Hi all, Welcome to a special theme week devoted to shopping. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr This week’s In Media Res line-up: Monday, March 22, 2010 – Jennifer Wofford (Ithaca College) presents: “Selling Domesticity Online” Tuesday, March 23, 2010 – Lisa Patti (Cornell University) presents: “Defictionalization” Wednesday, March 24, 2010 – Brad Prager (University of Missouri) presents: “Grand Buffet” Thursday, March 25, 2010 – Leah Ruth Shafer (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) presents: "Re-Branding the Dynasty: Tori Spelling’s HSN clips on YouTube” Friday, March 26, 2010 – Caetlin Benson-Allott (University of California, Santa Cruz) presents: “Tick Tick Blu” Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr 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 videoclip/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] Best, Avi Santo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avi Santo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Theatre Arts Old Dominion University Office: Batten Arts & Letters 3014 Tel: 757-683-6971 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Co-Creator, Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture (http://flowtv.org) Co-Creator, MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org) Creator and Coordinating Editor, In Media Res (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avi Santo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Theatre Arts Old Dominion University Office: Batten Arts & Letters 3014 Tel: 757-683-6971 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Co-Creator, Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture (http://flowtv.org) Co-Creator, MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org) Creator and Coordinating Editor, In Media Res (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr) ________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Check your Hotmail from your phone. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9712957 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html