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Reexamining Museum Space: Exhibition Apps and Interpretive Guides
During a recent visit to the Smithsonian Hirshhorn , while my attention was divided between my iPhone and the piece in front of me, out of the corner of my eye I saw a young woman on staff walking towards me. She stopped, asked how I was and paused before asking, “So what do you think of the exhibition?”
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Honor versus Sanity: Dueling National Identities in the Rallies of Beck and Stewart
We’re all familiar with Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s upcoming “Rally to Restore Sanity ,” right?
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Depicting the Depression
During our previous Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the New Deal in order to put American’s back to work. The New Deal was a program that reshaped the way Americans not only interacted with the government, but with each other.
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Remix Metaphor
We kicked off this semester’s new CCT course in Remix Culture being tasked to select a piece of cultural production which metaphorically encapsulates the concept of the remix.
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Toward Embodied Racial Knowledge
This weekend I went to the Africana Woman Conference at Temple University to present a paper on Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. While there, I had the opportunity to listen to a paper by Professor Treva B. Lindsey, who is exploring the significance of performance in black cultural production. Specifically, she was showed us a video of a Mary J. Blige performance of My Life. <img style="float: left; margin: 5px;" src="http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/LRG/27/2784/L8RTD00Z.jpg" alt="Mary J.
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Embargo Breaks in the Information Economy
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Occupied: Internet Addiction and Accessibility
Locking yourself in a bathroom conjures up images of a melodramatic mental breakdown or an even less pleasant, but often tweeted about, natural phenomenon.Category: The Gnovis Blog
My Life is Desi
I’ve been spending quite a bit of my time online on this site, which is quite similar to fmylife.com . It’s a site for anyone who identifies as desi (pronounced day-see) i.e. from the Indian sub-continent, and is presumably brought up in the United States though this isn’t always the case.
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Gatekeeping in Collaborative Media
In his article, “The Death and Life of the Book Review ,” from the June 21, 2010 issue of The Nation, John Palatella argues that, for all its crowdsourcing, shovelware and sock puppetry, the Web is nothing more than a postmodern throwback.
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Digital Knowledge Production
I thought I would open my year of blogging by pointing to a post that is getting a lot of attention at the Transformative Works and Cultures Symposium Blog called “Breaking The Primacy of Print” by Karen Hellekson, in which she discusses the decision made by the TWC founders not to produce a print issue.
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