Teen Choice Awards: Better Than The Emmys?
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
Hidden behind the surfboards is an awards show that celebrates much of what the Emmys have overlooked.
Tag: Pop Culture
Celebrity Nepotism, Family Values and E! Television
by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
A closer look at families, wealth and Filthy Rich Cattle Drive.
I WANT MY GEEK TV!
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Global Frequency and the future of fan communities.
To Have and Have not (You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone)
by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
The afterlife of Dead Like Me on Australian cable television and the pleasures and perturbances of watching an already-in-the-grave series.
Pass the Remote: Catch and Release
by: Chris Terry, Cate Racek, and Cory Maclauchlin
What’s the appeal of fishing shows?
Set Your Cathode Rays to Stun(ning)
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
I’m coming out … and I’m doing it on FLOW. I suppose that, in some ways, I’ve always known that I was a bit “different.”
An Open Letter to the Food Network
by: Anna McCarthy / New York University
Dear Food Network, I like cooking and I like eating . . .
Interview: Jason Reich, writer on The Daily Show
by: Chris Lucas / FLOW Staff
Jason Reich: “I think that part of the reason what we do is so frequently perceived as ‘liberal’ is because we’re talking about the news, and these days, the people making the news are, by and large, conservatives…”
To Pee or Not to Pee: On the Politics of Cultural Appropriation
by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
Although I appreciate the courtesy of my fellow drivers letting me know what pisses them off and whom they’d like to piss on, I can’t help but notice that they have adopted the same cultural icon to convey, at times, very divergent targets of distaste.