Archive: Journal
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Some Vampires Are Real: Racial Stereotypes and Dominant Fears (Re)presented in the Black Vampire of American Popular Film
Abstract This essay investigates how the gothic figure of the vampire may come to embody racial stereotypes and dominant fears about black men and black women through representations of the vampire of
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Friendship Trouble: An Examination of the Gay Best Friend Identity in American Consumer Culture
Abstract Contemporary culture has become saturated with the gay best friend. In July, 2010, Teen Vogue published an article calling the gay best friend a “must have item”. The ubiquity of the gay best
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American Amazons: The Gendered Construction of Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power, and Susan Rice in the Libyan Conflict
Abstract The business of building a case for war has rarely been an easy one. In the case of the U.S. intervention in Libya in 2011, an added dimension of gendered politics acted as a stumbling block
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Pop-Up Economies: Social Networks, Temporary Urbanism and the Creative Sector
Abstract Contemporary scholarship across disciplines ranging from economics to communication often dwells on the impact of technology and globalization on improving communication across communities or
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Re-Imaging and Re-Imagining the Colonial Legend: Photographic Manipulation and Queer Performance in the Work of Kent Monkman and Miss Chief Share Eagle Testickle
Abstract Kent Monkman’s 2006 series, The Emergence of a Legend, consists of five photographs depicting the artist as his alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Employing a threefold process of sexual,
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Reciprocity between Graffiti Vandalism and its Virtual Documentation
Abstract Driven by the need for the increased reception (and the conservation) of their tags, graffiti writers document their productions online on blogs, photo sites, and pro-graffiti forums. For th
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Rock the Votocracy: Presidents from the Internet
In my last blog post I wondered about the presidency of a person from Generation Y. I suppose I'm on a bit of a political tear, because after recently running across a site called Votocracy, I wonder
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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Exploring Intercultural Identity: Four Voices
This is the second part of a four part series. In the first installment, Katerina interpreted the Bulgarian concept of location. Today, Shu Hu will trace the convention of Chinese names to identity f
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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Summer 2011 Editor's Note
The meaning of the “T” in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program (CCT) here at Georgetown is often debated. Yet what we do understand is the ubiquity of technology, the challenges, and the
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Win/Lose
Win/lose from gnovis on Vimeo. Abstract The project consists of an essay about Caucasian Conflicts and a narrative film, that is a metaphorical reflection of one of the overarching reasons for the con