Hi all, This week’s In Media Res line-up: (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org) Monday, October 22, 2007 – Christopher Lucas (University of Texas at Austin) presents: “Another Ignorant Schoolmaster: The Common Craft Show”. Tuesday, October 23, 2007 – Catherine Berkenfield (Old Dominion University) presents: “Entitlement and the Performance of 'Other' Englishes” Wednesday, October 24, 2007 – Afsheen Nomai (University of Texas at Austin) presents: “Can activists prank us to a better society?” Thursday, October 25, 2007 – Tara McPherson (University of Southern California) presents: “At the border” Friday, October 26, 2007 – Kyle Nicholas (Old Dominion University) presents: “The Soft Bigotry of Sensemilla” 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 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 _________________________________________________________________ Send a smile, make someone laugh, have some fun! Start now! http://www.freemessengeremoticons.ca/?icid=EMENCA122 ---- 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]