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Fart Jokes, Pranks, Selfies and Other Applications of Smart Technologies
Germaine R Halegoua / University of Kansas

March 27, 2017 Germaine Halegoua / University of Michigan Leave a comment

Germaine Halegoua explores how users seem to appreciate Internet of Everything technologies for playful engagements or misuse rather than their utilitarian efficiencies.

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Power-Knowledge in a ‘Post-Truth’ World
Roopali Mukherjee / CUNY, Queens College

March 27, 2017 Roopali Mukherjee / Queens College One comment

Rooplai Mukherjee explores how post-truth/post-fact political scripts are contested by empirical and racial counter-knowledges of the marginalized public spheres that they simultaneously attempt to silence.

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From Dust till Drone: Roomba Aesthetics and Non-Human Cinema
Neta Alexander / New York University

March 27, 2017 Neta Alexander / New York University 2 comments

Neta Alexander explores the mechanical gaze of machine-made film and video, particularly Roomba films, contextualizing them within the long tradition of non-human cinema that challenges our anthropocentric perspective.

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I Am Woman, See Me Bleed: from Tampon Taboo to the Pro-Period Movement
Alexis Carreiro / Queens University of Charlotte

March 27, 2017 Alexis Carreiro / Queens University of Charlotte Leave a comment

Alexis Carreiro explores the “year of the period,” i.e., the recent pro-period movement to free women’s menstrual cycles from their cultural stigma.

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TV Finales: On-Demand Endings
Casey McCormick / McGill University

March 27, 2017 Casey McCormick / McGill University 5 comments

Casey McCormick examines what she calls “Netflix poetics” to explore how the proliferation of video-on-demand services such as Netflix is changing the way we watch and experience TV finales.

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TV Critics and Taste Culture, or Why Everyone Ignored Oxygen’s Funny Girls
Stephanie Brown / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

March 27, 2017 Stephanie Brown / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign One comment

Stephanie Brown explores the ways in which entrenched taste cultures and gendered hierarchies led critics to dismiss and disparage Oxygen’s docu-drama Funny Girls.

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Competition, Economics, and Social Trends: Assessing the Value in Kids Cooking Shows
D. Jordan Davis / Independent Scholar

March 27, 2017 D. Jordan Davis / Independent Scholar 7 comments

D. Jordan Davis explores the recent trend of kids cooking shows, examining both the positive and negative implications such competitive shows have on young people who want to cook.

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Over*Flow: “It’s Not Steroids, It’s Testosterone!”: Deconstructing Gender and Sex in Bros (2022)
Lauren Herold / Kenyon College and Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University

"Blonde is a Kind of Person": A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde
Kelly Coyne / Northwestern University

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20 Sep

New in Over*Flow: @renherold and @cinefeminism examine the deconstruction of cis gay masculinity in the 2022 semi-satirical gay rom-com Bros, reassessing its "bad object" status. Read more here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/09/over-flow-gender-sex-bros/

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16 Aug

NOPE is about the eye of the camera, but also Black defiance of it. Read Sophia Abbey's brief but excellent piece at @FlowTV, "Gazing Upwards: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Resistance in Nope." #OpenAccess
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2 May

Happy Tuesday, and happy Volume 29.07 release day! The final issue of Flow in the spring features work from @baker_r_r, @Naledgesince82, @caitmckinney, @MichaelSocolow, and Michele White! Read the full issue here: http://flowjournal.org

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7 Apr

TGIF!! Celebrate by reading vol. 29.06-up on the site now. Thx to @jenholt13 @rebeccasholt @kevindriscoll and @TrueIcaRash for their contributions!!

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