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Reading Video Game Trailers – Bakhtin at the Museum
Mikhail Bakhtin argues that “if the word ‘text’ is understood in the broad sense—as any coherent complex of signs—then even the study of art…deals with texts.”1 Appropriating this broad definition of text, I would like to extend the realm of textual analysis beyond art and into a peculiar contemporary cultural form: the video game trailer. These trailers are short (30 to 90 second) video clips used to advertise a video game in the same way that movie trailers, or previews, advertise film.
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Does Institutional Memory Exist?
Or better put, does it matter anymore?
We often speak of institutions as having an intrinsic value that is very much bound up in its institutional memory, that collection of data and information that tends to pool when an entity has been established over a period of time.Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Perhaps Lessig is Right
“Our government can’t understand basic facts when strong interests have an interest in its misunderstanding.”
–Lawrence Lessig
Which means my professor is maybe not so right.Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Social Categories of Identity: Should We Scrap Them?
"Stereotypes Are a Real Timesaver."
–The OnionHistorian Joan Scott speaks of the role of experience in constituting one’s sense of self. In her 1992 essay, "Experience," she addresses the use of personal accounts as evidence in historical practice, and cautions against what she sees as a lack of scrutiny on the part of investigators.
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Youtube Video: The Machine is Us/ing Us
This video may be a bit old, in “Web 2.0 Time,” but I felt that it was an important piece to share with readers of the gnovis blog, because it relates to a concept that so many people in media studies are talking about, but which is often poorly understood: Web 2.0.
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A Discussion with David Bollier
David Bollier’s first book, Silent Theft, explored the historical development of commons and how the concept of commons can be used to approach contemporary policy and economic issues. In Silent Theft, Bollier asserts that commons are both tangible assets (like land, minerals, etc.) and intangible wealth (like copyrights and cultural resources). By reaffirming our collective ownership of these common resources we can alter the discourse surrounding property rights and ultimately create a more complex understanding of the market.
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GOOG-411: another way automation is replacing annoying human interaction
Sometimes I wonder if I am just slow to pick up on tech trends or if Google really is slowly taking over the world. Today I came across this story, courtesy of Boing Boing, on one of Google’s latest steps in world domination, GOOG-411.
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