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 15. This issue features columns by Chris Anderson, John Hartley, Jim McGuigan, Brian Ott, Sharon Ross, and Frederick Wasser with a guest column by Patricia Aufderheide. We have also published a one-shot piece by Rachel Weiss and a new Pass the Remote letter exchange. Please feel free to visit the journal at http://www.flowtv.org to read these columns and contribute responses to them. This issue's columns: Pass the Remote!, Shana Heinricy, Matt Payne, and Angela McManaman ask 'Who is the "we" in those ubiquitous [Adult Swim] promos?' Flotsam. Christopher Anderson explores how our understanding of television changes when we replace the idea of "flow" with "flotsam"? The Copyright Creative Stranglehold. Patricia Aufderheide discusses the negative effects of copyright law on documentary production. Disappointment and Disgust, or Teaching? John Hartley wonders if ‘disappointment' and ‘the teaching of disgust' the ‘core of [the media studies] discipline'? Inside the Beeb. Jim McGuigan ponders how a public network like the BBC survive in the age of privatization? Symbolic Inversion: Git-R-Done! Brian L. Ott asks 'What is appealing about Jeff Foxworthy?' Meaningful Mysteries - Psychoanalytic Pleasures in Today's TV. Sharon Ross offers a consideration of the pleasure of unraveling contemporary television's "meaningful mysteries." Copps's Hypothesis: Indecency and Media Ownership. Frederick Wasser considers a hypothesis of FCC commissioner Michael Copps: is there a relationship between media deregulation and vulgar programming? Notes from the Blogosphere. Rachel Weiss suggests that blogs are the new reality 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 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html