Here are my slides from the presentation I gave today:
The response was VERY positive, even though (as one would expect) some people had reservations about a public review process.
(Cross-posted.)
I’m at the Computers and Writing Conference, where in a few hours I will be doing a presentation about MediaCommons — just an introduction/promotion, really, but I’ll be trying to get feedback from the audience about what they’d like to see. Anyway, I made a trailer to promote my session; enjoy:
Trailer for MediaCommons Talk, C&W
Uploaded by culturecat
After I give my presentation, I’ll post the slides to SlideShare and link to them here.
This week’s (abbreviated) In Media Res line-up:
Monday, May 14, 2007 – Christian Keathley (Middlebury College) presents: “A Whirlpool of Things”
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 – Ira Wagman (Carleton University) presents: “Appreciating the Particular in Format Television: The Case of Le Banquier”
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 – Kevin Howley (DePauw University) presents: “How This Must End—Constitutive Rhetoric and Oppositional Video Practice”
Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment.
Thursday and Friday we’ll be taking a break while we migrate to a new server. The front end of the site shouldn’t be affected, but if you notice anything odd, that’s why.
This week’s In Media Res line-up:
Monday, May 7, 2007 – Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham) presents: “Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi?”
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 – Moya Luckett (New York University) presents: “Tori and Dean and Youtube: Redundancy, Reality TV and Celebrity Transmedia”
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 – Chris Boulton (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) presents: “Porn Nation: Come hither and repent”
Thursday, May 10, 2007 – Megan Boler (University of Toronto) presents: “Taking Colbert Seriously: Faux News Man Issues Faux Apology for Real News Story Ignored by Real Media about Faked Intelligence”
Friday, May 11, 2007 – Avi Santo (Old Dominion University) presents: “Make a fan vid for MTV and win cool prizes: Participatory pleasures and profits converge”
Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment.
May 9, 2008
"“‘Save Me Captain Stubing! Skeletor and The Lone Ranger have joined forces and are attacking the General Lee’: The place of play in building story-worlds”""This is very preliminary, so I’d appreciate suggestions on earlier known examples or other approaches There are countless anecdotes of children combining discrete toy brands into shared story-wor..."
MediaCommons is seeking proposals for innovative "papers" that engagingly explore some aspect of media history, theory, or culture through an adventurous use of the broad palette of technologies provided by the digital network.
