Archive: Journal
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Spring 2013 Editor's Note
Much like our beloved Communication, Culture & Technology program at Georgetown Univeristy, gnovis typically finds itself concentrating primarily within the realm of communication and media studies. U
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Our Bodies, Their Data: Tracing Biopolitical Circuitry & the Illness Experience on PatientsLikeMe.com
ABSTRACT This project seeks discursive and corporeal threads that connect Foucault’s biopower to experiences of online-mediated biomedicalized illness and healing. Theorized through a reading of the w
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Aid in the Digital Age: Non-governmental organizations’ use of social capital on Twitter in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake
ABSTRACT As technology has made the global community more connected, actors such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have taken advantage of social media to raise global awareness and funds. Thro
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A Slice of Time: An Exploration of Temporal Capital and its Relationships to Economics, Culture, and Society in a Technological and Digital Age
ABSTRACT In a disciplinary field where we talk about the intersections of many different sorts of “capital” - economic, social, cultural, educational, just to name a few - a noticeable player that is
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Propagating China to the World: China’s “Public Diplomacy through Media” Strategy in the Age of Globalization
Abstract In order to improve its global image and cultivate an international environment that would facilitate China’s continuous rise in the world, the Chinese government has developed, in recent ye
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The Fantasy of the Supermom
Abstract This paper is concerned with understanding the cultural ideal of perfect corporate working mothers which first appeared in the 1970s and continues to be a point of fixation in the 2010s. The
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Self-Reflexive Whiteness: White Rappers, and the Nerds Who Mock Them
Richard Dyer’s model of white racialization on film contends that the performance of whiteness is at its most visible when it contrasts against non-white performances: “the presence of black people [
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Fall 2012 Editor's Note
Download - Fall 2012 Journal PDF Technology, whether that be social media or a pen, lets us capture a moment - and communication allows us to intervene in it. To put this another way, communication en
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Key Players in the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT-IP Act
Abstract This paper examines the stakeholders and processes surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA), particularly the events which led up to the Internet blackout prote
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Walmart’s Struggles in India: How Institutional Contexts Can Limit Foreign Entry
Introduction Social relations play a vital role in economic transactions. Acknowledging social interactions has become even more critical with current trends of globalization. Diverse groups are inte