scholarly journals Harnessing the Social Web for Health and Wellness: Issues for Research and Knowledge Translation

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendall Ho ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
The Social

Fictions of the Human Right to Health: Writing Against the Postcolonial Exotic in Western Medicine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary J. Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
The Social

The last decade has witnessed far greater attention to the social determinants of health in health research, but literary studies have yet to address, in a sustained way, how narratives addressing issues of health across postcolonial cultural divides depict the meeting – or non-meeting – of radically differing conceptualisations of wellness and disease. This chapter explores representations of illness in which Western narrators and notions of the body are juxtaposed with conceptualisations of health and wellness entirely foreign to them, embedded as the former are in assumptions about Cartesian duality and the superiority of scientific method – itself often conceived of as floating (mysteriously) free from its own processes of enculturation and their attendant limits. In this respect my work joins Volker Scheid’s, in this volume, in using the capacity of critical medical humanities to reassert the cultural specificity of what we have come to know as contemporary biomedicine, often assumed to be

SWQL: A new domain-specific language for mining the social Web

2021 ◽  
pp. 102642
Author(s):  
Xiomarah Guzmán-Guzmán ◽  
Edward Rolando Núñez-Valdez ◽  
Raysa Vásquez-Reynoso ◽  
Angel Asencio ◽  
Vicente García-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Domain Specific Language ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
The Social

On the Notion of Collective Intelligence

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Epaminondas Kapetanios
Keyword(s):  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Synergistic Interactions ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenging Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Set Up

In this article, the author explores the notion of Collective Intelligence (CI) as an emerging computing paradigm. The article is meant to provide a historical and contextual view of CI through the lenses of as many related disciplines as possible (biology, sociology, natural and environmental sciences, physics) in conjunction with the computer science point of view. During this explorative journey, the article also aims at pinpointing the current strengths and weaknesses of CI-related computational and system engineering design and implementation methodologies of CI-based systems. A non-exhaustive list of case studies set up the stage for CI applications as well as challenging research questions. These can be particularly directed towards the Social Web, as a very prominent example of synergistic interactions of a group of people with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds and its potential to become a platform for the emergence of truly CI-based systems.

scholarly journals Modelos híbridos de indexação social: análise do repositório de fanfictions Archive of Our Own (AO3)

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-51
Author(s):  
Bruna Daniele de Oliveira Silva ◽  
Deise Maria Antonio Sabbag
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid System ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Participatory Model

The digital environment has enabled new forms of production, consumption and organization of digital content, such as social indexing. This indexing consists onthe attribution of free tags by users or communities. Fanfictions are fictional stories created by fans, they are deposited in repositories and their indexing is performed by the authors themselves, using a hybrid system of controlled and natural languages. The research aimed to describe qualitatively the social indexing implemented in the fanfictions repositor,Archive of Our Own, in order to make some reflections about the new modes of production and user participation in the representation of content onthe social web. It is concluded that the indexing performed in the analyzed repository adds a curated folkonomy through a team of volunteers trained to follow specific norms. The repository establishes a hybrid and participatory model for indexing itscontent, adding a semantic dimension while ensuring the recovery.

scholarly journals THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALTERNATIVE FACTS: DARK PARTICIPATION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE QANON CONSPIRACY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Clyde Partin ◽  
Alice Emily Marwick
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Symmetry Principle ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Trump Administration

QAnon is a right-wing conspiracy theory based on a series of posts (“Drops”) made to the imageboard 8chan by “Q”, an anonymous poster who claims to be a Trump administration insider and encourages their followers (“Bakers”) to conduct research to interpret and find hidden truths (“Bread”) behind current events. In this paper, we argue that QAnon Bakers adopt a “scientistic self” by producing and maintaining specific facts and theories that enable the conspiracy’s social and political cohesion over time. Rather than dismissing Q researchers’ conclusions out of hand, we adopt science studies’ symmetry principle to consider the tools and techniques of Baking. We argue that the institutional character of Baking distinguishes QAnon from other online conspiracy communities, which primarily rely on anecdotal evidence or sow doubt in scientific consensuses. Q, by contrast, research is intended to produce certainty through the systematic construction of alternative facts. In making this argument, we share and build upon other scholars’ critiques of participatory media. Indeed, we conclude that it is precisely the participatory affordances of the social web that have made QAnon so potent.

scholarly journals Knowledge translation in health and wellness research focusing on immigrants in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nashit Chowdhury ◽  
Jessica Naidu ◽  
Mohammad Z. I. Chowdhury ◽  
Marcus Vaska ◽  
Nahid Rumana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Health And Wellness

scholarly journals Embedding TEL in an initial course in Teaching & Learning in HE: a co-design approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Education Programme ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Teacher Education Programme ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Participatory Learning ◽  
Web Tools ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Use ◽  
Teaching Learning

This research project explored how best to embed the use of social web tools in an initial teacher education programme by involving participants in the design process. A mixed-methods approach was used to find out participants’ experience of participatory learning using social web tools and interest in learning more about their use in higher education as part of the course. It also sought out participants’ preferred ways of learning and levels of interest in giving and receiving peer support. Results indicate that overall many participants have experience of using a range of social web tools as students, professionally or for personal use. The social web tools most participants selected to learn more about were cloud-based software for creating slides and topic curation tools and the least popular choices were video and podcast creation for courses or as assignments for students. Although participants expressed interest in a range of ways of learning, using the technology as part of a session and reading a bi-monthly newsletter were the most popular means. A proposal for introducing social web tools into the programme was made following on from the findings and the activities have been reviewed and adapted as part of an ongoing process.

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