Archive: 2012
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Self-Reflexive Whiteness: White Rappers, and the Nerds Who Mock Them
Richard Dyer’s model of white racialization on film contends that the performance of whiteness is at its most visible when it contrasts against non-white performances: “the presence of black people [
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Fall 2012 Editor's Note
Download - Fall 2012 Journal PDF Technology, whether that be social media or a pen, lets us capture a moment - and communication allows us to intervene in it. To put this another way, communication en
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Walmart’s Struggles in India: How Institutional Contexts Can Limit Foreign Entry
Introduction Social relations play a vital role in economic transactions. Acknowledging social interactions has become even more critical with current trends of globalization. Diverse groups are inte
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“Health Care Reform” vs. “ObamaCare”: Partisan Framing of FOX, MSNBC, NYT, and WSJ
Abstract This study explores the differing ways in which liberal and conservative American mainstream media framed the Obama administration’s health care initiatives during the critical period of 2009
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Getting the Message Differently – The Audience of the Soap Opera and the News
Abstract Virtually all aspects of our lives are saturated by the media, which includes the news and soap operas. This essay focuses not only on the messages of these texts, but on the complex and nuan
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Spring 2012 Editor's Note
gnovis occupies a special region within the scholarly community. It is located along a borderline of thought, bridging various disciplines; it is also at the heart of a longstanding academic instituti
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Selective Processing: A Strategic Challenge for Public Diplomacy An Alternative Approach to Russian Public Diplomacy in the United States
Abstract The information age has made public diplomacy an integral component of statecraft. In essence, public diplomacy is transnational and cross-cultural strategic communication that aims to inform
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Photography and the Aura-Encounter
The photographic image is, at the most basic level, a simple recording of what most would consider objects or events in the 'real' world. Yet I hesitate to call this process simple, because taking a
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The End of the Traditional Gatekeeper
Abstract This study identifies salient issues of news outlets and conducts rank order correlations between the agenda of traditional media offline and the agenda of the ‘most popular’ articles (MPAs)
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Searching for a Memory: Reflexivity, Privilege, and Public Parks
Abstract This essay is a self-reflection of my experiences as a patron and researcher conducting fieldwork at Washington Park or Wash Park in Denver, Colorado. Ethnographic methods of participant obse