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This week’s In Media Res: A MediaCommons Project is available online starting today at http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/

In coordination with the release of the third film in the series, this week’s theme focuses on the Twilight phenomenon.  Curators include: Maggie Parke; Natalie Wilson; Courtney Brannon Donoghue; Rebecca Housel; and Jennifer Stevens Aubrey.

This week’s line-up:

Monday, June 28, 2010 - Maggie Parke (Bangor University, Wales, Elfin Productions and Co-Editor of Critical Readings of the Twilight Saga) Presents: Twilight: The Multi-Media Marketing Machine

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - Natalie Wilson (California State University, San Marcos and Author of Seduced by Twilight) Presents:Twilight Backlash: Taking a Bite out of “Sparkling Kids”

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - Courtney Brannon Donoghue (University of Texas, Austin) Presents: “Twilight is a License to Print Money”: Selling the Female Film Franchise

Thursday, July 1, 2010 - Rebecca Housel (Editor of Twilight and Philosophy and True Blood and Philosophy) Presents: Eclipse the Real: Twilight and Simulacra

Friday, July 2, 2010 - Jennifer Stevens Aubrey (University of Missoui and Co-Editor of Bitten by Twilight) Presents: Contemplating the Franchise, the Fandom and the Celebrity Juggernaut of the Twilight Saga

In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship.

Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response.

We use the title "curator" because, like a curator in a museum, you are repurposing a media object that already exists and providing context through your commentary, which frames the object in a particular way.

The clip/comment combination are intended to both introduce the curator's work to the larger community of scholars (as well as non-academics who frequent the site) and, hopefully, encourage feedback/discussion from that community.

Theme weeks are designed to generate a networked conversation between curators. All the posts for that week will thematically overlap and the participating curators each agree to comment on one another's work.

Our goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media.

In Media Res provides a forum for more immediate critical engagement with media at a pace closer to how we typically experience media.

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