I'm very pleased to announce the publication of gnovis' Special Summer 2008 Issue, "New Media, Technology & Democracy," now available on our website at www.gnovisjournal.org/journal/volume-8/summer

Issue Contents

• Editor's Note
• Engagement 2.0? How the New Digital Media Can Invigorate Civic Engagement, by Lindsay Pettingill
• Facebook and Youth Mobilization in The 2008 Presidential Election, by Angela Sanson
  
• Creating Community Through the Arts: Cultural Engagement, Democracy, and the Role of Civil Society, by Tatyana Varshavsky
  
• Research Spotlight: Focus on Hyperpolitics, an interview with Jacqueline Klingebiel
• Meet the Candidates: Politicians’ Strategies of Self-Presentation in Online Formats, by Theresa Schlafly
  
• Coming Down the Stretch: An Analysis of the use of Sports References in Political Dialogues and its Effectiveness, by David Garr
  

As always, I'd like to thank the entire gnovis staff, the CCT staff and faculty, and our large crew of volunteer peer-reviewers, for all of their hard work this semester in preparing this issue.

Brad Weikel, Managing Editor
www.gnovisjournal.org

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gnovis is an online academic journal and forum that cultivates new ways of seeing and understanding culture through critical inquiry. gnovis presents work by graduate students pioneering interdisciplinary perspectives on issues in the arts, politics, media and technology. gnovis is sponsored by Georgetown University's graduate program in Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT).