Archive: The Gnovis Blog
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Sticky Situations in Social Media
Recently, a copy of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s ACC Docket came across my desk at work. As I was flipping through, I came upon an article discussing the different hats that in-house counselors are expected to wear in their roles as corporate attorneys. Some of those hats included strategic thinker, business advisor, innovator, educator, cultural liaison, dealmaker, and the list goes on.
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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Perfecting People, Pt. 1
If a technology sounds too weird, we just won’t care about it. This is one of the first concepts proffered by journalist Joel Garreau in his lauded 2005 book Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — And What It Means to Be Human . Despite the simplicity of this concept, it’s surprisingly true.
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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President Obama on Libya: A Rhetorical Analysis, Part I
As an undergraduate at the University of Washington, I wrote a senior-year thesis on George W. Bush’s use of “fear rhetoric” in defining the September 11 terror attacks.
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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The Fears of a Tapering Majority: Mere Media or Growing Reality?
With Obama in Oval Office and Hispanic Americans expected to become the United States’ racial majority by 2050, news coverage of so-termed “white anxiety” has been anything but scant. Racial anxiety is hardly a new phenomenon — following the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, some whites took umbrage as their institutionally buttressed status as majority was increasingly threatened.
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Development as Money?
On a recent drive to NYC, I (of course) was listening to NPR’s All Things Considered when a piece called “Ecuador’s Hurting Families Find Hope With JUCON I” came on air. In the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, there are thousands of street children who sell goods to the many tourists who pass through the city on the way to the Galapagos.
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What has your technology done lately for change?
At the Nonprofit Technology Network’s (NTEN) annual conference earlier this month, the resounding theme was “change.” What were 2,000 nonprofit professionals going to take from the conference back to
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Common Knowledge and Public Dialogue: When Everybody Knows that Everybody Knows
We have all probably experienced this phenomenon: something is going on and it’s no secret. Everybody knows and everybody knows that everybody knows, but nobody is (necessarily) talking about it, much less doing anything about it.
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Of Improper Grammar-tology
My deepest interaction with rockstar French philosopher Jacques Derrida (who, for the record, looks like a Quentin Tarantino supervillain) came in a class called “Remix Culture” I took during my first term at Georgetown.
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Insider Outsider: Artists Engaging the Exotic
This past Thursday March 17, artist Peter Doig spoke at the Phillips Collection as part of their Duncan Phillips Lecture Series. A practitioner who has worked and studied in many corners of the globe, Doig (who currently resides in Trinidad) has sought to open up paintings outside of the four squares of the canvas; depicting scenes which allow the viewer to bring in their own sense of time, place, memory.
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Tweets, Tsunamis and the Toll on Common Memory
The pictures from Japan are nothing short of incredible. Unprecedented footage made its way through television and Internet news organizations almost as quickly as the wall of water that pushed through to the mainland. Viewers were left wondering whether they were watching captured footage or stock of an upcoming Hollywood summer blockbuster.
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