Archive: internet

• Yelp, a not-so-secret community

  By ekm45 February 24, 2013

  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

  Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog Tags: community, facebook, internet, yelp

• Politics and Privacy

  By Relliott November 13, 2012

  With the 2012 election finally over, it seems both inevitable and laughable that 2016 is already being mentioned, and not just by Jon Stewart. At the moment I am not at all interested in what lies ah

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Barack Obama, big data, data, election 2012, facebook, government, intellectual property, internet, internet security, mitt romney, policy, Politics and Privacy, privacy, social media, Technology & Information Policy

• How Do We Explain Fandom?

  By sml236 September 26, 2012

  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 Tags: creativity, culture, fandom, fanfiction, fans, internet, media

• 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 Wild Ways of the Web

  By jrw68 February 6, 2012

  There’s a common and pervasive trope about online discourse – a person’s relative ability to uphold a level of anonymity may lead to uncivil, reckless, imprudent and unsubstantiated claims and argume

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: CMC, computer mediated communication, hyperpersonal, hyperpersonal communication, internet, internet communication, joseph waltzers, online communication, politics internet, politics online, walthers

• False Reporting on the Internet and the Spread of Rumors: Three Case Studies

  By gnovisguest April 26, 2004

  Abstract: The expansion of the Internet has allowed for far greater numbers of people to become involved with the production and dissemination of news. As a consequence, cyberjournalism and the Intern

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: 24-hour, cyberjournalism, cycle, discourse, Drudge, e-mail, email, errors, False, internet, journalism, Matt, news, public, Report, Reporting, Rumors, Spread, web

• U.S. E-Government Post September 11th

  By gnovisguest July 1, 2003

  Abstract: As the United States and the rest of world mourned in the wake of September 11th, 2001 and grew incensed by the faceless cowardice of the ensuing Anthrax mailings, few could have suspected

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: 9-11, e-government, internet, internet security, public information, security

• The Limits of Technology for Sustainable Development Challenges: Rovieng, Cambodia

  By gnovisguest January 23, 2003

  Abstract: The widespread deployment of Internet technologies is dramatically impacting the world's information infrastructures thereby reducing the planet to a much smaller place. New worldwide connec

  Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal Tags: AAC, American Assistance for Cambodia, cambodia, development, internet, rovieng, technology