scholarly journals The role of communication technology in fighting administrative corruption

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Ahmed Hamagharib Omar Bali
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Tools And Techniques

This research aimed to identify the most important technological tools and techniques, have been introduced in the Iraqi Kurdistan organizations, comparing to the organizations that still rely on a manual system. This research claimed that the technological tools and techniques, apart from its role to activate communication between department employees and their clients, have an active participant in fighting corruption, reducing nepotism, and favoritism. This research relied on qualitative approach through conduction semi-structured interviews and participant observation as a data collection tools, and it also analyze the data under taken by thematic analysis representing the main tools and methods of ethnographic study. The research found that the communication technology machine and tools have a great role in the administrative services and fighting corruption, nevertheless, they have not been used in Kurdistan as required. The majority of respondents suggested to expand using technological machines and tools in all departments, as there are no big obstacles of introducing them even amongst who do not have technology skills.

scholarly journals Communication Tools to Fight Bureaucratic Corruption in Iraqi Kurdistan: A Case Study

SAGE Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401881118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Omar Bali
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Bureaucratic Corruption ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Tools And Techniques

This study investigates the most important technological tools and techniques that have been introduced in some organizations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and compares those tools and techniques with that of the departments that still rely on a manual system. The research claims that technology, aside from its role in facilitating communication between employees and clients, is a potent force for fighting bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption and contributes to reassuring employees and clients. Theoretically, this research relies on an interdisciplinary approach which represents the connection between technology and human behavior, convenience, facilitation, and productivity within the administration communication systems. This research has adopted mixed-method approaches such as semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and surveys ( n = 422) as data collection tools, and it also analyzes data collected by thematic analysis as the main method of ethnographic study. The research finds that the communication tools can significantly contribute to administrative services and fight corruption, although such techniques have not been applied in Iraqi Kurdistan. The majority of the respondents recommended expanding technology tools in all organizations as there are no significant obstacles to introducing them even among the organizations that do not have requisite technology skills.

Friends as Informal Educators: The Role of Peer Relationships in Promotion of Sexual Health Services among College Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 0272684X2110346
Author(s):  
Veena Muraleetharan ◽  
Marie A. Brault
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Informal Educators ◽  
The Impact

This ethnographic study of one United States university’s sexual health resources explores the role of peer relationships in sexual health promotion to understand how these relationships shaped students’ interactions with campus sexual health resources. Through analysis of seventeen semi-structured interviews with students, five policy interviews with providers and university personnel, and participant-observation of peer health educator training, the authors examine how trust in peer relationships can serve as a form of social capital to influence sexual health information sharing. The article introduces the term “peer administrator” to describe student actors who sit at the intersection of friend and official resource and explores the importance of these mentoring relationships for sexual health promotion. The analysis also considers how more individualistic models of public health promotion limit the impact of peer relationships and concludes with a discussion of how universities might imagine new forms of sexual health promotion among students.

scholarly journals Thanatology Tourism in Nepal Himalayan Region: A Case of Langtang

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-49
Author(s):  
Neeru Karki
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Adventure Tourism ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Post Disaster

On 25th April 2015 at 11:56 am local time, a devastating earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale shook Nepal. It is considered as one of the most fatal disasters in Nepal, ensuing aft restocks; avalanches and landslides triggered in the aftermath killed over 9,000 people. The most damage occurred when the earthquake triggered a destructive avalanche composed of ice, snow and soil, burying the entire Langtang village- a huge settlement of the popular adventure tourism destination of Nepal and killing at least 253 people. This study envisions to explore the scopes of special-interest dark (thanatology) tourism in the post-disaster scene, and it is used as a vehicle for self-reflection and education. This paper also explores the tourism prototype for an adventure tourism destination that has been severely impacted by a disaster. The paper adapts sociological theory, experience, and participant observation to complete a vanity ethnographic study of a “post-disaster tour” in the Langtang area. The tools and techniques of data collection derived from qualitative methodological approaches such as case study, semi-structured interviews, informal interviews, participant observation, content analysis, focus group discussions, in-depth interviews and house to house visit. The findings show how the adventure tourism hosts bounced back and depicted resiliency through unified reconstruction. Langtang’s post-disaster touristic setting instigates a unique paradigm in the tourism sector that can go parallel with the adventure tourism engagements. Th e model is represented through the amalgamation of dark tourism (Dark) and adventure tourism (Adventure), which forms a phenomenon that is named “darventure” (Kunwar, 2019) tourism. The‘ darventure’ tourism features the elements of both thanatology and frontier thrills at the same place. Dark tourist and adventure tourist experiences can coexist in Langtang, it creates a unique tourism prototype that complements both practices and can be offered as ‘darventure’ tourism.

