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• In Media Res
  Re: The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost

  Like Will, I found this

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Wednesday, February 13, 2008 — 3:36 pm

  Like Will, I found this video troubling and raising some of the questions Julian highlights. Typically, active audience theories suggest that fan creativity works to complicate popular texts that are assumed to be more straightforward & simplistic- or ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost

  And if we're blurring the

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Wednesday, February 13, 2008 — 7:09 pm

  And if we're blurring the boundaries between scholar & producer, commentator & marketer, I guess I'll flat out self-promote: the article by me & Jonathan that Roberta & Stacey referred to is ' Speculations on Spoilers: Lost ...
• Fieldguide
  Re: THATCamp SCMS

  Pre-conference possibilities

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Tuesday, May 7, 2013 — 3:42 pm

  I completely concur that SCMS is ready for some unconferencing & general rethinking of the conference structure. I was struck this year in comparison to MLA (my first), where a pre-conference THATCamp was an excellent start to the conference, along wi ...
• Fieldguide
  Re: Help Wanted: A (Tenure-Track) Cyborg Manifesto

  Jobs must be open to openness

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Tuesday, April 23, 2013 — 11:50 am

  Suzanne, your brief post raises a large number of issues that junior scholars need to think through before signing the coveted contract. In our SCMS workshop, Eric Faden highlighted how he negotiated the "terms" of his video-based scholarship in ...
• Fieldguide
  Re: Help Wanted: A (Tenure-Track) Cyborg Manifesto

  Making invisible support visible

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Tuesday, April 23, 2013 — 9:02 pm

  One way that I try to voice support for such project & non-traditional sites in publishing is within the tenure review process. When I went up for tenure, I touted my blog & digital publishing as an important part of my portfolio, and then shared ...
• [in]Transition
  Re: Mothers on the Line: The Allure of Julianne Moore

  On Professionalism and Open Review / Commenting

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Sunday, October 1, 2017 — 7:23 pm

  [in]Transition's embrace of open peer review is still a novelty within academia, and thus may provoke disagreement and confusion in some contributors and readers. To clarify our process: we invite esteemed reviewers with considerable expertise to ass ...

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