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Revitalized Graduate Journal Debuted Thursday

Celebrating a revamped website and increased submissions, the university’s journal of culture, communication and technology re-launched Thursday.

Gnovis, a peer-reviewed journal and academic blog run by graduate students in the Communication, Culture and Technology program, saw a sharp rise in articles submitted by graduate students in the United States and seven other countries this year.

“Students are more aware of technology and how to use it …so I think that coincides with the exponential number of submissions we have been receiving,” Editor-in-Chief Lauren Barnett (GRD ’12) said.

The journal’s spring 2011 issue published 12 papers with a 19 percent acceptance rate for submissions, according to Managing Editor Colleen Valentine (GRD ’12).

Gnovis addresses subjects such as technology, media, politics, arts and culture and is released online each spring and fall. This year, the journal published its first summer multi-media edition.

The journal was first launched in the fall of 2000 as a student-organized initiative. After its formation, it underwent a dormant period and relaunched in 2002. The completion of the new site marks the culmination of a remodeling that began in August 2007.

“We redid our website over the summer and that was a big project for us. At this point, it’s about continuing the momentum that we’ve built around this new website,” Barnett said.

A staff of student bloggers posts daily on the updated website. The increased volume of blog posts this semester has been facilitated by the new site design, according to Alicia Dillon (GRD ’12), Gnovis’s lead blogger.

“We work on Word Press now, so it is a different platform, but the process for blogging has remained the same,” she said.

While the bloggers are students and members of the core staff at Gnovis, the journal relies on submissions from scholars in the field. Like many academic journals, the publication is peer reviewed and employs a double-blind review process.

“We try to offer for students … a way to experience the peer review process,” Barnett said. “We have received feedback from those graduate students that feel like that’s a worthwhile cause and say that that has definitely helped them look at their academic projects in a different light.”

According to Davis, she and other staff members have been designing a downloadable version of the publication.

“I think it’s really important moving forward with the prevalence of tablet readers and the way people are reading … to have that option as a viable alternate,” Davis said.

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