Welcome to a special Oddities-themed week from In Media Res. All the pieces curated this week are from librarians addressing audio-visual archives and other library-based collections. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments.
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This week’s In Media Res line-up:
Monday, March 24, 2008 – Laurie Taylor (George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) presents: “Re-contextualizing Archives”
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 – Joel Adams (Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) presents: "The Public Good and Corporate Goodies: A Genealogical Snapshot”
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 – Randall Renner (George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) presents: "The power of the cliché in Televisionland”
Thursday, March 27, 2008 – Dina Benson (George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) presents: " My piece is: Bug vs. Book: The Eternal Struggle”
Friday, March 28, 2008 – Matt Mariner (George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) presents: "Cooking Terms and What They Mean (1949)”
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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