scholarly journals Epilepsy, digital technology and the black-boxed self

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 2880-2897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Roach
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Electrical Circuit ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Cultural Imaginary ◽  
History Of

This article traces the history of epilepsy’s affinities with new media. It draws on interviews with people with epilepsy (PWE) and wider instances of the condition’s representation in the socio-cultural imaginary to demonstrate the degree to which epilepsy has been heavily technologized in the second half of the 20th century. Thanks to common analogies made between the seizing brain and the faulty electrical circuit, the PWE has been increasingly conceived within cybernetic terms: in particular, these subjects have long been ‘black boxed’ by the medical establishment. Tracking this connection across the rise of so-called ‘Surveillance Medicine’ and new digital health technologies reveals, I argue, suggestive parallels between the stigmatized PWE and the data-driven subject of today’s digital environment.

3D Typography Design in the Digital Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 147-155
Author(s):  
Fatih Kurtcu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
Communication Expectations ◽  
Motion Video

Writing is a visual expression of language-based communication and the most basic indicator and result of human social development and his evolution is in tune with language, thought, art and cultural exchange and/or development. Today, in the concept of writing – typography is far beyond just describing a technique. The effects of developments on technology are reflected in typographic studies and new and effective expression forms are created with new software enviroments, new media and new experimental works. Typographic studies designed in the digital environment by use of possibilities offered by technology presents new expression possibilities to the audience. Examining how digital typography, which is becoming widespread, has been designed and produced is a necessity to meet the communication expectations of the day and in the future with visual designs. In this article, the history of 3D writing, typography studies, usage areas and 3D digital typography designing stages are examined. Keywords: 3D, typography, design, digital environment, graphic design, motion, video.

scholarly journals Development of a decision-making checklist tool to support technology selection in digital health research

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1004-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Nebeker ◽  
Rebecca J Bartlett Ellis ◽  
John Torous
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Technology Selection ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Privacy Risk ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Selection For

Abstract Digital technologies offer researchers new approaches to test personalized and adaptive health interventions tailored to an individual. Yet, research leveraging technologies to capture personal health data involve technical and ethical consideration during the study design phase. No guidance exists to facilitate responsible digital technology selection for research purposes. A stakeholder-engaged and iterative approach was used to develop, test, and refine a checklist designed to aid researchers in selecting technologies for their research. First, stakeholders (n = 7) discussed and informed key decision-making domains to guide app/device selection derived from the American Psychiatric Association’s framework that included safety, evidence, usability, and interoperability. We added “ethical principles” to the APA’s hierarchical model and created a checklist that was used by a small group of behavioral scientists (n = 7). Findings revealed the “ethical principles” domains of respect, beneficence, and justice cut across each decision-making domains and the checklist questions/prompts were revised accordingly and can be found at thecore.ucsd.edu. The refined checklist contains four decision-making domains with prompts/questions and ethical principles embedded within the domains of privacy, risk/benefit, data management, and access/evidence. This checklist is the first step in leading the narrative of decision-making when selecting digital health technologies for research. Given the dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of digital health technology use in research, this tool will need to be further evaluated for usefulness in technology selection.

scholarly journals Integration of eMental health technologies into traditional community-based interventions

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
K Turmaine ◽  
C Picot Ngo ◽  
A Le Jeannic ◽  
J L Roelandt ◽  
K Chevreul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Local Level ◽  
World Health ◽  
Local Network ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Health Programmes

Abstract Background Very little research has been conducted to appraise the merits of including municipalities and their local health providers in the promotion of digital health programmes. While more and more municipalities have locally implemented a health strategic plan and have focused on building local network of professionals, how do the latter react to the implementation of innovative e-mental health community-based programmes? Methods In 2018, 42 French municipalities volunteered to promote StopBlues, a digital health tool aimed at preventing mental distress and suicide. In each municipality, a local delegate was responsible for the promotion of the tool. Using observations, questionnaires and interviews with the delegates, we analysed how the promotion of StopBlues® was conducted in each setting. 2/3 of these municipalities started the promotion directly, and in 2019, a second wave of municipalities launched the promotion with a stronger support from the research team backed by the French World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health (WHOCC). Results The use of digital technology in the implementation of a mental health programme received a mixed reception from the local health professionals because of its innovative aspect. 2/3 of the delegates declared that they were struggling to create a stronger network of local partners including private medical practioners. 63% of the respondents stated that their municipalities got involved in the programme for networking purposes. Conclusions Digital technologies have initiated a paradigm shift in the way community-based health programmes are set up but need to strengthen their territorial anchorage in order to be accepted and used at the local level. Key messages Digital technology can be a strong lever against health inequities but its effectiveness has to be studied carefully. Digital technolgy has to be implemented in local settings with the collaboration of local actors in order to be accepted and used.

