A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Louisa Stein highlights evolving fan practices by examining two aesthetic forms, the gifset and the fanmix, that have evolved within interfaces that emphasize abundant multiplicity and multidirectional flow.
Read moreEditorial: Mommy, Where do Presidents Come From?
by: Kristen Grant / Flow Staff
Scrape off the generous slathering of Velveeta and Commander in Chief reveals itself to be less about who we want the president to be than what we want them to be.
The West Wing–A Hyperreal, Not a Reality Show
by: Trudy L. Hanson / West Texas A&M University
The West Wing just might be more important than politics in real life. Is that necessarily a bad thing?
Television For Swing States
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How television can help to create common ground among citizens.
