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"Kony" Questioners
At this point it's no secret there are big problems with Kony 2012, a video published in March 2012 by Invisible Children, Inc., an organization that “uses film, creativity and social action to end t
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End of an Era
March 15, 2012 signifies an important date for the development of ‘creativity:’ the discontinuation of the printed version of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Dale Hoiberg, Editor-i
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The Future of Creativity – A Scenario Planning Exercise
It was my first semester at Georgetown and I was ready to take on the world. I was ready to be overwhelmed with new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new information about the world around me. My mind
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On Assuming vs. Anticipating, or Why Uses and Gratifications Theory is Still No. 1
For established media effects frameworks to continue to work well, scholars need to move from assuming to anticipating. To illustrate this, let’s examine three, existing theoretical frameworks and the
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Align in Time
In this podcast, gnovis blogger, CCT Student and professional musician, John Boles, talks about his new album, Me and My Arrow, and the creative process. Listen to John talk about the album and hear s
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The Next Battle for the Net
So the SOPA and PIPA legislation has been postponed in Congress and the Internet will safely remain open and democratic, right? Well, not so fast. There’s another potential danger for regulation, and
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OMG! (Organizational Media Goods)
How intentional are we in our communication media choices? I would venture to guess that the average person (communication students aside) does not spend too long pondering over whether to use a lapto
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Stereotypes: Low Fidelity Digitization by the Mind
“Capturing” describes the process of selecting information by any machine. It describes how a machine chooses, and in what form it receives, its information input. How a camera “sees” and, subsequen
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Behind “Occupy Obama’s Google+”
Beginning on February 20th, Barack Obama’s Google+ page began to be filled with simplified Chinese characters. In other words, netizens in mainland China broke the Great Firewall and got the access to
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The Perils of Adaptation
The hype surrounding the Hunger Games series and the first of four film adaptations (they're making the last novel into two films, à la Harry Potter and Twilight) leading up to this past weekend's re
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