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Public deliberation as separate or embedded: deweyan democracy and its relation to political liberalism
This paper explores two different strategies that may be useful to give substance to Deweyan democracyâs claim that in order for democratic associations to develop into communities, citizens need to learn how to conduct inquiry in a social setting. The two strategies reflect a principal division among views of public deliberation. The first strategy, the separation strategy, closely resembles Rawlsâ political liberalism by advocating the development of a separate sphere of public deliberation, guided by factual and normative assumptions that we need not accept anywhere outside that sphere. Comprehensive doctrines are to be held outside of public deliberation, a move which makes possible a rather straightforward application of Deweyâs theory of inquiry. The second strategy, the embeddedness strategy, stresses the fact that public deliberation is inevitably embedded in broader spheres of social life, and that the development towards community must be piecemeal, and go hand in hand with developments in social life as a whole. I argue that there are weighty reasons for doubting the feasibility of the separation strategy, and I also argue that these reasons are relevant for our evaluation of all versions of the separation strategy, including political liberalism. I conclude that one of Deweyan democracyâs most important assets, which deserves further examination, is its insight that reflection on public deliberation needs to take its embedded character into account
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Every day a number of dramatic events take place in the world. Some of them make a bigger impression than others, because of their size, exceptionality or closeness to us. In this article I look at three such extraordinary events; when the Titanic sank in 1912, when the ferry Estonia went under in 1994 and the Tsunami in South-East Asia in 2004. All of these disasters had special significance for people in the Scandinavian countries, since they affected a number of Scandinavian citizens, even though they took place outside of the national borders. They were also enormous media events, and in this article I particularly look at how the emotions connected with the disasters were portrayed in the newspaper coverage, with examples from the evening press in Sweden and Norway. Central issues include: What are the differences between 1912 and 2004 when it comes to how emotions are displayed in the news media? How are the survivors and the relatives of the victims treated in the press? I discuss this in relation to the concept of emotional norms
Att leva upp til förÂvĂ€ntningarna - Ă„lderns signifikans för politiskt engagerade unga
Young people are constantly confronted with pictures and ideas of what it means to be young. Some of these ideas concern political interest and involvement. The prevailing view, which is evident in research and media, is that young people in general are not interested in politics. But those who are politically engaged are portrayed as radical in their views, and as more prone to using radical methods than grown-ups. This view is connected to the negative picture of the Ăąyoung activistĂą, which is related to the historically based idea of young people as a potential threat to the established society. Furthermore, there exists an image that young people are only interested in politics when it is considered trendy. In this article, the author addresses how some of the young people in Attac and the Social Forum movement have experienced the expectations such ideas give rise to, and how their political engagement is formed in interaction with such ideals
What's wrong with the adequacy-argument? A pragmatic diagnosis
Published version of an article in the journal: Sophia, 50(1), 11-23. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-009-0153-0When confronted with the question of which philosophical conception of religion to consider most adequate, many philosophers appeal to what I call the adequacy-argument: that we should prefer the one that looks most adequate from the perspective of religious believers. In this paper, I provide a critique of the adequacy-argument based on a pragmatic analysis of adequacy-judgments according to which reflective adequacy-judgments are forward-looking, and hence include considerations of the consequences of adopting different judgments as guides for conduct. It is this forward-looking character that is virtually absent within the current adequacy-debate. The major advantage of a pragmatic analysis of adequacy is itself forward-looking: it would enable philosophers of religion to play a more critical and constructive role vis-A -vis religious practices than presently
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Entanglements of creative agency and digital technology : a sociomaterial study of computer game development
Digital technology, with its distinctive characteristics that result from the fundamental process of digitalization that underpins it, is seen as fundamentally altering processes of creativity. However, we currently have limited understanding of creativity in relation to the development of digital technology. Computer game development, with its combination of esthetic, affective and cultural use features and highly sophisticated digital technologies, is a valuable setting for investigating these issues. In this paper, we explore how computer games are shaped through the interplay between the creative intentions of developers and the digital technologies involved in their production and playing. Drawing on in-depth studies conducted at three leading computer game development studios and a leading producer of the software system used in game development, this paper shows how the game developers' creative ideas for imagined novel game-playing experiences relate to a) the development of relevant digital technologies, and b) the emergence of new game development practices. The article goes on to propose a view of creativity as an on-going flow that, following an initial âcreative impulseâ, ripples through the sociomaterial entanglements of a particular setting, reconfiguring them in the process and spreading out in time and space in often unexpected ways
Nurseâs involvement in the organ donations process
Bakgrund: Det finns bara en död och denna regleras av vÄr lagstiftning. Indirekta kriterier
innebÀr att lÀkaren konstaterar dödsfallet genom observation. Direkta kriterier styrs av
föreskrifter om hur total hjÀrninfarkt faststÀlls och patientens andning och cirkulation
upprÀtthÄlls pÄ konstgjord vÀg. En donator ger enligt eget önskemÄl sitt organ till en
mottagande patient. Donationsprocessen innehÄller fyra olika faser. Fas ett startar med det
medicinska omhÀndertagandet pÄ intensivvÄrden och total hjÀrninfarkt faststÀlls. Fas tvÄ Àr
nÀr omhÀndertagandet av en donator startar och optimering av andning och cirkulation
optimeras. MOD (Multiorgandonation) Àr fas tre och organuttaget sker pÄ en
operationsavdelning. Fas fyra startar nÀr den avlidne Àr tillbaka pÄ avdelningen och de
anhöriga tar farvÀl. Katie Erikssons omvÄrdnadsteori har anvÀnts som omvÄrdnadsteoretisk
anknytning.
