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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.

This issue features columns from Kiri Miller, Celine Parreņeas  
Shimizu, Miranda J. Brady, Ted Friedman, Alexander Cho, Aswin  
Punathambekar and Konrad Ng.

This issue's columns in brief:

"Fieldnotes form a Rock Band Bar Night" by Kiri Miller  
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4148)
Performance ethnography: a critical look at the collaborative and  
social aspects of playing Rock Band.

"On Hypersexual Filipina Video Ho: Demanding Powerful, Painful,  
Pleasurable and Political Critique" by Celine Parreņas Shimizu  
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4152)
Revisiting the music video for the Black Eyed Peas? ?Bebot? in search  
of empowered Filipina subjectivity.

"Museum TV and Hollywood Films: How the Smithsonian Became Big Media?s  
'Pile of Loot'" by Miranda J. Brady (http://flowtv.org/?p=4156)
The success of "Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian"  
casts new light on a federal investigation of the museum?s secret  
contracts with big media outlets, and reveals a potentially troubling  
conflict of interest.

"Myth, the Numinous, and Cultural Studies" by Ted Friedman  
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4161)
A renewal of interest in the concept of myth in cultural studies,  
tracing its journey from academic hot topic through new age buzz word  
towards a popular culture understanding of the term.

"Lady Gaga, Balls-Out: Recuperating Queer Performativity" by Alexander  
Cho (http://flowtv.org/?p=4169)
Pop icon Lady Gaga can be read as queer for her purposeful, embodied,  
performative critique of the artifice of celebrity.

"Television, participatory culture, and politics: the case of Indian  
Idol" by Aswin Punathambekar (http://flowtv.org/?p=4182)
The effect of a reality tv contestant on a region of India rife with  
ethnic conflict and what it means for participatory television and  
political culture.

"A Look Back at Michael Jackson" by Konrad Ng (http://flowtv.org/?p=4188)
An examination of Michael Jackson?s impact on the considerations of  
racial diversity, compared with Kip Fulbeck?s contemporary project,  
"Part Asian, 100% Hapa."

Interested in supporting Flow? Click HERE (http://flowtv.org/?page_id=2143).

FlowTV is now on Twitter! Follow Flow's Twitter page at:  
http://twitter.com/flowtv
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We look forward to your visit and encourage your comments.

Best wishes,

Flow Editorial Staff

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