Archive: 2011
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President Obama on Libya: A Rhetorical Analysis, Part II
In my previous blog entry, I outlined the rhetorical-situational context leading into Barack Obama’s March 28th Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya. In that post, I identified t
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Cain's Train: Race and the Tea Party
The revisionist rhetoric of the Tea Party Movement often works to siphon out those deemed un-American. Some contend that the proliferation and success of the Tea Party Movement has been fueled by what
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Fake Fire: Is Technology Alone Enough?
"[C]redited with influencing and describing the modern theory of increasing returns," economist W. Brian Arthur applies the famous theory of exponential growth to the world of technology in his 2009 b
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Part I: Creating the Network(ed)
A few weeks ago, I spent the weekend (April 8-10) in Boston to attend the National Conference for Media Reform, put on by FreePress . A break from classrooms and Washington, the conference allowed me to meet with like-minded enthusiastic activists, journalists, technologists, and academics on the status and reform of the media landscape in the United States.
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Perfecting People, Pt. 2
Truly, we can already see glimpses of the Singularity in the rise of social media, with academia, entertainment, government and industry still struggling to police it. And yet, there is a quieter argu
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Mum's the Word: How Masculinity Silences the Male Victim
Newsweek’s Jesse Ellison gives us a glimpse into the effects of the militarist hyper-masculine institution in her April 3 article, “The Military’s Secret Shame”. In the piece, we’re introduced to four former servicemembers, who, after debilitating bouts of post-traumatic stress disorder and floundered suicide attempts, oblige to expose their silenced victimization.
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Location, Location, Location: The Art of Sound
Portable music technology has increasingly allowed us to create and dictate our own soundtracks, but DC has recently been the chosen site for local musical duo Bluebrain’s ‘location aware album.’
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Blind Development?
Over the weekend I watched an award winning documentary, Blindsight , which “follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers on their journey to climb a mountain in the shadow of Everest.” While all of the reviews featured on the website state that the film is “captivating, inspiring, and breathtaking,” I honestly felt none of those emotions while watching it.
Categories: 2011, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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Sticky Situations in Social Media
Recently, a copy of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s ACC Docket came across my desk at work. As I was flipping through, I came upon an article discussing the different hats that in-house counselors are expected to wear in their roles as corporate attorneys. Some of those hats included strategic thinker, business advisor, innovator, educator, cultural liaison, dealmaker, and the list goes on.
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Perfecting People, Pt. 1
If a technology sounds too weird, we just won’t care about it. This is one of the first concepts proffered by journalist Joel Garreau in his lauded 2005 book Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — And What It Means to Be Human . Despite the simplicity of this concept, it’s surprisingly true.
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