Hi all, Just wanted to let you know that the latest issue of Flow: A critical forum on television and media culture came out on Friday, April 1. This issue features columns by Daniel Bernardi, Michael Curtin, Cynthia Fuchs, Henry Jenkins, Anna McCarthy, and Robert Schrag. We have also published a one-shot piece by Melissa Click. Please feel free to visit the journal at http://www.flowtv.org to read these columns and contribute responses to them. With this issue, Flow also enters its second volume. Many of our columnists have graciously agreed to keep writing for Flow, and we are pleased to add twelve new contributors to the conversation: Daniel Bernardi, Aniko Bodroghkozy, John Hartley, Henry Jenkins, Derek Kompare, Daniel Marcus, Vicki Mayer, Jason Mittell, Walter Metz, Megan Mullen, Dana Polan, and Sharon Ross. Flow's look has also changed to a more streamlined and, we hope, more visually pleasing format to help present our expanded roster. We are also adding a couple of new regular columns. Starting this week we introduce Pass the Remote, a collaborative column in which, over the course of each two-week issue, three writers exchange a series of open letters on a topic of their choice. Also starting this week, each issue will be introduced with a short column written by a couple of our student editors. The introductions will take on the challenge of linking the weeks' entries into the larger weave of the months-long discussion on Flow. This issue's columns: In Pass the Remote!, Natalie Cannon, Zak Salih, and Angela Nemecek discuss HBO's Carnivale and the valorization of freak culture Television For Swing States. Henry Jenkins argues how television can help to create common ground among citizens Hegemony on a Hard Drive. Robert Schrag argues for improving the relationship between the creative impulse and the digital environment. The Republic of Tyra, Anna McCarthy asks 'Who would you rather run the country--Tyra or Simon?' Terrordome. Cynthia Fuchs provides a consideration of the dynamics of cable cop shows The Shield and Kojak. Reinventing Public Media. Michael Curtin presents a pragmatic approach to the possibility of media reform. Where's the beef?. Daniel Bernardi looks at pornography, hate speech, Donna Haraway's cyborg metaphor, and their relationship to race in America. Martha Stewart: Free but Still in Chains? Melissa Click asks 'Can Martha Stewart redeem herself through television?' Please feel free to visit the journal at http://www.flowtv.org to read these columns and contribute responses to them. Best, Avi Santo & Christopher Lucas Coordinating Editors Flow ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]