Welcome to a special Asian American media-themed week from In Media Res. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments. 

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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.

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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


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Avi Santo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
3014 Batten Arts & Letters (BAL)
Department of Communication and Theatre Arts
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia 23529
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Co-Coordinating Editor: MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org
Co-Creator: Flow: Television and Media Culture 
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