Flow TV is one of my favorite media studies journals, the fact that it is online and open-source makes me like it that much more.
The newest issue features the article "Keep on rockin' in the free (virtual) worlds: why user-generated content matters." The article discusses Google's virtual life experiment, Lively, its relation to Second Life and earlier user-created virtual worlds, and the co-opting of user-created design, content and creativity.
"From the very beginning, the personal computer industry has been fueled by the desire to empower users, and it is disheartening when virtual world entrepreneurs overlook this bedrock principle.... What about the international cadre of volunteers who make sure that the Second Life Library on Info Island is staffed around the clock with reference librarians? Or the global teenagers who combine their creative energies to organize symposia and create multimedia presentations about transnational political issues?" Read the article here.
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