Welcome to a special LOST-themed week from In Media Res. All of the pieces this week have been curated by contributors to the forthcoming anthology Reading Lost, edited by Roberta Pearson and published by I.B. Taurus. 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, February 11, 2008 – Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham) presents: “Lost as TV3” Tuesday, February 12, 2008 – Will Brooker (Kingston University) presents: " Man Out of Time: Lost Season 3 Finale” Wednesday, February 13, 2008a – Stacey Abbott (Roehampton University) presents: "The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost” Wednesday, February 13, 2008b – Ivan Askwith (Big Spaceship) presents: "‘You Got No Idea What's Goin' On On That Island!’: Viewer Skepticism Over Lost's Long-Term Plan” Thursday, February 14, 2008 – Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham) presents: " "*Lost* is a Four Letter Word” Friday, February 15, 2008 – Jason Mittell (Middlebury College) presents: " Synchronizing Complexity” 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 _________________________________________________________________ ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org