Archive: 2010
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Non-Traditional Media’s Struggle for Legitimacy: Missed Opportunities at the World Summit on the Information Society
Abstract: Media in general have yet to gain the legitimacy necessary to fully participate in global governance deliberations. Non-traditional media—community radio, bloggers, citizen journalists and
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The Fourth Estate's Influence on Deliberative Democracies: Media Framing of the 2008 US-South Korea Beef Imports Controversy
Abstract: Media’s omnipresence and its role in the democratic process raise questions of the effectiveness of media framing in citizen deliberation. This paper will explore for whom and under what con
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Spring 2010 Editor's Note
In the Spring 2010 gnovis issue, our seven authors are weaving together themes of identity, technology and fragmentation. Digital technologies change the way we understand self, medium and space; however, they do not render obsolete our previous ways of knowing. Hence, our understandings of self, medium and space become sites where we patch together what is old with what is new.
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Art on the (Supply) Side: Neoliberalism and Public Funding for the Arts
Abstract: The paper analyzes recent constructions of American public policy regarding funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Arthur MacEwan’s study of neoliberalism functions as a fra
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The Advent of Myself as Other: Photography, Memory and Identity Creation
Abstract: Anxiety about the dangers of new technology traditionally coincides with the advance of the man-made. In particular, recent academic study has expressed anxiety around the relationship of p
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Street level: Intersections of Art and the Law Philip-Lorca diCorcia's "Heads" Project and Nussenzweig v. diCorcia
Abstract: This article analyzes Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s “Heads” photographs, specifically “Head”—a photograph of Mr. Erno Nussenzweig. Three and a half years after diCorcia exhibited his “Heads” colle
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How a High Choice Media Environment Leads to Greater Selectivity, Fragmentation and Polarization
Abstract: This paper analyzes how the proliferation of new media has created a high choice media environment, and how this environment has led to media fragmentation and ultimately increased politica
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Living with Digital, Resurrecting Analog, and Our Shifting Search for Sound
Abstract: Over the last few decades, music technology has gone through a process of evolution from vinyl to 8-track, cassette tape, compact disc, and now, MP3. While the 8-track and cassette have bec
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Avoiding the “Update”: Thinking-Through Tele-visual Cartography
Abstract: This essay offers a critical evaluation of screened cartographic propositions. As “western” culture progressively embraces technological innovation (through an incessant series of “updates”)
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On Reading Semanalytically: The Kristevan/Cronenbergian Abject
Abstract: As coined by French feminist and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, ‘semanalysis’ represents the critical and political fusing of Saussurean/Barthesean semiotics and Freudian/Lacanian psychoanal