Welcome to a special Regional Media-themed week from In Media Res. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments and add your own thoughts and ideas about the series as well.
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This week’s In Media Res line-up:
Monday, February 25, 2008 – Victoria E. Johnson (University of California, Irvine) presents: “Revisiting Regionalism: Place-ing the Prime Time Past”
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 – Jeffrey P. Jones (Old Dominion University) presents: "What Role for Government TV in Community Life?”
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 – Doug Battema (Western New England College) presents: "Baseball *Is* All It's Quacked Up to Be”
Thursday, February 28, 2008 – Allison Perlman (Penn State Erie) presents: "Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI's Experiment in Regional Educational Television”
Friday, February 29, 2008 – Mark Williams (Dartmouth College) presents: "Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo”
Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment.
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In Media Res is envisioned as an experiment in just one sort of
collaborative, multi-modal scholarship that MediaCommons will aim to
foster. Its primary goal is to provide a forum for more immediate critical
engagement with media in a manner closer to how we typically experience
mediated texts.
Each day, a different media scholar will present a 30-second to 3-minute
clip accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response. The goal is to
promote an online dialogue amongst media scholars and the public about
contemporary media scholarship through clips chosen for either their
typicality or a-typicality in demonstrating narrative strategies, genre
formulations, aesthetic choices, representational practices, institutional
approaches, fan engagements, etc.
Best,
Avi Santo
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Avi Santo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
3014 Batten Arts & Letters (BAL)
Department of Communication and Theatre Arts
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia 23529
(757) 683-6971
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Co-Coordinating Editor: MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network
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Co-Creator: Flow: Television and Media Culture
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