Comments on: Flow (Still) Matters

By: Faye

Faye — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:38:19 +0000

I enjoyed this Taylor and I felt the archive problem myself with regards to flow when I was researching the UK youth strand T4. I only managed to get hold of the coverage around The OC’s broadcast because our subject librarian had kept videos in the vaults that had a few fragments of the presenters and skits I was looking for in the buffering at the edges of taping. I think it was Cathy Johnson in a CST blog post that talked about the problems of the archive and paratextual elements of channels. I try and make sure I record a few hoursof a seleselection of channels each year for my own archive. But that’s just a fragment.

By: Taylor Cole Miller

Taylor Cole Miller — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:06:26 +0000

Thanks, Jason – I’ll definitely check it out!

By: Jason Mittell

Jason Mittell — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:49:59 +0000

The best recent analysis of Flow in contemporary television that I know of is Ethan Thompson’s essay on ONION NEWS NETWORK in the new anthology HOW TO WATCH TELEVISION (which Ethan & I co-edited).