(Originally published 6/12/12)
In anticipation of the 2012 London Olympic Games, the media and textual criticism site, In Media Res recently listed "The Olympics" among its current calls for curators. This "theme week" of curated Olympics videos/slideshows and critical responses will be published on July 30-June 3.
The call asks for brief proposals (due June 18) that:
. . . address a wide variety of topics relating to the Olympics and its media representations. Topics relevant to the event may include but are not limited to: branding of/at the Olympics; nationalism and spectacle; narrativization of competitors’ or nations’ participation; issues of gender, race, class, or sexuality; globalization and viewership; and/or representations of the Olympics beyond the athletic games.
"The Olympics" will be In Media Res' fourth sports and sports media-related "theme week" in the past year. Other themes addressed have included "College Sports," "Sports Scandals," and "Mediating Baseball."
If you're not familiar with the project, In Media Res is a forum where academics, journalists, critics, media professionals, and fans critically engage with media texts in a more immediate format than is common in much of academic publishing. As the site explains, every day a "curator" offers a media text--usually a video clip or slideshow--accompanied by a short, critical response to that media text. Each week, these curated works focus on a different topic.
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