Archive: Journal
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“Health Care Reform” vs. “ObamaCare”: Partisan Framing of FOX, MSNBC, NYT, and WSJ
Abstract This study explores the differing ways in which liberal and conservative American mainstream media framed the Obama administration’s health care initiatives during the critical period of 2009
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Getting the Message Differently – The Audience of the Soap Opera and the News
Abstract Virtually all aspects of our lives are saturated by the media, which includes the news and soap operas. This essay focuses not only on the messages of these texts, but on the complex and nuan
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Spring 2012 Editor's Note
gnovis occupies a special region within the scholarly community. It is located along a borderline of thought, bridging various disciplines; it is also at the heart of a longstanding academic instituti
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Selective Processing: A Strategic Challenge for Public Diplomacy An Alternative Approach to Russian Public Diplomacy in the United States
Abstract The information age has made public diplomacy an integral component of statecraft. In essence, public diplomacy is transnational and cross-cultural strategic communication that aims to inform
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Photography and the Aura-Encounter
The photographic image is, at the most basic level, a simple recording of what most would consider objects or events in the 'real' world. Yet I hesitate to call this process simple, because taking a
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The End of the Traditional Gatekeeper
Abstract This study identifies salient issues of news outlets and conducts rank order correlations between the agenda of traditional media offline and the agenda of the ‘most popular’ articles (MPAs)
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Searching for a Memory: Reflexivity, Privilege, and Public Parks
Abstract This essay is a self-reflection of my experiences as a patron and researcher conducting fieldwork at Washington Park or Wash Park in Denver, Colorado. Ethnographic methods of participant obse
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Licensing of Virtual Goods: Misconceptions of Ownership
Abstract This paper explores several cases related to the purchase or ownership of virtual property: the terms of use for the popular game mass multiplayer online game, World of Warcraft, the “cash sh
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Capital Shot: On Screen Delhi
Abstract The two events are concomitant – the entry of Delhi as a physical cinematic space and the retreat of Mumbai into plush interiors, mythical utopias that integrate foreign locations easily with
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Turning Grit into Glamour: "Neo-Bohemia" and the Street Fashion Blog
Abstract This paper considers how street fashion blogs identify and map changes in contemporary, post-industrial creative cities through manners of style, dress, and presentation. In so doing, street