Welcome to the Gnovis podcast presented to you by Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Gnovis is a peer-reviewed journal run by graduate students that focuses on interdisciplinary topics covering communication, culture, technology and everything in between. In these series we reach out to faculty, subject matter experts and fellow students to discuss the most trending topics in the digital age.
Join us as we delve into Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT) through personal narratives.
We’re speaking with the two graduating members of the Gnovis team for this final episode for the academic year. Joining us today are our editor-in-chief, Jahnavi Mukul (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jahnavi-mukul-660835198/), and fellow editor and Gnovis blog manager, Ramat Jose (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramatjose/).
We sat down to talk about their road to CCT, highlights of their graduate school journey, their experiences as Gnovis editors, and what lies ahead for them after CCT. Both graduate students complete their Master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Technology this May at Georgetown University.
This is the Gnovis Podcast. On this show, we explore conversations with students, faculty, alumni, and experts on the intersections of communication, culture, and technology. This podcast is under Gnovis, an academic multimedia publication under Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology program.
15 Mar 2024
Dialogue and Diaspora
Join us on this episode as we delve into Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT) through personal narratives. We sit down with two CCT students here at Georgetown, Mac Kirin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/macmilin/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/macmilin/)) and Salomón Flamenco (@salmonflamingos (https://www.instagram.com/salmonflamingos/) on IG), and talk about their research focus and what inspired them to pursue graduate studies. We chat about dialogue and diaspora, how those link with their personal journeys, and discuss what’s next as they graduate from the Hilltop this spring.
This is the Gnovis Podcast. On this show, we explore conversations with students, faculty, alumni, and experts on the intersections of communication, culture, and technology. This podcast is under Gnovis, an academic multimedia publication under Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology program.
21 Feb 2023
Voices in the Code
Automated decision-making systems or algorithms are playing an increasingly significant role in public administration and civil rights space. In his book "Voices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made," David Robinson investigates and contextualizes the story of the Kidney Allocation System, which as a result of cross-disciplinary collaboration among surgeons, clinicians, data scientists, public officials, advocates, and patients, over the course of 10 years, evolved into a relatively inclusive and accountable decision-making technology. Through this story, the author discusses the most fundamental issues related to the design and management of public-interest algorithms.
22 Dec 2022
Being Present: book discussion with the author
In this episode, we discuss the book titled “Being present: commanding attention at work and at home by managing your social presence,” with the author Dr. Jeanine Turner, a communications scholar at Georgetown University. In a world permeated with new media and communication technologies, managing our social presence and controlling where and how we invest our attention is not an easy task. In this discussion, Dr. Turner offers an overview of her framework with four different approaches on how to manage your social presence in the modern communication space.
22 May 2022
Data & truth with danah boyd
The topic of this episode is data and truth. There is a popular saying that we live in a data driven world? But where is data driving us? According to some estimates the amount of data generated over the next 3 years will be more than the amount of data created over the past 30 years. We have immersed ourselves in zettabytes of data to minimize uncertainty, make sense of the world around us and validate every step we take. But how reliable is all this data and can it really help us find the truth? In this episode we look for the answers to this and other questions with prominent scholar Prof danah boyd, whose research examines the intersection between technology and society. She’s a partner researcher at Microsoft, the founder of the well-known non-profit research institute Data & Society, as well as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, where she taught a graduate course on Data and Politics of Evidence.
27 Jan 2022
Podcast about podcasts
In this first episode of our new season we talk about podcasts. Are you interested in podcast production? What makes a good podcast? How do you create quality content? In this episode we explore the answers to these and other questions about podcasts with Prof Mark McDonald, who has thirty years of experience in international broadcasting with BBC World News, across both TV and Radio, and with two leading public broadcasters in the United States. He is the founder and CEO of Birkdale media and teaches a course on podcasting at Georgetown University.
2 Jan 2021
Election 2020 Debrief
Eish and Chelsea sit down with Brenna Parker, Web & Facebook Strategist for Biden for President. They chat Facebook, misinformation, and what it takes to grow your audience.
17 Oct 2020
LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0: A discussion with author Jill Fredenburg
Listen to our first podcast of the school year! Eish and Chelsea sit down with LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0 author and CCT alum Jill Fredenburg. We chat about identity, representation, and how platforms like YouTube and social media can be helpful tools for the LGTBQ+ community.
24 Jun 2020
Life in the time of Coronavirus
In the final episode of the season, new hosts Chelsea Sanchez and Eish Sumra speak with CCT Professor Leticia Bode and CCT students Ted Harrison and Shana Inofuentes on what to expect of the upcoming months and how to adjust to our new normal.
5 Mar 2020
Goop There It Is
Who among us hasn’t picked up a product because it labels itself as “natural wellness,” “clean beauty,” or “contains ashwagandha”? In our February episode, Kim and Kevin unpack the history of wellness (while unpacking their skincare routines), and examine how a cultural shift from humanism to dataism has fundamentally changed the way we consume beauty products.
5 Feb 2020
Dinosaurs and Discord
We’ve all heard the discourse around content moderation- that it doesn’t work, or that it doesn’t help foster supportive communities on platforms like Facebook and Instagram. But what about smaller online communities on platforms like Discord, where servers and channels can be customized for specific interests? In our most recent episode of About Me, Kim and Kevin learn how Discord servers are moderated, and how smaller online communities can affect positive change in their communities through empathy and discussion.
5 Dec 2019
The Instagram Bogeyman
Instagram users—particularly Instagram users who are members of a marginalized community—have begun to notice that their content isn’t being delivered as they would expect it to be. On the inaugural episode of About Me, Kim and Kevin square up with the Instagram Bogeyman that is the shadowban. With a personal narrative about the effects of shadowbanning from Johanna Toruño (@johannareign (https://www.instagram.com/johannareign/?hl=en), @theunapologeticallybrownseries (https://www.instagram.com/theunapologeticallybrownseries/?hl=en)) kicking off the discussion, Kim and Kevin endeavor to lift the lid off of what we know as “shadowbanning” online to show it for what it really is: codified algorithmic expression.
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