3.03 – Flow

This Week on Flow… (7 October 2005)

October 7, 2005 Elliot Panek / Emerson College One comment

by: Elliot Panek / FLOW Staff
Celebrating a year of FLOW!

The “Popular Culture and Philosophy” Books and Philosophy: Philosophy, You’ve Officially Been Pimped

October 7, 2005 Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University 3 comments

by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
Brian Ott takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the faux-wit and wisdom of the Popular Culture and Philosophy books.

Desperate Citizens

October 7, 2005 John McMurria / DePaul University 2 comments

by: John McMurria / DePaul University
Extreme Makeover Home Edition contestants are portrayed as good and deserving citizens who are the victims of misfortunes beyond their control. However, while EMHE helps these deserving citizens, the corporate sponsored show fails to recognize the irony inherent in the fact that it is these very corporations that contribute to these problems in the first place.

The Los Angeles Misanthrope

October 7, 2005 Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman 3 comments

by: Walter Metz / Montana State University at Bozeman
Online publication, such as Flow, allows academics the much needed space to contemporaneously intervene into the reception of films and TV programs while they are still attended by the general population. The benefit of these interventions is changing the nature of reception by making it relevant to its time.

The August Audience

October 7, 2005 Jonathan Gray / University of Wisconsin - Madison 5 comments

by: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
While television networks are rolling out their lineups of new shows this month, many potential viewers have already decided which programs they will tune in to, and which they will actively avoid. How does pre-season marketing play in to the way audiences interpret television texts, and how do we analyze those readings as critics in television studies?