Hi all, This week’s In Media Res line-up: (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org): Monday, June 11, 2007 – Jason Mittell (Middlebury College) presents: “Zen and the Art of Television” Tuesday, June 12, 2007 – Joe Militus (Brown University) presents: “Oscar versus the Information” Wednesday, June 13, 2007 – Chuck Tryon (Fayetteville State University) presents: “Nuts!: The Fan Campaign to Save Jericho” Thursday, June 14, 2007 – Dan Leopard (St. Mary’s College) presents: “King Anthracite: The Rock Man” Friday, June 15, 2007 – Elizabeth Franko (University of Houston) presents: “Girl Power: Revisited” 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 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 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org