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Author: Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame

The Intimate Geographies of Flow
Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame

September 1, 2016 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame Leave a comment

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.

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Looking Back at Looking Back
Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame

September 28, 2014 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame One comment

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.

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Waking People Up, pt. II: Because There’s a War on For Your Mind
Michael Kackman / Independent Scholar

March 27, 2012 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame One comment

Radio and the move of fringe politics into the mainstream.

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Waking People Up! Conspiracy Radio and the Contemporary Public Sphere
Michael Kackman / Independent Scholar

October 16, 2011 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame 7 comments

How contemporary pirate radio may be changing media studies definitions of “alternative media” and “counter-publics” in a particularly fragmented social and political climate.

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

October 31, 2008 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame 15 comments

Looking to the ways in which Quality TV (and Lost in particular) negotiates the territory between melodrama and elitist aesthetics.

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Collaboration, Community, and Interdisciplinarity

November 17, 2006 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame Leave a comment

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.

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Flow is a critical forum on media and culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary media.

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Over*Flow: “'It's Not Dark Humor If It's Not Your Trauma - You're Just Bad People': The Exploitive Nature of TikTok Meme Cultures
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Over*Flow: The Costs of Hope in The Chair and The Bold Type
Kelly Coyne / Northwestern University

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25 May

Stefania Marghitu explores the intersections between gender, genre, and authorship via Rose Matafeo's Starstruck. @DearStefania

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Cara Dickason examines how corporations sell Smart TVs as domestic surveillance technologies through gendered formulas. @CaraDickason

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Isabel Molina-Guzmán discusses how Bridgerton's escapist narrative produces a nostalgia that simultaneously erases histories of racial conflict, generates pleasure in non-white audiences, and maintains white subjectivity. @LaProfaMolina

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