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, July 8. This issue features columns by Chris Anderson, Mary Beth Haralovich, Doug Kellner and Rhonda Hammer, Megan Mullen, Tom Streeter, and Mimi White with a guest column by John Downing. We habe also published a one-time feature column by Diane Negra. 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: Little Green Men. Chris Anderson exposes the troubling ironies of GE's "ecoimagination" campaign. Race Fictions: Crash, Do the Right Thing and La Haine. John Downing discusses the portrayal of modern race relations in Paul Haggis' Crash in comparison with Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and Matthieu Kassovitz's La Haine. Report from Ringside: The Contender Live Finale. Mary Beth Haralovich reports back from the live Contender finale, which turns out to be a familial arena as much as a fighting one. Academic Scandals and the Broadcast Media. Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner argue it's 'Publish and Perish … the politics of academic scandals'. A Slice of AmericanLife. Megan Mullen unwraps the ideological twist underneath the nostalgic programming strategies and family oriented programs delivered by AmericanLife TV Postfeminism Lost and Found: Tracking the "Runaway Bride". Diane Negra discusses the media coverage of the "runaway bride." What is Commercialism? Thomas Streeter asks 'What is exactly wrong with for-profit television industries?' and refocuses the conversation over the dangers of commercialism. Re-entry. Mimi White explores the differences and similarities between television as an everyday practice in the U.S. and in Finland upon returning from abroad. 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]