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Robots in Popular Culture: Labor Precarity and Machine Cute
Anthony P. McIntyre / University College Dublin

February 27, 2017 Anthony P. McIntyre / University College Dublin 3 comments

Anthony P. McIntyre reflects on cultural representations of robots as cute in recent films and media, relating such constructions to contemporary capitalist labor dynamics and threats.

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“I Just Expect There To Be Some Trouble”: Boyz N the Hood and Racialization of Cinema Violence
Caetlin Benson-Allott / Georgetown University

February 27, 2017 Caetlin Benson-Allott / Georgetown University Leave a comment

In this article, Caetlin Benson-Allott focuses on the racist backlash to incidents of violence surrounding the release of Boyz N the Hood and other films such as New Jack City and Do The Right Thing

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On Feminism, Racism, and Bewitched‘s Not-So-Magical Politics of Fun
Phoebe Bronstein / University of California San Diego

February 27, 2017 Phoebe Bronstein / University of California, San Diego One comment

Phoebe Bronstein examines how Bewitched reinforced exclusionary white feminism and how this exclusion continues to affect the modern women’s movement and marketable, consumerist feminism.

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Prestige and Purpose: The “Rise” and Fall of the Critics’ Choice Television Awards
Myles McNutt / Old Dominion University

February 27, 2017 Myles McNutt / Old Dominion University 2 comments

Myles McNutt discusses the role of the Critics’ Choice Awards within the prestige economy of the television industry.

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A Pedagogical Experiment in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina

February 26, 2017 Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina 2 comments

Susan Courtney reflects on teaching race and media studies to undergraduates, inspired in part by her fall 2015 course, “Mediating Ferguson, USA: 1915-2015.”

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Fan Demographics on Archive of Our Own
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Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

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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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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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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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