Archive: Journal

• The Economics of Cultural Legitimacy in Hip Hop’s Counterpublic Space

  By gnovisguest December 9, 2007

  Abstract: The determinants of authenticity in hip hop culture are not obvious. The roots, as well as the branches, of hip hop's cultural boundaries are found twisted, tangled and far from the tree. In

  Categories: 2007, Journal

• MTVtr3s: A Launch into Bicultural Latino Panethnicity

  By gnovisguest August 29, 2007

  Abstract: The United States’ continually growing Latin American population is transforming as subsequent and future generations, both born and raised in the United States, establish unique cultural i

  Categories: 2007, Journal

• The Representation of Homelessness in the Nightly News

  By gnovisguest December 4, 2006

  Abstract: Inspired by previous political research that demonstrates the agenda setting capability of the news, and data from the U.S. conference of mayors that suggests the crisis of homelessness in

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal

• Pretty Woman: Genital Plastic Surgery and the Production of the Sexed Female Subject

  By gnovisguest October 23, 2006

  Abstract: Medical industry observers estimate that plastic surgery of the female genitals is the fastest-growing cosmetic surgery sector in the United States. These procedures, which include reducing

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal

• Frontier House: Reality Television and the Historical Experience

  By gnovisguest May 15, 2006

  Abstract: This paper examines the recent PBS program Frontier House, and its negotiation of the documentary and reality genres of television. While the documentary has long been used as a didactic dev

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal

• Dragnet (2003): A Case Study in the Evolution of American Television’s Police Procedural

  By gnovisguest March 15, 2006

  Abstract: During the 2003 season, American television viewers had the rare opportunity to witness a merger of works by two influential creators of police procedurals. That year, Law and Order creator

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal

• I, Avatar: Constructions of Self and Place in Second Life

  By gnovisguest January 10, 2006

  Abstract: Second Life is a unique three-dimensional virtual world that has been constructed by users through modeling tools, a scripting language, and a functioning economy with a virtual real estate

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal

• Finding One's Place: Creating a New Eden for the "New Negro"

  By anp82 November 1, 2005

  Shannon Grevious, Author Abstract: Analysis of the American Negro Exhibit’s Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900 Do images capture what we truly are, who others say we are or who we aspire to b

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal

• Spaces of Presentation as Vehicles of Cultural Transmission

  By gnovisguest March 16, 2005

  Abstract: A case study of the mediated elements of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 010101: Art in Technological Times In the age of networks and the Internet, expressions of culture are movi

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: Art, Catalog, Cyberspace, Exhibit, Exhibitions, Museums, Website

• A Speculation on Consumer Privacy and Corporate Control on the Internet

  By gnovisguest January 22, 2005

  Abstract: In his article Circuits of Power[1], Ronald Diebert notes that there is an assumption in American society that the society at large is more prone and vulnerable to attack as it becomes incr

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal