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Professionellas erfarenheter, kunskap och uppfattningar om kollektiv delaktighet - inom och mellan barnavårdens verksamheter
Get PDFIntroduktion Preliminära empiriska resultat och slutsatser presenteras från en pågående studie om professionellas erfarenheter, kunskap och uppfattningar om barns och vårdnadshavares kollektiva delaktighet inom barnavårdens verksamheter. Kollektiv delaktighet handlar om att vara med och påverka exempelvis hur miljöer och tjänster inom välfärdssektorn ska se ut. Mänskliga rättigheter ger barn och vårdnadshavare rätt att vara med och tycka till om sådant, men det är inte klart hur långt den rätten sträcker sig eller hur den ska förverkligas. Vi har därför undersökt professionellas erfarenheter, kunskap och uppfattningar om kollektiv delaktighet inom ramen för utvecklingsarbeten gällande tidiga och samordnade insatser för barn och unga, för att bidra till fortsatta dialoger om hur arbetet med kollektiv delaktighet kan integreras i förhållningssätt inom verksamheterna som stödjer utvecklingsarbetenas ambitioner över tid.
Metod Genom en workshop, utarbetande och test av en enkät, intervjuer och fokusgruppsintervjuer som har byggt på varandra har data samlats in från praktiker, strateger, ledare och chefer inom skola, socialtjänst och hälso- och sjukvård. Vidare har studiens frågeställning även studerats genom en djupanalys av uppstarten av ett specifikt utvecklingsarbete baserat på ytterligare individuella intervjuer, deltagande observationer på möten och dokumentanalyser.
Resultat Professionella definierar sammantaget kollektiv delaktighet som en interaktiv process, vilken inte bara handlar om aktiviteter som att stödja röst, lyssna, processa synpunkter och koppla tillbaka utan också om att lägga grund för en känsla av KASAM bland barn och vårdnadshavare. Genom att främja barns och vårdnadshavares kollektiva delaktighet uppfattas verksamheter kunna fatta bättre beslut och skapa en mer inkluderande och demokratisk miljö för barn och deras vårdnadshavare. Studien belyser hur denna delaktighet implementeras både formellt och informellt, direkt och indirekt.
Enligt respondenterna har kollektiv delaktighet haft en positiv inverkan på flera områden, inklusive utformning av väntrum och behandlingsrum, schema och undervisning, övergångar mellan olika skolstadier, konflikthantering samt kommunikation med vårdnadshavare. Kollektiv delaktighet genom elevråd och ungdomsfullmäktige uppges fungera bäst för barn, medan samtal och observationer i ordinarie verksamhet ses som mest effektiva för vårdnadshavare och yngre barn. Dock arbetar verksamheterna mindre med vårdnadshavares kollektiva delaktighet, vilket de professionella förklarar med hög belastning, individfokus och låg system- och språkkunskap bland vårdnadshavare.
Diskussion Under presentationen diskuteras risk för kooptering om strävanden mot KASAM utifrån de professionellas perspektiv tar överhand inom arbetet med kollektiv delaktighet. En allt för hög grad av fokusering på individuell delaktighet och professionellas arbete utifrån barnens bästa problematiseras, då målsättningen enligt barns mänskliga rättigheter är ett mer holistiskt arbete än så. Vidare diskuteras också professionellas syn på vårdnadshavare och deras tendens att föredra för dem välkända och trygga arbetsmetoder.
Slutsats För att förbättra arbetet med kollektiv delaktighet krävs ett tydligt mandat och stöd uppifrån i organisationerna, som professionella påtalar saknas idag. Det förefaller vidare viktigt att det finns ”motorer” på plats för att stödja ett transparent och samordnat arbete med kollektiv delaktighet över gränser inom och mellan organisationer, samt ett lärande av både framgångar och misslyckanden. Ledningens stöd är framför allt avgörande för att hantera utmaningar och kritik som är rimligt att anta kommer med varje försök till att jobba med barns och vårdnadshavares kollektiva delaktighet
Networks of intimacy: The lyric “you” of ASMR poetry
Get PDFAt first glance, the practices of lyric poetry and ASMR videos are nothing alike: one is ancient, the other is digitally native; one is a product of elitist high culture, the other, of popular and participatory media. Yet a cursory YouTube search for “ASMR poetry” brings about over half a million results, suggesting some sort of commonality between the two running under the surface. Both poetry and ASMR videos can be regarded as forms of engendering intimacy and closeness at a distance. In poetry, this is achieved through the lyric address oscillating between the specific and the universal, allowing the reader and the (implied) author to share an affective space. This effect is particularly strong in audio recordings of poetry owing to the austere and minimalistic staging of the poet’s voice speaking right into the listener’s ear. On the other hand, ASMR, sometimes referred to as “auditory massage”, is a practice of intimacy at a distance par excellence as it employs a variety of acoustic and visual triggers to provoke a gentle tactile reaction that induces relaxation and euphoria in the listener. Here the voice also plays a central role, as the characteristic close-miked soft whisper has become emblematic of the practice.
