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Category: 6.03

Flow Poll #1: Flow in the Classroom

July 2, 2007 Matthew Thomas Payne / FLOW Staff 2 comments


by: Flow Staff
Let us know what you think in our Flow Poll.

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The Joys of “Civic TV,” or
Television You Probably Don’t Watch

June 29, 2007 Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University 9 comments

by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University

Government access television is often much more than boring city council meetings. With an increase in quality productions in communities across the nation, “Civic TV” may be as close as we get in the U.S. to the public
service broadcasting tradition of other nations.

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Kyle-Time: You Can’t Touch This

June 29, 2007 Gareth Palmer / University of Salford 2 comments

by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
Britain’s Jeremy Kyle demonstrates why television’s need to maximize emotional performances and responses means that producers invest in those most likely to offer confessional behaviour for public consumption.

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The Empty Archive: Canadian Television and the Erasure of History

June 29, 2007 Michele Byers / Saint Mary's University 6 comments

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Canadian television texts and the field of Canadian television studies appear to be enjoying a surge of development and visibility, but there is one major stumbling block to this work… there is no archive of Canadian television where materials could be made available to the public, scholarly or otherwise.

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Dish Towns USA (or Rural Screens) Part One

June 29, 2007 Joan Hawkins / Indiana University, Bloomington 9 comments

by: Joan Hawkins / Indiana University, Bloomington
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The fact that rural dish users reside in the country whose culture—without the dish—is so frequently unavailable to them is one of the things we need to
take into account when we discuss audience.

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Freeing the Thirty Minute Sit-Com

June 29, 2007 Ray Cha / Independent Scholar 3 comments

by: Ray Cha / Independent Scholar
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YouTube and other video on demand services are changing the terms of television programming and distribution, as well as control and access over
televisual material.

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Notes on Children Unlike Others

June 29, 2007 Olivier Tchouaffe / FLOW Staff 2 comments

by: Olivier Tchouaffe / FLOW Staff

The recent media focus on former child soldiers from Africa serves to not only draw attention to the plight of similar youths, but make a compelling argument in favor of
pacifist politics.

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Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

"I’m the Industry Baby”: The Political Economy of Lil Nas X
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27 Jan

New to Over*Flow: Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/01/overflow-classifying-dahmer/

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21 Jan

Check out this call for papers from our colleagues! 10 days until submissions are due.

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13 Jan

Hey folks! We are officially extending this CFP until Sunday, January 15

Looking forward to reading your submissions!

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