Welcome to a special alternative media-themed week from In Media Res. Please feel free to respond to their comments and add your own thoughts and ideas about the series as well. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org This week’s In Media Res line-up: Monday, December 10, 2007 – Chris Atton (Napier University) presents: “Rory Bremner as Ahmadinejad: The Purity of Alternative Media” Tuesday, December11, 2007 – Laura Stein (University of Texas at Austin) presents: “Deconstructing Television from Within: the Alternative Aesthetics of Paper Tiger Television” Wednesday, December12, 2007 – Allison Perlman (Penn State University-- Erie) presents: “Jesus 2.0: Christian Identity and Community on Godtube” Thursday, December 13, 2007 – Clemencia Rodriguez (University of Oklahoma) presents: "Citizens’ Media in Southern Colombia” Friday, December 14, 2007 – Dorothy Kidd (University of San Francisco) presents: “Alternative, mainstream or ?: The case of Radio Bilingue” 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 300-350-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 _________________________________________________________________ Use fowl language with Chicktionary. Click here to start playing! http://puzzles.sympatico.msn.ca/chicktionary/index.html?icid=htmlsig ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org