Communication, Culture, and Technology
Abstract: Although white people have largely dictated the global narratives of history, philosophy, literature, and beyond, whiteness as a racial category remains vague. How, then, do we define whiteness and...
Abstract: German cultural theorists Walter Benjamin and Theodore Adorno were outspoken in lamenting the industrially-churned sameness produced by the culture industry, yet both men also saw the power of truly authentic work...
Abstract: This paper seeks to understand globalization as a way to interpret the shift in the portrayal of the Other as allegorized as aliens in Hindi science fiction cinema. After a brief...
Abstract: Among the many challenges produced by the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch that places humans as the central agent impacting the ecological structure of the earth, none is perhaps...
This year, gnovis has continued to engage critically with the interdisciplinary scholarship that is the cornerstone of Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture, and Technology Program (CCT). We hosted our seventh annual...
Scholarship that encompasses the areas of communication, culture, and technology may seem difficult to define. However, as we continue to search for ways to describe the world around us, the...
Abstract: The “quantified self,” a cultural phenomenon which emerged just before the 2010s, embodies one critical underlying tenet: self-tracking for the purpose of self-improvement through the identification of behavioral and...
Abstract: Since the 1980s, there has been a growing fascination with the steady increase of the digital information that surrounds us and the interaction between virtual reality and physical space....
Abstract: The ability of technology to transform art, artist, and art world is not a new concept. The impact of digital technology and the Internet is yet another dynamic force....
Abstract: What are the ethical ramifications and uses of technology? How can we know the dangers of using certain technologies when they do not exist or at least not...