Welcome to a special TV promos-themed week from In Media Res. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org This week’s In Media Res line-up: Monday, March 31, 2008 – Joshua Green (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) presents: “Where it Belongs: Positioning US dramas on Australian TV” Tuesday, April 1, 2008 – Maeve Connolly (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology) presents: "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind” Wednesday, April 2, 2008 – Aswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan) presents: "A family drama: Television and the fight for the national family” Thursday, April 3, 2008 – Miranda Banks (University of Southern California) presents: "Oh, What a Primetime Party: The Night is Young on the WB” Friday, April 4, 2008 – Stephen Harrington (Queensland University of Technology) presents: "Our Newsreaders "Love You, Queensland", Please Reciprocate” 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 _________________________________________________________________ This Valentine's Day, get creative and show your sweetheart how much you care with flair! Find fun date ideas here! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/224 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu