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Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising and Analysing Digital Labour
Authors: Fuchs Christian , Sandoval Marisol
Published: May 2018

The overall task of this paper is to elaborate a typology of the forms of labour that are needed for the production, circulation and use of digital media. First, we introduce a cultural-materialist perspective on theorising digital labour. Second, we discuss the relevance of Marx’s concept of the mode of production for the analysis of digital labour. Third, we introduce a typology of the dimensions of working conditions. Fourth, based on the preceding sections we present a digital labour analysis toolbox. Finally, we draw some conclusions. We engage with the question what labour is, how it differs from work, which basic dimensions it has and how these dimensions can be used for defining digital labour. We introduce the theoretical notion of the mode of production as analytical tool for conceptualizing digital labour. Modes of production are dialectical units of relations of production and productive forces. Relations of production are the basic social relations that shape the economy. Productive forces are a combination of labour power, objects and instruments of work in a work process, in which new products are created. We have a deeper look at dimensions of the work process and the conditions under which it takes place. We present a typology that identifies dimensions of working conditions. It is a general typology that can be used for the analysis of any production process.
The Dialectic: Not just the Absolute Recoil, but the World’s Living Fire that Extinguishes and Kindles Itself. Reflections on Slavoj Žižek’s Version of Dialectical Philosophy in "Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism".
Authors: Fuchs Christian
Published: May 2018

Slavoj Žižek shows in his book Absolute Recoil (and previous Hegelian works such as Less than Nothing) the importance of repeating Hegel’s dialectical philosophy in contemporary capitalism. Žižek contributes especially to a reconceptualisation of dialectical logic and based on it the dialectic of history. The reflections in this paper stress that the dialectic is only the absolute recoil, a sublation that posits its own presuppositions, by working as a living fire that extinguishes and kindles itself. I point out that a new foundation of dialectical materialism needs a proper Heraclitusian foundation. I discuss Žižek’s version of the dialectic that stresses the absolute recoil and the logic of retroactivity and point out its implications for the concept of history as well as Žižek’s own theoretical ambiguities that oscillate between postmodern relativism and mechanical materialism. I argue that Žižek’s version of the dialectic should be brought into a dialogue with the dialectical philosophies of the German Marxists Hans Heinz Holz and Herbert Hörz. Žižek’s achievement is that he helps keeping alive the fire of dialectical materialism in the 21st century. Such a dialectical fire is needed for a proper revolutionary theory.
Framing the Poor: Media Illiteracy, Stereotyping, and Contextual Fallacy to Spin the Crisis
Authors: Garland Christian
Published: May 2018

The title of this contribution is a play-on-words: the media’s deliberate stereotypical framing of the poorest section of society, many of whom are claimants of one kind or another, as being the internal social “other”—“not like us”, but also literally attributing—usually indirectly—substantial blame for the ongoing crisis of capitalism to this same group, since it requires very minimal social entitlements for material survival and does not apparently create value. The media framing of this “common sense” simplified account of complex social problems is subject of this article. Whilst media manipulation of a passive and inert readership and/or audience has plenty of critics, this work contends that a Marxist understanding that also uses aspects of Chomsky’s original propaganda model, provides the best resources available for making sense of the mass media’s disingenuous framing and spin of social and political issues such as this in the contemporary UK.media and journalism
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
Authors: Briziarelli Marco
Published: May 2018

Žižek and Tolokonnikova’s exchange letters provides the reader with the suggestive image and evocative words of two intellectuals speaking from very different contexts. This article discusses the relevance of this volume in the context of localized global capitalism and an equally localized global struggle against it.
Against Educational Technology in the Neoliberal University
Authors: Hall Richard
Published: May 2018

In the Grundrisse, Marx argued that the circulation of productive capital was “a process of transformation, a qualitative process of value”. As capitalists sought to overcome the barriers to this transformatory process, they worked to revolutionise both the means of production via organisational and technological change, and circulation time via transportation and communication changes. Reducing friction in the production and circulation of capital is critical to the extraction of surplus value, and Marx argued that in this transformation “Capital by its nature drives beyond every spatial barrier [and]… the annihilation of space by time - becomes an extraordinary necessity for it.” Higher education is increasingly a space which is being recalibrated so as to increase the mobility or fluidity of intellectual production and circulation. Thus, technology, technical services and techniques are deployed to collapse the interfaces between space and time, and to subsume academic labour inside processes for valorisation. However, this collapse also reveals the stresses and strains of antagonisms, as the friction of neoliberal higher education reform deforms existing cultures and histories. Through such a deformation, it also reminds us of alternative historical and material re-imaginings and alternatives like the Chilean CyberSyn project, the Ecuadorian National Plan for Good Living, the Hornsey Experiment, and so on. This presentation argues that inside the University, the deployment of technologies, technical services and techniques enables education and academic labour to be co-opted for value-production. As a result, academics and students are defined as entrepreneurial subjects with limited power-to produce a world beyond value. A question is the extent to which pedagogical and transitional alternatives might be described, and whether in the process it is possible to uncover ways in which education might be used for co-operation rather than competition, as a form of resistance.Acknowledgement: This podcast is an audio recording of a talk Richard Hall gave in the Communication and Media Research Institute's (CAMRI) Seminar Series at the University of Westminster on March 25, 2015.
Reflections on Phelan’s Neoliberalism, Media, and the Political
Authors: Klikauer Thomas
Published: May 2018