scholarly journals COMPREHENSIVE MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES IN A BRAZILIAN SPECIALITY PHARMACY: A QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirla Barbosa Detoni ◽  
Mariana Martins Gonzaga Do Nascimento ◽  
Isabela Viana Oliveira ◽  
Mateus Rodrigues Alves ◽  
Manoel Machuca GonzÁles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Patient Flow ◽  
Medication Management ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Manager Support

Objective: To understand and describe the implementation process of a comprehensive medication management (CMM) service in a public speciality pharmacy in Brazil.Methods: Ethnographic study conducted over 17 mo (September 2014 to February 2016) in a public speciality pharmacy. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twelve participants. Notes on field journals, resulting from participant observation conducted by the two pharmacists directly responsible for the service implementation, were also used as a source of data.Results: Ten important conditions to improve the success of CMM service implementation were identified: manager support; evaluation of physical and material resources; evaluation of human resources practitioners’ characteristics and knowledge about the theoretical framework of CMM services; time dedicated to CMM services; redefining the work process; defining patient eligibility criteria to CMM service; defining patient flow to CMM service; communication with healthcare team; integration with the staff; and marketing the service internally.Conclusion: The results unveiled by this article can be used by pharmacists and managers as a tool to optimize the implementation of CMM services in different healthcare settings. These conditions do not consist the only aspects necessary to ensure the success of the service; however, they can contribute to optimize the implementation process of the practice

scholarly journals "The group facilitates everything": meanings patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus assigned to health education groups

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 980-987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Pereira de Melo ◽  
Edemilson Antunes de Campos
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Structured Interviews

OBJECTIVE: to interpret the meanings patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus assign to health education groups.METHOD: ethnographic study conducted with Hyperdia groups of a healthcare unit with 26 informants, with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and having participated in the groups for at least three years. Participant observation, social characterization, discussion groups and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. Data were analyzed through the thematic coding technique.RESULTS: four thematic categories emerged: ease of access to the service and healthcare workers; guidance on diabetes; participation in groups and the experience of diabetes; and sharing knowledge and experiences. The most relevant aspect of this study is the social use the informants in relation to the Hyperdia groups under study.CONCLUSION: the studied groups are agents producing senses and meanings concerning the process of becoming ill and the means of social navigation within the official health system. We expect this study to contribute to the actions of healthcare workers coordinating these groups given the observation of the cultural universe of these individuals seeking professional care in the various public health care services.

scholarly journals MEANINGS OF WATER FOR THE FAKCHA LLAKTA INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF OTAVALO, ECUADOR

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
CARMEN AMELIA TRUJILLO ◽  
JOSÉ ALÍ MONCADA RANGEL ◽  
JESÚS RAMÓN ARANGUREN CARRERA ◽  
KENNEDY ROLANDO LOMAS TAPIA
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Sustainable Resource Management ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Andean Highlands ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Water is a multidimensional element for the indigenous communities of the Andean highlands. The Kichwa community Fakcha Llakta, of Otavalo, Ecuador has a close relationship with the existing water bodies in their territory. However, traditional knowledge associated with these resources is fading, giving way to new forms of use. The purpose of this research is to reveal the meanings of water for this indigenous community, in order to propose guidelines for sustainable resource management. It is an ethnographic study with a qualitative approach. The information was collected through in-depth interviews, participant observation by the research team, and the gathering of cultural objects. The findings were organized and sub-grouped according to four recurring elements: vital and sacred; diversity of use and value; a threatened natural resource; and the sustainability of water from the ancestral perspective.

scholarly journals A Bridge to Portugal: Language and Identity in Bridgeport, CT

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Fabio Scetti
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
American English ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Status

