Call for Responses FLOW Conference 2008 October 9-11, 2008 The University of Texas at Austin http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1332 Deadline for 150-word abstracts: June 15, 2008 Flow Conference 2008 is the 2nd biannual conference for FlowTV.org, a University of Texas at Austin graduate student-run, online academic journal focusing on television and media culture. Flow Conference 2008 will resemble traditional academic meetings in name only: There will be no panels, no papers, and no plenary sessions. Instead, the event will feature a series of roundtables, each organized around a compelling question. Respondents are asked to submit a 150-word abstract addressing one of the roundtable questions as listed on our conference Web site: <http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1335>http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1335 Some roundtable topics include: New Formations of Stardom in Contemporary Media Culture Viral Videos and Political Participation Online and Offline Fan Communities TV and the Question of "The Mainstream" Televised Religion Music Fans and Copy Protection The DTV Conversion Media Policy, Media Reform, and Media Criticism Game Studies in The Academy Electronic Waste and Media Studies Global Television Flow Digital Aura and Web 2.0 Feminisms & Feminists in the Public Sphere Talent-Based Reality Shows and The American Dream Please visit the conference Web site for a complete list of roundtable questions in full detail. We especially encourage responses that address issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and ability, as well as international perspectives. To submit a response, please send a 150-word abstract to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] by June 15, 2008. In the subject line of the email, please include the title of the roundtable to which you are responding. Be sure to also include your full name, e-mail address, and affiliation in the body of the e-mail. Please submit a response to only one roundtable topic. However, we imagine that some individuals will have interest in several roundtable discussions and thus difficulty choosing between them. We want to accommodate as many people and their preferences as possible. Therefore, it would be helpful for us to know about those individuals who are willing to participate in another roundtable if too many responses are submitted for their original question. If this applies to you, please submit one response to one roundtable question AND let us know two other roundtable questions in which you're interested. If the original question to which you respond produces too many responses, we will invite you to submit a response to one of the other questions. We will inform participants of acceptance via e-mail by July 15, 2008. Upon acceptance, respondents will be asked to expand their abstract to a 600-800 word position paper, due by September 15, 2008. In an effort to include a wide range of participants (i.e., scholars, fans, critics, activists, policymakers, industry professionals, etc.), we encourage wide distribution of this call. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail us at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org