Jeremy: thanks for starting the list. I've dropped in on the tv list in the past and didn't find the discussion focussed enough for my interests. there are two topics I'd be interested in hearing reactions to. The first is the issue of the critique of the loose way the concept of "resistance" has been used in recent audience response studies e.g. fiske, morely, hobson, etc. David Scholle has an interesting article in the first issue of the Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies that attempts to re-insert the primacy of a political economic notion of resistance back into cultural studies which he sees as lapsing to far into a concern with an a political semiosis....or rather treating semiotic democracy as an end in itself [does this ring a bell with anyone?] Secondly...i'm beginning to do some writing around issues of authenticity and representation in film and tv. Authenticity is a genuinely slippery topic. There is a enough good work around [e.g James Clifford's The Predicament of Culture] to show/argue the need for this concept to be understood as embedded in a set of dynamics over time....which means authenticit y must be seen as moving and changing...yet audiences are often pre-disposed to judgments about what are and are not authentic representations...what i'd kelike to hear is other people's views on what some of the c key issues might be within this theme. I work out of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto which has a lively, large group of faculty devoted to teaching and research in the area of critical pedagogy and cultural studies. Roger Simon