Archive: technology
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The Second Alyx
Midway through Valve Corporation's Half-Life 2, a PC game, I was accompanied by lively companion rebel Alyx Vance as we fought against the Combine, an alien empire that has taken control of Earth and
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Academedia 2012 – gnovis' Inaugural Conference
On April 11th, 2012, gnovis held its first conference titled “Academedia” at Georgetown University. The goal of this gathering of minds was to discuss how new media practices are shaping research an
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Are you on [insert social network here]? OMG it's amazing.
This time last year I remember that, within the span of about a week, it seemed as though everyone I knew was hooked into the latest gaming/social media fad: Words With Friends. A game played on s
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Technological Wonders and Entitlement
“The different nations and races of men will stand, as it were, in the presence of one another. They will know one another better...They may be moved by common sympathies and swayed by common intere
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Digital Diet
Are you a technology vegetarian or a digital carnivore? In order to find out, I decided to keep track of my digital diet for a week. Compared to estimates by Clay Johnson, author of The Information D
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Two-Step Tweets: Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks
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
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OK, So I know I’m not my own Grandpa, but could I be my own Big Brother?
[caption id="attachment_2930" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Flickr photo by Max-B"][/caption] Anyone who knows me well will be quick to tell you that I am notorious for leaving my cell phone
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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A Bad Apple in the Tech Industry
As Amazon announces yet another in a seemingly endless stream of tablets-that-are-not-iPads, I find myself, rather than being excited at a new product half the price of an iPad, wondering why they ev
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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Fake Fire: Is Technology Alone Enough?
"[C]redited with influencing and describing the modern theory of increasing returns," economist W. Brian Arthur applies the famous theory of exponential growth to the world of technology in his 2009 b
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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Spectrum Scarcity and the Deployment of Third Generation Wireless Technology in the United States
Abstract: Third generation technology, or 3G, is championed by the wireless industry as the next step of innovative cellular technology. It brings high-speed Internet and data transmission to cellula
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal