Archive: 2008
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Facebook and Youth Mobilization in The 2008 Presidential Election
Abstract: Unlike generations of the past, today’s youth build relationships in communities that transcend cultural, temporal and geographical boundaries and membership in these communities provides f
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Engagement 2.0? How the New Digital Media Can Invigorate Civic Engagement
Abstract: I explore the relationship between civic engagement and democratic practice. I suggest that the traditional model of civic engagement does not capture the distinctive engagement of many youn
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Summer 2008 Editor's Note
Less than a month from today, following the national conventions and selection of vice-presidential candidates, the 2008 US Presidential Election will finally enter its concluding stage – a two-month political & media extravaganza that will exceed any election spectacle we’ve seen before….
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Spring 2008 Editor's Note
Last December, with the release of the Fall 2007 issue of gnovis, I wrote “[though] these papers are somewhat disparate in topic, there is nonetheless much that they have in common: a vitality of purpose (…), a commitment to interdisciplinary rigor and ambition, and a distinct awareness of the relationship between the present and the past.” The same sentiment holds true for this Spring 2008 issue, as well, and I am pleased to say that I believe this is our strongest issue yet, thanks both to the increasing quality . . .
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What's in a name? That who we call a king by any other name would rule as supreme
Abstract: The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon brought Pakistan to attention in global news due to its strategic geo-political position. The United States' resolve to av
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The Pleasure of Death: The Construction of Masculine Citizenship in Military Recruitment Ads
Abstract: Through a psychoanalytic reading of visual and emotional appeals, this essay discusses the rhetorical devices employed in the National Guard's 2007 military recruitment advertisement-Three D
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wants moar: visual media's use of text in LOLcats and silent film
Abstract: Visual media has a history of using text to both frame and augment an audience's understanding of visual content. This paper compares the recent LOLcat Internet phenomenon with intertitles
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An Uncertain Text: Reliving Shakespeare's Creative Milieu in the Modern World
Abstract: The production of online texts, especially within wikis, is far more similar to the creative processes of the Elizabethan stage than printed texts. Because Shakespeare continued to re-work
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Seeing the Specter: A Gothic Metaphor of Subjectivity, Popular Culture, and Consumerism
Abstract: Due to their very nature, some societal forces are invisible to common perception. Using the work of Foucault and Baudrillard, this essay develops a theory of “the Specter” — an invisible co
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The Aura of Decay: The Concept of the Book in the Age of Hybridity
Abstract: The following paper takes up the tradition of aphoristic writing in order to examine the concept of the book and the image of the palimpsest in the age of hybridity. The digitization of cul