Seeking to overcome the “Blindspot of Western Marxism”, Phelan’s insightful book discusses neo-liberalism, the media, and the political by defacing neo-liberalism, analysing journalism using neo-liberal media control of New Zealand and Ireland (the so-called Celtic Tiger) as well as the case of “Climategate” as prime examples. The core argument of the book is to relate neo-liberalism to media and the way it colonises the public, which Phelan calls “the political”. On the example of human freedom, Phelan shows for example, how neo-liberalism has defaced freedom by focusing on the negative—as the absence of state interference. Phelan also shows how freedom became a one-dimensionality being associated with market freedom. With a most illuminating chapter on journalism under neo-liberalism, Phelan concludes that it is not moralising that challenges neo-liberalism but instead what is demanded is using people’s experience of everyday neo-liberalism leading to a disidentification with neo-liberalism’s one-dimensional and oppressive ideology.
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Commons, Piracy and the Crisis of Property
Authors: Arvanitakis James , Fredriksson Martin
Published: May 2018

This article takes the politicisation of copyright and file sharing as a starting point to discuss the concept of the commons and the construction of property. Empirically, the article draws on a series of interviews with Pirate Party members in Sweden, Australia, Germany, the UK and USA; placed in the theoretical framework of the commons. We argue that piracy, as an act and an ideology, interrogates common understandings of property as something self-evident, natural and uncontestable. Such constructions found liberal market ideology. The article has two broad aims: to outline the different phases of enclosure, from the physical commons, to the institutional and finally the cultural commons; and to discuss the way that piracy highlights the emergent crisis in private property rights, brought to the fore by the global financial crisis and ongoing privatization of public resources. We conclude by questioning what new modes of enclosure are emerging in a digital economy driven by excessive data mining and centralized streaming services.
Introducing a Taxonomy of the “Smart City”: Towards a Commons-Oriented Approach?
Authors: Niaros Vasilis
Published: May 2018

During the last decade there has been considerable debate over the relatively vague concept of the “smart city”. Nowadays, the smart city has crystallised into an image of a city permeated with top-down and centrally controlled technological infrastructures that promise to improve the urban environment in terms of efficiency, security and sustainability. However, many scholars have criticised this perception of networked technologies for not being able to meet the needs of city-dwellers, raising privacy issues, and leading to an increase of environmentally harmful consumption of ICTs. The aim of this article is to contribute to the ongoing dialogue by providing a taxonomy of the smart city, based on certain technology governance models. After theoretically discussing the socio-environmental costs of each model, I argue for a commons-oriented approach which could democratise the means of making and offer more environmental benefits.
The Trapped Critique of Critical Media Practices in Protest Movements: A Review of Anne Kaun’s “Crisis and Critique”
Authors: Xiang Yu
Published: May 2018

This article is a review of Anne Kaun's (2016) book Crisis and Critique: A Brief History of Media Participation in Times of Crisis.
Special Section: The Point is to Change It! Critical Political Interventions in Media and Communication Studies
Authors: Slaček Brlek Sašo , Amon Prodnik Jernej
Published: May 2018

The Point is to Change It! Critical Political Interventions in Media and Communication Studies Special section of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 15 (1): 214-336, 2017. Edited by Sašo Slaček Brlek, Jernej Amon Prodnik
Office Interiors and the Fantasy of Information Work
Authors: Hong Renyi
Published: May 2018

This essay provides a historical context to the office interiors, describing its capacity to enchant the sphere of work and to transform the subjectivities of workers. Focusing on Florence Knoll and Robert Propst, American designers who contributed to the modern aesthetic in the postwar, I highlight how the sale of offices conveyed a fantasy of information work. Knoll and Propst had marketed their ideas using showrooms, textiles, seminars, and informational materials. These communicative practices emphasized the sensate quality of information work, which coached workers to recognize and interpret the visual, aural, and tactile quality of work environments. By doing so, it tied sensations of pleasure to the prospect of self-transformation, which provides basis for the modern attachment to beautified workspaces.
Occupy and the Temporal Politics of Prefigurative Democracy
Authors: Petrick Kamilla
Published: May 2018

This article sheds new light on the Occupy movement by foregrounding its temporal dimensions, particularly in relation to a previous major cycle of transnational contention, the alter-globalization movement (AGM). The discussion engages three temporal considerations in particular: 1) the centrality of instantaneous digital media to both movements’ rapid rise and diffusion 2) the pervasiveness – especially within Occupy – of the temporal ethos of prefigurative politics, and 3) the sustainability and longer term legacy of the Occupy cycle, from the temporal vantage point of the year 2016, i.e. five years since the movement’s rise and prompt demise, and fifteen years since the peak of the AGM. The article’s conclusion insists on the importance of a long term vision when it comes to evaluating the outcomes of collective action.
‘Liking and Sharing’ the stigmatization of poverty and social welfare: Representations of poverty and welfare through Internet memes on social media
Authors: Dobson Kathy , Knezevic Irena
Published: May 2018

Internet memes play an important role in the reproduction, reinforcement and circulation of social stereotypes, including about those who live in poverty. Due to the vast reach and increasing popularity of various social media platforms, these memes can reach a potentially enormous audience; when an image goes ‘viral,’ its claims are made more powerful every time it is shared or reposted. In this paper we investigate the relationship between Internet memes and stereotypes about poverty by examining a set of memes that make claims about one particular aspect of poverty in North America – receipt of social assistance in the form of welfare cheques, medical coverage and food.
From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism
Authors: Funke Peter N. , Wolfson Todd
Published: May 2018

Surveying the varied contributions to this special issue, this article examines the relationships, points of inspirations and contradictory dynamics that characterize the current epoch of social movement politics and global protest. The authors argue that with the progression of neoliberal capitalism and the explosion of new technologies, a shared logic of social movement politics has emerged. This logic spans from the Zapatistas and the Global Justice Movement to the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, the Occupy struggles and the most recent wave characterized by Podemos. While each of these waves of contention has a particular character, together they make up a broader epoch of struggle that thrives on multiplicity, emphasized radical participatory democracy, the innovative use of media and the heterogeneity of political struggle.
Consumer Protection in Cyberspace
Authors: Gandy, Jr. Oscar H.
Published: May 2018

This critical essay introduces the problem of discrimination enabled through the use of transaction-generated-information derived from the analysis of user behaviors within the network environment. The essay begins by describing how segments of the population that are already vulnerable become further victimized through the strategic use of discriminatory algorithms in support of identification, classification, segmentation, and targeting. In response, it evaluates a set of policy options that might be used to limit the harm and compensate the victims of these inherently dangerous technologies. Traditional approaches that stress the protection of privacy through restrictions on the collection and use of personal information are compared with alternatives based on individual and class actions under tort law, as well as more traditional regulatory approaches developed in the area of consumer products safety and environmental regulation.
Pendidikan Komersial Dan Gaya Hidup
Authors: Rumapea Murni Eva
Published: May 2018

            Pendidikan merupakan cara untuk mengembangkan potensi melalui proses pembelajaran. Pendidikan merupakan kebutuhan  yang bersifat mutlak untuk individu, keluarga, masyarakat, bangsa dan negara. Bidang pendidikan banyak masalah yang dihadapi, terlebih diera globalisasi saat ini baik bersifat internal dan eksternal. Seperti wajib belajar 9 tahun dirancang pemerintah. Masyarakat mengalami kesulitan, bukan karena ketidakmampuan hal itu, tetapi ketidakmampuan masyarakat untuk mendapatkan pendidikan yang layak. Pendidikan komersil adalah pendidikan yang berorientasi hal ekonomis bukan untuk paradigma   pendidikan. Akibatnya bagi berekonomi kuat (mapan) dapat memperoleh  pendidikan, sedangkan bagi ekonomi lemah hanya memperoleh pendidikan bersifat seadanya.                Pendidikan sudah menjadi gaya hidup. Artinya pendidikan bukan lagi bersifat potensi/mutu tetapi sudah suatu bentuk gaya hidup (life style). Tanpa memikirkan peran mendasar lembaga pendidikan, dan aktivitas pendidikan. Telah menganggap pola pendidikan menjadi suatu gaya hidup. Dalam arti, pendidikan dianggap hanya untuk gaya-gayaan, bersifat keren, bergengsi, dan bersifat ikut-ikutan  maka memaksakan diri menjalani pendidikan. Maka dari iti pemerintah melalui BPK  dan non pemerintah melalui LSM melakukan pemeriksaan transaksi keuangan secara rutin terhadap semua lembaga pendidikan. Pihak ini harus berkoordinasi dengan departemen pendidikan untuk mencapai tujuan. Pihak ini harus mampu dan jujur melaporkan hal yang terjadi serta berhak melakukan evaluasi terkait kebijakan pemerintah dibidang pendidikan.
Reforming the bifurcated process under section 38 of the Canada Evidence Act
Authors: Norris John
Published: May 2018

Objections to the disclosure of information under section 38 of the Canada Evidence Act must be adjudicated in the first instance by the Federal Court even when they arise in proceedings before other courts or tribunals. This bifurcated process has come under serious criticism as inefficient and ineffective, especially in relation to criminal proceedings. This article examines the principal concerns that have been raised about the bifurcated process and argues that radical reforms to the current process are not warranted. Rather, with effective coordination between the Federal Court and the underlying proceeding, a bifurcated process in which the Federal Court adjudicates most if not all privilege claims under section 38 of the Canada Evidence Act is the optimal approach and should be preserved.
Digitalisierung zum Anfassen!
Authors: Ruppert Judith , Schlegel Thomas
Published: May 2018

Kurzfassung

Mit schrittweisem Einsatz von softwarebasierten Applikationen auf der Plattform Sinumerik Integrate sowie MindApps wie „Manage MyMachines“ mauserte sich die ‚Mechanische Vorfertigung‘ des Motorenwerks EWN zum Musterbeispiel für „Erfolg durch Digitalisierung“. Ihr Vorgehen im gewachsenen Umfeld zeigen die Anwender ihren Besuchern in der „Arena der Digitalisierung“ – direkt in den Werkshallen.
Vorausschauende Instandhaltung durch Maschinelles Lernen in der Prozessindustrie
Authors: Kampker Achim , Kreisköther Kai , Büning Max Kleine , Möller Tom , Busch Max
Published: May 2018