scholarly journals Towards post-digital aesthetics

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-222
Author(s):  
Anna Daudrich
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Aesthetics ◽  
Media Society ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Almost All

Over the past decades, digital technology and media had firmly integrated into almost all areas of contemporary culture and society. In this context, the Internet, computers or mobile phones are no longer considered products of new media, but instead are taken for granted. With this background in mind, this paper suggests taking a post-digital perspective on today's media society. The concept of post-digital refers to an aesthetics that no longer regards digital technology as a revolutionary phenomenon, but instead as a normal aspect of people's daily life. More precisely, post-digital aesthetics deals with an environment where digital technology became such a commonplace that its existence is frequently no longer acknowledged. Based on the analysis of contemporary artworks and practices inspired by their surroundings, this paper aims to bring those phenomena into consciousness that became unnoticeable in the contemporary digital environment. For this purpose, this investigation goes beyond the formal-aesthetic analysis, but instead focuses on the investigation of the receptive act. Concretely, post-digital aesthetics seeks to describe and analyze the changing modes of perception affected by the increased digitization of one's surroundings. In the context of this analysis, aesthetics is thus understood not as the goal per se, but rather as the means to enhance the understanding of contemporary digital culture.

Economic Views of L. Trotsky

2004 ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
M. Voeikov ◽  
S. Dzarasov
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Russian History ◽  
History Of

The paper written in the light of 125th birth anniversary of L. Trotsky analyzes the life and ideas of one of the most prominent figures in the Russian history of the 20th century. He was one of the leaders of the Russian revolution in its Bolshevik period, worked with V. Lenin and played a significant role in the Civil War. Rejected by the party bureaucracy L. Trotsky led uncompromising struggle against Stalinism, defending his own understanding of the revolutionary ideals. The authors try to explain these events in historical perspective, avoiding biases of both Stalinism and anticommunism.

Misreading Egypt

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Schotter
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
Tower Of Babel ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Sergei Eisenstein ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern Technologies

The first chapter of Hieroglyphic Modernisms exposes the complex history of Western misconceptions of Egyptian writing from antiquity to the present. Hieroglyphs bridge the gap between modern technologies and the ancient past, looking forward to the rise of new media and backward to the dispersal of languages in the mythical moment of the Tower of Babel. The contradictory ways in which hieroglyphs were interpreted in the West come to shape the differing ways that modernist writers and filmmakers understood the relationship between writing, film, and other new media. On the one hand, poets like Ezra Pound and film theorists like Vachel Lindsay and Sergei Eisenstein use the visual languages of China and of Egypt as a more primal or direct alternative to written words. But Freud, Proust, and the later Eisenstein conversely emphasize the phonetic qualities of Egyptian writing, its similarity to alphabetical scripts. The chapter concludes by arguing that even avant-garde invocations of hieroglyphics depend on narrative form through an examination of Hollis Frampton’s experimental film Zorns Lemma.

Sea Urchins and Circuses: The Modernist Natural Histories of Jean Painlevé and Alexander Calder

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-211
Author(s):  
Patricia E. Chu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Sea Urchins ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The One ◽  
Natural Historian

The Paris avant-garde milieu from which both Cirque Calder/Calder's Circus and Painlevé’s early films emerged was a cultural intersection of art and the twentieth-century life sciences. In turning to the style of current scientific journals, the Paris surrealists can be understood as engaging the (life) sciences not simply as a provider of normative categories of materiality to be dismissed, but as a companion in apprehending the “reality” of a world beneath the surface just as real as the one visible to the naked eye. I will focus in this essay on two modernist practices in new media in the context of the history of the life sciences: Jean Painlevé’s (1902–1989) science films and Alexander Calder's (1898–1976) work in three-dimensional moving art and performance—the Circus. In analyzing Painlevé’s work, I discuss it as exemplary of a moment when life sciences and avant-garde technical methods and philosophies created each other rather than being classified as separate categories of epistemological work. In moving from Painlevé’s films to Alexander Calder's Circus, Painlevé’s cinematography remains at the forefront; I use his film of one of Calder's performances of the Circus, a collaboration the men had taken two decades to complete. Painlevé’s depiction allows us to see the elements of Calder's work that mark it as akin to Painlevé’s own interest in a modern experimental organicism as central to the so-called machine-age. Calder's work can be understood as similarly developing an avant-garde practice along the line between the bestiary of the natural historian and the bestiary of the modern life scientist.

History of thyroid surgery

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (11) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Technique ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Thyroid Surgery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times

The authors present an outline of the development of thyroid surgery from the ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century, when the definitive surgical technique have been developed and the physiologic and pathopfysiologic consequences of thyroid resections have been described. The key representatives, as well as the contribution of the most influential czech surgeons are mentioned.

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