If We Are So Smart….
by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College Television fixation I had been mulling over Steven Johnson’s thesis that TV makes us smarter when Aniko Bodroghkozy’s piece set off cross currents in the last...
View ArticleWhat Do We Want from TV Studies?
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago Discussion The last time I wrote for FLOW, I discussed “Meaningful Mysteries,” examining the pleasures of TV shows focused on serial questions. As I’ve been...
View ArticleSome Good News about the News: 5 Reasons Why ‘Fake’ News is Better than Fox...
by: Brian Ott / Colorado State University Jon Stewart There is no more destructive, deleterious, and dangerous institution in society today than the mainstream news media. It has so profoundly fallen...
View ArticleTV Down Under
by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK Television tower Recently, I visited Australia and New Zealand. While I was there, amongst other things, I watched some television. Watching TV in the...
View ArticleFlowers Powers: Mars or Venus?
by: John Hartley/ Queensland University of Technology Mars-Venus It’s been interesting to read Flow lately. Much talk of “media reform.” But what really seems to have inspired “Flowers” (those who use...
View ArticleDiscovering the Art of Television’s Endings
by: Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh ER’s Dr. Carter I used to collect final episodes of long-running sitcoms. I had MASH, of course. Also The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Barney Miller, the latter...
View ArticleThis Issue on Flow (24 June 2005)
by: Elliot Panek / FLOW Staff This Issue on Flow Last week, I attended a screening of Dial M for Murder being shown at a 3-D film festival at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, MA. Any encounter...
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