From Amanda Davis Gatchet: As I work through the interviews with our marathoning participants, it strikes me that people who marathon often “re-marathon,” returning to much loved characters and storylines again and again. This resonates with my own marathoning experiences—at least with the marathons I do for me, not for research. I don’t even want…
From Student Aleks Flur: I think the media changes us on some level. Whether we do it consciously or not, we take things from watching hours upon hours of a TV series that stay with us for the rest of our lives. But just what or how much we take is entirely up to us.…
In last night’s Media Marathoning class, we discussed what it means to take an “active audience” approach after reading Henry Jenkins’ chapter “How Texts Become Real” in his 1992 book Textual Poachers. I consider this to be one of the most illustrative quotes from the chapter: “The text is drawn close not so that the…
Note: This is the first of many posts that will be made by students in Lisa Perks’ Media Marathoning course at Nazareth College. From Student Elise Miklich: This evening I attended my first ever Zen meditation class. The instructor took the participants through several steps to ultimately learn how to “be in the now.” “The…
How well do you know marathoned texts? Our “media marathoning” banner is a composite of 12 fonts from marathoned texts. All of them can be found in our list of “commonly marathoned texts.” See how many you can identify (without Google’s help). The “i” is very tricky, but many people will probably have the same…
As Amanda and I work on understanding what makes a text “marathonable” (or “thonetic,” as I prefer), we have a LOT of viewing and reading to do. After taking notes on the Lord of the Rings books, the Back to the Future Movies, and the (real) Star Wars movies this summer, I’m now turning to…