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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The convergent experience: viewing practices across media forms. Media interfaces and mass customization of everyday space / Daniel Chamberlain -- It's just like a mini mall : comic convergence and participatory culture on YouTube / David Gurney -- TiVoing childhood : time shifting a generation's concept of television / Jason Mittell -- Affective convergence in reality television : a case study in divergence culture / Jack Bratich -- Industry convergences : reality television and the cross-purposed commodity / Misha Kavka -- Creating authors/creating audiences. More "moments of television" : / Derek Kompare -- The reviews are in : TV critics and the (pre)creation of meaning / Jonathan Gray -- Hailing the fan : diegetic and extradiegetic expansion in official online interfaces / Louisa Ellen Stein -- Gruesome competition for cable viewers : masters of horror, auteurism, and the progressive potential of a disreputable genre / Heather Hendershot -- 59Up : television, Life-Time, and the mediated self / John Corner -- Technologies of citizenship : politics, nationality, and contemporary television. Television/televisicentn / Hector Amaya -- The limits of the cellular imaginary / Eric Freedman -- "TV freedom" and other experiments for "advancing" liberal democracy in Iraq / James Hay -- Hillary Clinton meets Johnny Sack : viral videos and the 2008 presidential election / Chuck Tryon -- Speed TV / L.S. Kim.