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Say it Differently?
The following video was produced by JESS3 for The Economist and highlights, in 6 minutes, the main points of a 150 page report called the “Women’s Economic Opportunity Index.” Two things struck me about the video, the first being the content and the second being the form. The discussion of what form to use when communicating development and economic data is a critical conversation to have.
Categories: Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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Issues with inevitability in info tech discourse (pt. 1)
This post originally appeared, in a less-edited form, on The Socratic Librarian.
Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Napster Part II?: The MPAA, a Former Senator, and You
It was announced Tuesday that Chris Dodd, the former five-term Democratic Senator from Connecticut, will be taking over as head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the trade organization that oversees the nominally voluntary MPAA ratings system. Dodd had recently announced his retirement from government, declining to run for a sixth term in office. At his new post, the former senator’s main concern will be curtailing internet piracy.
Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Dancing to a New Beat: Gender Performance and New Orleans Bounce
Music and dance permeate the cultural and subcultural realms of society. They blend together myriad cultural cues and signifiers that together work to create a sort-of performative expression; and, when dance and music work to define a culture away from the psyches of the everyday, it’s more than mere expression – it’s exclamation.
Category: The Gnovis Blog
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The Grad Student and the Vicodin Bottle
One of the troubles with chronic pain conditions is that they tend to be considered less authentic as disabilities. They are often invisible, existing such that they may go virtually or entirely unnoticed. Specific conditions, such as fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome, the ailment with which I’m inflicted, are even doubted by doctors: “Because [doctors] can demonstrate no local cause, they conclude that the disease does not exist” (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Z5s9_g42e1gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=wall+pain+the+science+of+suffering&source=bl&ots=bN38Z9
Category: The Gnovis Blog