Archive: Journal
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Camera Phone Images: How The London Bombings in 2005 Shaped the Form of News
Abstract: The London bombings in July of 2005 signaled a turning point in global news coverage. Survivors on the ground transmitted mobile phone images to social networks, family and friends, as well
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Academics’ Views On and Uses of Wikipedia
Abstract: Web 2.0 technologies bring both opportunities and challenges to our formalization of collective knowledge and its use. The collective generation of knowledge without the control of a centra
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A Shift Realized: The Banking Crisis as the First Postmodern Event
Abstract: We can easily understand the cultural logic inherent in the global financial crisis as a 'world historical moment,' a moment where the very tenets of globalization and mediation are being ch
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It Came From the East… Japanese Horror Cinema in the Age of Globalization
Abstract: This essay examines the social negotiations within the structure globalization by investigating the boom of Japanese horror films in the United States, from their emergence in the mid-ninet
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Hacking Nostalgia: Super Mario Clouds
“There is no Game Over anymore –
it has long since been hacked out.”
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From an Amateur's Angle: The Impact of the Visual Image in Defining Abu Ghraib
Abstract: Many have deemed the invasion of Iraq as the American government’s ‘brass-knuckled quest for information’ – a strong statement given that the self-appointed ‘land of the free’ is insinuatin
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What Good is the 'You' in YouTube? Cyberspectacle and Subjectivity
The spectacle manifests itself as an enormous positivity,
out of reach and beyond dispute. All it says is: “Everything that
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Self-disclosure of Religious Identity on Facebook
Abstract: Social networking Web sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, have in the last five years become indispensable communication tools for large numbers of young people in the United States. Concu
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The "Sufficient Backdoor" Test: A New Model for Indecency Regulation of Converged Media
Abstract: Content-based regulation is subject to the “strict scrutiny” standard in the Supreme Court. The “strict scrutiny” standard takes into account three issues: (1) whether the regulation further
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Fall 2008 Editor's Note
One of the pleasures of writing an editor’s note for a journal like gnovis, which covers such a wealth of inspired topics, is the
opportunity to spend a quiet afternoon looking at a stack of seemingly unrelated papers– searching for the common thread (or threads) that
holds the stack together. Some threads are easier to find than others but, like a thread pulled from a sweater, once discovered they seem to
have no end.