scholarly journals Off the Beaten Track: a Postmodern Feminist Analysis of Rural Midwifery and Rural Media Health Discourses

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jean Ann Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Perceptual Distance ◽  
Beaten Track ◽  
Technological Intervention ◽  
Rural Media

<p>Change was a constant companion for New Zealand midwives during the 1990's. The Nurses Amendment Act 1990, that restored midwifery autonomy was only one of a constellation of changes that saw significant restructuring of the health services in small communities. The purpose of this study was to look at the issues for a group of midwives in rural South Otago who took the opportunity to work independently and offer local women a choice of maternity care during this time. In this study, five rural midwives were interviewed and met subsequently in a focus group. The transcripts were analyzed using discourse analysis informed by a postmodern/feminist theoretical framework. In addition the local newspapers covering the years 1990-1999 were read with a particular focus on the reports of health changes. These texts were also subjected to a discourse analysis using Lyotard's (1997) notion of language games, and bell hook's (1990) ideas around strategic positioning for the marginalised. To practise autonomously, the midwives in this study perform an intricate dance, balancing the contradictions of competing discourses. Their positioning and place of difference is tensioned primarily by a deep sense of community commitment and entanglement, and also by a feeling of physical and perceptual distance from their urban midwifery colleagues. This is underpinned by a staunch belief in women's ability to birth safely in their local area. The findings of this study suggest that the continuation of a comprehensive rural midwifery service is challenged by changes in the arrangement and funding of rural health, plus the increasing use of medical and technological intervention in childbirth. For rural midwifery to survive, this study shows that midwives need to remain flexible and alert while continuing to align themselves with women who are their primary source of support and inspiration. At the same time, they need to forge strategic linkages and alliances, both local and national that will allow them to move and reposition in order to continue their work and provide a realistic childbirth choice for rural women.</p>

scholarly journals Off the Beaten Track: a Postmodern Feminist Analysis of Rural Midwifery and Rural Media Health Discourses

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jean Ann Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Perceptual Distance ◽  
Beaten Track ◽  
Technological Intervention ◽  
Rural Media

<p>Change was a constant companion for New Zealand midwives during the 1990's. The Nurses Amendment Act 1990, that restored midwifery autonomy was only one of a constellation of changes that saw significant restructuring of the health services in small communities. The purpose of this study was to look at the issues for a group of midwives in rural South Otago who took the opportunity to work independently and offer local women a choice of maternity care during this time. In this study, five rural midwives were interviewed and met subsequently in a focus group. The transcripts were analyzed using discourse analysis informed by a postmodern/feminist theoretical framework. In addition the local newspapers covering the years 1990-1999 were read with a particular focus on the reports of health changes. These texts were also subjected to a discourse analysis using Lyotard's (1997) notion of language games, and bell hook's (1990) ideas around strategic positioning for the marginalised. To practise autonomously, the midwives in this study perform an intricate dance, balancing the contradictions of competing discourses. Their positioning and place of difference is tensioned primarily by a deep sense of community commitment and entanglement, and also by a feeling of physical and perceptual distance from their urban midwifery colleagues. This is underpinned by a staunch belief in women's ability to birth safely in their local area. The findings of this study suggest that the continuation of a comprehensive rural midwifery service is challenged by changes in the arrangement and funding of rural health, plus the increasing use of medical and technological intervention in childbirth. For rural midwifery to survive, this study shows that midwives need to remain flexible and alert while continuing to align themselves with women who are their primary source of support and inspiration. At the same time, they need to forge strategic linkages and alliances, both local and national that will allow them to move and reposition in order to continue their work and provide a realistic childbirth choice for rural women.</p>

scholarly journals The Pursuit of the Source, or The Inevitability of Death

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Persson ◽  
Jan Ch. Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
False Idea

The purpose of this article is to apply the method of the genre of studying chains of references to an instance of a secondary source of the contested concept of ‘resistance to change’ back to the primary source and thereby exercise criticism of the sources. This includes discussing whether the theory itself is empirically sustainable or sufficiently scientifically grounded. In the article, we adopt a theoretical lens of Critical Realist Discourse Analysis, mainly because it is sensitive to the importance of the influence of nondiscursive social positions on discourses. The primary source of the chain of theories of resistance to change turns out to be Kübler-Ross’s model of stages of dying patients’ reactions to their immanent death. We find that the model is systematically misinterpreted to fit the empirically false idea of resistance to change of the ideological discourses of management research.

