gnovis Podcast

A year ago, gnovis interviewed Ted Castranova, author of "Synthetic Worlds." Castranova returned to speak to CCT students again this week, and we grabbed him for a follow up interview. Our apologies for the poor audio quality in this episode.

In the fifth episode of the gnovis podcast, I sat down with Brad Hargreaves, the President and Chief Executive Officer of GoCrossCampus (GXC) to talk about his company and its impact on colleges (and companies) accross the United States (and Mexico and India).

Brad was at Georgetown to speak to first year CCT students about the game in which they are participating as a part of CCTP 505: Introduction to Communication, Culture and Technology class and took some time to answer my questions. He discusses the inspiration for GoCrossCampus, the relationship between the virtual and the real, some challenges that the company is facing and his vision for its future.

For more on gaming and virtual worlds, you can also listen to the very first gnovis podcast - an interview with Ted Castranova, author of "Synthetic Worlds".

This episode of the gnovis podcast coincides with the launch of our Summer 2008 Special Issue: "New Media, Technology & Democracy"

In this interview, conducted August 13, 2008, Jacqueline Klingebiel discusses her M.A. thesis, “Hyperpolitics: Bringing the Public Back Into the Conversation,” which examined the use of YouTube in the 2008 U.S. presidential primaries, and was published as a blog on Georgetown’s Digital Commons. Jackie is now a web producer for Politico.com.

In this third episode of the gnovis podcast, I sat down for a brief chat with Geoff Livingston, author of Now is Gone: A New Media Primer for Executives and Entrepreneurs, which hit stores earlier this week. Livingston is an alumnus of our sponsoring program, CCT, and the CEO of Livingston Communications, based in Alexandria, Virginia. His blog, the Buzz Bin, is among the top twenty PR blogs in the world. Livingston was on Georgetown's campus this week for a book signing and reception, hosted by CCT.

After the interview, I saw Livingston's principle of "participation is marketing" in action, as he posted our search for coffee on Twitter:

Learn more about Geoff Livingston's work at the following sites:

Livingston Communications: www.livingstonbuzz.com
The Buzz Bin: www.livingstonbuzz.com/blog
Now Is Gone: www.NowIsGone.com

I'm pleased to post the second episode of the gnovis podcast, a casual interview with Howard Rheingold, chatting with gnovis' Nicole Guerra, CCT student Stewart Geiger, and CCT Adjunct Professor Garrison LeMasters.

In this lively conversation, Rheingold discusses topics ranging from text-messaging to journalism, and interdisciplinary scholarship to science fiction. His comments on academia offer yet another perspective on the debate we had on the gnovis blog earlier this year, in these two posts: The Hermetic Reality of "Higher Learning" and Are Bloggers the new Public Intellectuals?.

Professor Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs, lectures at Stanford and Berkley and is one of the world's foremost authorities on the social implications of technology. He visited Georgetown University earlier this week to speak to the CCT program's introductory class for new students.

Learn more about our guest at www.smartmobs.com and www.rheingold.com.

I'm very pleased to post this first episode of the gnovis podcast. This episode features an interview with Ted Castronova, author of "Synthetic Worlds", who visited CCT recently and set aside an hour for this conversation with a group of CCT students.

For more information about Castronova's visit, see Termeh Rassi's recent blog entry on gnovis, and this post from Jessica Vitak, our Peer Review Manager, on the Pew Internet & American Life Project's website.

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