Kurzfassung

Durch den Einfluss der Zuverlässigkeit der Instandhaltung auf die Produktionskosten und die Anlagenverfügbarkeit gewinnt die vorausschauende Instandhaltung als Evolution der präventiven Instandhaltung zunehmend an Bedeutung. In diesem Beitrag werden die Entwicklung, Funktionalität, Einsatz und Potenzial eines vorausschauenden Instandhaltungsmodells am Beispiel eines Großanlagenkompressors dargelegt. Das auf Machine Learning basierende Modell konnte erfolgreich in der Industrie validiert werden, indem kritische Veränderungen elektrischer Maschinen vor ihrem Eintreten vorhergesagt wurden.
Methoden-Baukasten zum Lieferantenmanagement – durchgängig, modular, skalierbar
Authors: Keunecke Lars , Hübner Frank
Published: May 2018

Kurzfassung

Die Lieferbeziehungen in der Automobilindustrie werden komplexer, der Wertschöpfungsanteil der Hersteller (Original Equipment Manufacturer – OEM) am Gesamtprodukt nimmt ab. Das bedeutet, dass das Supplier Management zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt und einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Qualitätsstrategie des OEM liefert. Gleichzeitig ist der Aufwand dafür möglichst gering zu halten. Es wird ein Ansatz vorgestellt, der es erlaubt, einzelne Methoden des Lieferantenqualitätsmanagements bedarfsorientiert zu skalieren.
Lean Production Management im Mittelstand: Ressourceneffiziente Walzenproduktion
Authors: Maassen Kathrin , Zacharias Miriam , Gökpinar Nejat , Hepner Dominic , Hart Frank
Published: May 2018

Kurzfassung

Eine ressourceneffiziente und schlanke Produktion gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung. Häufig können Änderungen in der Produktionssteuerung, die nahezu ohne Investitionskosten einhergehen, zu einer deutlichen Verbesserung der Betriebskennzahlen und damit einer ressourceneffizienteren Produktion beitragen. In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, wie die Produktionsteuerung auf eine Engpassmaschine abgestimmt werden kann. Dies reduziert die Bestände im Produktionsprozess und kann damit einhergehend zur Reduktion der Durchlaufzeit und einer Erhöhung des Kundenservicelevels beitragen.
Ganzheitliche Businessmodelltransformation über den Organisation 4.0-Gestaltungsansatz
Authors: Binner Hartmut F.
Published: May 2018

Kurzfassung

Eine ganzheitliche Businessmodell-Transformation kann nur in der Kombination mit einer Organisationstransformation, einer kulturellen Transformation und einer digitalen Transformation gelingen. Bezugspunkt für alle genannten vier Transformationsfelder ist eine prozessorientierte Ordnungsstruktur nach dem BPM 2.0-Standard, bei dem die Prozessbeteiligten in der Swimlane-Darstellung in der sachlich logischen zeitlichen Reihenfolge der Aufgabenerledigung mit dem dazugehörenden Informations- und Kommunikationsfluss grafisch abgebildet sind.
Boatmen, Wastrels, and Demons: Figures of Literature
Authors: Sawhney Simona
Published: May 2018

Engaging some of the questions opened by Ranjan Ghosh's and J. Hillis Miller's book Thinking Literature Across Continents (2016), this essay begins by returning to Aijaz Ahmad's earlier invocation of World Literature as a project that, like the proletariat itself, must stand in an antithetical relation to the capitalism that produced it. It asks: is there an essential link between a certain idea of literature and a figure of the world? If we try to broach this link through Derrida's enigmatic and repeated reflections on the secret – a secret ‘shared’ by both literature and democracy – how would we grasp Derrida's insistence on the ‘Latinity’ of literature? The groundlessness of reading that we confront most vividly in our encounter with fictional texts is both intensified, and in a way, clarified, by new readings and questions posed by the emergence of new reading publics. The essay contends that rather than being taught as representatives of national literatures, literary texts in ‘World Literature’ courses should be read as sites where serious historical and political debates are staged – debates which, while being local, are the bearers of universal significance. Such readings can only take place if World Literature strengthens its connections with the disciplines Miller calls, in the book, Social Studies. Paying particular attention to the Hindi writer Premchand's last story ‘Kafan’, and a brief section from the Sanskrit text the Natyashastra, it argues that struggles over representation, over the staging of minoritised figures, are integral to fiction and precede the thinking of modern democracy.
The Author's Ethical Responsibility and the Ethics of Reading
Authors: Lothe Jakob
Published: May 2018

