*This is a reminder that the deadline for responding to roundtable questions for the upcoming Flow 2018 conference (Precarity, Preservation, and Praxis) is approaching. We invite responses to the roundtable questions in the form of a brief (150-word) abstract. To ensure full consideration, please submit your abstract by Sunday, May 20 at 5 PM (CST). With the casualization of labor and the instability of the job market, precarity has become an increasingly pressing issue for both the media industries and the academy. Equally precarious is the state of preservation, as the production and circulation of media content outstrips the resources and workforce assigned to preserve it. Woven throughout and between precarity and preservation is praxis, the ways in which labor, strategy, and skill are marshaled to combat these threats in the industry and in academia. As such, the 2018 Flow Conference, to be held September 27-29th at the University of Texas at Austin, has chosen to focus on this tripartite theme of precarity, preservation, and praxis.This year’s roundtable questions <http://www.flowjournal.org/flow-2018-roundtables/> include a rich assortment of related topics and issues surrounding: - Access & archives- Authorship & authority- History & materiality- Labor & compensation- Pedagogy & praxis- Policy & politics- Identity & nationality- Transcultural flows & borders- Precarity & professionalization- Technology & ephemeralityFor the full list of questions and complete details on the conference and submission process, please visit the Flow Conference website <http://www.flowjournal.org/flow-2018-roundtables/>. We will notify all participants via email in mid-June. Upon acceptance, respondents will be asked to expand their abstract to a 600-800 word position paper that will be due in late August 2018.Please direct any questions or concerns to flowconference2018@gmail.com <flowconference2018@gmail.com>. *