Welcome to a special Diaspora media-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, April 14, 2008 – Madhavi Mallapragada (University of Texas at Austin) presents: “Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace” Tuesday, April 15, 2008 – Robert Tynes (University of Albany) presents: " Africa is mine, the diaspora is mine” Wednesday, April 16, 2008(a) – Rajinder Dudrah (University of Manchester) presents: "British Bhangra Album Sleeves as Artwork” Wednesday, April 16, 2008(b) – Ashwani Sharma (University of East London) presents: "Britz: Muslims and Postmodern Media after 9/11” Thursday, April 17, 2008 – Ola Ogunyemi (University of Lincoln) presents: "No place for cultural taboo in Cyberspace” Friday, April 18, 2008 – Jigna Desai (University of Minnesota) presents: "Hmong Bollywood” 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 _________________________________________________________________ If you like crossword puzzles, then you'll love Flexicon, a game which combines four overlapping crossword puzzles into one! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/208 ---- 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]