Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Benjamin M. Han argues that while one might be inclined to identify specific elements of the film that appeal to the global audience, Kpop Demon Hunters prompts us to examine questions of national identity in terms of its Koreanness. Read it here: tinyurl.com/3usj4n4w 010
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 30/12/2025In "K-pop Beyond the Trend" Dr. Crystal Anderson explores how K-pop music maintains relevance beyond the cultural moment, unlike the fast trending nature of other popular Korean music genres. Read it here: tinyurl.com/bdmx3vfw 020
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 26/12/2025In "Yet Another KPDH Thought Piece: Socially Conscious and Popular?" Dr. David Oh investigates how Kpop Demon Hunters has managed to maintain its popular status despite the film’s counterhegemonic tendencies. Read it here: tinyurl.com/3tjkm5kt 000
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Kallia O. Wright analyzes Dr. Bailey’s heart attack in Grey’s Anatomy, revealing how racial and gender stereotypes shape Black women’s medical treatment and self-advocacy within biased healthcare systems. Read it here: tinyurl.com/3vyahe9b 020
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Jennifer M. Kang argues that Kpop Demon Hunters exhibits how “K-pop aesthetics” have become a shared cultural resource, complicating discourses surrounding ownership, global-local identity, and the future of the Korean Wave Read it here: tinyurl.com/425kymuu 010
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Christine J. Cynn & Maggie Bertsche examine VCU’s East Marshall Street Well Project, uncovering racist histories of anatomical dissection & exploring current community-led efforts toward ethical research and reburial of stolen remains Read it here: tinyurl.com/yb43f64y 011
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 08/12/2025In "The Noise Hits All at Once: A Trans History of the Votrax SC-01 Voice Synthesis Chip" Whit Pow asks what happens when an electronic sound becomes legible as a voice? Read it here: tinyurl.com/4tmt9meu 010
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Examining 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 Read it here: tinyurl.com/5ywctjz5 010
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Golden 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. Read it here: tinyurl.com/56v38frs 000
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Anna 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 Read it here: tinyurl.com/3knva3wp 030
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 04/11/2025In 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. Read it here: tinyurl.com/2xft2667 030
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 03/11/2025From 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 Read it here: tinyurl.com/h7epx33m 010
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Helen 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. Read it here: tinyurl.com/5y7y4cax 000
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Guillermina Zabala Suárez asks: Can digital media become a device to create awareness of health issues in out communities? Read it here: tinyurl.com/mt5secz3 000
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 30/07/2025In 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... 122
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 01/05/2025In "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 021
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Dr. Roderik Smits explores various factors affecting what constitutes “fair pay” in the film and television industries. Read it here: tinyurl.com/mrn5wv9v 020
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Next 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 011
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Instead 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 022
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Dr. 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 042
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 28/03/2025In "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. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4buzdchw ! 032
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Kiah 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 ! 032
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 25/02/2025In "Just Pretend: Elvis Girlies, Social Media and Embodied Play" Eleanor Patterson explores how Elvis Girlies “play around” with history. Read it here: tinyurl.com/mrx3k83k 043
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 21/02/2025In 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 152
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 20/02/2025In "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! 054
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social · 30/01/2025New 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 031