Archive: globalization

• The Internet is…: Globalizing Adolescence & Adolescent Globalization

  By MRazavi April 25, 2012

  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 Tags: academia, adolescence, culture, development, ethnography, generation y, globalization, identity, identity construction, internet, internet use, sociology of culture

• The "Globalization" of the Study Abroad Experience

  By ErinColeman March 21, 2012

  Georgetown is a school that rightly prides itself on its study abroad statistics.  While nationally a measly 1% of American students participate in international education programs, Georgetown underg

  Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog Tags: digitization, fulbright program, fulbright scholar, Georgetown University, global citizenship, globalization, globalization of study abroad, Institute of International Education, international education, junior year abroad network, School Year Abroad, social media, State Department, study abroad, virtual study abroad

• The Creativity Conundrum

  By Kgirginova November 15, 2011

  What Antonio says (transcript from the animation): Let's talk a little about creativity. The kind of creativity that is written about all over the internet, best-selling books and business magazines.

  Categories: 2011, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog Tags: creativity, economics, globalization

• Exploring Intercultural Identity: Four Voices

  By Kgirginova September 28, 2011

  The term ‘identity’ finds itself in a perpetual dialectic: it is caught up in a tug of war of appropriation between the collective and the individual. Our understanding of the self, too, is mediated

  Categories: 2011, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Bulgaria, globalization, identity, intercultural communication