Syfte: Att belysa sjuksköterskans upplevelse av organdonation.
Metod: Litteraturstudien bygger pÄ 14 vetenskapliga artiklar, sökta via databaserna Cinahl
och PubMed samt genom manuell sökning. Val av artiklar gjordes efter genomlÀsning av
abstrakt.
Resultat: Sjuksköterskans attityd och instÀllning till donation pÄverkades av faktorer sÄsom
kunskap och yrkeserfarenhet. Att ha kunskap om och förstÄelse för donationsprocessen leder
till en bÀttre vÄrd av en donator. Att vÄrda en donator innebar emotionella konflikter och
stressreaktioner hos inblandad personal. Sjuksköterskans egen instÀllning till donation
pÄverkades av hur denne uppfattade donation som behandlingsmetod. Sjuksköterskans
upplevelse av den kirurgiska delen av donationsprocessen berodde pÄ hur vÀrdigt organuttaget
utfördes pÄ operationsavdelningen. SjukvÄrdspersonal upplevde stress i samband med MOD
och det var viktigt med ett vÀrdigt omhÀndertagande efter det att respiratorn stÀngdes av.
Konklusion: God kunskap om donationsprocessen innebar positiv instÀllning till donation.
Key words: nursing, organ donation, dignit
Public awareness of aphasia â a Swedish sample
Syftet med föreliggande studie var att undersöka kunskapsnivĂ„n om afasi i ett svenskt stickprov samt att ta reda pĂ„ om det fanns en relation mellan kĂ€nnedom om afasi och kön, utbildningsnivĂ„ samt Ă„lder. Ăven kartlĂ€ggning av kĂ€llor till kĂ€nnedom om afasi genomfördes. Genom intervjuer pĂ„ allmĂ€nna platser insamlades data frĂ„n 153 personer i Ă„ldrarna 18-90 Ă„r. Deltagarnas svar kategoriserades i tre kunskapsnivĂ„er; kĂ€nnedom, kunskap respektive inte kĂ€nnedom om afasi. Resultatet visade att 45,8% hade kĂ€nnedom, 9,8% hade kunskap samt att 44,4% saknade kĂ€nnedom om afasi. Signifikant fler mĂ€n saknade kĂ€nnedom om afasi. Det fanns ingen signifikant relation mellan utbildningsnivĂ„ och kĂ€nnedom om afasi. MedelĂ„ldern för gruppen utan kĂ€nnedom om afasi var signifikant lĂ€gre Ă€n övriga grupper. De vanligaste kĂ€llorna till kĂ€nnedom om afasi var TV/radio, tidningar samt arbetsplatsen. Resultaten indikerar vilka grupper informationskampanjer bör riktas mot samt vilka plattformar som bĂ€st nĂ„r ut till allmĂ€nheten.The aims were to investigate the public awareness of aphasia in a Swedish sample and examine if knowledge of aphasia relates to gender, education or age. Participantâs sources of knowledge of aphasia were examined. A total of 153 individuals, aged 18-90, were surveyed. Participants were categorized into three groups; heard of, knowledge of and not heard of aphasia. Results showed that 45,8% had heard of, 9,8% had knowledge of and 44,4% had not heard of aphasia. The distribution of men was significant higher for the group that had not heard of aphasia. There was no significant relation between education and hearing of aphasia. The mean age of the group not heard of aphasia was significantly lower. The most common sources of information were TV/radio, newspapers/magazines and workplace. The findings indicate to whom advocacy campaigns should be directed and which platforms are most effective for spreading information amongst the public
âI feel really good now!â : Emotions and independence in undergraduate supervision
Within Swedish higher education, there is an explicit focus on the importance of independence, not least in relation to degree projects, which makes it a significant issue within supervision. What student independence comprises and how it may be achieved, however, is rarely discussed, even though the expectations of independence may be a stressful aspect of degree projects for students. This article examines the role emotions may play in undergraduate supervision in relation to student independence, through analysing recorded supervision meetings and focus group interviews with supervisors. Based in a theoretical framework centred on the concepts affective practices, anticipated emotions and anticipatory emotions, it discusses how supervisors handled studentsâ expressions of fear and anxiety, joy and relief, and how anticipated emotions could be used as a didactic tool
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