Archive: Journal
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To My Beloved, BB4N: The history of “woman’s writing”, or the epistolary novel
View PDF version of The History of the Epistolary Novel here. Abstract A series of memorandums on the epistolary novel as established in the 1700s and its development in the modern age with the inclus
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Looking at connections between innovation and sport: How sporting cultures identify and manage new technologies
View a PDF version of this article here. Abstract The contemporary public perception of sport as heavily regulated by sets of established rules, thanks in part to popular media coverage of binding exp
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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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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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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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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