Hi all, This week’s In Media Res line-up: (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org): Monday, February 4, 2008 – Sam Ford (Massachusetts Institute for Technology) presents: “‘Cactus Jack and the Moral Justification of Great Wrestling Heels”. Tuesday, February 5, 2008 – Jonathan Gray (Fordham University) presents: “Voting for Super Bullshit on Super Tuesday” Wednesday, February 6, 2008 – Heather Hendershot (City University of New York, Queens College) presents: “‘Neurosis in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice: Extremism, Anxiety, and the 1964 Presidential Campaign” Thursday, February 7, 2008 – Jacob Smith (University of Nottingham) presents: “Wave of Imitation” Friday, February 8, 2008 – Catherine Berkenfield (Old Dominion University) presents: “A Sphere of One's Own” 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 _________________________________________________________________ ---- 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]