Welcome to a special Katrina/New Orleans-themed week from In Media Res. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org All the pieces this week focus on the after effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the varied roles that media has played in shaping our understanding and feelings about the city’s future. Please feel free to respond to their comments and add your own thoughts and ideas about the series as well. So, without further ado, this week’s In Media Res line-up: Monday, August 13, 2007 – Michele White (Tulane University) presents: “The Aesthetic of Disaster: Live, Broken, and Pretty” Tuesday, August 14, 2007 – Betsy Weiss (Tulane University) presents: “The Real K-Ville” Wednesday, August 15, 2007 – Marline Otte (Tulane University) presents: “TBA” Thursday, August 16, 2007 – Mark Vail (Tulane University) presents: “New Orleans and the Symbolic Politics of Place and Poverty” Friday, August 17, 2007 – Joy Fuqua (City University of New York, Queens College) presents: “Household: Learning from Leaving New Orleans” 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 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 _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE ---- 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]