Saving Face

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marissa Kristal
Keyword(s):  
Saving Face

scholarly journals Qualitative investigation of trace-based communication: how are traces conceptualised in healthcare teamwork?

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e038406
Author(s):  
Sayra Cristancho ◽  
Emily Field
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
Saving Face ◽  
Critical Process ◽  
Biological Literature

ObjectivesThis interview-based qualitative study aims to explore how healthcare providers conceptualise trace-based communication and considers its implications for how teams work. In the biological literature, trace-based communication refers to the non-verbal communication that is achieved by leaving ‘traces’ in the environment and other members sensing them and using them to drive their own behaviour. Trace-based communication is a key component of swam intelligence and has been described as a critical process that enables superorganisms to coordinate work and collectively adapt. This paper brings awareness to its existence in the context of healthcare teamwork.DesignInterview-based study using Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology.SettingThis study was conducted in multiple team contexts at one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals.Participants25 clinicians from across professions and disciplines. Specialties included surgery, anesthesiology, psychiatry, internal medicine, geriatrics, neonatology, paramedics, nursing, intensive care, neurology and emergency medicine.InterventionNot relevant due to the qualitative nature of the study.Primary and secondary outcomeNot relevant due to the qualitative nature of the study.ResultsThe dataset was analysed using the sensitising concept of ‘traces’ from Swarm Intelligence. This study brought to light novel and unique elements of trace-based communication in the context of healthcare teamwork including focused intentionality, successful versus failed traces and the contextually bounded nature of the responses to traces. While participants initially felt ambivalent about the idea of using traces in their daily teamwork, they provided a variety of examples. Through these examples, participants revealed the multifaceted nature of the purposes of trace-based communication, including promoting efficiency, preventing mistakes and saving face.ConclusionsThis study demonstrated that clinicians pervasively use trace-based communication despite differences in opinion as to its implications for teamwork and safety. Other disciplines have taken up traces to promote collective adaptation. This should serve as inspiration to at least start exploring this phenomenon in healthcare.

Saving Face While Geeking Out: Video Game Testing as a Justification for Learning Computer Science

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betsy DiSalvo ◽  
Mark Guzdial ◽  
Amy Bruckman ◽  
Tom McKlin
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Saving Face

Saving face on Facebook: privacy concerns, social benefits, and impression management

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey G. Proudfoot ◽  
David Wilson ◽  
Joseph S. Valacich ◽  
Michael D. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Saving Face

Communicative and linguistic trends in Elon Musk’s personal branding (based on Twitter publications in 2020)

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
N. V. Davydovska
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
High Resistance ◽  
Common People ◽  
Informative Advertising ◽  
Brand Building ◽  
Personal Brand ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Saving Face ◽  
Personal Branding ◽  
Space Colonization

This research is dedicated to the study of the main communicative trends and linguistic specificities of Elon Musk’s personal branding. The paper analyses over 500 Tweets posted by Elon Musk in his personal Twitter account throughout 2020 and classifies them into 7 categories according to their communicative aim with regard to brand-building. According to the results of the analysis, informative, advertising, self-promotion, provocative, entertaining, bonding and saving face Tweets were singled out. We examined each group separately, tracing their influence on building, maintaining or boosting Elon Musk’s personal brand, as well as on countering threats to its status. The study analyses the most representative examples of each group and explains their role in Elon Musk’s personal branding. As part of the present research, we studied linguistic devices employed by Elon Musk within the brand-building effort and concluded that irony, codeswitching, quoting, play on words, slogans, slang abbreviations / netspeak and extralinguistic signs are the main linguistic trends of his personal branding. The research proves that Elon Musk’s personal brand is consistent, competitive and shows high resistance to the attacks of adversaries on its status and to various challenges that could undermine its authority. The paper traces how Elon Musk uses his Twitter account to present himself as a visionary for space colonization and robotization, a member of geek and meme communities, to reinforce his image of bold, charismatic and influential businessman, who appreciates real talent and does not distance himself from common people and popular culture. The study reveals Twitter to be a powerful branding source, as it has wide outreach, real-world repercussions and global significance.

Deconstructing the Other’s Other: Analyzing the Chinese Female Image in the Film Saving Face

Film Matters ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Chuyi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Women ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Film ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Image ◽  
Saving Face ◽  
International Status

The image of Chinese women portrayed in American films is essentially the West’s imagination of China, conveyed by the female body and constructed in the Orientalist discourse. Over the past one hundred years, Chinese women have been primarily depicted as docile, weak, submissive, voiceless, and in need of being rescued and guided by Occidentals. With the evolution of the global order and the rise of China’s international status, the silent Orient has taken the initiative to resist and reshape this voiceless, “other-ed” image. This article aims to focus on the female characters in Saving Face, an American film directed by Chinese American director Alice Wu in 2004, and analyzes how the director reverses the stereotyped Chinese female image based on the theoretical framework of Orientalism and postcolonial studies, not only “the other” with regards to men, but also “the other” as to the Occident, thus dismantling long-held misreadings of China.

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