Archive: The Gnovis Blog

• Every Movie Is A Montage

  By brittany.t.coombs@gmail.com March 7, 2012

  Soviet Russian film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is the father of montage. He is best known for creating one of the most memorable moments in cinema history: the heart-wrenching "Odessa St

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Battleship Potemkin, film, Film Form, ideogram, laconism, montage, Odessa steps, Sergei Eisenstein

• Crowdsourcing and Diplomacy: A Love Story for the 21st Century Statesman-in-Waiting

  By ErinColeman March 6, 2012

  Technology and government: they go together like...well, what exactly?  If you’re like most people in Washington, odds are that your views on this relationship have been hardened by your work in one

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: 21st century statecraft, crowdsourcing, cultural diplomacy, digital diplomacy, diplomacy, diplopedia, e-internship, ediplomacy, government, microtasking, microvolunteering, Office of eDiplomacy, secretary clinton, State Department, Tech@State, virtual student foreign service, VSFS

• (Yoga) Flow

  By Kgirginova March 2, 2012

  What would Csikszentmihalyi, the architect of the modern concept of ‘flow’, say if he were to go to a class of Yoga Flow? Well, I must admit that I have not yet had the privilege to train with him bu

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Csikszentmihalyi, exercise and creativity, flow, focus and concentration, getting fit for the knowledge economy, how to get in the zone, mind and body, yoga flow

• Conflicts of Interest in the Cloud: Technology, Politics and “Virtual” Ethics

  By abc55@georgetown.edu March 1, 2012

  Start talking about the MPRE and you will immediately be met with groans and eye rolls from aspiring attorneys in the 47 of 50 states that require passage of this ethics exam for admission to the Stat

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: cloud computing, Cloud First Initiative, ethics, Federal Data Center Consolidation, MOLO, Technology & Information Policy, technology policy

• The Short Doc Challenge

  By Greg Boone February 28, 2012

  Here at gnovis we rebooted our podcasting program in September. Since then we've had a few really great podcasts (and we have a few more coming out soon, I promise), but today we're issuing a challen

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: documentaries about colors, documentary challenge, interview your neighbors, podcasts, short doc challenge, third coast festival, webz chicago

• Cultural Preservation in the Age of Corporate Sponsorship

  By ErinColeman February 28, 2012

  Italy and cultural heritage are familiar bedfellows.  Due to its rich history--from the Etruscans to ancient Rome, to the explosion of artistic creation in the Florentine Renaissance--il bel paese su

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Colosseum, commodification of culture, cultural heritage, cultural preservation, cultural valuation, Diego Della Valle, euro crisis, heritage preservation, Italy, preservation, Silvio Berlusconi, Tod's, tourism, World Heritage Sites

• It's a Small World After All

  By Shu February 27, 2012

        Recently, a photo was viewed 162,239 times and shared 27,603 times on Renren, and the number is keeping growing. On the left side of the photo, several sentences in Chinese, says:        Friend

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Frigyes Karinthy, Jonh Guare, six degree of separation, small-world phenomenon, social media, social networks

• On Piracy and Patronage

  By jhubanks@gmail.com February 24, 2012

  Just how harmful is online piracy? That’s the question put to readers by a recent New York Times piece in which both sides of this contentious issue are given their fair shake. “The fundamental issue

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: amy chozick and piracy, bit torrent and sopa, box office mojo, digital rights management and piracy, drm and piracy, file sharing and piracy, hollywood and piracy, james burger and piracy, jenna wortham and piracy, mega upload, motion picture association of america, mpaa, mpaa and piracy, mpaa and sopa, p2p, person-to-person, pipa, piracy, piracy and box office, pirate bay, protect ip act, sopa, sopa and piracy, stop online piracy act, Technology & Information Policy, torrent, torrenting, torrenting and sopa

• Noise Pollution

  By SInman February 23, 2012

  Environmental repercussions are not only a national interest, in terms of issues such as hydraulic fracturing and carbon emissions, but also an international concern, as they often jump physical and c

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: boundary between domestic and international politics, Cardno Entrix, Cardno Entrix not a neutral environmental reviewer, energy security, environmental, hillary clinton and senator max baucus, Keystone XL Pipeline, local forming coalitions with international institutions, nature, networking your activist group, Sid Tarrow, time horizons and local vs global interests, TransCanada, transnational activism

• Weighing the Costs of the World Cup

  By JohnBoles February 22, 2012

  The FIFA World Cup, along with the Olympic Games, is one of the few truly global entertainment events, with the largest worldwide viewing audience for a sporting event and over 200 countries from eve

  Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog Tags: culture, economics, FIFA, football, identity, soccer, World Cup