Hi all,





This week’s In Media Res line-up:





(http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org):





Monday, September 24, 2007 – Ben Aslinger (University of Wisconsin, Madison) presents: “Playing with Peripherals”.





Tuesday, September 25, 2007 – Hector Amaya (Southwestern University) presents: “TBA”





Wednesday, September 26, 2007 – Cynthia Chris (City University of New York, Staten Island) presents: “Life During Wartime: On 9 Scripts from a Nation at War”





Thursday, September 27, 2007 – Tanner Higgin (University of California,
Riverside) presents: “Lrn2Play Noob: Progressive Masculinity in Games”





Friday, September 28, 2007 – Michael Lecker (George Mason University) presents: “Can Catwoman Challenge Patriarchy?”





Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment.





http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org





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 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 250-300-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
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