Stems from the online journal, Flow: a critical forum on television and media fulture (www.flowtv.org).

Michael Kackman is Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture

Marnie Binfield is a doctoral student in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.

Matthew Thomas Payne is a doctoral student in Radio-Televison-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He is coeditor (with Nina B. Huntemann) of Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games, also published by Routledge.

Allison Perlman is Assistant Professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark.

Bryan Sebok is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Lewis and Clark College.

Introduction

Part I: The Convergent Experience: Viewing Practices Across Media Forms

1. Media Interfaces, Networked Media Spaces, and the Mass Customization of Everyday Space, Daniel Chamberlain

2. "It's Just Like a Mini-Mall": Textuality and Participatory Culture on YouTube, David Gurney

3. TiVoing Childhood: Time-Shifting a Generation's Concept of Television, Jason Mittell

4. Affective Convergence in Reality Television: A Case Study in Divergence Culture, Jack Bratich

5. Industry Convergence Shows: Reality TV and the Leisure Franchise, Misha Kavka

Part II: Creating Authors / Creating Audiences

6. More "Moments of Television": Online Cult Television Authorship, Derek Kompare

7. The Reviews Are In: TV Critics and the (Pre)Creation of Meaning, Jonathan Gray

8. "Word of Mouth on Steroids": Hailing the Millennial Media Fan, Louisa Ellen Stein

9. Masters of Horror: TV Auteurism and the Progressive Potential of a Disreputable Genre, Heather Hendershot

10. 49 Up: Television, "Life-Time," and the Mediated Self, John Corner

Part III: Technologies of Citizenship: Politics, Nationality, and Contemporary Television

11. Television/televisión, Hector Amaya

12. The Limits of the Cellular Imaginary, Eric Freedman

13. Extreme Makeover: Iraq Edition -- "TV Freedom" and Other Experiments for "Advancing" Liberal Government in Iraq, James Hay

14. Representing the Presidency: Viral Videos, Intertextuality, and Political Participation, Chuck Tryon

15. NASCAR Nation and Television: Race-ing Whiteness, L.S. Kim