New Issue of FLOW is Live!
Tue, 8 Jun 2021 13:56:29 -0500
The journal is proud to announce the publication of issue 27.08. This
month's articles:
Christina N. Baker, "Liberation and Learning from the 60s in *One Night in
Miami*"
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/06/liberation-learning-one-night-miami/>
Christina N. Baker applies Audre Lorde's musing on collective liberation to
the film *One Night in Miami *to pose there is power in unity.
Alyx Vesey, "Bundling Merch Into the Comfort Economy"
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/06/bundling-merch/>
Alyx Vesey analyzes how artistic entrepreneurship in the music industry
through the use of merchandise has changed in the wake of COVID-19 concert
cancellations, as well as how this merchandise forms part of "a consumerist
response to societal collapse."
Crystal Camargo, "Rebooting Whiteness, Complicating Latinidad: The
Struggles of Latinx TV Remakes
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/06/rebooting-whiteness/>
Using* Charmed* and *One Day at a Time* as case studies, Crystal Camargo
examines the ways in which representation in Latinx reboots is complicated
and constructed by their white "original" texts.
Cynthia Meyers, Family Brands: From the Nelsons to the Kardashians
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/06/family-brands/>
Cynthia Meyers theorizes the "family brand," discussing examples from *The
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet *to *Keeping Up with the Kardashians.*
Andres Lombana-Bermudez, "By Any Platforms Necessary: The Makeshift
Infrastructures of Bogota's Public School Communities During the COVID-19
Pandemic <https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/06/by-any-platforms-necessary/>
Andres Lombana-Bermudez reflects on how Colombian public school systems
utilized Information Communication Technologies (ICT) throughout the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Lauren Rouse and Mel Stanfill, "Love in the Time of Coronavirus"
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/06/love-time-coronavirus/>
Lauren Rouse and Mel Stanfill examine COVID-19 fan fiction on the Archive
of Our Own to see whose experiences of the virus are present—and absent—in
these stories.
Amanda C. Cote, "On the (In)Visibility of Female Gamers"
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/06/invisibility-of-female-gamers/>
Amanda C. Cote challenges the idea that women in gaming is a new trend,
exploring how a continual surprise at women's presence in gaming
communities undermines their historical contributions in the field.
Eleanor Patterson, "From Network Syndicator to Adult Disney: A Brief
History of Hulu" <https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/06/brief-history-hulu/>
Eleanor Patterson analyzes Hulu's initial aim of adapting broadcast
distribution logics into streaming distribution and the service's
contemporary shift to an "Adult Disney" service.
*Flow* <http://flowjournal.org/> is a critical forum on television and
media culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film
<https://rtf.utexas.edu/> at the University of Texas at Austin. *Flow*'s
mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss
media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary
media.
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*MAGGIE STEINHAUER & NATHAN ROSSI*
Managing Editors, Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
<http://www.flowjournal.org/>
Dept. of Radio-Television-Film | Moody College of Communication | The
University of Texas at Austin
@FlowTV <https://twitter.com/FlowTV>
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