Category: Volume 02

by: Brian Ott / Colorado State University
There is no more destructive, deleterious, and dangerous institution in society today than the mainstream news media.

by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
On a practical level, how do we as scholars, teachers, and activists manage to address the many facets of TV today? What do we want from TV Studies?

by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
How can media studies address television’s impact on contemporary politics? A further consideration of the political economy/cultural studies debate.

by: Susan R. Pearlman / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Issue 6.

by: Elliot Panek, Kristen Grant and Elaine Baumgartel
Considering the internet as a primary news source.

by: Michael Curtin / University of Wisconsin-Madison
Four concrete suggestions for reforming media.

by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Despite Aniko Bodroghkozy’s claim that McChesney “rules”, Fiske still matters.

by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
A consideration of the various uses of mediums in the new Patricia Arquette series Medium.

by: Anna McCarthy / New York University
Why the recent interest in British comedy? McCarthy examines the BBC’s Benny Hill Show marathon, Little Britain, and The Office.

by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
How digital creative tools blur the lines between fantasy and reality, creation and cutting-and-pasting, and why that might not be such a good thing.