Archive: new media

• To Tweet or Not To Tweet: An Experience Using Twitter in the Classroom

  By esp34 November 11, 2012

  There are various advantages to using Twitter in the classroom, be it for polling, immediate classroom feedback, or professional development. Thus, while Twitter is at times “dismissed as recording so

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: education, new media

• Can Online Collaboration Make Us More Creative?

  By esp34 October 12, 2012

  Virtual communities show how online creative collaborations can enhance creative opportunities by sustaining productive networks amongst users. Especially with mobile networks, one cannot ignore how i

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: creativity, new media

• An exchange of human spirit

  By Hanna.Woodburn March 15, 2012

  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 Tags: crowdrise and kickstarter, crowdsourcing, culture, Etsy crowdsourcing, Genghis Khan tomb, kickstarter, new media, Owego flood fundraising

• Old Standards; New Designs in Storytelling

  By Greg Boone February 15, 2012

  I started listening to Radiolab per the recommendation of John Biewen, American RadioWorks producer and Director of Duke's Center for Documentary Studies. Biewen edited a book recently called "Reality

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: digital storytelling, new media, old media, podcasts, production quality, radio lab, storytelling, wnyc

• On (im)Materiality and Film

  By jhubanks@gmail.com February 8, 2012

  Being that this is my last-ever semester of graduate school (!), I’m making a point this term to indulge myself academically. (Carpe diem, and so forth.) So, being the film lover that I am, I decided

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: bunel, Buñuel, cinema, cinematic theory, de sica, digital embodiment, digital media, embodiment, film theory, goddard, hayles, katherine hayles, material embodiment, materiality, neorealism, new media, realism, robiticism, surrealism, virtual embodiment, virtual reality, virtuality, vittoria de sica

• 'The End of Mass Media'? A Doubtful Proposition

  By jhubanks@gmail.com December 9, 2011

  Are we witnessing ‘the end of mass media’? Some say we are, but I beg to differ. While it’s true that media are becoming increasingly decentralized and disparate—scattered across audiences, technolog

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: bbc, CCT, CNN, daily beast, elites, Fox News, gawker, Georgetown, Huffington Post, indexing, mass media, matthew hindman, media elites, media establishment, media evolution, media indexing, media studies, MSNBC, new media, New York Times, news of the world, political elites, Reporting, scandal, social media, steven livingston, the cheat sheet, the end of mass media, the myth of human democracy, the wall street journal, w. lance bennett, Washington Post

• What's in a Game?

  By Greg Boone November 17, 2011

  [audio src="http://gnovisjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bounce.mp3"] Video games are among the most popular and profitable parts of our culture and economy. They are also somewhat new as a su

  Category: Podcast Tags: academia, CCT, dungeons and dragons, garrison lemasters, Halo 3, new media, post-post-modernism, talking about texts, video games, world of warcraft

• Media Mash-up: When Old and New Worlds Collide

  By jhubanks@gmail.com October 4, 2011

  I’ve got this idea in my head. Maybe you’ll bear with me as I try putting it into words. The line separating traditional ‘old’ media from social ‘new’ media is blurring. Once distinct, the two forms

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: @washingtonpost, arab spring, bbc, CNN, egypt, facebook, libya, new media, New York Times, nyt, nytimes, revolution, social media, twitter, wapo, Washington Post