Rapid Ethnography and a Knowledge Mobilization Project

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Baines ◽  
Rachel Gnanayutham
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
Research Findings

Knowledge mobilization (KM) or knowledge translation (KT) involves the dissemination of research findings to diverse audiences. This chapter reflects on the challenges of KM when impacts are likely to be diffuse, nonlinear, far-reaching and long-term, such as shifting public discourse and government priorities, rather than small, immediate, easily measured, technical impacts. Drawing on one of the project’s knowledge transfer initiatives known as the bookette (a short, accessible, multiformat book and book launches aimed at the public, media, and policymakers), the chapter argues that this strategy put findings into a range of people’s hands quickly, while leaving room for further KM activities as the project continued. The chapter considers the importance of team-based research and KM as research activities that extend and deepen the capacity of researchers, research partners, and the community to pursue social change. Strengths and challenges of team-based rapid ethnography are discussed in light of these challenges.

scholarly journals HOLDING UP A MIRROR TO APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA: PUBLIC DISCOURSE ON THE ISSUE OF OVERCROWDING IN SOUTH AFRICAN PRISONS 1980 TO 1984 – PART 2

Obiter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Allister Peté
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Ideological Struggle ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Apartheid Regime

During the first half of the 1980s, the issue of chronic overcrowding within the South African penal system formed part of an intense ideological struggle between those who supported and those who opposed the apartheid regime. Public debate around this issue acted as a mirror, reflecting early cracks which were beginning to appear in the edifice of apartheid. Since the prisons were the ultimate instrument of social control within the apartheid system, the ongoing crises caused by chronic overcrowding within these institutions served as a kind of “canary in the mine” for the apartheid system as a whole. The debates which took place during the early 1980s around overcrowding are also important because they form part of a common theme running through South African penal discourse as a whole. This article seeks to show how the debates on prison overcrowding which took place in the first half of the 1980s fit into a long-term pattern of recurring ideological crises surrounding this issue. The article is divided into two parts. In Part One, the above themes were explored through the public discourse surrounding the Steyn Commission of Enquiry into the public media, as well as the Hoexter Commission of Enquiry into the structure and functioning of South Africa’s courts. Whereas Part One deals only with certain early debates arising out of the Hoexter Commission – up to February 1981 – Part Two takes this as a starting point and traces a number of further themes which arose in the debates surrounding the Hoexter Commission between February 1981 and April 1984, when the Commission delivered its report.

scholarly journals Prekäre (Kultur-)Kämpfe?

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (160) ◽  
pp. 361-376
Author(s):  
Magdalena Freudenschuß
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Societal Changes

Precarity became an issue in public discourse in German speaking media throughout 2006. In this article the author takes a closer look on the symbolic negotiations on precariousness/precarity and its references to neo-conservative reasoning undertaken in the public media discourse. Who is designated as the precarious subject -- and to what extent do discursive designations legitimate social inequalities? Public discourse is to be understood as an ambivalent and multifaceted field of negotiations on society and social justice. As such, it is a field where interpretations of societal changes try to gain a hegemonic position and where they are at the same time challenged, disrupted and irritated. Thus, the article points out some hegemonic and counter-hegemonic moments within the public discourse on precarity.

scholarly journals WHO'S CHOOSING THE NEWS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC MEDIA DISCOURSE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sina Summers
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Traditional Roles

This thesis inquiry investigates how algorithms operate generally to affect the dissemination of news information to audiences. This research aimed to find what the implications of AI used in these ways are for traditional roles played by media news in public life – such as informing the public in the public’s interests and enabling informed public discourse. This research asks also to what extent the use and effect of AI algorithms are transparent to audiences and how this level of understanding by audiences (or lack of understanding) affects the informing role of media.

scholarly journals Talking About Youth: The Depoliticization of Young People in the Public Domain

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 591-607
Author(s):  
Marco Giugni ◽  
Maria Grasso
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Claims Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Political Agents ◽  
Cross National

In this article, we employ data from comparative claims analysis of five major newspapers in nine European countries between 2010 and 2016 to examine discourse around youth. We look at the ways in which collective actors frame youth in the public domain and how this may provide discursive opportunities understood in terms of the extent to which public discourse portrays young people as agents of social change. More specifically, we argue that young people are depoliticized in the public domain. We find that public statements and more generally public discourse about youth tend to depict them as actors who do not have political aims or to focus on other, nonpolitical characteristics. Our exploratory analysis shows that, while youth are fairly present as actors in the public domain, they are only rarely addressed or discussed in political terms. Moreover, where they are addressed politically, it is in negative terms, with few political claims. At the same time, we observe important cross-national variations, whereby the depoliticization process looks to be further matured in some countries relative to others. This process of depoliticization of youth in the public domain, in turn, has important implications on their potential for acting as political agents and for their political activism.

scholarly journals A deliberative study of public attitudes towards sharing genomic data within NHS genomic medicine services in England

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 702-717
Author(s):  
Lamiece Hassan ◽  
Ann Dalton ◽  
Carrie Hammond ◽  
Mary Patricia Tully
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Genomic Medicine ◽  
Genomic Data ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
Service Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Share Data

Whole genome (DNA) sequencing is becoming part of routine care healthcare in England. Genomic data are most useful when pooled with other patients’ data, meaning that clinicians may need to share data to effectively treat patients. We ran deliberative focus groups to explore views among 44 patients and members of the public about proposals for wider genomic data sharing for clinical care. Participants were briefed about genomic medicine and engaged in group and individual exercises to deliberate on the benefits and risks of using genomic data. Findings showed that participants supported wider sharing of genomic data within health services and naturally linked care and research activities. Nonetheless, they were concerned about managing flows of information to protect patient confidentiality and guard against unauthorised uses, now and over the long-term. Ongoing conversations with the public are needed to determine appropriate uses of genomic data and safeguards to inform service development.

scholarly journals Exploring the frontiers of research co-production: the Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network concept papers

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian D. Graham ◽  
Chris McCutcheon ◽  
Anita Kothari
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Integrated Knowledge Translation ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Network Concept ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Integrated Knowledge

AbstractResearch co-production is about doing research with those who use it. This approach to research has been receiving increasing attention from research funders, academic institutions, researchers and even the public as a means of optimising the relevance, usefulness, usability and use of research findings, which together, the argument goes, produces greater and more timely impact. The papers in this cross BMC journal collection raise issues about research co-production that, to date, have not been fully considered and suggest areas for future research for advancing the science and practice of research co-production. These papers address some gaps in the literature, make connections between subfields and provide varied perspectives from researchers and knowledge users.

Stillman Wanders, Babel Rises

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Eberl
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fault Lines

Chapter 6 discusses how innovation changes social structures. Fault lines traverse societies. Their structures are complex, their statuses differentiated, and their power structures unequal. Rather than existing in the abstract, these aspects of social life materialize in concrete actions, things, and people. Diacritical consumption sets members of society apart based on culture-specific values. To work as status-differentiating items, these values should be understood, at least partially, by members of society, especially as they develop meta-awareness through their interaction with social frames. For social change, these individual experiences have to be converted into a public discourse about structures. Inventions then materialize personal visions of society and become novel arguments in the public discourse. As people adopt them, they shift the course of their society.

scholarly journals Coping with cannabis in a Caribbean country : from problem formulation to going public

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 205-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hymie Rubenstein
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Problem Formulation ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Caribbean Country ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Research Findings

Analyzes the dialectic between problem discovery and formulation, ethical considerations, and the public dissemination of research results. Author describes his personal experience of fieldwork, the moral-ethical dilemmas it involved, and the circulation of research findings on cannabis production and consumption in St. Vincent. He became frustrated that his academic publications were only accessible to a tiny portion of St. Vincent's population and therefore decided to publish about cannabis in the local media.

Discourse and social change in contemporary Hong Kong

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Flowerdew
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mise En Abyme ◽  
First Time ◽  
Ultimate Control

ABSTRACTThis article documents discursive and social change currently taking place in contemporary Hong Kong during the transitional period leading up to the change of sovereignty from Britain to China. It does so by means of a detailed analysis of a political meeting, involving the British Hong Kong governor, Chris Patten, and members of the Hong Kong public. The meeting took place in October, 1992, a day after Patten introduced proposals to widen the democratic franchise. Patten used the meeting, the first time a Hong Kong governor had made himself openly accountable to the public at large, to demonstrate the sort of democratic discourse for which the reform proposals were designed to create a framework.The analysis focuses on two main ways Patten highlighted the democratic nature of the discourse: the use of mise en abyme, or a “play within a play” structure, and the downplaying of overt markers of hierarchy and power asymmetry. Although Patten's aim was to demonstrate openness and accountability, his ultimate control of the discourse belied the democratic agenda he ostensibly promoted. The analysis consequently also focuses on the manipulative dimension of Patten's discourse. The conclusion considers to what extent the meeting might mark a real shift to a more democratic order of public discourse in Hong Kong. (Discourse analysis, power and language, social change, indexicals, involvement, manipulative discourse, mise en abyme, order of discourse, political discourse, turn-taking).

scholarly journals WHO'S CHOOSING THE NEWS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC MEDIA DISCOURSE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sina Summers
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Traditional Roles

This thesis inquiry investigates how algorithms operate generally to affect the dissemination of news information to audiences. This research aimed to find what the implications of AI used in these ways are for traditional roles played by media news in public life – such as informing the public in the public’s interests and enabling informed public discourse. This research asks also to what extent the use and effect of AI algorithms are transparent to audiences and how this level of understanding by audiences (or lack of understanding) affects the informing role of media.

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