This week’s In Media Res theme focus is: Filmmaker as Activist: Engaging Audiences & Building Community (January 23-27).

Here's the line-up:
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/

Monday January 23 , 2012 – Aniko Imre  (University of Southern California) presents: A Lesbian History of Socialism

Tuesday January 24, 2012 – Rachel Raimist (The University of Alabama) presents: Rap Video Remake: Activism (Re)Mixed With Viewer Generated Documentary Footage

Wednesday January 25, 2012 – Fiona Lee (The City University of New York) presents: Reading the Transnational in the Local. Or, How the Local Travels: The Case of Survival Guide Untuk Kampung Radioaktif

Thursday January 26, 2012 – Mary Erikson (University of Oregon) presents: The Teen Girls of Reel Grrls: Producing Media Activism

Friday January 27, 2012 – Sheila Schroeder (University of Denver) presents: Collaborative Audience Engagement: A New Model for Activist Filmmakers

Theme week organized by Phoebe Brown (Unblinking Eye Productions) and Elizabeth Strickler (Georgia State University).

To receive links for each day’s posts and stay up to date on our latest calls for curators, please be sure “like” our newly launched Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/mediacommons.inmediares

You can also follow us on Twitter at @MC_IMR

For more information, please contact In Media Res at [log in to unmask] or email the Coordinating Editor, Alisa Perren, at [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send your request to [log in to unmask]

Best,
The In Media Res Team


----
Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex
podcast:
http://www.screenlex.org