Archive: The Gnovis Blog
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Tumblr and the New “Meme-ing” of Fandom
Tumblr users are crafting new kinds of memes and representations that reveal the dialogic nature of cultural production. This is what I will refer to as the “mash-up meme,” where dialogue from one cu
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Creation Nets and the Future of Social Networks
Since the beginning of the new year, there has been much talk of Facebook’s Graph Search and the company’s attempt to quantify the information goldmine that makes up a social network. Analyzing how in
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Yelp, a not-so-secret community
There is a natural human urge to create communities and connect with each other; the Internet provides a new outlet to satisfy this desire. Online platforms “enable ubiquitous meeting spaces that sat
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Positioning Theory & the Human Psyche
Aside from possible universal aspects of the human psyche, what else is there to make each unique? This post explains one possible answer to this question by presenting a recent theory in social ps
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The State of the Union and a “Fire Department” Approach to Cybersecurity
In President Obama’s State of the Union address, one can see the usual misconceptions about cybersecurity surface. Considering I saw Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, lecture on campus a
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The Hum
The hum of our electronics is so constant and pervasive that we don’t hear it anymore. It has become “invisible,” like power lines and pavement. So much of what exists we fail to consciously recogniz
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Streaming the Super Bowl
The NFL’s 2013 Super Bowl marked the second time that American football’s final game, and the most consistently popular television spectacle in terms of viewer ratings, was streamed live over the Inte
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Holding the Data at Gunpoint
As the U.S. federal government and news media focus on the continued “fiscal cliff” discussions, the upcoming debt ceiling crisis, and major cabinet nomination hearings, gun control is not going away
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Foucault, PostSecret, and the Art of the Confession
New media is often envisioned as a liberating environment wherein users can divulge personal information. But do the same power dynamics governing prior forms of confession remain at work? To explor
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Analyze This
As I begin the process of writing my Master’s dissertation, an activity I often refer to as thesis crack-down, I have become particularly interested in content analysis. Defined as “a research techni
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog