scholarly journals C&RL Spotlight

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (7) ◽  
pp. 357
Author(s):  
Wendi Kaspar
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Toilet Paper ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Youtube Videos

The preponderance of the articles in July issue of College & Research Libraries deal with topics related to technology. I note this with some irony as, due to social distancing and working from home, much of our work is happening through technology. Heck, it seems like our entire lived experience right now is computer-mediated! There has been a translation of the analog work experience into digital with Zoom meetings and email/chat consultations, not to mention the changes with the day-to-day minutiae with everything from ordering food, clothing, or other necessities (toilet paper?) online to binge-watching and gaming in order to keep from going crazy with shelter-in-place orders to watching YouTube videos to stay in shape (my youngest daughter is now talking about bringing back Jazzercise?!).

Living Through COVID-19: Social Distancing, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Well-Being in Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Baumel ◽  
Mara Hamlett ◽  
Brittany Wheeler ◽  
Deborah Hall ◽  
Ashley K. Randall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Computer Mediated

Grafters, not shirkers: reserved men at work

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette Pattinson ◽  
Arthur Mcivor ◽  
Linsey Robb
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Experience Good

This chapter reconstructs the working lives of reserved men during wartime, drawing upon a wide range of sources, including oral testimonies and autobiographies. It contrasts this with the 1930s Depression. Whilst work experience varied widely across reserved occupations during wartime, what comes through the evidence is a pervasive intensification of work and a deep commitment to work as patriotic endeavour, commonly expressed in what we term ‘graft and sacrifice narratives’. In critically examining the emasculation thesis through the prism of lived experience, daily working lives and personal narratives the chapter concludes that civilian male identities in wartime were complex and contested. Young reserved workers may well have felt the cultural censure and slight on their manhood which went along with not being in uniform. However, with full employment, demand for industrial skills and experience, good wages and empowered trade unions there were many ways that reserved men could maintain and reconstruct breadwinner masculinity and position themselves discursively as superior to women through their wartime work.

Making and Sharing YouTube Videos, History, and YouTube Economics and Advertising

2016 ◽  
pp. 26-62
Keyword(s):  
Hate Speech ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Corporate Ownership ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Youtube Videos

Less than 2 years after YouTube was created, the search engine giant Google bought the start-up for 1.65 billion dollars. According to the Associated Press, the announcement “came just a few hours after YouTube unveiled three separate agreements with media companies to counter the threat of copyright infringement lawsuits” (Liedtke, 2006). Years later, YouTube's legal concerns continue, as Google has recently lost a court battle, forcing it to remove content from YouTube. Google is appealing the decision to a higher court (Landau & Marquez, 2014). The recent lawsuit is just one example of YouTube's significant and global influence and its deep and abiding connection with larger social concerns and institutions, such as freedom of expression, the power of democracy, and computer-mediated communication. YouTube's history, corporate ownership and influence, cultural recognition as a place that can promote hate speech and bullying tactics, and the continued legal challenges that threaten individual rights to fair use and freedom of expression all define YouTube's power as part of the new evolution of the Internet and Web 2.0. Tempering YouTube's democratic potential and cultural importance is YouTube LLC's predetermined economic goal to increase revenue streams through advertising and content creation. To those ends, YouTube provides detailed instructions on how to make videos and how to advertise. A detailed case-study of one video's path through the creation and advertising process on YouTube illustrates how user-generated videos become YouTube videos.

scholarly journals Sacralizing Reality Digitally: YouTruths, Kennewick Claims and the First Americans

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-56
Author(s):  
Mads Damgaard
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Specific Hybrid ◽  
First Americans ◽  
Scientific Arguments

Marshalling scientific arguments and methods for religious ends is certainly not a new trend in religious expressions, but new modes of writing scientifically legitimated myths has developed online. Computer-mediated communication provides new tools for such a fusing of religion and science, and the present article asks what this entails for categories of religious authority and authenticity. Taking online expressions of the Neo-Pagan faith called Asatrú, a 9,500 year-old skeleton and an associated modern North American conspiracy theory as the starting points, a configuration of religious authenticity derived from scientific sources is analysed. The case is made that through hyperlinks, YouTube videos and discussion forums, religious communities such as the online Asatrú groups strategically assemble religious authority on a foundation of science, tapping into non-religious ecologies of knowledge available online. This puts into question theoretical premises such as notions of the secular and differentiation of rationalities. Research in CMC and religion, it is argued, must take into consideration the specific hybrid knowledges facilitated by online structures and technologies.

Socialism’s Past, New Social Democracy, and Socialism’s Futures

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad Rose ◽  
George Ross
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Collaboration ◽  
The Social

The ideas of socialism grew in ordinary people’s lived experience of all-encompassing markets, totalizing doctrines of individualism, the power of capitalist property over human dignity and destiny, and equations between market success and human merit. Codified into doctrine, socialism was pro-ductivist, seeing the work experience as that which determined personal identity and the shape of social collaboration. It was also class analytical, mapping the social world in terms of classes in conflict and specifying the working class as the central social actor and agent for change. Third, it was egalitarian democratic, rejecting arbitrary distinctions determining different stations in life. Finally, socialism was Utopian, revolutionary at least in aspiration if not always in deed. The capitalist order could be, and ought to be, radically transcended. Socialism, which would follow, would reappropriate control over work and its fruits by “the workers” and would facilitate full democracy, equality, and the consecration of a creative and cooperative social order.

