Archive: 2012
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Behind “Occupy Obama’s Google+”
Beginning on February 20th, Barack Obama’s Google+ page began to be filled with simplified Chinese characters. In other words, netizens in mainland China broke the Great Firewall and got the access to
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The Perils of Adaptation
The hype surrounding the Hunger Games series and the first of four film adaptations (they're making the last novel into two films, à la Harry Potter and Twilight) leading up to this past weekend's re
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New Media’s Schizophrenic Audience
What is an audience and, moreover, what makes an audience passive versus active? Mosco and Kaye (2000) famously called the audience “one of the most hotly contested” governing ideas in mass communica
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Playing the Strumpet
"What does it say about the college co-ed [Sandra] Fluke who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slu
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Music in the Past and Present
I never delete music. My constantly burgeoning music collection is saved from becoming overwhelming thanks to a highly selective addition process, but by the time I die I will likely have more music
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Are you on [insert social network here]? OMG it's amazing.
This time last year I remember that, within the span of about a week, it seemed as though everyone I knew was hooked into the latest gaming/social media fad: Words With Friends. A game played on s
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The "Globalization" of the Study Abroad Experience
Georgetown is a school that rightly prides itself on its study abroad statistics. While nationally a measly 1% of American students participate in international education programs, Georgetown underg
Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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Contested Development
This blog arrives in response to fellow gnoviser Colleen Valentine's insightful post about the relationship between Western culture and female reproductive rights. At the end of her blog, Colleen won
Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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Pasteurization Freaks Me Out
I guess you could say I live on the edge. I take vitamins with labels I sometimes can’t understand. I go to doctors that talk to my aura. I put raw egg yolks in my smoothies. All of that pales when co
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Immigration & America, part 2
Last year I blogged about the controversial Alabama immigration law, HB 56. Today, that law is set to be reviewed by the Alabama legislature. While many have argued that the law has been successful in
Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog