Welcome to a special CSI-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 selection of pieces will also serve as a preamble for
MediaCommons next project, a series of scholarly “Casefiles,” or
digital anthologies that will focus on on-going series across a range
of media forms. The Casefiles will be overseen by project co-editors
Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Jason Mittell. CSI will be our first ongoing
Casefile series. These casefiles will be our initial foray into
rethinking long-form academic publishing in a digital environment as
well as a testing ground for a new form of peer-to-peer review. Please
stay tuned for a forthcoming announcement on our website.
So, without further ado, this week’s In Media Res line-up:
Monday, July 30, 2007 – Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College) presents: “It’s Our Job to Know Stuff”: The Epistemology of CSI”
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 – Derek Kompare (Southern Methodist University) presents: “What Happens in Vegas”
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 – Eva White (Indiana University Kokomo)
presents: “Double Voyeurism in CSI Las Vegas: The Scientist under the
Microscope”
Thursday, July 26, 2007 – Chad Harriss (Alfred University) presents: “CSI’s State of Denial”
Friday, July 27, 2007 – Jason Mittell (Middlebury College) presents: “The Painful Pleasures of CSI: Miami”
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
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
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org
Co-Creator: Flow: Television and Media Culture
http://www.flowtv.org
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