Overflow [April 27- May 1, 2009]

 Welcome to a special theme week devoted to “Overflow”.

This week’s In Media Res line-up:

Monday, April 27, 2009 – Will Brooker (Kingston University) presents: “‘So Many Games To Play’: The Worlds of Watchmen”

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 – Nina Huntemann(Suffolk University) presents: “Enlisting Players from Console to Mall: The Army as Brand Experience”

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 – Jonathan Gray (Fordham University) presents: “Springfield Sprawl: The Ad of the Game of the Movie of the Show”

Thursday, April 30, 2009 – Derek Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Madison) presents: “Fantasy, Labor, and the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company: Working for The Office”

Friday, May 1, 2009 – Avi Santo (Old Dominion University) presents: “4400 Fan-Habitants and corporate-sanctioned user-generated Overflow”