Inspired by Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller's intervention in Reading Literature across Continents, this essay discusses the narrative ethics of two narratives: Olga Horak's first-person narrative from the Holocaust and W. G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz (2001). While Sebald is an internationally acclaimed author, Horak is a Holocaust survivor whose story, orally transmitted to the author of the essay in Sydney in 2013, is presented as written text in Time's Witnesses: Women's Voices from the Holocaust (2017). Even though these narratives are very different, the essay argues that both are possessed of a strong ethical dimension that not only highlights the authors' sense of ethical responsibility, but also that of the reader. This article argues that, first, even in narratives as different as these two, the author's sense of ethical responsibility is closely linked to the reader's ethical obligation; second, as an integral part of the reader's interest in and engagement with the narrative text, this kind of obligation is generated and shaped by the narrative as textual structure; and, third, two of the most important constituent elements of this kind of form – that is, elements of narrative form possessed of a distinctly ethical dimension – are narrator(s) and characters, and the interplay of both with the author on the one hand and the reader on the other. In order to support the argument, the essay discusses a selection of illustrative examples from both narratives.
Confounding Factors in ECG-based Detection of Sleep-disordered Breathing
Authors: Dickhaus Hartmut , Maier Christoph
Published: May 2018

Objectives: To assess the relevance of various potential confounding factors (comorbidities, obesity, body position, ECG lead, respiratory event type and sleep stage) on the detectability of sleep-related breathing disorders from the ECG.

Methods: A set of 140 simultaneous recordings of polysomnograms and 8-channel Holter ECGs taken from 121 patients with suspected sleep related breathing disorders is stratified with respect to the named factors. Minute-by-minute apnea detection performance is assessed using separate receiver operating characteristics curves for each of the subgroups. The detection is based on parameters of heart rate, ECG amplitude and respiratory myogram interference in the ECG. We consider spectral and correlation-based features.

Results: The results show that typical comorbidities and supine body position impede apnea detection from the heart rate. Availability of multiple ECG-leads improves the robustness of ECG amplitude based detection with respect to posture influence. But quite robust apnea detection is achievable with even a single ECG channel – preferably lead I. Sleep stages and respiratory event type have a significant and quite consistent effect on apnea detection sensitivity with better results for light sleep stages, and worse results for REM sleep. Mixed and obstructive events are better detected than central apneas and hypopneas.

Conclusions: Various factors confound the detection of sleep apnea based on the ECG. These findings should be taken into account when comparing results obtained from different data sets and may help to understand limitations of current and to improve robustness of new detection algorithms.
Learning Disabilities Screening and Evaluation Guide for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Authors: Hayes Anne M. , Dombrowski Eileen , Shefcyk Allison H. , Bulat Jennae
Published: May 2018

Learning disabilities are among the most common disabilities experienced in childhood and adulthood. Although identifying learning disabilities in a school setting is a complex process, it is particularly challenging in low- and middle-income countries that lack the appropriate resources, tools, and supports. This guide provides an introduction to learning disabilities and describes the processes and practices that are necessary for the identification process. It also describes a phased approach that countries can use to assess their current screening and evaluation services, as well as determine the steps needed to develop, strengthen, and build systems that support students with learning disabilities. This guide also provides intervention recommendations that teachers and school administrators can implement at each phase of system development. Although this guide primarily addresses learning disabilities, the practices, processes, and systems described may be also used to improve the identification of other disabilities commonly encountered in schools.
Viagens, encontros e despedidas: vestígios do moderno e do pós-moderno em Réquiem de Antonio Tabucchi
Authors: Willrich Glauber Rezende Jacob , Sgobaro Zanette Lucia
Published: May 2018

António Tabucchi é considerado um importante escritor italiano no contexto da pós-modernidade. É sabido que o tema da viagem e da catábase é uma constante na literatura ocidental, e, por vezes, temáticas consideradas antigas na literatura reaparecem em obras na pós-modernidade com uma nova roupagem, trazendo novos significados. O objetivo deste trabalho, então, é ensejar compreender algumas questões que tangem à pós-modernidade, como alteridade e identidade na obra "Réquiem" do escritor italiano Antonio Tabucchi, considerando também um olhar sobre a temática da viagem  e do encontro aos mortos, na medida em que ela pode servir, na tessitura narrativa da obra em questão, como elemento concateador da mesma e trazer significações outras à exegese da obra. Mais ainda, verificamos compreender como o processo de viagem ao interior, e de autoconhecimento – numa perspectiva psicanalítica – contribui na narrativa em questão para a busca de identidade da personagem protagonista.
“¿Tranquilo chicos? ¿sí?”: análise da abordagem de ensino de um professor de espanhol como língua estrangeira
Authors: Hayashi Renan Kenji Sales , Machado Keni Carla Da Silva
Published: May 2018

Neste trabalho, empreendemos uma análise da abordagem de ensino de um professor de espanhol como língua estrangeira, focalizando, por meio de gravação de áudio e notas de observação de aula, a abordagem orientadora da prática pedagógica deste professor. Defendemos a análise de abordagem como um meio de levantar subsídios confiáveis para demonstrar a importância de os professores buscarem ferramentas de investigação e aumento de consciência sobre sua abordagem, procurando entender o porquê ensinam da maneira como o fazem. Para tanto, inicialmente pressupomos a existência de duas grandes abordagens de ensino de línguas, identificamos os métodos inerentes a cada uma delas, para posteriormente, lançarmos mão desse aporte para analisar a abordagem do professor-participante deste trabalho. Por fim, identificamos categorias de análise de concepções de língua estrangeira, de ensino e de aprendizagem.
Oralidade e letramento no ensino de Língua Portuguesa: reflexões sobre o uso dos gêneros do discurso em sala de aula
Authors: Silva Júnior Silvio Nunes da
Published: May 2018

