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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [log in to unmask] Co-Coordinating Editor: MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org Co-Creator: Flow: Television and Media Culture http://www.flowtv.org _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu