Temporary Urbanism: A Situated Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-28
Keyword(s):  
Situated Approach

Suva Residents’ Views on Cancer, Diabetes and HIV in The Fiji Times

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzana Gounder
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Medical Responsibility ◽  
Grassroots Support ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Situated Approach ◽  
Significant Health

The burden of preventable diseases is increasing in the South Pacific Island Countries and Territories. In Fiji, significant media attention and national finances are spent on public dissemination of the modifiable risk factors of chronic illnesses. However, little is known about lay societal perceptions of chronic illnesses and of people living with these illnesses. This preliminary study takes an area-situated approach to lay knowledge and examines Suva residents’ moral evaluations associated with socially significant health concerns in Fiji. Using the case studies of HIV, cancer, and diabetes, the research employs content analysis to examine 144 Suva residents’ Letters to the Editor, published between 2000 and 2019 in The Fiji Times. The findings indicate that letter writers on chronic illnesses are power sensitive, interested in governmental responsibility, and aware of the role of stigma in creating inequitable health outcomes. The study’s findings locate chronic illness as not only a medical responsibility but also a social justice and human rights concern that requires a multisectoral approach, with community-tailored responses at the heart of all discussions. The lay-societal recognition of the three illnesses as being socially relevant suggests grassroots support for policies directed towards structural reforms for the prevention and management of these illnesses.

scholarly journals Data diaries: A situated approach to the study of data

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395172199603
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Tkacz ◽  
Mário Henrique da Mata Martins ◽  
João Porto de Albuquerque ◽  
Flávio Horita ◽  
Giovanni Dolif Neto
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
National Centre ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Situated Approach

This article adapts the ethnographic medium of the diary to develop a method for studying data and related data practices. The article focuses on the creation of one data diary, developed iteratively over three years in the context of a national centre for monitoring disasters and natural hazards in Brazil (Cemaden). We describe four points of focus involved in the creation of a data diary – spaces, interfaces, types and situations – before reflecting on the value of this method. We suggest data diaries (1) are able to capture the informal dimension of data-intensive organisations; (2) enable empirical analysis of the specific ways that data intervene in the unfolding of situations; and (3) as a document, data diaries can foster interdisciplinary and inter-expert dialogue by bridging different ways of knowing data.

scholarly journals Labor/leisure decisions in their natural context: The case of the smartphone

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Dora ◽  
Madelon van Hooff ◽  
Sabine Geurts ◽  
Michiel A. J. Kompier ◽  
Erik Bijleveld
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Task Motivation ◽  
Monetary Rewards ◽  
Cognitive Work ◽  
Current Task ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Current Value ◽  
Situated Approach ◽  
Back Task

In this research, we attempt to understand a common real-life labor/leisure decision, i.e., to perform cognitive work or to interact with one’s smartphone. In an ecologically valid experiment, participants (N = 112) could freely switch back and forth between a doing a 2-back task and interacting with their own smartphone. We manipulated the value of the 2-back task (by varying the value of monetary rewards; within-subjects) and of the smartphone (by switching on and off airplane mode; within-subjects) while we recorded incoming notifications, such as text messages. Our study produced three main findings: 1) the current value of the smartphone did not increase our statistical model’s ability to predict switches from labor to leisure when the current task value was also taken into account; 2) however, participants reacted strongly to naturally incoming notifications, which were the strongest predictor of labor-to-leisure switches; 3) there was no evidence that taking into account individual differences (in the value assigned to labor and leisure) improved the model’s ability to predict labor-leisure switches. In sum, using a situated approach to studying labor/leisure decisions, our findings highlight the importance of high task motivation, as well as the temporary distractive potential of smartphone notifications, when people face the challenge to stay focused on their productive tasks.

Seduction and Surprise

2017 ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
Dina Mendonça
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Family ◽  
Situated Approach ◽  
The Way

The chapter explores the meaning of seduction from a situated approach to emotions by tracing the way surprise uncovers emotional traits that enable commitment. The adoption of a Situated Approach reveals how emotions are intrinsically tied to the situations from which they arise and the crucial role of surprise. The emotion of surprise is central for the value of experience because it amplifies other emotions as well as other traits, and details of the lived situations fixing the meaning of the lived experience. The examination of how various emotions belong to the family of surprise further explains the established differences between persuasion, manipulation and seduction. Ultimately the chapter shows that seduction asks for the recognition of various layers of emotional reality, and how they are made visible by the way in which seduction establishes commitments.

scholarly journals A Situated Approach of Roles and Participation in Open Source Software Communities

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flore Barcellini ◽  
Françoise Détienne ◽  
Jean-Marie Burkhardt
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Situated Approach

Thinking activity-based work environment throughout situated acceptance

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Lai ◽  
Marc-Eric Bobillier Chaumon ◽  
Jacqueline Vacherand-Revel ◽  
Audrey Abitan
Keyword(s):  
Design Stage ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Real Estate Projects ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Situated Approach ◽  
Do So

Purpose This paper aims to focus on activity-based workplaces, which offer a diversity of typologies and configurations which, instead of being attributed to users, are shared according to the needs of their activities. Indeed, this paper questions the way these activity-based workplaces configure the ways in which individuals and collectives carry out their activity. Design/methodology/approach To do so, this paper established a two-phase methodology. Three days of observation amid three different units evolving in activity-based workplaces have helped us to identify the uses that emerged from these spatial typologies. Then, a set of two interviews with eight participants have been conducted based on the four dimensions of the situated acceptance model (Bobillier Chaumon, 2013) and on picture elicitation. Findings The results allow us to understand how activity-based workspaces can be considered as artefacts for the activity that needs to be appropriated to allow the worker to realise his activity. Research limitations/implications The results provide an overview of the social and psychological consequences of activity-based workspaces on workers, their work collective and their activity. Thus, the conclusions can be mobilised in activity-based real estate projects, for example, during the design stage. Originality/value This research conducted with a situated approach based upon the study of the development of the activity proposes a change from the usual managerial approach about these activity-based workplaces, which prescribe an ideal way of working within the workplace.

Beyond Learning About the Brain: A Situated Approach to Training Teachers in Mind, Brain, and Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-208
Author(s):  
Lisa B. Carey ◽  
Jonathan Schmidt ◽  
Aila K. Dommestrup ◽  
Alison E. Pritchard ◽  
Maureen Stone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Situated Approach ◽  
The Brain
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