Welcome to a special Regional Media-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, February 25, 2008 – Victoria E. Johnson (University of California, Irvine) presents: “Revisiting Regionalism: Place-ing the Prime Time Past” Tuesday, February 26, 2008 – Jeffrey P. Jones (Old Dominion University) presents: "What Role for Government TV in Community Life?” Wednesday, February 27, 2008 – Doug Battema (Western New England College) presents: "Baseball *Is* All It's Quacked Up to Be” Thursday, February 28, 2008 – Allison Perlman (Penn State Erie) presents: "Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI's Experiment in Regional Educational Television” Friday, February 29, 2008 – Mark Williams (Dartmouth College) presents: "Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo” 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 _________________________________________________________________ ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu