Archive: Earlier to 2006

• False Reporting on the Internet and the Spread of Rumors: Three Case Studies

  By gnovisguest April 26, 2004

  Abstract: The expansion of the Internet has allowed for far greater numbers of people to become involved with the production and dissemination of news. As a consequence, cyberjournalism and the Intern

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: 24-hour, cyberjournalism, cycle, discourse, Drudge, e-mail, email, errors, False, internet, journalism, Matt, news, public, Report, Reporting, Rumors, Spread, web

• Spectrum Scarcity and the Deployment of Third Generation Wireless Technology in the United States

  By gnovisguest April 26, 2004

  Abstract: Third generation technology, or 3G, is championed by the wireless industry as the next step of innovative cellular technology. It brings high-speed Internet and data transmission to cellula

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: 3g, cell, cellular, deployment, electromagnetic, generation, high-speed, military, mobile, network, phones, private, public, scarcity, spectrum, technology, third, wireless

• The Nano-Threats To Privacy: Sci-Fi or Sci-Fact?

  By gnovisguest March 24, 2004

  Abstract: The biggest threat to personal privacy in the near future might not come from massive government surveillance projects; instead, tiny technology will be implemented by diverse commercial, p

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: commerce, commercial, conspir, government, information, k-mart, Nano-Threat, Nanomachines, personal, privacy, RFID, Sci-fi, science fiction, security, surveilance, technology, virus, worm

• Parking Lott: The Role of Web logs in the Fall of Sen. Trent Lott

  By gnovisguest November 25, 2003

  Abstract: In December 2002, Republican Senate leader Trent Lott said that if Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948 on a segregationist platform, "we wouldn't have had all these problems ov

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: blogs, cyberjournalism, politics, Trent Lott

• Homosexuality on Television:The Heterosexualization of Will & Grace in Print Media

  By gnovisguest November 2, 2003

  Abstract: Despite its arrival to primetime television so soon after the demise of Ellen – television's first program with an openly homosexual lead character – NBC's Will & Grace has incurred no right

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: discourse analysis, homosexuality, television, will & grace

• You've Come A Long Way, Baby: Language in Sports… Can Women Compete?

  By gnovisguest July 7, 2003

  Abstract: With the highly publicized success of women's sports teams in the 1996 Olympics, social commentators proclaimed that women's sports had finally arrived. A careful analysis of the country's

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: culture, culture studies, feminity, gender, masculinity, sports, sports illustrated, women

• The Influence of American Culture on Software Design: Microsoft Outlook as a Case Study

  By gnovisguest July 6, 2003

  Abstract: The personal computer has become one of the most ubiquitous appliances in today's modern world. Human interaction with the PC is mediated by software applications, and the functionalities t

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: American culture, software design

• U.S. E-Government Post September 11th

  By gnovisguest July 1, 2003

  Abstract: As the United States and the rest of world mourned in the wake of September 11th, 2001 and grew incensed by the faceless cowardice of the ensuing Anthrax mailings, few could have suspected

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: 9-11, e-government, internet, internet security, public information, security

• Realism & Subjectivity in First-Person Shooter Games

  By gnovisguest April 16, 2003

  Abstract: As video games and the genre of the first-person shooter have become increasingly detailed and immersive, manufacturers, gamers and critics have often remarked on the realistic experience t

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: critical theory, Doom, first-person shooter, Quake, realism, semiotics, subjectivity, video games

• Bond Girls: Gender, Technology and Film

  By gnovisguest March 21, 2003

  Abstract: In both society and its cinematic representations, technology and culture are bound together, acting and reacting to one another. These bonds have combined to transform gender. In this pape

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: film studies, gender, technology