scholarly journals Air Travel in Small Communities: An Econometric Framework and Results

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipasis Bhadra
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Weighted Least Squares ◽  
Local Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
United States Bureau ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Combining Data ◽  
Local Areas

In this paper, we examine the relationship between origin and destination (O&D) travel and local area characteristics for small communities. By combining data from Bureau of Transportation Statistics/United States Department of Transportation (BTS/DOT) on O&D travel with that of local area economic and demographic activities supplied by the United States Bureau of Economic Analyses (BEA), Department of Commerce, we specify a semi-log linear demand relationship for O&D travel in small communities. The resultant dataset covering the period 1999-2000 has more than 4,700 observations; 2,686 for communities without any small hubs, and 2,087 for communities with small hubs. Using a weighted least squares method, we estimate demand for air travel, defined by O&D pairs, for smaller communities. Our results indicate that average fare affects passenger demand negatively for both types of communities. Our results also confirm that local area income affects travel positively in both cases. However, the levels of travel tend to be affected by population differently; origin population affecting traffic negatively for smaller communities without any hub and positively for communities with small hubs. Presence of smaller hubs affects air travel positively; and market concentration of airlines affects O&D travel negatively. We demonstrate in this paper that factors affecting the economic framework are the ultimate factors driving the demand for air travel in the small communities in the long run. We also discuss approaches using our methodology for deriving bottom-up projections. These projections have distinct characteristics that may make them more useful for analyzing flow features, such as passenger and aircraft flows by local areas, determining and prioritizing infrastructure investment requirements by local areas, and determining revenue potential from these travels.

scholarly journals DISSECTING IMPLICIT MEANING IN TEMBANG DOLANAN: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Asep Abbas Abdullah ◽  
Abdul Muhid ◽  
Rangga Sa’adillah S.A.P.
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Children's Songs ◽  
Deep Meaning ◽  
Subjective Views ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This article uses discourse analysis to examine dolanan songs such as Sluku-Sluku Bathok, Cublak-Cublak Suweng, Lir-Ilir, Gundul-Gundul Pacul, and Kloso Bedah. The method used in this research is a descriptive qualitative method so that the data can be described as clearly and objectively as possible by the researchers' subjective views. To avoid bias on the validity of the research results, triangulation was carried out by comparing the researchers' interpretations with some supporting literature. The result of this research is that five dolanan songs contain many meanings. The songs offer a deep meaning about the condition of the environment that grows around it to increase the value of character, good behavior, the environment - especially cleanliness, health, and religious life. The character values are conveyed through satire or humor. Dolanan songs have meanings, both explicit and implicit, about this life. These songs are neatly arranged both in terms of structural both physically and mentally. Javanese children's songs contain poetry filled with language games, such as alliteration, assonance, poetry, and rhythm.

scholarly journals Revitalisasi Museum Siginjei Sebagai Wahana Interaksi Budaya Di Tengah Pandemi Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
Nelly Indrayani ◽  
Suparmi Suparmi
Keyword(s):  
Data Base ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Conventional Services

