Archive: The Gnovis Blog
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Want a Marshmallow?
A few friends and I recently watched the second episode of the third season of Downton Abbey on a laptop computer screen, through a questionable foreign language web site, as the season is not yet out
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Introducing Digital Ethnographies
It has long been clear that the Internet is home to some rather innovative communities: Daily Diapers (a community of adult babies), Vampire Freaks (the largest online community for dark culture) and
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Some Metro Appreciation
D.C.-area residents: picture your morning commute without the Metro. D.C. street traffic is already horrific; this comes from someone who grew up in the Boston area. Now imagine if the 750,000+ Metro
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Ayiti cheri
I spent this summer working for an American NGO in Port-au-Prince. During my time in Haiti’s capital city I fell in love with the people and culture that make this country so incredible. I also had th
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Obama's Dream Date and More: The Double-edged Sword of Soft News
On September 25, Jon Stewart criticized President Obama for appearing on entertainment talk show The View the same week of the United Nations General Assembly, where he did not plan on meeting indivi
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Culture Travels
On my second trip to New York last week, I finally got a chance to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I’d been dreaming about this for a long time, not only because of its reputation for being one
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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United States Education: A Means to an End
A recent New York Times Op-Ed article titled “Learning as Freedom,” reiterated the necessity for education reform in the United States. I realize the dialog surrounding the subject matter has become t
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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On Procedural Literacy and Locative Media
At the beginning of the year, I took a coding class in the CCT program to gain a valuable professional skill (and, I’ll admit, to learn how to follow the conversations of my programmer friends). With
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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One-Stop-Shop Artifacts & Cultural Models
American society today functions through a fundamental cultural schema Bradd Shore identifies in his book "Culture in Mind" (1996) as the “modularity schema.” This mode of thought is pervasive in post
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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How Do We Explain Fandom?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Zum7azNIQ Fans have created and interacted together in self-contained bubbles for many years, discreetly taking sick days from work to attend conventions and—after the
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog