Hi all, Welcome to a special theme week devoted to ShowTime original series The L Word. This week’s In Media Res line-up: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/<https://webmail.odu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=9f708ef3190448dbb6e83afebffc41fd&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediacommons.futureofthebook.org%2fimr%2f> - Monday, September 21, 2009 – Julie Levin-Russo (Brown University) presents: “You Write It! Or, The L Word Is Labor” - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 – Gina Mitchell (Bates College) presents: “It's so Butch and Femme: Reexamining Gender Representation on The L Word” - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 – Kelly Kessler (DePaul University) Presents: “If this is OurChart, then where is MyChart: Selective Lesbian Identities on The L Word Social Networking Site” - Thursday, September 24, 2009 – Eden Osucha (Bates College) Presents: “Fear of a Pale "Planet": Whiteness on The L Word” - Friday, September 25, 2009 – Candace Moore (Univ. Of Michigan) Presents: “The L Word Plays Itself” Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/<https://webmail.odu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=9f708ef3190448dbb6e83afebffc41fd&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediacommons.futureofthebook.org%2fimr%2f> ABOUT IN MEDIA RES In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response. We use the title "curator" because, like a curator in a museum, you are repurposing a media object that already exists and providing context through your commentary, which frames the object in a particular way. The clip/comment combination are intended to both introduce the curator's work to the larger community of scholars (as well as non-academics who frequent the site) and, hopefully, encourage feedback/discussion from that community. Theme weeks are designed to generate a networked conversation between curators. All the posts for that week will thematically overlap and the participating curators each agree to comment on one another's work. Our goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media. In Media Res provides a forum for more immediate critical engagement with media at a pace closer to how we typically experience media In Media Res is a publication of MediaCommons. MediaCommons is a strong advocate for the right of media scholars to quote from the materials they analyze, as protected by the principle of "fair use." If such quotation is necessary to a scholar's argument, if the quotation serves to support a scholar's original analysis or pedagogical purpose, and if the quotation does not harm the market value of the original text -- but rather, and on the contrary, enhances it -- we must defend the scholar's right to quote from the media texts under study. For more information, please contact In Media Res’ coordinating editor, Avi Santo at [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Best, Carnelia Gipson (Research Assistant) ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu