Hi all,


This week’s In Media Res line-up:


(http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org):


Monday, June 11, 2007 – Jason Mittell (Middlebury College) presents: “Zen and the Art of Television”


Tuesday, June 12, 2007 – Joe Militus (Brown University) presents: “Oscar versus the Information”


Wednesday, June 13, 2007 – Chuck Tryon (Fayetteville State University) presents: “Nuts!: The Fan Campaign to Save Jericho”


Thursday, June 14, 2007 – Dan Leopard (St. Mary’s College) presents: “King Anthracite: The Rock Man”


Friday, June 15, 2007 – Elizabeth Franko (University of Houston) presents: “Girl Power: Revisited”


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 100-150-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

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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