In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. 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 experience mediated texts.

Each weekday, a different scholar curates 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 both to 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 theme weeks thematically overlap and the participating curators each agree to comment on one another's work.

In Media Res hopes to:

• Give scholars the opportunity to critically engage with the media in a more immediate and timely way.

• Promote discussion within the media studies community through virtual interactions around contemporary media artifacts.

• Enable a lively debate in which the sum total of the conversation will be more valuable than any one particular voice.

• Bridge the divide between academic and non-academic communities, inviting a critically-engaged and/or curious public to join in.

• Lead to the emergence of new scholarly and pedagogical ideas about studying and teaching media.

• Work toward reinvigorating the academic’s role as public intellectual by presenting media scholars not just as informed experts with valuable ideas to impart about critical media literacy, but as fellow citizens in a mediated society.

We have both a Facebook group and Twitter feed that provide links to each day's post and to the latest calls for curators.

If you are interested in being a video curator, please contact us at: inmediares@gsu.edu

The In Media Res Staff:

Coordinating Editor: Ethan Tussey

Associate Editors: Ashley P. Jones

Theme Week Coordinators: Lyndsey Shelton, Dafna Kaufman, Andy Kemp, Jayson Quearry, Jazmine Hudson, Ashley P. Jones. Jenny Gunn, Daniel William Van Jelgerhuis, Colin Wheeler, Kristina Jesperson

Alumni Consultants: Brandon Amato, Drew Ayers, Karen Petruska, Darcey West Morris

Information Adviser: Nedda Ahmed

Creator and Founding Editor: Avi Santo