Abstrak: Pandemi Covid 19 mengubah tatanan kehidupan normal menjadi new normal. Berbagai aktivitas sektor kehidupan mulai dari pemakaian masker, cuci tangan, peraturan jarak jauh menjadikan Museum siginjei merevitalisasi aktivitasnya dalam pelayanan terhadap masyarakat dari normal menjadi new normal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui revitalisasi Museum Siginjei sebagai wahana interaksi budaya di tengah pandemi Covid-19. Metode yang digunakan yaitu metode sejarah yang melalui empat tahapan, yaitu heuristik, kritik sumber, interpretasi, historiografi. Sumber yang dipakai berupa sumber primer yang berasal dari buku, jurnal, berita dan wawancara yang berkenaan dengan judul. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Museum Siginjei mengalihkan pelayanan konvensionalnya kelayanan dalam bentuk digital seperti pelayanan online lewat facebook, instagram, dan youtube. Museum Siginjei juga melakukan re-inventarisasi dan re-registrasi koleksi yaitu berupa nomor yang rusak karena pengaruh udara dan juga keterangan koleksi yang masih berubah. Berbagai koleksi yang telah di inventarisasi dan dimasukkan dalam data base. Selanjutnya palayanan dilaksanakan melalui virtual, sehingga masyarakat dapat menikmati berbagai koleksi museum Siginjei sebagai bentuk produk budaya lokal lokal Jambi. Revitalisasi pemanfaatan museum melalui digitalisasi era pandemi ini, menjadi wahana interaksi budaya. Melalui digitalisasi tidak hanya menjangkau pengunjung yang berada di daerah lokal tetapi juga dari berbagai wilayah diluar Provinsi Jambi. Kata Kunci: Museum, Wahana Interaksi Budaya, Covid-19Abstrak: The Covid 19 pandemic has changed the order of normal life into a new normal. Various activities in the life sector ranging from wearing masks, washing hands, remote regulations make the Siginjei Museum revitalize its activities in service to the community from normal to new normal. This research aims to know the revitalization of the Siginjei Museum as a wagon of cultural interaction in the covid-19 pandemic. The method uses historical method. There are four steps to historical methode heuristi, source criticism. Interpretation, historiography. The resource used is a primary source that comes from books, journals, news and interview related to the title. Studies have shown that the Siginjei Museum transfers conventional services to digital services such as facebook, instagram, youtube and other services. The siginjei museum also re-catalogued and re-registration collections consisting of falling Numbers, broken (air effects) and also a collection of references. Various collections that have been inventoried and entered in the database. Furthermore, services are carried out via virtual, so that people can enjoy various collections of the Siginjei museum as a form of local Jambi cultural products. Revitalizing the use of museums through the digitalization era, becomes a vehicle for cultural interaction. Through digitization, it does not only reach visitors who are in the local area but also from the region.Keywords: Museum, Wagon of Cultural Interaction, Covid-19 

Repeatability and Methodical Actions in Uncertain Situations

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-376
Author(s):  
Michael Funk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Image Interpretation ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
On Certainty ◽  
Methodological Aspects

In this paper Ludwig Wittgenstein is interpreted as a philosopher of language and technology. Due to current developments, a special focus is on lifeworld practice and technoscientific research. In particular, image-interpretation is used as a concrete methodical example. Whereas in most science- or technology-related Wittgenstein interpretations the focus is on the Tractatus, the Investigations or On Certainty, in this paper the primary source is his very late triune fragment Bemerkungen über die Farben (“Remarks about the Colours”). It is argued that Wittgenstein’s approach can supplement Don Ihde’s concept of material hermeneutics, and that Wittgenstein’s constructivist and pragmatist claims relate to current authors in the philosophy of technology like Peter Janich, Carl Mitcham or Jürgen Mittelstraß. Ludwig Wittgenstein enables a philosophical approach of transcendental grammars, techno-linguistic forms of life and technoscientific language games. In detail, several methodological aspects regarding relations between language and technology are summarized. Here concretely repeatability and methodical actions play major roles in uncertain situations of language and technology practice. It is shown that Wittgenstein is still underestimated in the philosophy of technology—although his thoughtful conceptualizations of language, social practice and technology bear important methodical insights for current technosciences like synthetic biology, robotics and many others.

scholarly journals Language mechanisms of political campaigning among the youth in the 2019 presidential election in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-49
Author(s):  
Olena Ruda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Young Voters ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Linguistic Methods ◽  
Political Economic

This article looks into the linguistic mechanisms designed to establish communication between the presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelens’kyi and the youth in the 2019 Ukrainian election campaign. The young voters, who are less familiar with the political, economic, and social processes in the country due to their age and little life experience are at risk of falling victim to political technologists. The article examines Zelens’kyi’s political projects on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Tele-gram, and Viber channels, the Twitter page of his campaign stuff, and the personal Facebook page. Aside from technological techniques, the paper focuses on the discourse of the election campaign built by the technologists to win the favor of young voters. It examines a linguistic component of the election rhetoric of this particular political project and reconstructs the main messages addressed to the youth. A complex of special linguistic methods has been applied to the texts,e.g., content analysis, discourse analysis, and critical discourse analysis, which helps “to deci-pher” the ideological components. Successfully selected channels, practices, and methods of virtual communication, “cor-rect” messages, and manipulative methods of the language use of the election campaign waged by Zelens’kyi, e.g., the clash of two generations theme, were converted into the votes “in favour” for the previously inactive electoral group. Convergence tactics were used to adjust the language to the younger generation. These in-clude the use of vocabulary from the Internet and the latest technologies, borrowings, informal youth forms of address, slang forms, language games, graphic capabilities of electronic space, in particular hashtags, stickers, and emojis. Keywords: communication, social networking, targeting, Facebook, vulgarisms, slang.

