Hi 
all,
This week’s In 
Media Res line-up:
(http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org):
Monday, April 16, 
2007 – Anna McCarthy (New York University) presents: “Bollywood for the 
Trees”
Tuesday, April 17, 
2007 – Shanti Kumar (University of Texas at Austin) presents: “Television and 
Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, 
U.K.”
Wednesday, April 
18, 2007 – Susan Murray (New York University) presents: "And Then There's 
Maude": Television, Abortion, and Social Relevance”
Thursday, April 
19, 2007 – Joy Fuqua (Tulane University) presents: “Riding on The City of New 
Orleans: Losing Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”
Friday, April 20, 
2007 – Marnie Binfield (University of Texas at Austin) presents: "The White 
Rapper Show Or White Folks Actin' like Fools?"
Please check out 
these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts 
viaa 
comment.
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org
In Media Res is 
envisioned as an experiment in just one sort ofcollaborative, 
multi-modal scholarship that MediaCommons will aim tofoster. Its 
primary goal is to provide a forum for more immediate 
criticalengagement with 
media in a manner closer to how we typically experiencemediated 
texts.
Each day, a 
different media scholar will present a 30-second to 
3-minuteclip accompanied 
by a 100-150-word impressionistic response. The goal is 
topromote an online 
dialogue amongst media scholars and the public aboutcontemporary media 
scholarship through clips chosen for either theirtypicality or 
a-typicality in demonstrating narrative strategies, 
genreformulations, 
aesthetic choices, representational practices, 
institutionalapproaches, fan 
engagements, etc.
Best,
Avi 
Santo

----------------------------------------------------------------------Avi Santo, 
Ph.D.Assistant 
ProfessorDepartment of 
Communication and Theatre ArtsOld Dominion 
UniversityNorfolk, Virginia 
23529(757) 
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Co-Coordinating 
Editor: MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Networkhttp://mediacommons.futureofthebook.orgCo-Creator: Flow: 
Television and Media Culturehttp://www.flowtv.org

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