Com o avanço da sociedade hoje chamada pós-moderna, diversas inquietações pertinentes em relação ao ensino e à aprendizagem de línguas vêm surgindo no âmbito da Linguística Aplicada (LA); uma delas, a que deu origem a este estudo, é sobre o uso da oralidade em sala de aula, e, mais a fundo, sobre a questão do letramento empregado nas atividades didáticas em sala de aula no intuito de contribuir para o desenvolvimento do aluno para além dos muros da escola. Diante disso, proponho discutir acerca das atividades de letramento no ensino de língua portuguesa com a utilização dos gêneros debate e conto como forma de contribuição para a formação dos alunos em situações de aprendizagem, e, além, disso, para o senso crítico deles. Ancoro-me nos estudos dialógicos de Bakhtin (2003) para refletir sobre os gêneros do discurso, nos estudos de letramento (KLEIMAN, 2002; SOARES, 1996, 2004) e, também, sobre ensino de língua portuguesa. Com base nessas leituras, aponto dois encaminhamentos, frutos de experiências próprias, de utilização dos referidos gêneros em aulas de língua portuguesa na educação básica.
Characterising the rural-urban gradient through the participatory mapping of ecosystem services: insights for landscape planning
Authors: Palomo-Campesino Sara , Palomo Ignacio , Moreno Javier , González José
Published: May 2018

The application of the ecosystem services (ES) framework in landscape planning has become particularly relevant in rural-urban gradients since it allows for the integration of the complex interactions between ES supply and demand. This framework might be a powerful tool to inform landscape planning and decision-making intended to maintain the current and future flow of ES. In this study, we developed a process of participatory mapping of ES in a rural-urban gradient in southern Spain, which comprises the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the Granada valley and the city of Granada. First, we interviewed 21 key stakeholders from different professional sectors and gradient zones. These stakeholders prioritised nine ES in terms of their importance for local human well-being and their vulnerability to current drivers of change. Then, a workshop was organised in which 23 local actors shared their experience and knowledge regarding ES in the studied landscape. Sorted into five groups (composed of stakeholders with different profiles), the participants spatially mapped the most important supply and demand areas for the nine ES previously prioritised. The results show that the city of Granada has a very high demand for ES and a very low supply, while the Sierra Nevada mountain range and the valley of Granada appear to be very important ES supply areas. According to 95% of the stakeholders that attended the workshop, participatory mapping of ES is a very important (69%) or an important (26%) methodology to elicit the views and perceptions of the population, to identify the main conflicts and potential solutions for the territory and to visualise the high dependence of urban areas on the ES provided by adjacent rural areas. Our results also highlight the importance of incorporating the analysis of ES flows to inform landscape planning at the regional scale. Participatory mapping of ES can enhance decision-making regarding the maintenance of human well-being and the sustainability of social-ecological systems.
Responsiveness of Single versus Composite Measures of Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis
Authors: Parkes Matthew J. , Callaghan Michael J. , Tive Leslie , Lunt Mark , Felson David T.
Published: May 2018

Objective.

In rheumatoid arthritis, composite outcomes constructed from a combination of outcome measures are widely used to enhance responsiveness (sensitivity to change) and comprehensively summarize response. Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) pain is the primary outcome measure in many osteoarthritis (OA) trials. Information from other outcomes, such as rescue medication use and other WOMAC subscales, could be added to create composite outcomes, but the sensitivity of such a composite has not been tested.

Methods.

We used data from a completed trial of tanezumab for knee OA (NCT00733902). The WOMAC questionnaire and rescue medication use were measured at several timepoints, up to 16 weeks. Pain and rescue medication outcomes were standardized and combined into 3 composite outcomes through principal components analysis to produce 1 score (composite outcome) and their responsiveness was compared to WOMAC pain, the standard. We pooled all treatment doses of tanezumab into 1 treatment group, for simplicity, and compared this to the control group (placebo).

Results.

The composite outcomes showed modestly, but not statistically significantly greater responsiveness when compared to WOMAC pain alone. Adding information on rescue medication to the composite improved responsiveness. While improvements in sensitivity were modest, the required sample sizes for trials using composites was 20–40% less than trials using WOMAC pain alone.

Conclusion.

Combining information from related but distinct outcomes considered relevant to a particular treatment improved responsiveness, could reduce sample size requirements in OA trials, and might offer a way to better detect treatment efficacy in OA trials.
Un dispositif d’art-thérapie en pédopsychiatrie : la création sonore sur ordinateur
Authors: Entat Marianne
Published: May 2018

