"Flow" Critical Media Forum Site Launches

Flow: A critical forum for television and media culture will launch its first
issue on Friday, October 8, 2004. The Flow web address is www.flowtv.org

Flow’s mission is to provide a space where researchers, teachers, students, and
the public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary
media at the speed that media moves.The first issue will feature columns from Anna McCarthy, Michael Curtin, Cynthia
Fuchs, and Robert Schrag as well as a guest column by Henry Jenkins.

Other regular columnists include Eileen Meehan, Mary Beth Haralovich, Mimi
White, Jim McGuigan, Doug Kellner, Tom Streeter, Frederick Wasser, Anna
Everett, Chris Anderson, Brian Ott, Heather Hendershot, John Sinclair, Faye
Ginsburg, Allison McCracken, and L.S. Kim. In addition, each issue will feature
a guest column from a leading scholar in media studies (upcoming guest
columnists include Tom Schatz, Horace Newcomb, Sharon Strover, Michele Hilmes,
Toby Miller, Shanti Kumar, Tara McPherson, Laurie Ouellette, and Will Brooker),
as well as an ever-expanding set of resources including syllabi, bibliographies,
links, and news. There are also opportunities to contribute one-shot columns on
specific topics for any interested parties.

Please print out the flier available
here
and circulate it amongst your peers and students.

Flow is organized around short, topical columns written by respected media
scholars on a bi-weekly schedule. These columns invite response from the
critical community by asking provocative questions that are significant to the
study and experience of media. Visitors are welcome to use Flow as a community
forum, a site of pedagogical engagement and classroom discussion or as a space
for philosophical debate about our daily experiences of media. These columns
will engage with current television programs and viewing practices while posing
critical questions about representation (race, gender, class, sexuality, etc),
reception (fandom, international audiences, etc.), industry practice (network
branding, product placement, scheduling, etc), technology (interactive
television, internet/ television convergence, etc), and modes of
address(genres, narrative conventions, etc).

Flow is a project of the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas
at Austin. Flow is coordinated and edited by graduate students in the
Department of Radio-Television-Film. Flow is sponsored by the UT RTF Department
and the University of Texas Press.