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Category: 11.09 – Special Issue: Flow Favorites 2010

Flow Favorites: The Bronze Fonz
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

March 5, 2010 Michael Newman / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee 4 comments

Michael Z. Newman’s “The Bronze Fonz” explores not only the relationship between art and popular culture, but between cultural memory and urban space.

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Flow Favorites: Digg, Flickr, and the Colonizing of Bridging Texts
Vanessa Au / University of Washington

March 5, 2010 Vanessa Au / University of Washington 2 comments

Discourse around the author’s image on Digg and Flickr highlight the fact that social media are shot through with race and gender codes.

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Flow Favorites: Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara

March 5, 2010 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 10 comments

Lisa Parks’ article revisits the infrastructure of communications media and examines the stakes of devices masked as “nature.”

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Flow Favorites: Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin

March 5, 2010 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame 22 comments

This piece sparked a vigorous discussion within the television studies community with its call to think more rigorously about why, exactly, we are drawn to aesthetically and narratively complex TV.

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Flow Favorites: A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University

March 4, 2010 Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University One comment

By raising the specter of “dead white men” theorists and their applicability to the 2008 Economic Meltdown, Jefferey Sconce provoked one of the most highly-charged debates on Flow in some time.

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