L’art-thérapie est désormais largement utilisée dans les pathologies psychiques de l’enfant. Ce sont essentiellement les arts plastiques, le collage, le modelage, la danse ou la musicothérapie. C’est sur les mêmes soubassements théoriques qu’a été mis en place, dans un Centre d’accueil psychiatrique parisien, un dispositif de création sonore sur ordinateur, pour des enfants présentant des troubles envahissants du développement, ou des troubles psycho-affectifs. Les échantillons sonores sont tirés de l’environnement quotidien ou lointain, ou inventés et enregistrés par l’enfant lui-même. Ce travail, développé en étroite collaboration avec d’autres membres de l’équipe soignante, a semblé être un outil intéressant, non seulement en tant qu’art-thérapie, mais aussi par d’autres aspects de la relation au monde sonore, ce qui justifie de plus amples développements.
Chirurgie bariatrique : solution de facilité ou solution facilitatrice ?
Authors: Mallet Roxane
Published: May 2018

La chirurgie bariatrique est l‘une des méthodes utilisées pour traiter les personnes souffrant d’obésité. L’objet de l’article est de montrer comment cette chirurgie peut être facilitatrice d’un travail de subjectivation pour le sujet en obésité par le biais de la rencontre « obligée » avec un psychologue, et comment le passage par le corps, par un agir corporel, peut aider à ce travail de subjectivation.
Personnalité borderline et tatouage
Authors: Englebert Jérôme , Follet Valérie
Published: May 2018

À partir de l’analyse d’un cas clinique, à savoir un patient borderline arborant de nombreux tatouages auto-réalisés, nous aborderons trois caractéristiques principales de l’existence borderline. Il s’agit de l’ instantanéité , de l’ ubiquité , et de la sensation d’un corps-en-disparition . À la lumière de cette compréhension originale du trouble, la question de la pratique du tatouage chez les borderline , ainsi que le rapport très particulier qu’ils entretiennent avec leur corps et avec autrui, seront évoqués. Nous mettrons ainsi en évidence la dialectique qui s’inscrit entre l’ objectification du corps, en tant qu’objet susceptible d’être manipulé et modifié, et l’ objectivation de celui-ci, en tant qu’objet doué du pouvoir spécial et déterminant d’être animé d’une subjectivité. Nous terminerons en soulignant à quel point la personnalité borderline trouve sa place et est en quelque sorte en phase avec l’évolution postmoderne de notre société actuelle.
L’animal, le psychanalyste et l’analysant
Authors: Kamieniak Jean-Pierre
Published: May 2018

Si l’animal traverse l’œuvre entière du savant, ce n’est qu’à l’automne de sa vie que l’homme Freud s’intéressera concrètement à l’un de ses spécimens — le chien — se prenant d’affection pour ce dernier jusqu’à le faire « participer » aux séances analytiques. Comment comprendre cette mise en acte inattendue ? L’approche de cette pratique singulière montre à l’évidence que, loin de constituer la transgression d’un cadre encore à construire, il s’agit bien d’un « inanalysé » du spécialiste de la psyché dont les effets persistent encore aujourd’hui.
Associate Degree in Nursing-to-Bachelor of Science in Nursing Graduates' Education and Their Perceived Ability to Keep Patients Safe
Authors: Anbari Allison Brandt , Vogelsmeier Amy
Published: May 2018

Background:

Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)-to-Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) programs are designed to advance the ADN-prepared RNs' clinical reasoning and analytical skills. However, little is known about exactly how their BSN education may improve their clinical practice, specifically in the area of patient safety.

Method:

During semi-structured one-to-one interviews, ADN-to-BSN graduates were asked about their educational process and the perceived affect their education made on their ability to keep patients safe. Content analysis were used to identify emerging themes and categories.

Results:

Three themes emerged from the data: (a) an unaltered approach to keeping patients safe, (b) experience as an ADN matters, and (c) BSN degree as a stepping stone.

Conclusion:

The call to increase the number of BSN-prepared nurses at the bedside is supported in the evidence and noteworthy of pursuit. However, as ADN-to-BSN programs increase in numbers to meet this demand, the outcomes of graduates need to be considered. [
J Nurs Educ.
2018;57(5):300–303.]
Creating a BYOD Tour Around Poznan, Poland – A Location-based Project for Teenage Students
Authors: Brzezinska Magdalena Agnieszka
Published: May 2018

This paper focuses on a project that encompasses place-based learning, location-based learning and problem-based learning in teaching of English as a foreign language. It shows how a project of this type can increase student motivation and help teenagers embrace local culture.

It originated when the author of this paper was introduced to the Wandering platform and the Experiencity platform by one of the co-creators of the former, Ms. Talila Yehiel, a museum expert and a designer of tailor-made sites for museum visits. After examining the various options of the Experiencity platform on her own, and upon developing two walks: The Past and the Present: Jewish Heritage Walk in Bielsko-Biala and Karl Korn Walk, the author undertook to test it with her teenage students, designing a completely new location-based activity: Be Active and Explore Poznan.

As recommended by Piaget, the author challenged her students and was a guide and facilitator rather than a lecturer. She made the students work together and find answers and solutions to the problems posed. She also trusted Vygotsky and Dewey in assuming that learners are social individuals and place-based education helps “students connect with their particular corners of the world” (Woodhouse and Knapp, [9]).

