All posts by: Patricia Fancher

As graduate students of Communication Culture and Technology, many of us aspire to be experts in media criticism. We have experience with content analysis, thick description, and deconstructing texts. We’ve read the theories and done the research. Our mission is to boldly explore the hidden meaning and messages within visual, textual, and audio media. This brings me to Vidding.
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In the Wall Street Journal, the article titled “Volunteers Log off as Wikipedia Ages”Continue reading →

Google Wave. I’ve heard people talking about it for a while now. Some have gotten invitations. I have not. For this week’s gnovis Round Up, I’ve compiled some info on what Google Wave is and what it can do. Now that it has been up and running for a few weeks, look over the reactions and suggested uses from around the blogosphere. Check it out. Let us know if you use it and why (Jason T: now we all know not to expect an invite from you any time soon ).

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As you may have noticed, gnovis blog has featured some new faces lately. For three years now, gnovis hosted diverse topics at the intersection of communication, culture, and technology, yet most of the writers were students at the same program, CCT. I am happy to say that starting this semester, the conversations on gnovis blog extend well beyond the walls of CCT.
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During last Spring’s gnovis ‘retreat’, Brad Weikel and Ashley Bowen shared their interest in reenacting the Lewis and Clark Expedition on twitter. After some initial skepticism, Brad and Ashley’s idea really began to fascinate me. What would a re-enactment on twitter look like? Could it be used to both teach something about history and rouse excitement in learning history?
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A debate started last month in the Chronicle of Higher Education with the publication of Michael Berube’s article “What’s the Matter with Cultural Studies?” His article was the spark that set fire to a debate (although not new by any means) over the significance of Cultural Studies programs. Has Cultural Studies positively impacted the University? Continue reading →

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety.
You fight for the throne and you travel alone
Unknown as you slowly sink
And there’s no time to think.
~ Bob Dylan

The lyrics above reflect Bob Dylan’s sentiments, after his Christian conversion, towards fame, youthful ambitions and rock and roll life style in the late 1970′s. For a folk singer-song writer the lyrics above reflect Bob Dylan’s sentiments, after his Christian conversion, towards fame, who analogized social conformity to being turned into a machine, the dramatic expression – that time is speeding up beyond our grasp – is totally fitting. Continue reading →

In this, my second year working for Gnovis blog, the team has been thinking through the purpose and structure of our blogging. What is academic blogging? Toward what objective do we participate? What will the gnovis ‘brand’ of blogging look like? (much more on these question in the future)
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Here at home on Gnovis:

Post thesis, Brad fills his extra time contemplating trends on Photoshop Disaster discussion board. Leading to come interesting conclusions including this comment:

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After reading these two very different new interactive approaches to museums,

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