The Problem of Morality in Media Policy
by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
Beyond Janet Jackson’s breast: an investigation of how to rethink the moral discourse of media reform.
Oscar Clips Clips; Audience Insight Dips
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
The Oscars® telecast missed a chance to educate and inform.
Faith-Based Plot Initiatives
by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
An inquiry into the form and function of divinity in Joan of Arcadia.
Television’s Gated Communities
by: Megan Mullen / University of Wisconsin-Parkside
New strategies in cable television are reinforcing the metaphor of cultural gated communities.
The West Wing–A Hyperreal, Not a Reality Show
by: Trudy L. Hanson / West Texas A&M University
The West Wing just might be more important than politics in real life. Is that necessarily a bad thing?
This Week on Flow (April 15, 2005)
by: Allison Perlman / FLOW Staff
Welcome to Flow
The Copyright Creative Stranglehold
by: Patricia Aufderheide / American University
A discussion of the negative effects of copyright law on documentary production.
Pass the Remote: Adult Swim
by: Shana Heinricy, Matt Payne, and Angela McManaman
Who is the “we” in those ubiquitous [Adult Swim] promos?
Disappointment and Disgust, or Teaching?
by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
Is ‘disappointment’ and ‘the teaching of disgust’ the ‘core of our discipline’? Or might teaching better be accomplished by inspiring positive civic action. Either way, doesn’t reality TV do it better than we do?
Inside the Beeb
by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK
How can a public network like the BBC survive in the age of privatization?
Flotsam
by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
How does our understanding of television change when we replace the idea of “flow” with “flotsam”?
Copps’s Hypothesis: Indecency and Media Ownership
by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
Wasser considers a hypothesis of FCC commissioner Michael Copps: is there a relationship between media deregulation and vulgar programming?