The walk demonstrates interaction of teenagers with and in space: it inspects the particular characteristics of a place, it is cross-curricular and intrinsically empirical, and it forms a relation between place, self and community (Woodhouse and Knapp, [9]). It also uses local environment to make students active citizens, contributing to the society (compare [7], p.7).
ICL2017 Highlights
Authors: Simonics Istvan
Published: May 2018

The theme of ICL2017 Conference was "Teaching and Learning in a Digital World". The event was held in Budapest, Hungary September 27-29, 2017 (http://www.icl-conference.org/icl2017/). ICL2017 was the 20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning and 46th IGIP International Conference on Engineering Pedagogy. ICL2017 was organized in cooperation with Ã“buda University, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) and International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP).
Shaping the Digital Future in Education – Together
Authors: Martin Dale Andre
Published: May 2018

The theme of ICL2017 conference of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy held in September was “Teaching and Learning in the Digital World”. The topic is particularly relevant today as digitalization – together with globalization, urbanization, demographic changes and climate change – has become one of the megatrends shaping our world. Between 2000 and 2014 globalization almost doubled the volume of the world commerce. By 2050 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in cities. Digitalization influences practically everything, global economy – from industry through healthcare – and also our society. The world has never been as connected as now.
APPROPRIATE DURATION OF INTRAVENOUS TREATMENT OF CANDIDEMIA AND TIMING OF STEP DOWN TO ORAL THERAPY IN NON-NEUTROPENIC PATIENTS
Authors: Wilson Dib Rita , Hachem Ray , Chaftari Anne-Marie P , Raad Issam I
Published: May 2018

In this review we have analyzed the available literature pertaining to the total duration of intravenous (IV) therapy and the appropriate timing of step down to oral therapy in the management of candidemia. Overview of the guidelines and literature seem to indicate that a minimum of 14 days of antifungal therapy is required in the treatment of candidemia without deep seated infection. However, this was never based on evidence. Furthermore, step down to oral therapy seems to be dependent on the clinical stability criteria of the patient with candidemia after 4 to 7 days of IV therapy.  Further studies are required to evaluate the appropriate total duration of IV therapy, appropriate timing of step down to oral therapy and to validate the clinical criteria that would allow the switch to happen.
Parasitic hypereosinophilia in childhood: a diagnostic challenge
Authors: Antonucci Roberto , Vacca Nadia , Boz Giulia , Locci Cristian , Mannazzu Rosanna , Cherchi Claudio , Lai Giacomo , Fozza Claudio
Published: May 2018

Severe hypereosinophilia (HE) in children is rare, and its etiological diagnosis is challenging. We describe a case of a 30-month-old boy, living in a rural area, who was admitted to our Clinic with a 7-day history of fever and severe hypereosinophilia. A comprehensive diagnostic work-up could not identify the cause of this condition. On day 6, the rapidly increasing eosinophil count (maximum value of 56,000/mm3), the risk of developing hypereosinophilic syndrome, and the patient’s history prompted us to undertake an empiric treatment with albendazole.The eosinophil count progressively decreased following treatment. On day 13, clinical condition and hematological data were satisfactory, therefore the treatment was discontinued and the patient was discharged. Three months later, anti-nematode IgG antibodies were detected in patient serum, thus establishing the etiological diagnosis. In conclusion, an empiric anthelmintic treatment seems to be justified when parasitic hypereosinophilia is strongly suspected, and other causes have been excluded.
Mosquito Infectivity and Parasitemia after Controlled Human Malaria Infection
Authors: Walk Jona , van Gemert Geert-Jan , Graumans Wouter , Sauerwein Robert W. , Bijker Else M.
Published: May 2018

Controlled Human Malaria Infection (CHMI) has become an increasingly important tool for the evaluation of drugs and vaccines. Controlled Human Malaria Infection has been demonstrated to be a reproducible model; however, there is some variability in time to onset of parasitemia between volunteers and studies. At our center, mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium falciparum by membrane feeding have variable and high salivary gland sporozoite load (mean 78,415; range 26,500–160,500). To determine whether this load influences parasitemia after CHMI, we analyzed data from 13 studies. We found no correlation between the sporozoite load of a mosquito batch and time to parasitemia or parasite density of first-wave parasitemia. These findings support the use of infected mosquito bite as a reproducible means of inducing P. falciparum infection and suggest that within this range, salivary gland sporozoite load does not influence the stringency of a CHMI.
Aprendiendo con Mies. El espacio universal de Louis Rocah
Authors: Garcia-Requejo Zaida
Published: May 2018

La labor educativa ejercida por Mies van der Rohe como Director del Departamento de Arquitectura del Illinois Institute of Technology hizo posible que las aulas de la escuela se convirtiesen en un laboratorio de ideas en el que se experimentaron soluciones que tuvieron gran influencia en su obra construida posterior. Muchos de los alumnos que se formaron bajo su doctrina contribuyeron con sus proyectos fin de máster a un proceso continuo de búsqueda de nuevas propuestas estructurales. El artículo presenta el trabajo desarrollado por Louis Israel Rocah como proyecto de tesis fin de máster para la obtención del título de posgrado en el Illinois Institute of Technology. Su propuesta para una iglesia aconfesional, defendida en junio de 1953, se identifica como una evolución del proyecto no construido de Mies para la Casa 50x50’, en el que se plantea ya un espacio universal de planta cuadrada de mayores dimensiones que el proyecto de vivienda, resuelto con un emparrillado metálico apoyado en dos apoyos en cada uno de los lados. 