227 research outputs found
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (inglis)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/3777/thumbnail.jp
Still broadcasting without fear or favour
No full textRecent appointments to the ABC board may well have yielded a majority favourable to advertising on the national broadcaster, writes Ken Inglis, author of the recently published book, Whose ABC
Public Interest and Private Passion: Ken Inglis on the ABC
No full textBackground
• Broadcasting in Australia
• A reflection on the central contribution of Ken Inglis through his two volumes on the ABC
• To trace the origins of the project, interview the author, and reflect on the impact
Research Contribution
• A great historian such as Ken Inglis, showing patience and deep archival research, can produce an important and enduring history of a major public institution
Significance
• The chapter is part of a Festschrift for Professor Inglis, who kindly agreed to be interviewed as part of the writing. It was presented in his presence at a conference held at Monash University, and then revised and updated after his death in December 2017
A Curious Exchange between Marion Bernstein and Mary Inglis
No full textDiscusses a poetic exchange begun in 1875 in the columns of the Glasgow Weekly Mail in 1875 between two Victorian Scottish women poets, Marion Bernstein, author of Mirren\u27s Musings (1876), and Mary Inglis, author of Croonings (1876), in which the two poets offer alternative interpretations of the swallow as a symbol of fleeting friendship
Deceiver unmasked
No full text87, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (12mo)Attributed to Charles Inglis by Evans.The New-York Historical Society copy bears the ms. note: General Duykinck's Committeee went to the House of Mr. Loudon's and destroyed all these pamphlets just as they were ready to be published.--this Copy was saved.--'Tis suspected this was wrote on board Govr. Tyron's Ship & John Tabor Kempe woud be taken for the Author only that there are many Scripture passages contained in it
The characteristics and motivations of online health information seekers : cross-sectional survey and qualitative interview study
No full textBackground: Most households in the United Kingdom have Internet access, and health-related Internet use is increasing. The National Health Service (NHS) Direct website is the major UK provider of online health information.
Objective: Our objective was to identify the characteristics and motivations of online health information seekers accessing the NHS Direct website, and to examine the benefits and challenges of the health Internet.
Methods: We undertook an online questionnaire survey, offered to users of the NHS Direct website. A subsample of survey respondents participated in in-depth, semistructured, qualitative interviews by telephone or instant messaging/email. Questionnaire results were analyzed using chi-square statistics. Thematic coding with constant comparison was used for interview transcript
analysis.
Results: In total 792 respondents completed some or all of the survey: 71.2% (534/750 with data available) were aged under 45 years, 67.4% (511/758) were female, and 37.7% (286/759) had university-level qualifications. They sought information for themselves (545/781, 69.8%), someone else (172/781, 22.0%), or both (64/781, 8.2%). Women were more likely than men to seek help for someone else or both themselves and someone else (168/509 vs 61/242, χ2 2 = 6.35, P = .04). Prior consultation with a health professional was reported by 44.9% (346/770), although this was less common in younger age groups (<36 years) (χ2 1
= 24.22, P < .001). Participants aged 16 to 75 years (n = 26, 20 female, 6 male) were recruited for interview by telephone (n = 23) and instant messaging/email (n = 3). Four major interview themes were identified: motivations for seeking help online; benefits of seeking help in this way and some of the challenges faced; strategies employed in navigating online health information
provision and determining what information to use and to trust; and specific comments regarding the NHS Direct website service.
Within the motivation category, four concepts emerged: the desire for reassurance; the desire for a second opinion to challenge other information; the desire for greater understanding to supplement other information; and perceived external barriers to accessing
information through traditional sources. The benefits clustered around three theme areas: convenience, coverage, and anonymity.
Various challenges were discussed but no prominent theme emerged. Navigating online health information and determining what to trust was regarded as a “common sense” activity, and brand recognition was important. Specific comments about NHS Direct included the perception that the online service was integrated with traditional service provision.
Conclusions: This study supports a model of evolutionary rather than revolutionary change in online health information use.
