Greetings, We just wanted to let you know that the new issue of Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture is out. This issue features columns by Melissa Jane Hardie, Jennifer Warren, Chuck Tryon, Hector Amaya, Adam Fish, John McMurria, and Nick Marx. Please visit the journal at http://www.flowtv.org to read these columns and contribute responses to them. This issue's columns in brief: "Cold Case: Ripped from the Headlines" by Melissa Jane Hardie: The proliferation of "ripped from the headline stories" impose the task of harmonising "real" events into more predictable narratives of frustration. "How Do I Explain This?" by Jennifer Warren: At Burning Man, everywhere you look, there are art installations and art cars and art bikes and art camps and artful people. "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: Channeling Howard Beale" by Chuck Tryon: NBC's "quality" television offering questions the quality of television. But will it provide further insight into the institution of television? "Segregados: Why it is OK to Ignore Spanish-Speaking Television" by Hector Amaya: The segregation of Spanish-speaking entertainment from the rest of mainstream television serves not only as a barrier to Latino integration into American society, but also reinforces the idea that there is something logical and reasonable about segregating Spanish from our English-speaking lives. "Paris Hilton--Anthropologist: The Production of Cross-Cultural Difference in First-Person Adventure Television" by Adam Fish: With emphasis on cultural encounters, first-person, reality-based adventure television shares formal and theoretical similarities with select phases in the history and methodology of ethnography. "The YouTube Community" by John McMurria: While the idealization of YouTube as a self-organizing, radically democratic community for sharing clip culture certainly helped to buffer what could be considered an act of selling "the community" as property to corporate giant Google, the image of YouTube as a revolutionary alternative to corporate media culture has nevertheless been a powerful one. "Performing Politics" by Nick Marx: Can Stephen COlbert bully Democrats back into power this midterm? We look forward to your visit and encourage your comments. Best wishes, Flow Editorial Staff ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org