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From an Amateur's Angle: The Impact of the Visual Image in Defining Abu Ghraib
Abstract: Many have deemed the invasion of Iraq as the American government’s ‘brass-knuckled quest for information’ – a strong statement given that the self-appointed ‘land of the free’ is insinuatin
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What Good is the 'You' in YouTube? Cyberspectacle and Subjectivity
The spectacle manifests itself as an enormous positivity,
out of reach and beyond dispute. All it says is: “Everything that
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Self-disclosure of Religious Identity on Facebook
Abstract: Social networking Web sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, have in the last five years become indispensable communication tools for large numbers of young people in the United States. Concu
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The "Sufficient Backdoor" Test: A New Model for Indecency Regulation of Converged Media
Abstract: Content-based regulation is subject to the “strict scrutiny” standard in the Supreme Court. The “strict scrutiny” standard takes into account three issues: (1) whether the regulation further
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Fall 2008 Editor's Note
One of the pleasures of writing an editor’s note for a journal like gnovis, which covers such a wealth of inspired topics, is the
opportunity to spend a quiet afternoon looking at a stack of seemingly unrelated papers– searching for the common thread (or threads) that
holds the stack together. Some threads are easier to find than others but, like a thread pulled from a sweater, once discovered they seem to
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Who Benefits from Telecom? Understanding the Expressed Values Guiding the Emerging Telecommunications Regime
The technologies,
policies, governance, and standards of telecommunications have gone
through many changes over the course of its history. The three regimes
that have formed this history have moved from a monopolistic approach,
mostly involving radio and telegraph technologies, to an
institution-centered approach, including television and satellites, to
the current regime, with a more diffused approach to governance, with a
variety of state, institutional, and private actors involving more
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Why We Blog (Revisited) & Our Holiday Hiatus
Our editorial team will be wrapping up our Fall issue next week, but for our bloggers the holiday break starts today. We’ll be back in early January. Before I retreat to the editor’s corner, though, I thought I’d wrap up our semester in a pretty little bow. I swear I didn’t plan this.
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Weekly Roundup: Hermann Hesse, Tim O'Reilly, and Barack Obama walk into a bar…
Maybe I’m still feeling the Tryptophan, but my favorite posts this week appear to be lacking a coherent theme, so I’m going to revert to simple bullet points. Just because they’re random, though, don’t assume they aren’t utterly fascinating.
Here at gnovis
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Digital Killed the Television Star
Is TV soon going to become another nostalgic relic of our technological past like radio stars or record players?Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Book Review – "The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind"
If you’re familiar with the work of Lawrence Lessig, you’ll recognize the formula James Boyle follows in his latest book, "The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind". It goes something like this:
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