Communicating security: technical communication, fire security and fire engine "experts" in the early modern period

"This Article deals with the question weather, and if so how, security could be produced by technical innovations and communication about these innovations in the Early Modern period. The linkage between fire Security, by fire engines, technical knowledge and communication about this knowledge will be pointed out. With the discourse of the improvement of fire engines in journals of the Enlightenment a trigger for the change in the communication about fire engines can be found. But Further it is discussed how inventions for fire-safety can be evaluated in the transforming scientific society in the Early Modern period." (author's abstract)"Der Artikel fragt in erster Linie nach dem Konnex von Sicherheit mit technischen Innovationen und der Kommunikation von technischem Wissen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Produktion von Feuersicherheit durch Feuerspritzen und technischer Kommunikation steht im Focus. Im Diskurs über die Verbesserung von Feuerspritzen in Zeitschriften der Aufklärung kann unter anderem ein Auslöser zu einer entpersonalisierenden Veränderung in kommunikativen Prozessen gefunden werden. Des Weiteren wird diskutiert, wie sich Erfindungen zur Feuersicherheit innerhalb der sich transformierenden Wissenschaftsgesellschaft einordnen könnten." (Autorenreferat

Letter from Eleanor Blair, Wellesley, Massachusetts , to Mrs. D.C. Blair, Montour Falls, New York, 1914 November 1

Letter home describing basketball loss to juniors, Field Day activities, Halloween party, forensic burning, and attending a bonfire where fire engines arrived.https://repository.wellesley.edu/studentcorblair/1101/thumbnail.jp

Firefighter Staffing Model Implications on Fire Casualties and Fire Loss: Life Safety and Socio-Economic Impacts of the Fire Service

Fire and rescue services are considered a staple among services provided by governments to local communities. Local governments are often charged with providing these services, especially across the United States and Canada. As with any professional service, there are standards set forth in order to ensure services are adequate and provide equity to the citizens that they serve. The purpose of this dissertation will be to delve into the common staffing configurations of career fire departments across the United States and Canada, particularly related to staffing levels on fire engines and ladder trucks. Fire departments utilize various staffing models, but commonly, fire engines and ladder trucks have complements of three or four firefighter crews in career departments in the United States and Canada. Industry standards suggests that a minimum of four firefighters should be staffed on each of these apparatus types. However, as a standard, there is flexibility for local departments to staff according to need, whether based on fiscal need or service demand. This dissertation examines correlations between staffing fire engines and ladder trucks with three personnel and higher property loss, as well as greater numbers of human casualties related to fire, verses communities that staff these apparatuses with four personnel. Data was collected from career fire departments across the United States and Canada, then statistically analyzed to determine if there was a correlation of lower staffing and higher property loss and greater human casualties as the result of fire incidents. The results illustrated some surprise findings where it is questionable if staffing levels impact fire loss and human casualties

Young Children Enacting Governance: Child's Play?

Schools, homes and communities are increasingly perceived as risky spaces for children. This concern is a driving force behind many forms of governance imposed upon Australian children by well-meaning adults. Children are more and more the subjects of both overt and covert regulation by teachers and other adults in school contexts. Are children, though, passive in this process of governance? It is this issue that is the focus of this paper. In order to respond to the question of how young children enact governance in their everyday lives, video-recorded episodes of naturally occurring interactions among children in a preparatory classroom were captured. These data were then transcribed and analysed using the methods of conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis. This paper shows a number of strategies that the children used when enacting governance within their peer cultures in the classroom. It focuses specifically on how adult and childformulated rules and social orders of the classroom were drawn upon and developed in order to control and govern during the interaction. This paper illustrates that children are not passive in enacting governance, but actively and competently enact governance through their peer cultures. These findings are significant for educators to consider, as they help to develop an understanding of the complex social orders that children are continually constructing in the early childhood classroom

Firefighters at work

Photograph of a large three-storey building the roof of which is on fire. Two fire engines are parked in front of the building. Two men in firefighters' uniforms and helmets have mounted a turnable ladder, fighting the fire with a hose.The morgue building on fire

Secondary user relations in emerging mobile computing environments

Mobile technologies are enabling access to information in diverse environ.ments, and are exposing a wider group of individuals to said technology. Therefore, this paper proposes that a wider view of user relations than is usually considered in information systems research is required. Specifically, we examine the potential effects of emerging mobile technologies on end-­‐user relations with a focus on the ‘secondary user’, those who are not intended to interact directly with the technology but are intended consumers of the technology’s output. For illustration, we draw on a study of a U.K. regional Fire and Rescue Service and deconstruct mobile technology use at Fire Service incidents. Our findings provide insights, which suggest that, because of the nature of mobile technologies and their context of use, secondary user relations in such emerging mobile environments are important and need further exploration

Resist, comply or workaround? An examination of different facets of user engagement with information systems

This paper provides a summary of studies of user resistance to Information Technology (IT) and identifies workaround activity as an understudied and distinct, but related, phenomenon. Previous categorizations of resistance have largely failed to address the relationships between the motivations for divergences from procedure and the associated workaround activity. This paper develops a composite model of resistance/workaround derived from two case study sites. We find four key antecedent conditions derived from both positive and negative resistance rationales and identify associations and links to various resultant workaround behaviours and provide supporting Chains of Evidence from two case studies