Welcome to a special TV promos-themed week from In Media Res. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments. 

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This week’s In Media Res line-up:

Monday, March 31, 2008 – Joshua Green (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) presents: “Where it Belongs: Positioning US dramas on Australian TV”

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 – Maeve Connolly (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology) presents: "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind”

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 – Aswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan) presents: "A family drama: Television and the fight for the national family”

Thursday, April 3, 2008 – Miranda Banks (University of Southern California) presents: "Oh, What a Primetime Party: The Night is Young on the WB”

Friday, April 4, 2008 – Stephen Harrington (Queensland University of Technology) presents: "Our Newsreaders "Love You, Queensland", Please Reciprocate”

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
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org
Co-Creator: Flow: Television and Media Culture 
http://www.flowtv.org

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