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.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
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?