Welcome to a special WGA strike-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 17, 2007 – Miranda Banks (University of Southern California) presents: “Of Scabs and Cats: The WGA’s Internet Campaign” Tuesday, December 18, 2007 – Derek Kompare (Southern Methodist University) presents: “The AMPTP vs. the World” Wednesday, December 19, 2007 – Ellen Seiter (University of Southern California) presents: “Raising the Bar: the Pros take on YouTube” Thursday, December 20, 2007 – Jennifer Holt (University of California at Santa Barbara) presents: "Voices of Uncertainty: The AMPTP in Their Own Words” Friday, December 21, 2007 – Julia Himberg (University of Southern California) presents: “Writers & Authorship” 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 _________________________________________________________________ Read what Santa`s been up to! For all the latest, visit asksantaclaus.spaces.live.com! http://asksantaclaus.spaces.live.com/ ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu