Archive: The Gnovis Blog
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Smart Mobs to Come: The Audacity of Hope and The Audaciousness of Howard Rheingold
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Are we becoming too dependent on the Internet?
Let’s perform a little experiment. As you read my blog –
which you would not be reading without the aid of 1) the Internet and 2) a
computer – consider how you did anything 15 years ago. Now for some of you, you
might have been in kindergarten, but I think it’s safe to say most
of us were at least in high school by this time. How did you conduct research
for a school project? How did you contact your friends? How did you look up the
number for the local pizza delivery joint or directions to the mall two towns
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The Big Problem with Even Bigger Media
The institution of the press is the central nervous system of democracy. 1
For those of us focused on Iraq, Iran, immigration, the health insurance
crisis, and equal rights for same sex couples, the issue of media consolidation probably doesn’t inspire a passionate call to action.Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Strange Prophecies of the Future Past Coming to a Country Near You: An Exhibit by Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick
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The Popular Turns Personal: Crafting the Remix
Craft consumption, as articulated by Colin Campbell , refers to an activity in which the consumer of a good is also the producer of the good or when consumption is a prerequisite for further production. Usually, the consumer brings "skill, knowledge, judgement and passion [to the transaction] while being motivated by a desire for self-expression."1
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Can't get enough of that Web 2.0 Kool-Aid….Or was it Tang?
As a follow-up to Nicole Guerra’s post from this past weekend
on Web 2.0, I thought I’d direct your attention to a blog I posted today on the
Pew Internet and American Life Project’s website. In wake of last week’s launch
of OpenSocial by Google, I felt compelled to comment on the growing pressure to
be “social” online and have a virtual identity.Category: The Gnovis Blog
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Web 2.0! Are We All Drunk off the New Media Kool-Aid?
As the articles rush in through RSS feeds and products are marketed to us by Google Adsense and Amazon, anyone remotely touched by technology has seemingly jumped quite enthusiastically onto the web 2.0 bandwagon.
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"Don’t call it an escape; it’s a refuge . . ."
That’s what Ted Castronova urged us CCT students to believe during his October 23rd talk. He challenged us to wonder what the world would be like if we all spent some time in Norrath. What Castronova is referring to is the online fantasy worlds in Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG). He is challenging people’s dismissal of MMORPG as “simply” games.
Hmmm…remember that moment in The Matrix when…..
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MySpace lied to us all….and no one cares!
The blog world has been pumping out stories over the last week related to the "scandal" surrounding Tom , one of MySpace’s cofounders and our first "friend" when we set up an account. Apparently, Tom, like most Americans over the age of 30, has been lying to us all these years about how old he really is. When the site launched four years ago, Tom’s listed age was 27, but as first broken by TechCrunch last week and later legitimized by Newsweek , Tom either had temporary amnesia when filling out his profile, or he’s just really, really bad at math. It turns out the old geezer was actually 31 back in 2003 when MySpace launched.
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No Rights Reserved: The Role of the University in Student Copyright Infringement
It’s been a particularly active month in the four year saga of the Recording Industry Association of America’s legal assault on direct copyright infringers.
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