Archive: 2012
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"You're late." Thanks Google…
Easily imaginable: you’ve dutifully updated your calendar with emailed information about the meeting’s start time. Thirty-minutes prior, you’re hungry. You think: just enough time to squeeze in a bit
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Sports Without Commentary
When David Tyree made the legendary Helmet Catch in Super Bowl XLII, football fans everywhere bemoaned the blasé response of Emmy Award-winning FOX sportscaster Joe Buck. "Only one of the biggest, mo
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Alone, Together
"The existence of an other resolves the problem of loneliness but brings with it anxieties for the individual, for inherent in any relationship is, inevitably, some form of power struggle… Human hist
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Slovakia's Gloomy Economic Ride
This blog investigates the economic conditions of developing EU nation, Slovakia. Although Slovakia’s integration in the EU bolstered significantly its service industry, nevertheless, up until today,
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Sequelitis at the American Box Office
In 2011, for the second year in a row, the American domestic box office declined. It dropped almost $400 million, the steepest yearly drop since 2005, and attendance numbers were the lowest they’ve
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A Digital Ode to Printed Books
The Internet is abuzz with a familiar combination of outrage, scorn, and satisfaction since the release of the official nominations for the highly coveted 84th Academy Awards on Monday. I am one of t
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The Euro Crisis
Cities are unique entities in that drive economic growth and development. As Jane Jacobs notes in Cities and The Wealth of Nations, “cities are unique in their abilities to shape and reshape the econo
Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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Going Dark: Creating Change Through Online and Offline Action
At midnight on Wednesday, January 18, a group of major websites closed down their services. Google redacted its image, Mozilla’s page went black, and Reddit and Wikipedia users were shut out. The Int
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I’m a Happy Farmer
This is my everyday routine on the Internet: check e-mail, go through Renren and Facekbook, read quick news on Twitter and Weibo, and harvest my crops and cultivate my land. Yes, I am a farmer in Hap
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Underneath the Spray Tan and Fake Hair: The Objectification of Children in Beauty Pageants
Just when you think reality TV cannot come up with anything more outrageous than “The Real Housewives of Insert-city-here”, you turn the TV on to a TLC marathon of Toddlers and Tiaras, and gawp at yo
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