The fifth Flow Conference, hosted by the graduate students and faculty of the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin, will be held September 11th to 13th, 2014. The conference will feature a series of roundtables, each organized around a discussion question on contemporary issues in television/media culture and scholarship. Respondents are asked to submit a brief (150 word) abstract addressing one of the roundtable questions posted on the Flow website. The deadline for submissions is Monday, May 5, 2014. 2014 Roundtable Topics include: ***More information regarding the roundtable questions as well as information on how to submit responses can be found at http://flowtv.org/flowconference2014/cfr/ --Attend the Audience: Changing Audience Analysis --Getting Back to “So What?” --Comic Book Takeover: The Ubiquitous Influence of the Medium in Hollywood --Plug & Play: The Intersections of Television Studies and Game Studies --Missing in Action: Quality TV and Canonization --Reconsidering Digital Distribution --Streaming and the Return of Williams’ Flow --Ex-Pat TV --Enunciative Fan Production and Social “Flow” --Reconsidering Formal Analysis --How Do We Make the Past Visible? --Music Made for TV: Reassessing the History of Pop Music in/on Television --After the Industry Turn --Television Labor: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Concerns in Global Contexts --By Design: Material Histories of Media Interfaces and Cultures --Policy Matters: Exploring Opportunities for Media Policy Scholars in Public Debates --Toys, T-Shirts, and Tumblers: These Are Not the Paratexts You Are Looking For (Hint: The Films Are) --The 21st Century Television Classroom: How, Why, & Why Not --Race in 21st Century Television: How Much Has Changed? --An Impermeable Structure: Minority and Female Employment (or lack thereof) in the Television Industry --Reconciling Queer TV --Theory: How Can Media Studies Make “The T Word” More User-Friendly? --“Not in the Margin Anymore”: The Transnational Turn in Contemporary TV --Political Television and Perceptions of American Politics --Looking Forward by Looking Back: The Role of Historical Inquiry in Current TV Studies --“Branded Entertainment”: Digital Advertising and New TV Business Models Conference updates will be posted via Twitter at @Flow_2014 and via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/2014Flow. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html