Archive: media
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The Colbert Report as “Soft News”
Guest Author: Angela Hart The Colbert Report airs at 11:30 p.m. on Comedy Central Monday through Thursday. The program is hosted by Stephen Colbert and can best be described as a “politainment,” [1].
Categories: 2014, The Gnovis Blog
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#VogueArticles: How Twitter Users Reframe the Discussion
“It’s safe to say this time around, the world is thoroughly ready for this jelly,” claims Vogue writer Patricia Garcia, in the magazine’s latest article, celebrating the rise of the posterior in the y
Categories: 2014, The Gnovis Blog
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How Advertisers are Finding Success Through Narratives
Following the Seattle Seahawks’ victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Conference Championship game in the NFL playoffs, Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman made national news for his polarizi
Categories: 2014, The Gnovis Blog
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Rap Genius: Annotating the World? Part II
In my previous post, “Rap Genius: Annotating the World? Part I”, I described Rap Genius as a crowdsourced knowledge creation platform allowing its users to seamlessly create in-line annotations with t
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog
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Are local newspapers necessary?
There is very little research concerning local newspapers, primarily those with circulations of 10,000 readers or less. With the status of print journalism changing dramatically, it seems a disservic
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog
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Rap Genius: Annotating the World? Part I
The modern Web is built on user-generated content. From social sites like Facebook and reddit to curated knowledge aggregators like Wikipedia, unpaid volunteers are the backbone for most of today’s po
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog
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The Mass Amateurization of Academic Publishing: A Look at Graduate Students’ Roles in Knowledge Transmission
[caption id="attachment_6646" align="alignleft" width="214"] This wise owl reads wisely[/caption] The realm of academic publishing is traditionally one in which professors aid graduate - that is, Ma
Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog
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Do Video Games Need Their Own Bechdel Test?
What kind of gamer are you? To me, “you are what you play.” I identify myself as a feminist gamer, so I choose games that don’t insult me as a woman. This is a relatively simple concept which unfortun
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Obama's Dream Date and More: The Double-edged Sword of Soft News
On September 25, Jon Stewart criticized President Obama for appearing on entertainment talk show The View the same week of the United Nations General Assembly, where he did not plan on meeting indivi
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