Hi all,



Apologies for the delay in sending out this notice. Just wanted to let you 

know that the latest issue of Flow: A critical forum on television and media 

culture came out on Friday, June 24. This issue features columns by John 

Hartley, Jim McGuigan, Brian L. Ott, Sharon Ross, and Frederick Wasser with 

a guest column by Jane Feuer.



Please feel free to visit the journal at http://www.flowtv.org to read these

columns and contribute responses to them.



This issue's columns:



Discovering the Art of Television's Endings. Jane Feuer provides a 

consideration of the aesthetics of the television season finale.



Quoting Flowers Powers: Mars or Venus? John Hartley asks 'Is media studies 

in need of planetary realignment?' Or, how learning to appreciate Benny Hill 

might solve the Fiske/McChesney divide.



TV Down Under. Jim McGuigan discusses whether Austrialian television closer 

to American or British TV.



Some Good News about the News: 5 Reasons Why ‘Fake' News is Better than Fox 

‘News'. Brian L. Ott tells us why there is no more destructive, deleterious, 

and dangerous institution in society today than the mainstream news media.



What Do We Want from TV Studies? Sharon Ross asks 'On a practical level, how 

do we as scholars, teachers, and activists manage to address the many facets 

of TV today? What do we want from TV Studies?'



If We Are So Smart.... Frederick Wasser wants to know how can media studies 

address television's impact on contemporary politics? A further 

consideration of the political economy/cultural studies debate.



Please feel free to visit the journal at http://www.flowtv.org to read these

columns and contribute responses to them.



Best,



Avi Santo & Christopher Lucas

Coordinating Editors

Flow



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