Gnovicon 25

2025 marks 25 years since the launch of gnovis, Georgetown University’s only peer-reviewed, student-run academic journal dedicated to graduate research on technology and society, housed within the Communication, Culture & Technology program. The editorial board is excited to celebrate this milestone at our Spring 2025 conference, which will bring together students, faculty, and professionals to critically examine the role of interdisciplinary research in the midst of today’s tech revolution. The conference will feature student paper presentations, an interdisciplinary faculty panel, a special poster session, and an avatar exhibit. Attendance is free and lunch will be provided.

Location: Healey Family Student Center Social Room, Georgetown University (Hilltop Campus) (map)

Program (Monday, March 17)

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Registration and Coffee

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Welcome Remarks

11:20 AM – 12:00 PM: Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Technology, Communication, and Culture in a Transforming World

Professor Katherine Chandler | Georgetown University, Culture and Politics Program

Professor Jungyoon Koh | Georgetown University, Department of Linguistics

Professor Calvin Newport | Georgetown University, Department of Computer Science

Professor Nicoletta Pireddu | Georgetown University, Department of Italian, Director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative

Moderator: Professor Jeanine Turner | Georgetown University, Director of Communication, Culture & Technology Program, Annette N. Shelby Chair in Business & Leadership Communication

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch and Poster Session

Charlotte Addison | Colorado State University, MA in Communications Studies

Sheilla Addison | University of Virginia, PhD in Media Studies

Merielle Agorilla, Clarisse de Jesus, Jingyao Feng, Kunjika Pathak, Mengna Zhao | Georgetown University, MA in CCT

Hadeel Arqbi | Georgetown University, PhD in Linguistics

Aminah Koshul | Georgetown University, MA in CCT

Theodore Wansink | Georgetown University, MA in CCT

Iverson Yue | Georgetown University, MA in CCT

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM: Constructing Trust and Cultural Futures: Platforms, Archives, and Digital Resistance

“Dreaming of Electric Taro: Contextualizing the Tuvalu First Digital Nation Archive Among Contemporary Digital Cultural Heritage Projects” | Kevin Echavarria, New York University, MA in Media, Culture and Communication

“Constructing Trust in the Digital Age: How Social Media Use Influences Trust in Social Media Information” | Zhidong Sun, Georgetown University, MA in Communication, Culture & Technology

“No Longer An Archive of Our Own: Platform Capitalism and the End of Gift Culture in Mediated Fandom” | Sophia Sinsheimer, New York University, MA in Media, Culture and Communication

Moderator: Professor Mary Madden | Georgetown University, Communication, Culture & Technology Program, Affiliate at Data & Society Research Institute

1:45 PM – 2:30 PM: Geographies of Power and Cultural Transformation in Literature and Media

“Remapping Settler-Colonial Cartographies in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail” | Ryan Anders Lillestrand, Georgetown University, MA in English

“Mockingjays, Martyrs, and Metamorphosis: An Analysis of Myth in The Hunger Games“ | Riley Tinlin, Georgetown University, MA in Communication, Culture & Technology

“Scaling the Periphery: Han Kang’s Nobel Prize and the Politics of Literary Recognition” | Jisoo Choi, Georgetown University, MA in Communication, Culture & Technology

Moderator: Professor Christine So, Georgetown University, Department of English