Archive:Journal
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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
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Fall 2009 Editor's Note
In the Fall 2009 issue of gnovis, authors wrestle with how technologies are shaping the content and form of public discourse. Specifically, this issue addresses discursive shifts found in news media,
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Does Habermas Understand the Internet? The Algorithmic Construction of the Blogo/Public Sphere
Abstract: Is computer-mediated discourse leading to collective political action in the public sphere, or simply more fragmentation? This question has been asked by social and political theorists ever
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Shaping Economic Reality: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of President Barack Obama’s Economic Language During His First 100 Days
Abstract: This paper analyzes President Barack Obama’s economic language during the first 100 days of his administration. Having assumed office during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depress
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The Construction of the Image of American Presidency in Contemporary Political Comedy
Abstract: This article analyzes the narrative of politics and the image of the American presidency in political comedies Dave (1993), The American President (1995) and Man of the Year (2006). With a f