Archive: 2012

• Staycations and the Hyperlocal

  By gnovisguest May 2, 2012

  For those of you not pulling into gas stations or not reading headlines, gas prices are getting real. Creeping towards $5 a gallon, there are no signs of those numbers going back down, and the inflat

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: community networks, hyperlocal and staycations, mark buchanan nexus, rising gas prices positive, staycastions and rising gas prices

• Scattered, Covered, Smothered.

  By SInman April 30, 2012

  Waffle House is a relic of the South--the scent of frying hashbrowns and slightly burnt bacon, toast soaked in margarine and jam glistening under the florescent bulbs.  It is where you can wax philoso

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: agency and appadurai, agency and community empowerment, arjun appadurai and public deliberation, duck dynasty, handfishing, noodling, rural vs. urban, technology and othering, urban/rural stereotypes, waffle house and nostalgia, you can never go home again

• The Internet is…: Globalizing Adolescence & Adolescent Globalization

  By MRazavi April 25, 2012

  This essay shamelessly attempts one of the most common fads of our time: that is, taking the Internet and stuffing it into one singular box with one singular framework and thus one singular effect.  M

  Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog Tags: academia, adolescence, culture, development, ethnography, generation y, globalization, identity, identity construction, internet, internet use, sociology of culture

• "Kony" Questioners

  By brittany.t.coombs@gmail.com April 23, 2012

  At this point it's no secret there are big problems with Kony 2012, a video published in March 2012 by Invisible Children, Inc., an organization that “uses film, creativity and social action to end t

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: action kit, awareness, ben keesey, beyond famous, facebook, generation y, google, invisible children, jason russell, joseph kony, kony 2012, millennial, take back the night

• End of an Era

  By Kgirginova April 20, 2012

                        March 15, 2012 signifies an important date for the development of ‘creativity:’ the discontinuation of the printed version of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Dale Hoiberg, Editor-i

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Allen Scott, creativity, Csikszentmihalyi, Dale Hoiberg, digital encyclopedia versus print encyclopedia, discontinuation of print version, Encyclopædia Britannica, Enlghtenment, Innovation, Medieval creativity, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Renaissance creativity

• The Future of Creativity – A Scenario Planning Exercise

  By ALeath April 18, 2012

  It was my first semester at Georgetown and I was ready to take on the world. I was ready to be overwhelmed with new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new information about the world around me. My mind

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: copyright term extension, future of creativity, how to predict the futures, mike nelson, peter schwartz, remix culture, scenario map, scenario plan, the art of the long view

• On Assuming vs. Anticipating, or Why Uses and Gratifications Theory is Still No. 1

  By gnovisguest April 16, 2012

  For established media effects frameworks to continue to work well, scholars need to move from assuming to anticipating. To illustrate this, let’s examine three, existing theoretical frameworks and the

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: hypodermic needle wrong, media scholar assumptions, two step flow communication model update, two step flow model wrong, uses and gratifications new media

• The Next Battle for the Net

  By bkk25@georgetown.edu April 13, 2012

  So the SOPA and PIPA legislation has been postponed in Congress and the Internet will safely remain open and democratic, right? Well, not so fast. There’s another potential danger for regulation, and

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: fcc and cybersecurity, fcc and robert mcdowell, federal communication commission and itrs, global internet regulation, international telecommunications union, internet society, internet treaties, internet treaty, Technology & Information Policy, united nations and internet, world conference on international telecommunications

• OMG! (Organizational Media Goods)

  By Kgirginova April 11, 2012

  How intentional are we in our communication media choices? I would venture to guess that the average person (communication students aside) does not spend too long pondering over whether to use a lapto

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Channel Expansion Theory, communication flow, equivocality, Media Richness Theory, Meyrowitz, organizational communication, organizations, Social Presence Theory, Technology & Information Policy

• Stereotypes: Low Fidelity Digitization by the Mind

  By MRazavi April 11, 2012

  “Capturing” describes the process of selecting information by any machine.  It describes how a machine chooses, and in what form it receives, its information input.  How a camera “sees” and, subsequen

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: cognitive structures, social psychology, stereotypes