Welcome to a special Fannish Vidders-themed week from In Media Res. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ 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, January 14, 2008 – Francesca Coppa (Muhlenberg College) presents: "Pressure" - a metavid by the California Crew Tuesday, January 15, 2008 – Tisha Turk (University of Minnesota, Morris) presents: "Not Only Human" - an X-Files vid by Killa and Laura Shapiro” Wednesday, January 16, 2008 – Jacqueline Kjono (independent scholar) presents: "A Day in the Life" - a Dead Zone vid by Shalott and Speranza Thursday, January 17, 2008 – Louisa Stein (San Diego State University) presents: "Bricks" - a Supernatural vid by Luminosity Friday, January 18, 2008 – Kristina Busse (independent scholar) presents: "Us" - a multivid by Lim 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 _________________________________________________________________ ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html