scholarly journals Knowing pandemics

2017 ◽  
pp. 8-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meike Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Disease Emergence ◽  
Pandemic Preparedness ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Sociotechnical Networks ◽  
Technological Intervention ◽  
Pandemic Threat ◽  
Health Experts

How does microbial emergence become a local area of medical, political, and technological intervention in cities such as London or Frankfurt? Through a multi-sited ethnography of urban health authorities, hospitals, blue light services, and epidemiologists, this article examines the achievement of pandemic order in times of crisis. Its specific focus is on pandemic influenza preparedness. By tracing the complex spatiotemporal, technological, and administrative dimensions required for the articulation of a local pandemic threat, this paper will look at how public health experts know about the arrival of an influenza pandemic, how sociotechnical networks are assembled in the decision-making process, and how single cases of illness are drawn into spaces of pandemic potential. Integrating concepts from science and technology studies and critical global health, the article highlights how disease emergence entails hard work and administrative, technological, political, and biomedical skills in order to be made present and tangible. In consequence, it will be argued that local pandemic preparedness does not result from a linear adaption of internationally circulating standards, but from rather precarious modes and modalities of ordering.

scholarly journals Value-Based Communication during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Study on the Twitter Messages of Turkish Ministry of Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
SEDA MENGU ◽  
MURAT MENGU ◽  
KEMAL GUNAY
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Psychological Sense

Influencing the whole world by obliging people to change their daily practices along with their relations and assume different life styles, Covid-19 has brought about some likely deleterious effects in Turkey as well. Undoubtedly, it has caused disturbance and even panic in social and psychological sense. In such cases of uncertainty and panic, communication with the public should be clear, explicit, alleviating and to some extent, guiding. People can be guided and convinced more easily if the level of distress and uncertainty decreases. Such a way of governing and compelling communication consists of different directions, requirements and combined effort. If co-operation is appropriately based on values, this process will be much easier. To that end, public discourse during the outbreak of the pandemic in 2019 was as successful as it was based on the daily life and language of society. Noteworthy, there are similarities between value-based collaboration and governmentality. Policies, customs, patterns and guidelines help maintain control and guidance over collaboration. At this point cooperation acts as a matter of participating in language games that build social and organisational realities that are created, debated, distributed and changed by means of mutual action and cooperation. The purpose of this study is to analyse the messages sent by the Ministry of Health during the pandemic in Turkey via social media, particularly Twitter, in order to find out to which extent these messages encompass the features of value-based communication. Thus, discourse analysis and descriptive research model are going to be implemented together. More specifically, the first tweet in which Corona was first referred was sent on January 25, 2020 and from then on 505 Tweets were posted. For the discourse analysis, 100 tweets that have received the most interaction are going to be used. As for the other descriptive analyses; on the other hand, all 505 tweets are going to be utilized in cluster analysis. Keywords: value-based communication, discourse, social media, pandemic

scholarly journals The HPV school vaccination program: A discourse analysis of information provided to parents about the product and the program

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Wise ◽  
Melanie Brigid James
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Hpv Vaccination ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Vaccination Program ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
Risk Of Cancer

Public relations practitioners play a central role in the construction and maintenance of discourse. Through the use of specialised techniques and strategies, texts are designed so that they have the power to mean something. Australia was one of the first countries to roll out a national HPV vaccination program for schoolgirls. However, research indicated that parents lack knowledge about HPV and HPV vaccination. This paper reports on a discourse analysis of the brochure: “Questions and Answers (Q&A) about HPV Vaccination Program: A prevention strategy for cervical cancer”. This brochure is given to parents prior to vaccination and as such is a primary source of information about HPV for these audiences. The research strove to answer the question: What are the discourses contained in the information given to parents about the NSW HPV school vaccination program? A critical discourse analysis of the Q&A brochure found a discourse of the risk of cancer, supported by a discourse that HPV is sexually transmitted. The findings should provide an avenue to further research the role, motivations and techniques of public relations practitioners working as discourse technologists and in whose interests such discourses operate.

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