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Twitter: Secret Weapon or Overhyped?
This is a golden moment for Twitter. Its IPO just began trading and is currently trading up. The platform has shown ongoing user growth, with over 500 million users worldwide. It is touted as an excit
Categories: 2014, The Gnovis Blog
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Local Participation in Brazil: Porto Alegre’s Model for 21st Century Local Government
Abstract: This study considers local participation, democracy, and government in Brazil, using Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul as a case study for examining dimensions of citizenship, governance, and
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Feminist Time and Online Engagement
Abstract: This paper considers the temporality of feminist protest in online media. To demonstrate how new media have altered traditional engagement, I look at how Planned Parenthood advocates engage
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Citizen Journalism and the Mainstream Media: An Analysis of 85 New York Times Articles on the Syrian Civil War
Abstract The Arab Uprisings that began in 2010 generated an unprecedented rise of citizen journalism in the mainstream media. The changed relationship between traditional and nontraditional media, on
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Portraying Power Dynamics: Gender and Violence on Primetime Network Television
This paper used data collected as part of Dr. Nancy Signorelli’s ongoing Cultural Indicators research at the University of Delaware. Abstract Communication scholars have long examined how mass communi
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Self- Portraits and Portraits of the Self Online
Abstract: Self-portraiture in photography and the corresponding concern with one’s image is an old obsession of the few that has become the widely accepted norm of the digital and Internet-savvy mass
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gnovis Podcast Season 3 Episode 3
gnovis Podcast Season 3 Episode 3 Student Profiles: Deepa Rao https://soundcloud.com/gnovis-journal/gnovis-podcast-season-3 Follow Deepa: www.sweet-symbiosis.com www.fractalkit.com @fractalkit Ex
Category: Podcast
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Rap Genius: Annotating the World? Part II
In my previous post, “Rap Genius: Annotating the World? Part I”, I described Rap Genius as a crowdsourced knowledge creation platform allowing its users to seamlessly create in-line annotations with t
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog