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From the website: "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."

One of the fun articles I read on this website was "Yes We Can; Even Though We Say Knope." Here's a link: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2012/06/04/yes-we-can-even-though-we-say-knope Another really interesting one is "Curating the City" (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2012/05/25/curating-city), which talks about new mobile app, which allows people to explore a geographical map of Cleveland which provides embedded history for various locations. Supposedly a new update will even allow people to provide their own tours and stories.