This paper analyses artistic practices that bring together lyric poetry and ASMR, and their respective vocal stylings, to engender and/or interrogate intimate experiences. The Singaporean ASMR artist Melinda Lauw’s reading of Paula Mendoza’s poetry at the 2020 Singapore Literature Festival in NYC, which took place online under the COVID restrictions, explores how intimacy and closeness projected by ASMR can invoke a sense of embodied co-presence in a virtual poetry reading. The video performance ASMR Poetry by the German artists Anne Munka, Kinga Toth and Dagmara Kraus brings a New Materialist aesthetic to ASMR, extending this co-presence to non-human agents and suggesting lyric intimacy as a mode of being-together in the posthuman world. Conversely, the record Malignant by the French experimental spoken word artist Ronce joins ASMR with glitch and noise music, foregrounding the darker aspects of intimacy and framing the ASMR whisper as a form of trauma speech
Remediating indexical and iconic signs: Intertwining transmission, capture, storage in satellite-based forest information systems
Get PDFThis paper examines the use of satellite remote sensing as a case study to investigate how 21st-century knowledge infrastructures rely on multiple stages of remediation. By focusing on the application of satellite data in forest information systems, the study demonstrates how the production of environmental data is shaped by the close intertwining of techniques for transmitting data through space, capturing data using sensors and instruments, storing large amounts of data in physical storage media, and rapidly processing vast quantities of data using computer processors. The integration of these techniques necessitates the ability to quickly alternate between different physical modalities, such as photovoltaic energy (sensors), electromagnetic waves (wireless transmission), and magnetic fields (storage). The paper compares two concepts that have attempted to explain the transfer of data across physical modalities: Bruno Latour's concept of circulating reference and Martin Irvine's concept of retokenization. The author argues that Latour's concept of circulating reference requires modification by incorporating Irvine's use of Peircean semiotics, which distinguishes between indexical, iconic, and symbolic sign types, as well as between types and tokens. By interpreting the circulation of signs between sensors, transmitters, and storage devices as indexical and iconic sign types, and by viewing each stage of remediation as it passes through the information network as an act of retokenization—that is, translating the tokens of a type within one physical modality to different tokens of the same type within a differing physical modality—the author demonstrates how a Peircean semiotics provides a more comprehensive account of semiosic translation compared to Latour's work. Finally, by adopting the concept of environing media, introduced by media scholar Adam Wickberg and environmental historian Johan Gärdebo, the paper illustrates how the concept of retokenization is integral to understanding the increasing reliance on environmental data for informed decision about environmental policies
Forming neurodivergent, networked selves across, within, and all over media
Get PDFAutism, ADHD, ADD, and their sister-conditions are enjoying a crucial stage in our time, as a shift of discourse is happening from years of pathologizing these statuses as mental disorders, to recognizing them as ‘neurodivergence’, aka differences in ways of thinking and being. The advent of digital media and emergence of social networks have had a significant role in this shift by providing unprecedented opportunities for knowledge production on neurodiversity and neurodivergence; spaces of community formation for neurodivergent people; and new tools that can better accommodate non-conventional communication styles.
In this paper, I will analyze examples of alternative ways of sensing and sense-making in neurodivergent experiences. My presentation demonstrates how the intensified multimodality of communication and the intermedial dynamics of social media and online platforms have transformed and enhanced knowledge production about neurodiversity. Furthermore, I will discuss how the potentials of digital and social media have been employed by neurodivergent people to represent their lived experiences, shape networked selves, and form communities for interaction and activism.
With this paper, I aim to argue for the mutual fruitfulness of establishing a dialogue between neurodiversity studies and studies on intermediality and multimodality of media. Such discussion, I argue, has social, political, and theoretical benefits for both sides of the dialogue by bringing together the normative and the non-normative and opening new windows for scientific inquiry about human communication
The Vital Narrative Dimensions, a Narrative Network in Digital Media
Get PDFThe networks of digital media not just impacted our society, but also reconstructed our thinking of storytelling. The hyperlinks and interactive platforms of digital media entail a new narrative dimension of describing human life which approach of parallel narratives adapted to less dynamic platforms of media (eg. text, film) as well.
At the same time, these parallel life narratives, what I call Vital Narrative Dimensions contributed to various media hybrids as the interactive movie in steaming services (eg. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)) or the “interactive film” with complex narrative structure appearing in the gaming industry (eg. Detroit Become Human created by Quantic Dreams). Consequently, the boundaries of these different platforms of digital media are shifting and parallel storytelling has a tendency to become interactive where a recipient gains the power of decision-making or becomes a first-person character in the narrative. The immersive digital media like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality break down the walls of the distance between the recipient and character, and a new narrative network of parallel narratives occur in these platforms adapted from other media (eg. Lies Beneath) or created in these platforms (eg. Lone Echo).
Considering the notion that parallel life narratives due to their features to a certain extent contribute to blurring of digital media boundaries, the lecture aims to focus on the question of how the network of parallel narratives creates a digital media discourse and impacts their boundaries by the structural representation of above-mentioned instances (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Detroit Become Human, Lies Beneath)
Into the medieval manuscript: what digital knowledge medium to « re-open » the book?
Get PDFIn Edinburgh last March, we gave a brief presentation on the intermedial object that the medieval codex can represent, using the example of manuscript 1800 from the Méjanes library in Aix-en-Provence, the primary support for a digital escape game available from autumn 2023.
We have carried out interdisciplinary work combining literature and chemistry on this 15th-century illuminated manuscript, and we wanted to popularize the results and approach through an immersive investigation. The construction of the game and its initial results lead us to ask the following questions:
How can the development of a digital game serve scientific communication? What does the digital medium enable? What does it facilitate? How is it perceived and understood by different audiences?
In the other way, how can scientific research evolve thanks to the design of such a game?
We'll try to show that the ludic digital medium is a tool as well as a digital fiction; that it is also a means of questioning, which stimulates and refines research. Finally, it leads us to consider the digital medium as a solution for understanding and representing medieval manuscripts in all their complexity. Indeed, the development of knowledge graphes, of virtual and augmented reality, driven by traditional visions of reading, codicological and chemical analysis, and photography, can enable us to understand and represent medieval manuscripts in all their complexity.
Indeed the development of virtual and augmented realities based on traditional views as lecture, chemical and codicologic analyze and photography can help us to understand this medieval object as a witness and support of knowledge
Generic and Flat Ensembles – The Appearance of Discretisation in Everyday Visual Media
Get PDFThe blockbusters of the digital present are iOS and Windows 11, TikTok, Instagram, and Fortnite. They constitute an aisthesis of habit, the sensible articulation of medial appearance. This paper is concerned with the appearance of computation in everyday visual media. Digital visual media are computational media, as generated and supported through processes of discretisation and determination that are often seen as nonsensuous and closed off from sensuous experience. In light of a wide set of media theories that posit the precognitive, the extra-phenomenal, the discrete, and the invisual, humans are nevertheless still apprehending media consciously – we are still seeing and experiencing visual media. Emmanuel Alloa’s medial phenomenology and Mark Hansen’s media entangled phenomenology are explored here as approaches towards the differential mediation of computationally grounded visual media – the appearance of the discrete. This entails a focus on the appearance of the middle, appearance as the locus of both aesthetics and aisthesis, and the possibility of a media aesthetic approach to the shaky distinctions between digital and analogue, discrete and continuous. Art is often seen as offering a critical distance to the order of life and society – but the images encountered by the average screen media user today offer no critical distance, rather they are a generic presence of the real and a flattening of the