A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
How to Contribute to the Journal: 1) Submit or pitch an article to Over*Flow Flow formally invites contributions to our new space for responses to breaking TV and media news: Over*Flow. This new feature allows time-sensitive, one-off pieces to be published on our homepage alongside our monthly columns. For more information, check out the CFP. 2) Become a columnist To be […]
Read moreFlow has published articles from over 700 authors in its 14-year history – from the tenured senior scholar to the graduate student junior scholar. Flow‘s authors are spread all across the Americas – from New York to California and from Canada to Brazil – and across the globe – from England and Scotland to New Zealand and Australia, to Singapore […]
Read moreThe Best of Television: The Inaugural Flow Critics’ Poll
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
And the winner is…
lonelygirl15: The Pleasures and Perils of Participation
by: Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
The Internet has been the site of a zillion hoaxes, so what is so special about lonelygirl15?
“Israeli Idol” Goes to War: The Globalization of Television Studies
by: Sharon Shahaf / University of Texas at Austin
Kohav Nolad, Israel’s version of “Idol,” illustrates the dialectic between local and global trends in TV as the program transforms itself in a time of war.
Seeing the Back of Berlusconi? The Current Situation of the Media in Italy
by: Hugh Kesson / Deakin University
Will Italy’s media be changed by its recent changes in leadership?
Family, Fate and the Finale of Will and Grace
by: Kathleen Battles / Denison University and Wendy Hilton-Morrow / Augustana College
On the limitations and possibilities of imagining families in a non-heteronormative way in the finale of Will & Grace.
The Curious State of Live TV
by: John Tomasic / The University of Paris-Dauphine
With new technologies providing access to “realness,” the novelty of live television may be wearing off.
Playing in the Technological Sandbox
by: Rochelle Rodrigo / Mesa Community College
On the value of “play” in the course of implementing new technologies in the classroom.
by: Melissa Crawley / Lingnan University, Hong Kong
CSI makes it look so easy.
Is It Live or Is It Real?: Live Television's Shrinking Significance in Modern Life
By: Jeffrey Johnson / Michigan State University
Are the excitement and spontaneity of live television really gone or have they just adopted a different form?
The Lure of American Idol Explained: Parasocial Relationships and Emotional Vicarious Living in Live TV
By: Carol Morgan / Wright State University
It may be “mindless” television, but the relationships formed between the home audience and the contestants of American Idol illuminate the current state of the American Dream.