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Mining the Media
On October 13, 2010, I watched as a dirty, red, white, and blue cylinder slowly emerged from a hole that was only 26 inches in diameter. The first of the 33 Chilean miners was rescued – after spending 69 days trapped 2,300 feet underground. For me, it was that first live, global, news event – and I had witnessed it thousand of miles away, on television, from my comfortable couch in Washington, DC.
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Digitizing Foucault (Part 2 of 2)
When Foucault wrote about “technologies of the self” in the 1980s, he wasn’t thinking about technology in terms of the bits or bytes that might first come to mind for us now. However, as our lives and social interactions become more and more mediated by network technology, our digitized lives could indeed become sites of the self-formulation that Foucault was theorizing.
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The Future of Peer Review: Publication and the Humanities
gnovis is wrapping up the peer review process for our Fall 2010 issue. Is there a place for alternative forms of peer review in the humanities?
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Is the Net Working?
Almost a full year ago, while I was still an undergraduate at Dartmouth, I was given the assignment to create some new and original “ism” — some philosophical worldview that had never been thought of before. It was a daunting task. More intelligent, more creative, and more angst-ridden people have already formulated ideologies about nearly everything under the sun (and above it), and they’ve been doing so for centuries.
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Ideology – I haz it.
Tuesday’s episode of The Daily Show had an interesting exchange between Senator Ted Kaufman and Jon Stewart that echoed my course readings these past two weeks. Here’s a clip (any excuse to link to The Daily Show):
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Digitizing Foucault (Part 1 of 2)
I think it’s safe to say that, were he alive today, Foucault would have a lot to say about the internet and it’s role in discursive subject-formation in Western society. Not only has the digital age ushered in a whole host of social norms and obligations that influence human behavior (putting the internet itself on the level of regulatory institutional power structure), network technology also complicates the deployment of power through its capacity as a non-linear, interactive platform for discourse and through its conflation of the public and private realms.
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It's All About You, I Mean Me, I Mean Hegemony
This month, W Magazine’s 5th annual November “Art Issue” has barely hit newsstands, but it has already garnered weeks worth of press from the risqué cover: a nude Kim Kardashian .
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Are we being challenged?
Television is for everyone, rich or poor. When you tune into a station at a particular time everyone sees the same thing; the word “broadcasting” means sending out a signal for everyone to receive as long as they had the proper equipment. Since television broadcasting began in the 1950s, producers have crafted shows that entertain and those that challenge the audience.
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Digital Dialogues: Temple Grandin
Josh Hubanks and Colleen Valentine are two of gnovis’ lead bloggers. After seeing Dr. Temple Grandin speak as part of Georgetown University’s Lecture Fund Series, they decided to explore blogging as a venue for further discussion. The result is the first in a series of Digital Dialogues.
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The Booty and the Beat: Hip-Hop, the Female Rapper and Her Body
I had been anxiously waiting for the 2010 BET Hip-Hop Music Award show to air for several reasons. And for several reasons, including feeble attempts to adjust to my new and busy schedule, I missed it.
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