Welcome to a special WGA strike-themed week from In Media Res. Please feel free to respond to their comments and add your own thoughts and ideas about 
the series as well. 

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org

This week’s In Media Res line-up:

Monday, December 17, 2007 – Miranda Banks (University of Southern California) presents: “Of Scabs and Cats: The WGA’s Internet Campaign”

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 – Derek Kompare (Southern Methodist University) presents: “The AMPTP vs. the World”

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 – Ellen Seiter (University of Southern California) presents: “Raising the Bar: the Pros take on YouTube”

Thursday, December 20, 2007 – Jennifer Holt (University of California at Santa Barbara) presents:  "Voices of Uncertainty: The AMPTP in Their Own Words”

Friday, December 21, 2007 – Julia Himberg (University of Southern California) presents: “Writers & Authorship”

Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment.

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org

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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