Please circulate widely. Apologies for cross-listings Flow: A critical forum for television and media culture launched its first issue on Friday, October 8, 2004. The Flow web address is http://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 at the following URL: http://www.utexas.edu/coc/rtf/FLOW/ad/flow.pdf 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). Responses to columns are encouraged as part of Flow's mission to generate more dialogue amongst media scholars. 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. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html