critical and unique aspects of art. What these images or visual media are is not necessarily poor images, rather mundane mediations. Everyday mediation is here exemplified through analyses of the smartphone homescreen, loading screens in apps and websites, as well as the everyday use of text-2-image generation models. These sites of mediation share formal expressions such as the grid, rounded edges and a flatness of resemblance and reproductions that approaches abstraction. Through these examples and the concept of the generic, this paper explores the ways in which a technical medium of display makes its own appearance visible, as a generic aisthesis. The computational process of discretization structures the continuous appearance of the mediation, a medial expression of nonsensuous computation and algorithmic governance
Poetry in the digital present: Multimodality and/as self-reflexivity in Instapoetry
Get PDFThe rise and integration of digital media have brought about a change in our literary landscape, giving birth to a new genre known as platform poetry or social media poetry. With prominent social media poets such as Atticus, Rupi Kaur and Nikita Gill, to list only a few, the genre is blowing new life into poetry in general and reaching a new and broader audience of millions of social media users. Focusing specifically on Instagram poetry, or Instapoetry, this paper explores the genre’s prevalent use of multimodality and/as self-reflexivity as well as its potential for community-building. Created specifically for digital ‘publication’ and consummation, these works often make use of the intermedial and multimodal potential of the websites or applications on which they are posted, combining textual, visual and auditory elements on the one hand and incorporating filters and hashtags on the other. Indeed, scholars have identified this multimodality as a key feature of Instagram poetry, linking it back to the digital and globalised context that gave birth to the genre (Kovalic & Curwood 2019, Paquet 2019). My close reading of selected Instapoems will demonstrate how these poets 1) utilise multimodality to reflect on the affordances of the modes and media they use and 2) blur the boundaries between readership, authorship and curatorship through specific poetic and digital strategies focussing on community-building/activation and interactivity
Vägar in i och ut ur museisamlingar
Get PDFForskning vid och om museer må inte vara beroende av samarbeten med universitet, men det är självfallet så att samarbeten berikar och ger helt andra möjligheter – att tillsammans höja blicken är viktigt för att överhuvudtaget stärka synligheten och användbarheten av kulturarvet. I linje med de förskjutningar som sker inom digitaliseringen – till exempel mot användbarhet och synlighet – blir samverkan bara viktigare: för att få syn på varandras behov, och för att se de möjligheter som uppenbarar sig för forskning, förmedling, förvaltning. Å ena sidan finns det stora utmaningar när det gäller digitalisering, å andra sidan när det gäller att belysa vad som anses viktigt och vilka strukturer som ligger bakom och styr museiarbetet. Dessa strukturfrågor är potentiellt knutna till begrepp som kanon och gallring. Utsatt för möjliga hot och risker av olika slag blir det än viktigare att tillsammans fundera på kulturarvets betydelser och att granska de fokus vi sätter
Language investment and dispositions among young adolescents in multilingual urban settings in Sweden
Get PDFDrawing on data generated within a PhD-study (Bylund, 2022), this presentation explores the intricacies of language investment among young adolescents (aged 11-14) in multilingual and socioeconomically disadvantaged areas across Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. The aim of the present study is to investigate the language investment of these young adolescents by specifically examining their dispositions towards Heritage Language(s), Swedish, and English, and how these ideological positions are reflected in their reported language investment.
The study was carried out between 2019 and 2021 and employed an explanatory mixed methods design, in which data was generated using a survey (N=92), language diaries (n=50) and interviews (n=16), yet this presentation engages with the survey and interview data. Adopting a Bourdieusian approach, the integrated analysis of adolescents’ dispositions was guided by Bourdieu’s conceptual thinking tools (Bourdieu, 1977), supplemented by Norton’s investment and identity theory (Norton, 2000), along with considerations of language ideologies (Kroskrity, 2000).
The findings shed light on how the young adolescents perceived Heritage Languages, Swedish, and English as valuable and significant, albeit with differing connotations and implications regarding their capital value in local, national, and global contexts. The young adolescents expressed ambivalent investments, reflecting the linguistic hierarchy in Sweden while also indicating the intricate complexities at play as they navigate between conflicting aspirations, values and dominating power structures. Additionally, findings illustrate how the young adolescents’ dispositions seemed rooted in notions of named languages as linked to national, geographical, and cultural identities. The presentation highlights the intersection between language and education by discussing educational implications of young adolescents’ valorizations and investment in Heritage Languages, Swedish and English