Archive: The Gnovis Blog
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Harry, Bella, Peeta and Katniss: The Crossover Fiction Phenomenon
The Hunger Games movie was released on March 21st, and has already made over 300 million dollars in box office sales in North America alone. It also broke the record for first-day advanced ticket sa
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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A Glimpse into Britain’s Past — and into the Future of Film
This past week, 120 short documentaries from the British Film Institute National Archive were made available on the British Council’s website. But there is more significance behind the project than si
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Staycations and the Hyperlocal
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
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Scattered, Covered, Smothered.
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
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The Internet is…: Globalizing Adolescence & Adolescent Globalization
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
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"Kony" Questioners
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
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End of an Era
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
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The Future of Creativity – A Scenario Planning Exercise
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
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On Assuming vs. Anticipating, or Why Uses and Gratifications Theory is Still No. 1
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
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The Next Battle for the Net
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