Archive:2013
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Rap Genius: Annotating the World? Part II
In my previous post, “Rap Genius: Annotating the World? Part I”, I described Rap Genius as a crowdsourced knowledge creation platform allowing its users to seamlessly create in-line annotations with t
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The Tangibility of Privacy
Privacy: everybody wants it, but not everyone understands it. When I refer to privacy, I mean people’s data that they leave throughout the Internet as they browse. Two examples demonstrating the inabi
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Are local newspapers necessary?
There is very little research concerning local newspapers, primarily those with circulations of 10,000 readers or less. With the status of print journalism changing dramatically, it seems a disservic
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The Future of the Horror Movie Genre: Social and Technological Predictors
Since the dawn of storytelling, the narrative has been a predictable indicator of societal values and attitudes. Social and technological conditions shape society’s collective consciousness, which ult
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Digitized Nostalgia
https://vimeo.com/78889118 The majority of large institutions, organizations, and companies have built massive digital archives. However, archival technology is also available to individuals for perso
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog, Video
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How Gaming Makes Kids Smarter: Review & Thoughts
For those unaware: Generation Y (anyone born in the late 80s through the mid-90s) are digital natives [1]. Those of us who make up this demographic are the first generation to have technology rapidly
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Questions from the Field of Digital Islamic Humanities
The era of Big Data has left no industry unturned, even the rather insulated sector of academia. In a catchall trend called Digital Humanities, centuries old texts and voluminous manuscripts - tradit
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Real Person Fiction: Imaginative or Immoral?
In many ways, the Internet is like a city; there are decent sections—those reputable sites frequented by hundreds everyday—and there are seedy sections—the proverbial “back alleys” of the online world
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Rap Genius: Annotating the World? Part I
The modern Web is built on user-generated content. From social sites like Facebook and reddit to curated knowledge aggregators like Wikipedia, unpaid volunteers are the backbone for most of today’s po
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Revenge Porn: A 21st Century Constitutional Challenge
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably
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