In Media Res Paper Theme Week, May 31-June 4, 2010

Hi all,

Welcome to a special IMR theme week devoted to paper. 

Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments.

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr

This week’s In Media Res line-up:

Monday, May 31, 2010 – Jonathan Senchyne (Cornell University) presents: "The People's Republic of
Paper: Rag Paper and Material Memory” 

Tuesday, June 1, 2010 – Ben Kafka (New York University) presents: "Red Tape Measures"

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 – Cathleen A. Baker (University of Michigan Library) presents:
"Nineteenth-Century American Paper: It's Not All Bad!"

Thursday, June 3, 2010 – Joshua Calhoun (University of Delaware) presents: “‘Toilet paper is the
new scroll. :P’”

Friday, June 4, 2010 – Timothy Carmody (University of Pennsylvania) presents: "Paper In the Age of
Industrial Print” 

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 asanto <at> odu.edu 

Best,

Avi Santo

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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: asanto <at> odu.edu

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)
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