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Author: Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame

The Intimate Geographies of Flow
Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame

September 1, 2016 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame Leave a comment

Faculty advisor to the inaugural Flow conference, Michael Kackman, reflects on the importance of place and space for cultivating meaningful engagement and lasting community, and suggests ways for Flow to continue fostering both.

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Looking Back at Looking Back
Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame

September 28, 2014 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame One comment

Michael Kackman outlines the conversation between David Milch, Michael Zinberg, Howard Rosenberg and Dr. Horace Newcomb at the second Core Conversation of the 2014 Flow Conference.

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Waking People Up, pt. II: Because There’s a War on For Your Mind
Michael Kackman / Independent Scholar

March 27, 2012 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame One comment

Radio and the move of fringe politics into the mainstream.

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Waking People Up! Conspiracy Radio and the Contemporary Public Sphere
Michael Kackman / Independent Scholar

October 16, 2011 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame 8 comments

How contemporary pirate radio may be changing media studies definitions of “alternative media” and “counter-publics” in a particularly fragmented social and political climate.

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Flow Favorites: Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin

March 5, 2010 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame 22 comments

This piece sparked a vigorous discussion within the television studies community with its call to think more rigorously about why, exactly, we are drawn to aesthetically and narratively complex TV.

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Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
 Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin  

October 31, 2008 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame 15 comments

Looking to the ways in which Quality TV (and Lost in particular) negotiates the territory between melodrama and elitist aesthetics.

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Collaboration, Community, and Interdisciplinarity

November 17, 2006 Michael Kackman / University of Notre Dame Leave a comment

by: Michael Kackman / University of Texas-Austin
Like most interesting things, the Flow Conference was an experiment. And like most experiments, it generated some unexpected results.

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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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Fan Demographics on Archive of Our Own
Lauren Rouse & Mel Stanfill / University of Central Florida

Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

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6 Mar

Monday, Flow day!! Volume 29.05 is now live on the website. ! Head on over to http://flowjournal.org to read the first installment of work by @bimmbles , @trilliz, @kingisafink, @influencerlabor, and @westemilye!

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22 Feb

New in Over*Flow: @rouselaurenc and @melstanfill present the results of a survey of users of popular fan fiction hosting site http://archiveofourown.org, providing updated statistics on fan fiction readers and writers. https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/02/fan-demographics-on-ao3/

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14 Feb

Happy Flow-entines Day! We are proud to announce the release of special issue Volume 29.04, "The Struggle Is (for) Real: Cultivating Authenticity in the 'BeReal' age"! Thanks to guest editors @TomDivon and @disabledphd. Read the full issue here: http://flowjournal.org

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