Lived Experiences of Novice Male Nurses in Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Li Cheng ◽  
Ying-Hua Tseng ◽  
Eric Hodges ◽  
Fan-Hao Chou
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Male Nurses ◽  
First Year ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Nurses Role ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Career Options ◽  
Independent Work

Purpose: Nursing remains a female-dominated profession around the world. The masculinity and male identity of men who choose nursing careers is questioned by the general public in many countries. Few studies report the situation of novice male nurses at their first year. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of novice male nurses when they first enter the workplace. Design and Method: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted using purposive and snowball sampling for recruitment. Fourteen participants, 21 to 25 years old, were recruited, all of whom had at least 5 months of work experience. On average, in-depth, face-to-face interviews lasted 1 hour, with more than one follow-up telephone interview per participant. Findings: The following six themes emerged from the transcribed verbatim data based on content analysis: choosing appropriate work departments based on personality and needs, facing the pressure and frustration of independent work, getting help, obtaining acceptance among female cliques, reflecting on the relationship between gender and profession, and concerns about dependents and financial needs. Conclusions and Implications for Practice: This study addresses masculinity issues and gender stereotyping. In addition, male nurses were very concerned about their career options and development and the likelihood of promotion. This research not only has implications for better understanding of novice male nurses’ needs and the challenges in their social life but also makes suggestions for nursing practice to attract and keep more male nurses in the nursing profession. The results illustrate how culturally congruent nursing care can be achieved when we more concern male nurses’ role pressure and address traditional gender sensitivity to promote male nurses’ career development.

VLEs in a Post-COVID World

2021 ◽  
pp. 265-283
Author(s):  
Randa Diab-Bahman
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time ◽  
Remote Learning

Once exposed, the COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented pressure on all sectors causing many temporarily closures and organizations working from home. Daily norms were interrupted and further complicated with the declaration of quarantine curfews worldwide. One major sector which has been greatly impacted is the education sector. Due to the nature of its complicated infrastructure, all stakeholders were heavily affected as the world turned to online learning for solutions. By doing so, many educational institutes were able to continue with their teaching, even with strict social distancing measures in place. Although remote learning is not a new concept in the education sector, it is a new concept in Kuwait. In this chapter, a thorough review is given on the strategy which Kuwait's universities adopted as they prepared for distance learning for the first time throughout the country. Khan's 8-element VLE model will be used as a reference.

Contextualising indicators of socio-economic status: Chronic illness as lived experience of SES

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Walker ◽  
Chris Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Self Management ◽  
General Level ◽  
Low Ses ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The Impact

The concept of socio-economic status (SES) has been recognised as playing an important role in the incidence and experience of chronic illness (Taylor, 1983; Najman 1988; Syme, 1998; Marmot, 2000). Yet just how SES interacts with the experience of chronic illness has not been well researched. For example, researchers are unable to categorically state if living conditions and life opportunities associated with low SES lead to a greater propensity for developing a chronic illness, or if the experience and consequences of having a chronic illness lead to developing low SES characteristics, or both. Neither has research provided good data on the mediating roles of factors such as ethnic background and location of residence on the relationship between SES and chronic illness. Self-management programs for chronic disease require different capacities from participants to produce good outcomes. These capacities are to some degree dependent on level of education, type of job, and general level of socio-economic status. Therefore, the level of SES of people with a chronic disease is important to understanding how they will respond to self-management approaches. For example, people with a chronic disease from lower SES backgrounds can be expected in some instances to have a different set of coping capacities with their disease (partly a function of income, education, and work experience) compared to those from higher SES backgrounds. The socio-economic status of people with a chronic disease is an important area for investigation that has implications for the efficacy of self-management programs. This paper will argue that while SES is a vital concept in understanding the impact of chronic illness on people?s lived experiences for many conditions, current approaches oversimplify it by quarantining it from its context. Researchers tend to treat SES as a stable composite concept whose application illuminates the social basis of the illness experience. More frequently, we arrive at an explanation of simplified relationships rather than an explanation of the relationships between chronic ill health and SES as lived by members of real communities (Frank, 1990; Zola, 1991).

scholarly journals The Privilege of Working From Home at the Time of Social Distancing

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 142-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armanda Cetrulo ◽  
Dario Guarascio ◽  
Maria Enrica Virgillito
Keyword(s):  
Social Distancing ◽  
Working From Home

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC): powerless but accountable leadership for former GCEO

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Maijang Mpherwane ◽  
Kurt April ◽  
Claire Barnardo
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
South African ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
The South ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chief Operating Officer ◽  
Key Skills

Learning outcomes The learning outcomes are as follows: identify the key challenges of leading a large organisation that is self-serving as compared to one that has people of integrity in its employ; understand how resilient leaders need to be to remain focussed on the task at hand while faced with resistance and controversy at every turn; demonstrate how to cultivate a culture of trust and integrity in an organisation bereft of both, and rebuild an organisation’s reputation; navigate the dynamics of having an unruly subordinate [chief operating officer (COO)] who in reality is more powerful; and develop key skills in practicing self-care in an environment where one is constantly undermined and devalued. Case overview/synopsis This case looks at the leadership of former GCEO Lulama Mokhobo at the South African Broadcasting Corporation SABC from 2012 to 2014 and her lived experience within the theme of empowered powerlessness. With an unsupportive board, destructive COO, and minister of communications at government level, Lulama is disempowered in her position and battles to make changes. Colleagues attest to the unusually complex dynamics that she had to navigate on a daily basis. The case details how this eroded Lulama’s self-confidence as well as her ability to lead the organisation and pushed her to resign. The SABC managed to undo the strides she made during her tenure and now finds itself in financial quagmire due to poor and questionable decisions made after her resignation as the GCEO of the organisation. Complexity academic level The target audience for this case comprises students enrolled in tertiary business education programmes who have already had some sort of work experience and hands-on exposure to real-world business. MBA and EMBA students, as well as executive education programmes. Including disciplines such as leadership, organisational behaviour and people management and strategy. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.

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