This Week on Flow (13 May 2005)
by: Russell Haight / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 4.
Category: 2.04
Global Television and Multiple Layers of Identity
by: Joseph D. Straubhaar / University of Texas-Austin
How do we relate to increased local, regional, national, and global television flows?
Pass the Remote: Catch and Release
by: Chris Terry, Cate Racek, and Cory Maclauchlin
What’s the appeal of fishing shows?
Evaluating TV Smarts in the Public Sphere
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Steven Johnson (Everything Bad is Good for You) writes that television can be a “cognitive workout.” Whose television is he talking about?
The Seeds of Doom?
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
What the new Doctor Who can tell us about the machinations of cultural globalization.
“Roswell! Roswell! The People Have a Right to Know!”: The State of Fluff, part 2.
by: Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University
“Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing,” serves as an example of the state of network news reporting.
Move over Marshall McLuhan! Live from the Arctic!
by: Faye Ginsburg / NYU
Connecting Inuit culture to the rest of world using film and the Internet.
Extreme Health Care
by: Vicki Mayer / Tulane University
What’s behind Extreme Makeover’s contestants? Maybe more than just the desire to have their 5 minutes of fame.
New to You?: NBC’s The Office and the Remake of a Cult British Hit TV Series
by: Richard L. Edwards / St. Mary’s College
Is there a better way for American TV networks to remake British shows?