Archive: The Gnovis Blog
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Ironic and Uncanny Photojournalism
Last week, I set the World Photo Press’ ‘Winners Gallery’ as my gchat status. This status generated several conversations (via chat). Here are my reactions, sprinkled with my friend’s comments. Feel free to share your thoughts.
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Beyond Facebook's "Bill of Rights"
Back in 2007 I wrote a post called “Disclosure vs Consent: What Software Can Learn From Medicine,” in which I argued that software companies ought to include an informed consent process with their EULAs, in an attempt to make sure their users actually understand what they are agreeing to, instead of blindly checking the “I Agree” box without reading the document.
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Magazines in a Mess: What Should Print Media Do?
A few Saturdays ago, I woke up eager to embark on my most treasured weekend past-time- a bowl of granola, a cup of Starbucks, and a stack of glossy magazines. After I skimmed through a couple of weeklies, I reached for one of my many guilty pleasures, People’s Style Watch. I turned through the pages, and came across the number one most annoying magazine pet-peeve of all, the subscription card.
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Blog Wrap up: New media: tools, toys, or a way of being.
Once again, on gnovis bloggers discuss the constant negotiation made between our lives and new media, with varying degrees of acceptance.
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Brad suggests that engaging podcasts may be the ideal way to take a break from thesising, without down shifting your mental gears.
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Visualization Technology and Darwin's Tree of Life
I recently blogged about citizens becoming scientists by observing how nature around them is reacting to changes in climate and imputing their observations into a database. In other words making visible that which would otherwise remain invisible. Keeping with the theme, I recently read an article in the NYT about biologists collaborating with computer scientists to construct the tree of life , first sketched by Darwin in 1837.
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The Politicking of Friend Requesting
Politics used to be about who you know. Now it may be about how many you know. The emerging art of social networking friend requesting has become so prevalent in politics today that the GOP has recognized such sites as perhaps the biggest battleground lost in the 2008 Presidential Election. Their solution? More MySpace. More Facebook. More Twitter.
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The Spartan Spectacle
If a guy likes the film 300, is he gay? In 2007 writer Matt Feeney launched a tirade against critics who would interpret 300, and other macho-man action flicks, as homoerotic. Men who like such films
Categories: 2009, The Gnovis Blog
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This Sex Which is Not H1
“This Sex Which is Not H1” is a digital story inspired by Luce Irigaray’s “This Sex Which is Not One,” the creator’s home town of Orange County, California and the many truths and falsehoods put fort
Categories: 2009, The Gnovis Blog
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Content Analysis of Study Abroad Websites
My approach to this digital story was based on a proposal for a content analysis of images from university study abroad websites. I was interested in how these images portray the study abroad experie
Categories: 2009, The Gnovis Blog
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2008 Democratic Primary: Framing Race & Gender
“2008 Democratic Primary: Framing Race and Gender” explores how race and gender impacted media coverage of the 2008 Democratic Primary between Senators Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. The project ar
Categories: 2009, The Gnovis Blog