Here I present the results of BridgePORT, an ethnographic study I carried out in 2018 within the Portuguese community of Bridgeport, CT (USA). I describe language use and representation among Portuguese speakers within the community, and I investigate the integration of these speakers into the dominant American English speech community. Through my fieldwork, I observe mixing practices in day-to-day interaction, while I also consider the evolution of the Portuguese language in light of language contact and speakers’ discourse as this relates to ideologies about the status of Portuguese within the community. My findings rely on questionnaires, participant observation of verbal interaction, and semi-structured interviews. My aim is to show how verbal practice shapes the process of identity construction and how ideas of linguistic “purity” mediate the maintenance of a link to Portugal and Portuguese identity.

scholarly journals TACTICS OF BORDER CROSSING MOVEMENT: EXPLORING THE MOBILITY OF BRAZILIANS THROUGH THE SCHENGEN AND UK AIRSPACE

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Dias
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Research Orientation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Embodied Practice

This paper addresses the relations between migrants, mobility, tactics, negotiation, and the contemporary definition of borders in the aftermath of 9/11.The empirical focus of this paper is how Brazilians from Alto Paranaiba journey through airports located in the Schengen area and in the British territory to London. As a main research orientation, I use the notion of journey as approached by mobility studies, where actions and skills remain an important link between the wayfarer and the social space in which s/he moves through, the embodied practice to how we grasp the world. Migrants deal and struggle against border regime, but they are not powerless social actors. They rather produce creative resistance to reinvent their journey through the surveillance apparatus, which manage and delimit places with targets and threats. In this process, I explore the notion of border crossing movement as a tactical mobility developed by migrants to overcome the border control imposed by governments in airports. The article was drawn through fieldwork conducted initially in London, between 2009 and 2013, and afterwards in Alto Paranaiba, during 2013. The ethnographic study consisted in semi-structured interviews, participant observation through snowball technique, which enabled me to access a considerable number of participants in these two regions explored. The argument that I develop is that migrants as social actors are part important in the dialogue produced between border crossing and border reinforcement.

Responding to COVID-19 pandemic: interior designs’ trends of houses in Jordan

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anas Atef Shamaileh
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Study Methodology

Purpose The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic in the late 2019 was accompanied by various consequences that included almost the entire life aspects worldwide. To cope with the pandemic, imposing restricted measures was required, such as quarantine, lockdown and social distancing. The purpose of this paper is to identify the houses' interior designs responses in Jordan under Covid-19 Pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Under such conditions, people have to spend long periods inside their houses. This issue highlighted the importance and the vital role of houses interior design in meeting the various needs of residents under emergent and changing conditions. Findings This study revealed current and future responses that may be implemented to cope with the pandemic consequences in terms of houses’ interior design. Moreover, a conceptual model was proposed. Number of suggestions and further research were introduced considering the revealed findings. Originality/value This study aimed at identifying the houses’ interior design responses in Jordan under COVID-19 pandemic. The study methodology adopted both inductive and qualitative approaches to achieve its goals. Under the qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were undertaken by interviewing ten interior designers and academics.

Counting, Coping, and Navigating the Flux: A Focused Ethnographic Study of HIV and Diabetes Self-Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110642
Author(s):  
Chelsi W Ohueri ◽  
Alexandra A. García ◽  
Julie A. Zuñiga
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Self Management ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Familial Support ◽  
Multiple Observations ◽  
Dual Diagnoses ◽  
Living With Hiv

Approximately 10–15% of people living with HIV are also diagnosed with diabetes. To manage their two chronic conditions, people must undertake certain activities and adopt behaviors. Due to overlapping symptoms, complex medication regimens, and heavy patient workloads, implementing these self-management practices can be difficult. In this focused ethnography, data were collected from semi-structured interviews and limited participant-observation with a selected subset of participants to gain insight into self-management challenges and facilitators. We conducted interviews and multiple observations with 22 participants with HIV+T2DM over the period of 9 months. Participants experienced numerous barriers to self-management in the areas of diet, medication adherence, and mental health. Social and familial support, as well as consistent access to care, were facilitators for optimal self-management. At the same time participants’ lives were in a unique flux shaped by the dual diagnoses, and therefore, required constant mental and physical adjustments, thus illustrating challenges of managing chronicity.

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