Archive: culture
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One-Stop-Shop Artifacts & Cultural Models
American society today functions through a fundamental cultural schema Bradd Shore identifies in his book "Culture in Mind" (1996) as the “modularity schema.” This mode of thought is pervasive in post
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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How Do We Explain Fandom?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Zum7azNIQ Fans have created and interacted together in self-contained bubbles for many years, discreetly taking sick days from work to attend conventions and—after the
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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The Internet is…: Globalizing Adolescence & Adolescent Globalization
This essay shamelessly attempts one of the most common fads of our time: that is, taking the Internet and stuffing it into one singular box with one singular framework and thus one singular effect. M
Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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An exchange of human spirit
Last year, the small, rural town of Owego in upstate New York was devastated when the nearby river overflowed its banks. A blogger from Owego, Abbey Hendrickson, took to Twitter and her blog to promo
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Weighing the Costs of the World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, along with the Olympic Games, is one of the few truly global entertainment events, with the largest worldwide viewing audience for a sporting event and over 200 countries from eve
Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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Lana Del Rey N'est Pas Une Pipe
There is an image attached to this blog post. It's a screenshot from "Mouse Trouble," an award-winning 1944 episode of the classic American cartoon Tom and Jerry, in which the famous frenemies at one
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Why I might no longer be a vegetarian
My path toward vegetarianism was well-established by the time I left for college. For more than a decade now I have eschewed the consumption of animals. Through spats of veganism and many years of sub
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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The Eames, Advertising & Art
An ad that pretends to be art is — at absolute best — like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. David Foster Wallace I recently watched the documentary Eames: T
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Exploring Intercultural Identity: Four Voices: Oh, Diversity!
For this entry, I was greatly educated and inspired by the book "Multiculturalism & Intergroup Relations: Psychological implications for democracy in a global context" by Fathali M. Moghaddam. Americ
Categories: 2011, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog
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Dancing to a New Beat: Gender Performance and New Orleans Bounce
Music and dance permeate the cultural and subcultural realms of society. They blend together myriad cultural cues and signifiers that together work to create a sort-of performative expression; and, when dance and music work to define a culture away from the psyches of the everyday, it’s more than mere expression – it’s exclamation.
Category: The Gnovis Blog