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Why Do I Love Television So Very Much?

March 9, 2007 Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology 102 comments

by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
Why is television my favourite medium, moreso than cinema, radio, even than books? Why does art make me so angry, television so joyful?

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The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to Tears

March 9, 2007 David Lavery / Brunel University 23 comments

by: David Lavery / Brunel University
On media and the observation that we still have no valid, philosophically sophisticated theory of why we laugh and cry.

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Prime Time Bullies

March 9, 2007 Gareth Palmer / University of Salford 19 comments

by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
In programmes ranging from Extreme Makeover to Ten Years Younger our flexible selves are seen to be empowered by experts striving to bring forth ‘the real you.’

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Let Me Tell You—

March 9, 2007 Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College 6 comments

by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
What’s new, or at least notable by degree, is the attention being given to the portrayal of storytelling within broadcast network programming.

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Network Television’s Ongoing Struggle with Web-based Television

March 9, 2007 Ray Cha / Independent Scholar 15 comments

by: Ray Cha / Independent Scholar
Peers accepted, provide online channels for established media.

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Women are from Mars? Part 2

March 9, 2007 Lynne Joyrich / Brown University 3 comments

by: Lynne Joyrich / Brown University
How does–or should–narrative television deal with issues of sexual violence? Lynne Joyrich considers the meaning of rape on Veronica Mars…and in our culture as a whole.

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Sex, Love, Television (Pt. 2)

March 9, 2007 Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California 2 comments

by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
At a time when Hollywood has very little use for women of a certain age, perhaps television is where women over 40 can go to find roles beyond the bitter mother-in-law, the predatory divorcee or the lonely spinster.

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YouTube vs. Main Stream Media:
Kissing Cousins or Feuding Siblings?

March 9, 2007 Sonja Baumer / University of California-Berkeley 17 comments

by: Sonja Baumer / University of California-Berkeley
Why YouTube is highly unlikely to displace other media including the mainstream media.

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Catfight in My Name is Earl as a Site of Feminist Resistance

March 9, 2007 Debbie James Smith / Wayne State University 25 comments

by: Debbie James Smith / Wayne State University
My Name is Earl, a catfight, and the cultural debate over what is acceptable behavior for lower class mothers.

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Monday, Flow day!! Volume 29.05 is now live on the website. ! Head on over to http://flowjournal.org to read the first installment of work by @bimmbles , @trilliz, @kingisafink, @influencerlabor, and @westemilye!

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New in Over*Flow: @rouselaurenc and @melstanfill present the results of a survey of users of popular fan fiction hosting site http://archiveofourown.org, providing updated statistics on fan fiction readers and writers. https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/02/fan-demographics-on-ao3/

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Happy Flow-entines Day! We are proud to announce the release of special issue Volume 29.04, "The Struggle Is (for) Real: Cultivating Authenticity in the 'BeReal' age"! Thanks to guest editors @TomDivon and @disabledphd. Read the full issue here: http://flowjournal.org

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