Welcome to a special Oddities-themed week from In Media Res. All the pieces curated this week are from librarians addressing audio-visual archives and other library-based collections. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org This week’s In Media Res line-up: Monday, March 24, 2008 – Laurie Taylor (George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) presents: “Re-contextualizing Archives” Tuesday, March 25, 2008 – Joel Adams (Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) presents: "The Public Good and Corporate Goodies: A Genealogical Snapshot” Wednesday, March 26, 2008 – Randall Renner (George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) presents: "The power of the cliché in Televisionland” Thursday, March 27, 2008 – Dina Benson (George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) presents: " My piece is: Bug vs. Book: The Eternal Struggle” Friday, March 28, 2008 – Matt Mariner (George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) presents: "Cooking Terms and What They Mean (1949)” 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 _________________________________________________________________ Sympatico/MSN Autos wants to put YOU in a 2008 Eclipse! Click here to enter! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/212 ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org