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Coordinated by Radio-TV-Film graduate students at UT Austin, Flow Journal's mission is to provide a critical forum on the changing landscape of contemporary television and media. www.flowjournal.org
Examining South Korea’s rapid economic ascent, Gil-Soo Han reveals how “nouveau-riche nationalism” collides with migrant realities. Centering on the Naju forklift abuse case, he exposes how economic pride and social hierarchy intersect
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Golden M. Owens reinterprets Rosey the Robot as a futuristic Mammy figure, linking domestic servitude, robot etymologies, and animation history to show how racialized labor logics persist beneath the surface of family entertainment.
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Anna Lovatt traces how artists from Mimi Smith to Letícia Parente used television and video to redraw the boundaries between art, media, and everyday life. The column reveals how the “screen age” has transformed drawing
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In his analysis of K-Pop Demon Hunters, Dal Yong Jin challenges theories of “odorless” hybridity, arguing for a politicized model of cultural mixing that keeps local specificity visible while negotiating unequal global media power.
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From Squid Game pop-ups to Netflix House installations, Hyun-Jung Stephany Noh traces how dystopian K-dramas become immersive, branded experiences. Her essay shows how Netflix turns speculative fiction into a global marketing spectacle
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Helen Piper examines the show The Assembly and compares the UK & Australian versions. In doing so, she reveals how format and post-production choices shape risk, reciprocity, and the politics of inclusion.
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Guillermina Zabala Suárez asks: Can digital media become a device to create awareness of health issues in out communities?
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New Flow?! 🚨 With Guillermina Zabala Suárez, Helen Piper, Hyun Jung Stephany Noh, Dal Yong Jin, Anna Lovatt, Golden M. Owens, and Gil-Soo Han! Topics vary from The Jetsons to The Asembly, K-Dramas, medical issues and more! Read all the columns at flowjournal.org! 🥳
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In a new essay, @aca-laurel.bsky.social examines the role of the fanboy auteur in HBO's backstage comedy "The Franchise," which satirizes Hollywood's superhero industrial complex. Read: www.flowjournal.org/2025/07/fanb...
30.07.2025 20:19 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1Flow is experiencing some unexpected back end issues which have resulted in the site currently being down. We are doing our best to get this resolved as quickly as possible. Thanks to those who have already reached out!!
27.05.2025 16:28 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In "Welcome to Wrexham and Representations of Management in Football (Soccer) as a Product of the “Media Sports Cultural Complex”" Andrew Stubbs-Lacy explores representation & construction of management in football with a focus on Welcome to Wrexham. Read: tinyurl.com/4z7wkuk8
01.05.2025 13:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Roderik Smits explores various factors affecting what constitutes “fair pay” in the film and television industries. Read it here: tinyurl.com/mrn5wv9v
30.04.2025 19:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Next up: @geraldsim.bsky.social critiques Big Tech’s lobbying strategies against antitrust legislation, arguing that companies use technoliberal narratives, racialized imagery & nationalist rhetoric, such as the “China Argument,” to manipulate public opinion and more. tinyurl.com/ycka7652
29.04.2025 22:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Instead of advertising’s integration of AI media technologies as driven by natural market tendencies, @matthewcrain.bsky.social argues its from systemic commodification & political-economic forces, as analyzed through the Political Economy of Media & Communications framework. tinyurl.com/3yajfcmb
28.04.2025 19:19 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Newman explores the use of camera looks in sitcoms like Abbott Elementary as a comedic device. Establishing direct connection with the audience, blending traditions of comedic performance that invite viewer participation & emotional response. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4vp8uakv
25.04.2025 15:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🥳New Flow?! With Michael Z. Newman, @geraldsim.bsky.social ,
@matthewcrain.bsky.social , Roderik Smits, & Andrew Stubbs-Lacy! Topics include: camera looks in sitcoms, advertising’s integration of AI, Big Tech’s lobbying efforts, "fair pay” in media industries, & Welcome to Wrexham! flowjournal.org
In "Streaming Power" @swapnilrai.bsky.social explores how streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon shape diplomacy, narratives, and policy, positioning themselves as cultural power brokers beyond national borders in an era of digital media dominance.
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In "Work Songs: Tiny Desk Concerts Reimagines Music Video and Public Radio" @ericdharvey.com examines the shifts in live music consumption with a focus on the evolution of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts.
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Time to celebrate! New flow with work by @ericdharvey.com
and @swapnilrai.bsky.social! Topics include: NPR's Tiny Desk Concert and live music consumption & how streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon are positioning themselves as global cultural power brokers.
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Kiah Bennett examines the production culture from the perspective of across-the-line workers at the entry level in "Across-the-Line: The Invisible Labor and Cultural Mechanics of Hollywood’s Entry-Level Workforce." Read it here: tinyurl.com/8v2w8cd8 !
26.02.2025 17:44 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In "Just Pretend: Elvis Girlies, Social Media and Embodied Play" Eleanor Patterson explores how Elvis Girlies “play around” with history.
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In this column, Ben Rogerson offers a textual and industrial analysis of the self-reflexive Disney+/Pixar series Dream Productions and the animation unit’s short-lived approach to streaming series. Read it here: tinyurl.com/2s4c4xke
21.02.2025 23:06 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
In "The Return of Global Sisterhood? The Transnational Journey of the 4B Movement on TikTok" @jinsookkim.bsky.social explores the 4B movement as a transnational form of feminism that has been cultivated through digital platforms. Read it here: tinyurl.com/3c322z8y!
20.02.2025 20:52 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 New Flow with @jinsookkim.bsky.social, Kiah Bennett, Ben Rogerson & Eleanor Patterson! Topics include: the transnational 4B movement, Pixar's series Dream Productions, Elvis Girlies playing with history, & production culture of Hollywood's entry-level workforce! flowjournal.org
20.02.2025 00:48 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
New Over*Flow! Kathryn Hartzell examines AI Olympic Ads from Summer '24, identifying a dissonance in the ads' narratives that highlight tensions around AI's relationship to creativity, concerns over increased precarity in media industries & more. Read at tinyurl.com/mr2rzzeh
30.01.2025 03:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to join BlueSky and share the newest issue of Flow! Featuring work by Andrew deWaard, Jacqueline Johnson, Eric Harvey, & Juan Llamas-Rodriguez. Topics include: Louise Linton, contemporary music stardom, Queen Charlotte's wigs, and subway flood videos. Read it here: flowjournal.org
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