Cameron Lindsey and Lesley Willard, the Managing Editors for Volume 24 of Flow, introduce a special issue that ushers in the journal’s new, broader focus on media and culture.
The creator of the popular “webcomic,” Lego Grad Student, reflects on becoming a “micro-influencer,” the emotional toll of academia, and the function of social media with a dose of dry wit.
Chelsea McCracken considers Revry – the LGBT Netflix – alongside historical responses and successes of LGBTQ production companies, distribution platforms, and film festivals.
Evan Elkins discusses live television piracy, questions its disruptive power, and contrasts it with former understandings of media piracy and televisual flow.
Michael Newman discusses the gif as a new vernacular allowing gif sharers to display their interiority on digital platforms and interrogates how commercial interests are creating a canon of gif expression.
Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner introduce us to Sparkle Hair Scully and Cat Interrogation Mulder as examples of how humor and jokes operate online and how a “joke” without context can be as far from humorous as possible.
Andrew J. Bottomley considers Radio + Love, a non-narrated podcast that gives voice to individuals that are typically marginalized or subcultural but does little to challenges the shortcomings of neoliberalism.
Bonni Stachowiak, host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, discusses the captivating nature of podcasts, the difference between podcast and AM/FM listenership, and how her podcast has impacted her pedagogy.
