Welcome to a special Asian American 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 28, 2008 – Shilpa Dave (Brandeis University) presents: “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar” Tuesday, April 29, 2008 – L.S. Kim (University of California, Santa Cruz) presents: "Music is the international language ~ and Asians Can Dance” Wednesday, April 30, 2008 – Jane Park (University of Sydney) presents: "(Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete's ‘Black Friday’” Thursday, May 1, 2008 – Shalini Shankar (Northwestern University) presents: "'Barack O¹Bollywood': Black-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Campaign Trail” Friday, May 2, 2008 – LeiLani Nishime (Sonoma State University) presents: "From Lovebot to War Bride: Race, Family, and Citizenship in Battlestar Galactica” 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 ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org