Hi all, This week’s In Media Res line-up: (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org): Monday, October 8, 2007 – David Gurney (Northwestern University presents: “Response, Remix, and Return: Even Old Media Gets Hit by 'Chocolate Rain'”. Tuesday, October 9, 2007 – Laurie Ouellette (University of Minnesota) presents: “The Kids Are Not Alright” Wednesday, October 10, 2007 – Dave Parry (University of Texas at Dallas) presents: “YouTube, Presidential Debates, & YouRhetoric” Thursday, October 11, 2007 – Elizabeth Franko (University of Houston) presents: “Anatomy of a Breakdown: We, the Voyeurs” Friday, October 12, 2007 – Christian Erickson (Roosevelt University) presents: “The 4400” Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org ABOUT IN MEDIA RES 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 _________________________________________________________________ Send a smile, make someone laugh, have some fun! Start now! http://www.freemessengeremoticons.ca/?icid=EMENCA122 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu