Flow Poll #2: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
by: Flow Staff
Let us know which series you’d revive and those that you’d cancel in our new two-part Flow Poll.
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Not Yo’ Momma’s Cyborg: Transformers Meet More Than Your Eye
by: Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
Fully loaded, tricked out, ripped and raring for a fight, the movie Transformers (2007) provides an opportunity for processing human gesture across the mechanized object.
Can it be argued that those “robots in disguise” ™ are not Haraway’s cyborgs?
“I was marrying sisters … that was my choice:” Big Love, Post-Feminist Choice, Scripted Lives and Judging Women
by: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe / Manchester Metropolitan University
Within the context of religious fundamentalism and right wing politics, HBO’s Big Love offers up some surprising critiques of feminism and female relationships. Here, women are represented as a source of empowerment as well as a site of feminine censure and policing.
Watching Time on Television
by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
While the ability to watch an hour of prime time television in forty-two minutes, at four in the morning, in a plane,
on a mobile phone, is certainly a break from an earlier era of television, celebrations of temporal mutability have overshadowed the importance of a related phenomenon
— temporal conspicuity.
Neoliberal Parenting and Television
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
The media has succeeded at channeling advertisers’ messages and at creating a world where labor is decentered, consumption is centered, and good
parenting is done with a credit card.
Will BitTorrent Change Television? A Luddite’s View
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
We hear that convergence technologies such as BitTorrent are going to change television viewing habits and allow for personal schedules. But is it really true?