in TV Sitcom: The Case of Comedy Verité
Trisha Dunleavy / Victoria University of Wellington - The Rumor Bomb: On Convergence Culture and Politics
Jayson Harsin / American University of Paris - GMA Revisited
- E-Waste: Elephant in the Living Room
Richard Maxwell / Queens College-CUNY & Toby Miller / UC Riverside - Free TV: White Spaces & Broadcast Flag
Patrick Burkart / Texas A&M - What a Whirlwind: Showbiz Talk and Political Snark on Chelsea Lately
Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M Corpus Christi - Degrassi’s Always Greener on the Other Side: Canadian Television, U.S. Handling
Nafissa Thompson-Spires / Vanderbilt University - ‘East’ Talking to ‘West’: The Digital Mediation of Arundhati Roy
Ingrid M. Hoofd / National University of Singapore - SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL CONGLOMERATE
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University - The Play Paradigm: What Media Studies Can Learn from Game Studies
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University, Atlanta - TV Tears: Learning Through Emotion in Popular Factual Entertainment
Lisa W. Kelly / University of Glasgow - So You Think You Can Dance, Canada?: Formatting and Canadian Reality Television
Christine Quail / McMaster University - Climate Change Virus Targets Poland! Copenhagen and China next!
Chris Russill / University of Minnesota - “As Canadian as… Possible under the Circumstances”: Canadian Youth Television in the United States
Nafissa Thompson-Spires / Vanderbilt University - Urban Media Practices As Interventions: An Italian Case Study
Michela Ardizzoni / University of Colorado Boulder - The Sounds and the Business of Mobile Music
Ben Aslinger / Bentley College - Narrative Pleasures in House Hunters
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon - Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin - The Bronze Fonz: Public Art/Popular Culture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee - Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn
Martin Roberts / The New School - A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University - Viva Viagra! Or, How Race Dances Around Erectile Dysfunction
Priscilla Peña Ovalle / University of Oregon