Hi all, Please forward to students, colleagues, or anyone who might potentially be interested. For the past couple of months, we have been re-conceptualizing how In Media Res (IMR) works in order to make it easier for participants to upload materials onto the site and in order to reduce the back end labor involved in customizing each clip. This resulted in a temporary slow down of content on the site, but all that is about to change! With renovations now complete, we are embarking on an ambitious push to make IMR a daily stop for media scholars by having new curatorial efforts every Monday thru Friday by a different scholar each day. As always, these short features are intended to spark conversation on the site about contemporary and historical media practices and the future of media studies scholarship as a whole. Scholars committed to curating at least once between February 1 and May 11 for IMR include (in alphabetical order): Hector Amaya, Tim Anderson, Mark Andrejevic, Michela Ardizzoni, Miranda Banks, Doug Battema, Ron Becker, Marnie Binfield, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Megan Boler, Patrick Burkart, Jeremy Butler, Paula Chakravrartty, John Downing, Gary Edgerton, Cynthia Fuchs, Joy Fuqua, Faye Ginsburg, David Golumbia, Joshua Green, Hollis Griffin, Mary Beth Haralovich, Amelie Hastie, Tim Havens, Jennifer Holt, Vicky Johnson, Vamsee Juluri, Jyotsna Kapur, Kelly Kessler, Derek Kompare, Marwan Kraidy, Shanti Kumar, David Lavery, Dan Leopard, Elana Levine, Amanda Lotz, Moya Luckett, Madhavi Mallapragada, Dan Marcus, Vicki Mayer, Anna McCarthy, Allison McCracken, Alan McKee, Tara McPherson, Walter Metz, Toby Miller, Susan Murray, Laurie Ouellette, Brian Ott, Jane Park, Roberta Pearson, Alisa Perren, Dana Polan, Arvind Rajagopal, Jeff Sconce, Katherine Sender, Sharon Shahaf, Shawn Shimpach, Louisa Stein, Serra Tinic, Chuck Tryon, Michele White, Karin Wilkins, Joe Wlodorz Our first two new curated clips – by Tara McPherson and Jyotsna Kapur -- are currently up on the site. Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org I will be sending out weekly schedules of upcoming curatorial debuts. If you are interested in curating for IMR, please e-mail: [log in to unmask] 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 at a pace 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Avi Santo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Theatre Arts Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529 (757) 683-6971 [log in to unmask] _________________________________________________________________ Get the new Windows Live Messenger! http://get.live.com/messenger/overview ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]