Flow

Selena Dickey and Kate Cronin, the Managing Editors for Volume 25 of Flow, introduce a special issue intended to make FLOW Conference 2018: Preservation, Praxis, and Precarity not only more accessible to those who were unable to attend but also a springboard for further consideration of these themes in future issues of Flow.

Drs. AJ Christian, Lori Morimoto, Randolph Lewis, and Christine Becker shared their insights and experience incorporating praxis into their research, scholarship, teaching, and activism.

“Notes from the field,” written by FLOW Conference coordinators, offer insights on recurring themes found in various panels.

Isabel Molina-Guzmán reviews the critical points of FLOW 2018’s panel on contemporary television’s ideological power.

Samantha Close brings attention to the key points of FLOW 2018’s “The Political Economy of Digital Platforms” roundtable.

Jennifer Lynn Jones synthesizes the contributions of FLOW 2018’s “Flowing Forms” roundtable participants and pushes the conversation forward.

Lamiyah Bahrainwala reflects on FLOW 2018’s “Media(ted) Archives: The Politics of Saving & Making Media Histories” roundtable and the need to rethink “bad archives.”

Michael Rennett summarizes the FLOW 2018 roundtable on media discourses surrounding school shootings.

Desirae Embree reflects on the “Preserving Pornographic Media” roundtable at FLOW 2018.

Arcelia Gutiérrez reflects on the “Latinx Representation in Hollywood” panel at FLOW 2018.