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gnovis is Georgetown's online peer-reviewed journal devoted to interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of communication culture and technology. Published electronically twice a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share cutting edge research on the role of new technologies in politics, art, science, culture, and education.  Read More »

“Writing,” according to Walter Ong, “is the most momentous of all human technological inventions.  Because it moves speech from the oral-aural to a new sensory world, that of vision, it transforms speech and thought as well.”  The transition from oral culture towards written culture, also represents the first major technological shift that profoundly altered mankind’s relation with the world and the self.   For Robert Logan, the introduction of  Read More »

Every year the Grammy Awards seem less and less important to me.  And I’m not sure, exactly, why that is.  It could be a continuous personal detachment from popular music.  But it could also be that the award shows- the Grammys, Academy Awards, and even the old MTV award- used to bring a bit of unpredictability or creativity that they don’t seem to have any longer.  True, the more traditional award shows are far more tame than the MTV awards, but past hosts tended to bring their own personalities to the program in a new, or creative way.  This aside, one of the highlights of this y  Read More »

A friend of mine recently pointed me to this article and then went on to say that it made her embarrassed to be Indian because this is what Indians do. For a fraction of a second, I almost agreed because it seems in-built in us to be embarrassed of where we come from.  Read More »

What did it mean to have two presidential candidates in 2008 downplay divisive social issues? Abortion was off the radar, gay marriage was nowhere in sight, and the death penalty...well, was hardly discussed. After eight years of an administration elected partly as a result of Christian, evangelical conservatives, the culture wars seemed to end in 2008. A global economic crisis and two wars made these political "wedge" issues politically unpopular with independent and moderate voters (not that they were ever that popular to begin with).  Read More »