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Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara

Media Infrastructures and Affect
Lisa Parks/ University of California at Santa Barbara

May 19, 2014 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 2 comments

An Exploration of Infrastructure and Affect.

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Energy-Media Vignettes
Lisa Parks / University of California, Santa Barbara

March 17, 2014 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 2 comments

A critical examination of the interdependencies of natural and cultural resources, coordination of networked infrastructure, and subjectivities formed in their spaces.

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Media Fixes: Thoughts on Repair Cultures
Lisa Parks / University of California, Santa Barbara

December 16, 2013 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara One comment

An exploration of “Repair Culture” in Macha, Zambia.

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Flow Favorites: Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara

March 5, 2010 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 10 comments

Lisa Parks’ article revisits the infrastructure of communications media and examines the stakes of devices masked as “nature.”

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When Satellites Fall: On the Trails of Cosmos 954 and USA 193
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara

June 12, 2009 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 17 comments

What happens when falling satellites become high profile events.

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Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara

March 6, 2009 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 14 comments

An examination of what is at stake when technological infrastructures are hidden.

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Goodbye Rabbit Ears: Thoughts About the Digital TV Transition
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara

December 11, 2008 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 6 comments

Thoughts about how digital television conversion will affect television studies and the public.

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The 2004 Presidential Election and the Dean Scream

February 4, 2005 Lisa Parks / University of California - Santa Barbara 9 comments

by: Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara
What was missing in this campaign in my opinion was the lack of discussion of media industry reform, which is surprising given all the ammunition on the democratic side to address such issues.

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Flow is a critical forum on media and culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary media.

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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
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/08/gazing-upwards/

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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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