Archive: The Gnovis Blog
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I’m a Happy Farmer
This is my everyday routine on the Internet: check e-mail, go through Renren and Facekbook, read quick news on Twitter and Weibo, and harvest my crops and cultivate my land. Yes, I am a farmer in Hap
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Underneath the Spray Tan and Fake Hair: The Objectification of Children in Beauty Pageants
Just when you think reality TV cannot come up with anything more outrageous than “The Real Housewives of Insert-city-here”, you turn the TV on to a TLC marathon of Toddlers and Tiaras, and gawp at yo
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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The Eames, Advertising & Art
An ad that pretends to be art is — at absolute best — like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. David Foster Wallace I recently watched the documentary Eames: T
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Does Culture Have a Skill Set?
Employment. It’s a word that is on the mind of every student this time of year. With the downturn of the economy, it has been on the tips of the tongues of Americans, politicians, and the media for l
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Conduits of Change
Dialogue is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world. Hence, dialogue cannot occur between those who want to name the world and those who do not wish this naming-
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Beauty v Brains: Inventing technology from Hollywood
When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier." Anonymous Eleanor Roosevelt once said that if she had to pick between brain
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Keyboarding Killed the Handwriting Star
Nancy Cartwright, best known as the voice of television icon Bart Simpson, once said, "Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does." She was making a joke about swearing, of course, but unlike
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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We Swaggin: Kreyshawn and Work of Art
Vidding, as Colleen explained in her introduction to Hung Up on You, are fan videos based on television and film clips. And, as her link to In Media Res elaborates, vidding is a more elaborate pract
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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“Class! Let’s Game!”
Intergroup Relations and Multiplayer Online Games Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) merit bona fide research. After listening to Dr. Garrison LeMasters’ leceture and reading “The Mangle of P
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Gold for the Cultural Olympiad?
There remain less than 250 days to the opening of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, however, another type of Olympiad is long underway: the Cultural Olympiad. What exactly is that, you as
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog