Performing Numbers

2020 ◽  
pp. 241-259
Author(s):  
Robert Prey
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter explores the implications of performance metrics as a source of self-knowledge and self-presentation. It does so through the figure of the contemporary musician. As performers on-stage and online, musicians are constantly assessed and evaluated by industry actors, peers, music fans, and themselves. The impact of powerful modes of quantification on personal experiences, understandings, and practices of artistic creation provides insight into the wider role that metrics play in shaping how we see ourselves and others; and how we present ourselves to others. Through in-depth interviews with emerging musicians, this chapter thus uses the artist as a lens through which to understand everyday life within the “performance complex.”

The struggle for good care: moral challenges during the COVID-19 lockdown of Dutch elderly care facilities

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy van der Geugten ◽  
Gaby Jacobs ◽  
Anne Goossensen
Keyword(s):  
Moral Distress ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Personal Ethics ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

The COVID-19 lockdown of Dutch long-term care facilities between March and May 2020 affected the quality of lives of residents and opposed professional and personal ethics of care. This article, based on 25 in-depth interviews with healthcare chaplains, gives insight into what moral challenges appeared for care professionals. Moral challenges were related to: ‘family ruptures’, ‘residents’ loneliness and despair’, ‘cold-hearted deaths’ and ‘response and responsibilities’. The findings illuminate the complexity of providing care during the lockdown and show variation in the impact of these ethical experiences, in which both moral distress and moral resilience occurred.

‘How much love are you going to give this brand?’ Lifestyle journalists on commercial influences in their work

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Folker Hanusch ◽  
Thomas Hanitzsch ◽  
Corinna Lauerer
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Political Journalism ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Normative Ideals

The news increasingly provides help, advice, guidance, and information about the management of self and everyday life, in addition to its traditional role in political communication. Yet, such forms of journalism are still regularly denigrated in scholarly discussions, as they often deviate from normative ideals. This is particularly true in lifestyle journalism, where few studies have examined the impact of commercial influences. Through in-depth interviews with 89 Australian and German lifestyle journalists, this article explores the ways in which journalists experience how the lifestyle industries try to shape their daily work, and how these journalists deal with these influences. We find that lifestyle journalists are in a constant struggle over the control of editorial content, and their responses to increasing commercial pressures vary between resistance and resignation. This has implications for our understanding of journalism as a whole in that it broadens it beyond traditional conceptualizations associated with political journalism.

Temporary migrants as an uneasy presence in immigrant societies: Reflections on ambivalence in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Tazreiter
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Temporary Migration ◽  
The Status ◽  
Temporary Migrants ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

This article explores the status of temporariness in international migration. The focus is on the impact of temporary status on migrants’ actions, behavior, and emotional responses to the daily circumstances in negotiating everyday life. Ambivalence is evaluated as an explanatory category that allows particular insight into strategies of resistance used by temporary migrants as they navigate a host society besides maintaining connections with home. Original data obtained from in-depth interviews with Indonesian migrant workers and students undertaking temporary migration projects in Australia is discussed. The case study explored in this article identifies some of the core problems temporary migrants face as encapsulated by a deficit of rights and protections that, at the same time, are expected by members of liberal states. Temporary status turns migrants into nomadic global laborers. The article argues that actions and responses that appear to be ambivalent are far from irrational, hasty, or disloyal. Rather, migrants’ decision-making in response to the uncertain and shifting economic and sociocultural environments that they enter often comprises subtle calibrations and switching actions, observable as ambivalence, in adjusting to the unanticipated demands of a new society.

“We Are Three Parents, but Legally Two”: Absent Legality, Present Display

2020 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2098337
Author(s):  
Nola Cammu
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Parents Experiences

Parental constellations, by which more than two adults decide to conceive and raise children together, are unrecognized by most jurisdictions. Via in-depth-interviews with 21 parents living in Belgium and the Netherlands, this article explores the legal experiences of parents within intentional plus-two-parent constellations through the methodological framework of “display work” (i.e., families are not only done but also displayed (Finch, 2007)). The parents’ everyday experiences with absent legality were found to be playing out via complex interplays among internal and external levels of display. In addition, researcher’s positions are believed to play a role in how certain forms of display are carried out. Consequently, the concept of display work grants us more insight into the wide array of parents’ experiences with (the lack of) legal framework and its repercussions for everyday life, as well as the parents’ aim to contribute to a broader context of awareness-raising and policymaking.

scholarly journals Personal therapy for therapists: Reflections on past and current research from an autoethnographic perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Personal Therapy ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Mandatory Requirement ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

The following article will describe and reflect on a research study that was published in Counselling Psychology Quarterly in 2011, entitled ‘Personal Therapy as a Mandatory Requirement for Counselling Psychologists in Training: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Therapy on Trainees’ Personal and Professional Development.’ The aim of the study was to explore trainee counselling psychologists’ experiences of mandatory personal therapy, and the impact it had on their personal and professional development. This article is written from an autoethnographic perspective. Autoethnography is a research method which allows authors to define, explain and methodically evaluate their personal experiences of being part of a particular culture, over a prolonged period of time. The use of the dialogue approach has allowed the study to be presented as an interview or a conversation that has taken place between two people. The article concentrates on three areas of autoethnography: firstly, sincerity which is interested in the author’s objectives and the ways in which a study is designed, carried out, and presented. Secondly, contribution is about the significance of participants’ stories and the ways in which they are interpreted. The standard of any research study is judged on the extent to which the work has furthered knowledge and understanding of a particular subject area. Thirdly, rich insight, involves an idiosyncratic process of self-reflection for the researcher to gain insight into their area of interest.

scholarly journals Clipping Presentation by S. Eisenstein as a Form of Self-Presentation in Amateur Photography of the Late 20th - Early 21st Century

2015 ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Tatyana M. Netusova
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Depth Interviews

The amateur photography is a phenomenon spread almost over each sphere of the everyday life. Combining the results of the survey of Moscow citizens aged from 18 to 25 (total amount of the surveyed people is 265) and the data of several in-depth interviews with respondents of age from 45 to 52 (6 questionnaires), the author reveals some patterns and features of the generations’ self-presentation through the amateur photographs. Applying the clipping principle of S. Eisenstein while analyzing the data, the author receives some peculiar results concerning the meanings of photographs in the end of 20th - beginning of 21st century as well as the main themes for the photographs of the two generations.

Insight into the motivation of selfie postings: impression management and self-esteem

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 1879-1892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrynn Pounders ◽  
Christine M. Kowalczyk ◽  
Kirsten Stowers
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Comparison Method ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose Social media enables consumers to regularly express themselves in a variety of ways. Selfie-postings are the new tool for self-presentation, particularly among millennials. The purpose of this paper is to identify the motivations associated with selfie-postings among female millennials. Design/methodology/approach The exploratory study consisted of 15 in-depth interviews with women who were 19-30 years of age. The analysis of data was facilitated by an iterative constant comparison method between data, emerging concepts and extant literature. Findings Textual analysis reveals impression management to be pivotal in understanding the consumer selfie-posting process. Other sub-themes include happiness and physical appearance. In addition, self-esteem was revealed as a motivator and an outcome. Research limitations/implications The study was limited to females who were 19-30 years of age. Future research should include males and a wider age group and focus on empirical testing of the identified themes. Practical implications This research sheds light on the motivation and outcomes associated with selfie-postings. Implications for marketers and advertisers include a better understanding of how to engage consumers to post content in the form of selfies with brands and products. Originality/value This paper fulfils an identified need to explore the growing trend of selfie-postings and contributes to academic literature in consumer behavior by identifying the motivations of selfie-postings.

What Does a Doctoral Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling Bring to Speech-Language Pathology Programs?

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Agan
Keyword(s):  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, I will describe the potential contributions of interdisciplinary studies combining speech-language pathology and rehabilitation counseling in the preparation of future speech-language pathologists (SLPs). I will provide a brief introduction to the field of rehabilitation counseling and consider it from an SLP’s perspective. Next, I will describe some of my own personal experiences as they pertain to the intersecting cultures of work and disability and how these experiences influenced my practice as a master’s level SLP eventually leading to my decision to pursue a doctoral degree in rehabilitation counseling. I will describe the impact of this line of interdisciplinary study on my research and teaching. Finally, I will present some arguments about why concepts relevant to rehabilitation counseling are important to the mindset of SLPs.

IC & OI The impact of intellectual capital on organizational innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1257-1265
Author(s):  
Fouad El-Gamal
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Dominant Dimension ◽  
Structural Capital ◽  
Corporate Innovation ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Intellectual capital can generate value for organizations and improve organizational innovation. This study aims to investigate the effects of intellectual capital on corporate innovation. Mixed research methodology approach has been used by combining both qualitative and quantitative analysis to explore and empirical examine the research model. The targeted population of interest is the licensed pharmaceutical manufactures, 90 organizations in the Egyptian pharmaceutical industry throughout its three main sectors (11 public, 70 local private and 9 MNCs). Statistical analyses are employed based on the questionnaires gathered from 39 pharmaceutical manufactures’ companies (44% response rate). In addition, sixty-three “63” in depth interviews have been conducted with both top and middle managers. The research findings indicate that all dimensions of intellectual capital (human, structural, and relational capital) have positive significant effects on organizational innovation of pharmaceutical manufactures’ companies. The study clarifies that the most dominant dimension is structural capital, which provides the largest and strongest support to pharmaceutical manufactures’ companies. The deep realization of the importance intellectual capital and its impact on innovation helps leaders to adopt accurate system to run organizational innovation in a better way, which lead to sustainable competitive advantage for organizations.

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