A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Faculty advisor to the inaugural Flow conference, Michael Kackman, reflects on the importance of place and space for cultivating meaningful engagement and lasting community, and suggests ways for Flow to continue fostering both.
Michael Kackman outlines the conversation between David Milch, Michael Zinberg, Howard Rosenberg and Dr. Horace Newcomb at the second Core Conversation of the 2014 Flow Conference.
Radio and the move of fringe politics into the mainstream.
How contemporary pirate radio may be changing media studies definitions of “alternative media” and “counter-publics” in a particularly fragmented social and political climate.
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.
Looking to the ways in which Quality TV (and Lost in particular) negotiates the territory between melodrama and elitist aesthetics.
Collaboration, Community, and Interdisciplinarity
by: Michael Kackman / University of Texas-Austin
Like most interesting things, the Flow Conference was an experiment. And like most experiments, it generated some unexpected results.