Given increasing resource constraints, the health care community needs to seek ways of promoting efficient and appropriate health service use, and should aim to harness the potential benefits of the Internet, informed by an understanding of how and why people go online for health
On Wine, Globalization, and Glocalization : Long-Term Developments and Present-Day Controversies
No full textAlthough wine may not seem to be all that similar to football, the next chapter, by David Inglis of the University of Helsinki, shows just how similar the two are when it comes to the question of how globalization works within the Robertsonian frame. Beginning from the observation that wine in today’s world is fairly homogenized in terms of production and consumption (a narrow range of bottles, sizes, grapes, tastes, production techniques, perceptions of quality, etc.), the author points out that the homogeneity presents itself in terms of diversity or heterogeneity: wines are mostly ‘the same’ around the world, but they are produced, marketed, and consumed in terms of their difference, each wine’s uniqueness in terms of character and specific origin. Unlike the case for football, however, Inglis is also able to trace the history of wine throughout the phases of globalization – including the globalization demonstrated by historical imperial formations such as the Roman or the Chinese, empires of Steger’s Great Universalizing phase – and to show that it has always been so: wine is uniform or universal but understood, especially by elites, as inherently different or particular. As the author puts it, “wine has … for a very long time been a globalized and globalizing entity par excellence”. In more recent phases, Inglis shows that wine has served as an agent of European colonization in various parts of the world; and then in turn as a global form that various national and regional entities fill with reconstructed local content and thereby assert their particular identities in the global context. And much like local styles in football are actually globally circulating variations that are reconstructed as ‘local’ and particular to a club or country, so is wine universally particularized, especially, as the author demonstrates, through the idea of ‘terroir’: a word that embodies the notion of the local ‘soil’, the idea of uniqueness, as well as a particular – terroir is a French word first used by French winemakers – that has become universal. Terroir points to the fact that everyone is doing the same thing, but doing it differently. Here again, we have a concrete case of how globalization enacts itself through glocalization that constructs itself in relation. Even as we do the same thing differently, we communicate the differences, be they ever so small, as indicative of what each of us essentially is in relation to all the others.Peer reviewe
Fabricating the Truth About Bruno Latour(s)
No full textIn his lifetime, Bruno Latour (1947-2022) made many provocative and controversial arguments, such as about the nature of the practices of the natural sciences, and against standard social scientific forms of critique. Running through many of Latour’s interventions, aimed at what he took to be stultifying forms of academic and intellectual orthodoxy, was a concern with the nature of truth. Whether emphasising how science fabricates its ‘facts’, or in having to deal with uncomfortable similarities between that sort of analysis and the attacks on the allegedly fraudulent nature of climate science by climate sceptics, or in presenting the societal bases of standard forms of social critique as fictitious, Latour was constantly engaged in battles about and polemics concerning what counts as truths and truthfulness. In this paper, we consider the nature of some of the main contours of Latour’s battles about and with truths. We present an account of his practice in a critical light. Sometimes that involves stepping outside of the ‘anti-critical’ frame of reference he sought to construct and impose on how philosophy, sociology and other ways of thinking are done, but it also sometimes involves using that apparatus, while turning it against the intentions of the author. The purpose of this paper is not to try out-do Latour in the dismissal of intellectual positions other than one’s own. Instead, we focus on other types and levels of failure in the career-long endeavours and engagements with matters of truth of this curious but undoubtedly unavoidable figure, ‘Bruno Latour’. We end by speculating if more ‘Bruno Latours’ will be fabricated in the service of new modes of truth-creation in the future
How Then Do We Choose to Live? Facing the Climate Crisis and Seeking the "Meta Response"
No full textThe author observes that a sense of hopelessness appears to be forming in ourculture in response to recent descriptions of the impact of climate crisis. This reaction iscompared to the way people respond to diagnoses of life threatening illness. Stages ofreactions to difficult news are known to accompany such responses. The author sharesher own sorting of responses as an example of stage transitions in the process ofgrappling with the difficult news of climate crisis. Transitions from one stage to the nextare developmental. The importance of bringing resources from the field of adultdevelopment into the field of public deliberations to address the climate crisis isemphasized. A meta approach, “the Gaia approach,” is proposed, as are many questionsfor individual and public reflection
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