Archive: identity

• Two-Step Tweets: Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks

  By jhubanks@gmail.com November 14, 2011

  As media effects scholarship has evolved over the decades, media has always been understood to perform an important and influential function in society. Questions of whom media influence, with what e

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: comm theory, communication theory, culture industry, facebook, hypodermic model, identity, influence, lasswell, media studies, occupy oakland, Occupy Wall Street, online influence, opinion makers, political communication, politics, public sphere, social media, technological determination, technology, tweets, twitter, two-step flow

• Navigating the Future

  By SInman October 26, 2011

  Sitting in the McDonough School of Business on Georgetown's campus, I am stunned by the uniformity in appearance—a sea of slacks and crisp collars.  For commerce to work, we need standards for cooper

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: displacement, History, identity, location, new orleans, progress, public housing, standardization, Street signs, Tchoupitoulas

• Exploring Intercultural Identity: Four Voices: Oh, Diversity!

  By MRazavi October 7, 2011

  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 Tags: American Dream, assimilation, culture, ethnocentric bias, identity, identity construction, immigration, multiculturalism

• Exploring Intercultural Identity: Four Voices: Let Down Your Hair!

  By SInman October 5, 2011

  Since I was in junior high school I’ve had a superficial attachment to my hair.  It was long.  It was gold and red.  It was rare.   And it defined me. I recently underwent chemotherapy and lost all

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: american beauty, Amina Wadud, beauty, cancer, femininity cultural views, headscarves, hijab, identity, women

• Exploring Intercultural Identity: Four Voices

  By Shu October 3, 2011

  This is the second part of a four part series. In the first installment, Katerina interpreted the Bulgarian concept of location. Today, Shu Hu will trace the convention of Chinese names to identity f

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Chinese name, collectivismm, cultural comparison, identity, individualism

• 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