Archive: 2013
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Fall 2013 Editor’s Note
In the Fall 2013 issue of gnovis Journal, the five featured authors explore the influence technology has had on society. The reach of technology ranges from one’s perception of identity and self, to t
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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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Who Owns The Cure? A Literature Review on U.S. Drug Patent Protection And Federally Funded Pharmaceutical Innovation
Abstract: This paper examines the question of whether or not it is reasonable that private pharmaceutical companies are awarded full patent protection for publicly funded drug innovations? Backed by
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Evolutionary Explanations, Psychiatric Genetics, Media and the Cultural Imagination
Abstract The field of psychiatric genetics presents unique challenges and opportunities for this responsible scientific journalism. Mental illness, with its pervasive but not intuitively advantageous
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Spring 2013 Editor's Note
Much like our beloved Communication, Culture & Technology program at Georgetown Univeristy, gnovis typically finds itself concentrating primarily within the realm of communication and media studies. U
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Our Bodies, Their Data: Tracing Biopolitical Circuitry & the Illness Experience on PatientsLikeMe.com
ABSTRACT This project seeks discursive and corporeal threads that connect Foucault’s biopower to experiences of online-mediated biomedicalized illness and healing. Theorized through a reading of the w