Hi all, This week’s In Media Res line-up: (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org): Monday, June 18, 2007 – Max Dawson (Northwestern University) presents: “The Power to Entertain Yourself: Mobile Video Strikes Out (Again)” Tuesday, June 19, 2007 – Melissa Hardie (University of Sydney) presents: “Wrapped in Diapers, Built for Speed” Wednesday, June 20, 2007 – Christian Erickson (Roosevelt University) presents: “Terror’s Blinding Horizon: /24 /and the Normalization of NuclearTerrorism” Thursday, June 21, 2007 – Tama Leaver (University of Western Australia) presents: “The Haunting of Spiders, Cities and DVDs” Friday, June 22, 2007 – Dana Heller (Old Dominion University) presents: “The Mouth Wants What It Wants” 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 of collaborative, multi-modal scholarship that MediaCommons will aim tofoster. Its primary goal is to provide a forum for more immediate critical engagement 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-minute clip accompanied by a 100-150-word impressionistic response. The goal is topromote an online dialogue amongst media scholars and the public about contemporary media scholarship through clips chosen for either theirtypicality or a-typicality in demonstrating narrative strategies, genre formulations, 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) [log in to unmask] Co-Coordinating Editor: MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Networkhttp://mediacommons.futureofthebook.orgCo-Creator: Flow: Television and Media Culturehttp://www.flowtv.org _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org