Greetings,



We want to let you know that the new issue of Flow: A Critical Forum on

Television and Media Culture is available at http://flowtv.org.



Every few years, Flow?s editors select our favorite columns of the  

last few volumes. We?ve added special introductions and author addenda  

to these important pieces. Enjoy!



This issue features columns from Jeffrey Sconce, Michael Z. Newman,  

Lisa Parks, Vanessa Au and Michael Kackman.



This issue's columns in brief:



"Flow Favorites: A Specter is Haunting Television Studies" by Jeffrey  

Sconce (http://flowtv.org/?p=4838)

By raising the specter of "dead white men" theorists and their  

applicability to the 2008 Economic Meltdown, Jefferey Sconce provoked  

one of the most highly-charged debates on Flow in some time.



"Flow Favorites: The Bronze Fonz" by Michael Z. Newman  

(http://flowtv.org/?p=4840)

Michael Z. Newman?s "The Bronze Fonz" explores not only the  

relationship between art and popular culture, but between cultural  

memory and urban space.



"Flow Favorites: Digg, Flickr, and the Colonizing of Bridging Texts"  

by Vanessa Au (http://flowtv.org/?p=4834)

Discourse around the author?s image on Digg and Flickr highlight the  

fact that social media are shot through with race and gender codes.



"Flow Favorites: Around the Antenna Tree" by Lisa Parks  

(http://flowtv.org/?p=4839)

Lisa Parks' article revisits the infrastructure of communications  

media and examines the stakes of devices masked as "nature."



"Flow Favorites: Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural  

Complexity" by Michael Kackman (http://flowtv.org/?p=4836)

This piece sparked a vigorous discussion within the television studies  

community with its call to think more rigorously about why, exactly,  

we are drawn to aesthetically and narratively complex TV.



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