Well, I see that Derek (along with others)has been horn tooting for his 4C's panel. So, I will follow suit. I'll be joining Nate Kreuter and Maha Baddar for "Tracing New Fronts: Realities of the Middle East." DDD has been kind enough to chair our panel. We are Session B.01 on Thursday, April 3 at 12:15pm. Nate will be presenting on the "YouTube Front" of the Iraq war and Maha will talk about the use jokes and other non-traditional discourse as resistance.

I will be discussing this image and it's ViRaL-ness:

Why the funky spelling, you ask? Well, it won't give too much away to tell you that the ViRaL text can serve to remind us that reality sits uneasily and chiasmatically between Virtual reality (VR) and Real Life (RL): ViRaL.