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Appropriateness of Place Considered: The Changing Presidential Forum
All stories have a setting. The Wizard of Oz takes place in, well, Oz (and Kansas). The Matrix in the Matrix and Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest. A setting provides a context and a grounding for the details of a story – much like a good base on a cake provides the structure for frosting and other sweet frivolities. The setting also influences one’s actions – physical, mental, and spoken.
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Is News Story Structure a Framing Device?
The devices used to frame are just as enigmatic as the framing effects that result.
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When the President is Everywhere, He is Nowhere
I’ve been ruminating over this blog for quite some time, actually the last 62 odd days to be precise. It was about that time that the Deep Water Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded sending countless (because really no one knows or will give a straight answer) barrels of oil into pristine Gulf waters. I’ve been talking to people about what I wanted to write here, but did not actually do it. Hence, Barack Obama’s dilemma.
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Enjoy Complexity? Check out Dr. Mark Buchanan this Wednesday, April 28
This Wednesday, April 28 from 4-6 PM, CCT will be hosting a lecture by Dr. Mark Buchanan, entitled “Finance and Complexity Science.” Dr. Buchanan will be discussing some of the ways in which financial markets can benefit from analysis utilizing a complex systems approach.
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A Letter Concerning Agency
After a whirlwind weekend of conferences at the Eastern Communication Association in Baltimore and the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, I have been reflecting on my research and the underlying assumptions that I bring to it. Sitting in a Borders Books currently overlooking a rainy Chicago street, I am currently contemplating the disciplinary and theoretical underpinnings of my research in media and politics, political communication, and presidential rhetoric.
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Meta-Blogging
One of the conversations Georgetown CCTers, myself included, are going to be taking part in this Saturday at the Eastern Communication Association conference concerns the blogosphere as a space for knowledge production as we move further into the 21st Century. Of course, for me, as someone who has been blogging consistently since I was sixteen years old, this question almost seems absurd. To me it seems obvious not only that blogs can be spaces for knowledge production but that they already are. They fill this rol
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New Theories of Liberation?
In my previous blog post I introduced some of the ideas I’m throwing around in anticipation of my thesis next year. Broadly I want to think about remix culture as it’s emerged in the last half century and whether it holds any sort of liberative potential.
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The Great Leap Backward
The revolution will most certainly not take place on the iPad. Apple, the hardware, software and electronics mainstream-cum-alternative brand, has bestowed upon the masses yet another spectacle of the box from on high. The iPad, a tablet computer, represents perhaps the most advanced form of media convergence available as a consumer electronic device. The question isn’t what it can do, but what it can’t do. Internet, email, photos, videos, music, books, magazines, newspapers, and although the iPad is not designed to replace a cellphone, <
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Bandwagon vs. Authority: The Online Heuristic Revolution
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Audio Theory
I think up until this point I’ve been intimidated to write anything for the Gnovis blog here on the plans I am laying for my thesis next year. It still feels so early on in the process that ideas are rough and subject to drastic change. I’ve gotten to that point, though, in the brain storming process that I feel comfortable trying to lay out some of the questions I’m grappling with.
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