Archive: Occupy Wall Street

• I’m Sorry, We Just Don’t Trust You

  By bkk25@georgetown.edu March 14, 2012

  As discussed in my last post, Congress’ approval rating is at an all time low among Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. Senator Michael Bennet (D- Colo.) even went so far as to create a chart s

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: bennet and congress chart, congress approval rating, dissatisfied democrats, expectations and barack obama, individualism, new civic culture, Occupy Wall Street, politics, public distrust and youth, russell dalton public distrust, social transformation of trust, State of the Union, youth and democracy

• Democracy: Armageddon

  By bkk25@georgetown.edu February 17, 2012

  The latest Rasmussen report finds that only five percent of "Likely U.S. Voters" rate the job Congress is doing as good or excellent. When Mike Huckabee went on Fox and Friends last month he noted th

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: armageddon and democracy, capitalism, citizens united and congress, democracy and bad movie, federal elections commission, jimmy williams and constitutional amendment, likely u.s. voters and congress, likely us voters and congress, mike huckabee and congress, nancy pelosi and fundraisers, Occupy Wall Street, politics, Rasmussen report, russell simmons and campaign finance

• 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

• Modernity on the Wings of Morality

  By SInman November 11, 2011

  On Wednesday, October 19, Jurgen Habermas traversed the Atlantic to deliver a lecture on myth and ritual as a part of Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs lecture series.

  Categories: 2011, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog Tags: BP oil spill, collective action, Dow Chemical, Georgetown University, Habermas, modernization, network power, Occupy Wall Street, religion, TransCanada, transnational activism

• One Nation, Indivisible?

  By colleen.valentine@gmail.com November 3, 2011

  As my last blog noted, I was going to spend this week talking about  protests in America. When thinking about how to address Occupy Wall Street, many many thoughts went through my mind. I particularl

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: alabama immigration law, Alabama United: One Family, coalition of immokalee workers, holder comments about immigration, Occupy Wall Street, One Alabama

• Occupying the Dream

  By jrw68 October 24, 2011

  Posted up in a makeshift hamlet in a neighborhood park in Lower Manhattan, the 99 percent have mobilized in opposition to “the man” and his oppressive capitalist regime. The suits peer down from high

  Categories: 2011, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog Tags: 1 percent, 99 percent, 99 percenters, American Dream, capitalism, capitalist, capitalist society, kanye west, mayor bloomberg, michael bloomberg, New York, Occupy Wall Street, occupy wall street movement, rich, rich 1, the 99 percent, the american dream, the rich 1 percent, Wall Street, wealth, zuccotti park

• Arab Spring v. American Autumn: What’s in a Name?

  By Hanna.Woodburn October 21, 2011

  The protests, demonstrations, and uprisings that transpired in the Middle East earlier this year, referred to as the Arab Spring, were a groundswell reaction to many social maladies taking place in t

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: American Autumn, arab spring, Mary Douglas, naming, Occupy Wall Street, OWS