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This presentation aims to show how diagnostic work is an integral part of safe, collaborative medical practices. The argument’s starting-point is the notion that collaborative accomplishments in health care practices are in fact extraordinary achievements and that diagnostic work plays a crucial role in this. The focus will be on the specific role of diagnostic work in establishing and sustaining collaborative action. I will explore the dynamic web of individuals and other actors, including devices and machines, with which they interact, on basis of an analysis of a commonly applied NICU procedure: intubation of an endo-tracheal tube, with the aim to gain insight into the role of diagnostic work in the coordination of ephemeral teamwork during complex situations in health care.

In medical settings ‘diagnosis’ generally refers to the identification of a disease. Diagnostic work as such involves a process of identifying the source of a particular illness and its potential hazards. Additionally, diagnosis is also geared to the hazards of medical intervention. The identification of problems is crucial for the prevention of incidents. Therefore doctors and nurses take care of errors and mistakes before problems can turn into unsafe situations. Further, by broadening the analytical scope, I would like to call attention to diagnostic work that has its focus outside the domain of problems and errors.This form of diagnosis is about the recognition of the overall task structure, the ability ‘to read’ the conduct of co-participants and the identification of opportunities for actions.  Although practices are impregnated with this ‘positive mode’ of diagnostic work, it is often invisible and has therefore been undertheorized in medical and nursing literature. By illuminating this kind of work in relation to teamwork, opportunities for strengthening critical care practices are opened up.

Jessica Mesman is visiting professor at Information and Media Studies in April to June 2009. She teaches Science and Technology Studies at Maastricht University. Her research interest include the anthropology of knowledge and empirical ethics in critical care medicine, particularly on issues on uncertainties and resources of resilience in patient safety. 

She is Director of Studies of the European Master Program on Society, Science and Technology (ESST) at the University of Maastricht. Currently she is also International Coordinator of the ESST Inter-University Association which offers this Master program. She is a member of the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC).

"The first generation of filmmakers  looked at life and made films. The second generation,  looked at life, looked at the films of the first generation  and made films. The third genera­tion  just watched the films of previous generations and made films. The fourth generation neither watches films or life and makes movies.  Mainly based on the technical possibilities."

Abbas Kiarostami

It's about time we got back to observing life as the essence of cinema. Films based on everyday life. Many serious critics, the advocates of cinema, will find this subject dull. They don’t realize that showing reality could get people thinking about their own actions and behavior, while seeing and accepting reality as it is. In this way, the viewer can complete the film by starting to reflect about himself or herself and on the world. The combination of filmmaker’s and viewer’s minds will then produce a film that will be more durable, original, beautiful than any film which aims to tell a story and to impress the viewer. By using examples taken from cinéma vérité and realism in fiction, we will see how. 

Tag på karrieremesse i Studenterhuset på havnen i Århus torsdag d. 23. april fra 10-16.

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Virksomhederne der er repræsenteret på messen, er udvalgt gennem kriterier om synlighed i forhold til miljømæssig og social ansvarlig ageren. Det er virksomheder som disse, vi tror på kan tilbyde dig en karriere med fremtid og ikke blot en fremtid med karriere.

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Seminar by Gaia Novati (Italy/Germany). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli.

User generated content (UGC) or perhaps more correct Consumer generated content (CGC) will be the starting point for analyzing and reflecting on how interaction with and within the Internet is developing nowadays.

In the Web 2.0 the end consumer is at ease, thanks to a structure that involves, or even more envelops, him/her. The consumer owns all the useful instruments to make him/her a creator, and can reach the ability to build up his/her own subculture by him/herself. The technological advance widely and quickly achieved in all 2.0 communities makes the online sex an enviable forerunner of. The web-cam was already used when the first steps in Facebook were made.

The market and consumption of porn becomes an avant-garde when connected with the development of technologies and new media: it is a privileged prospective from which to analyze the World Wide Web and social interrelationships. Moreover the enlargement of the web community shows a potential rise of sexscapes and desires:  any singular reflection on identity finds in the web an own dis-location.

Which Pornoscapes does the Net show nowadays? Are there any real alternatives to the porn industry’s billions of exploited and crude images crashing endlessly our mind?  Looking at the structure of the Internet today, can we still find free zones or criticaltools? Are the concepts of sharing and open source, with their roots in pre 2.0 development and thought, still part of a common cultural heritage, and consequently, part of an alternative pornography?

Modules

1) Introduction. Short explanation of gender theories, from the cyberfeminist theories to Queer-studies: Beatrize Preciado and the post-porn prospective.
2) Analysis of the current use and abuse of media in the construction of mass-porn.
3) An alternative prospective: examples showing how different networks or communities develop different sexscapes: porn artivism and porn activism.

Guest lecture by Professor Will Straw, The Department of Communication and Art History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.


About the lecture:
Straw will in this lecture talk about the 20th century development of a sensational press devoted to celebrities and human interest stories.
The talk will examine several revolutions in the sensational press:

• the urban newspaper revolution initiated with the New York Sun
• the “jazz journalism” of the 1920s
• the wave of supermarket tabloids launched in the late 1950s
• the enormous success of People magazine in the 1970s

Drawing on examples from the United States, Canada and Mexico, this illustrated talk will show how different varieties of the sensational newspaper have used gossip, crime, corruption and human behavior in their production of sensation.

- Hovedtendenser i medieudviklingen efter år 2000

Medialiseringsbegrebet bruges ofte til at karakterisere mediernes selv­stæn­dig­­gørelse og brugen af medier i stadig flere sammenhænge. Jeg vil i fore­læs­ningen tage udgangspunkt i centrale teorier om medialisering (fx Win­fried Schultz, Friedrich Krotz, Stig Hjarvard, Nick Couldry) og diskutere de nye mediers betydning for forholdet mellem medier, virksomheder og borgere. Hvad betyder fx den sænkede adgangstærskel til det offentlige rum? Den trinløse integration af medier i hverdagslivet? Hvordan er det med relationen gamle / nye medier, hvilken rolle spiller de gamle medier som aktører og drivkræfter på nettet?  Hvad betyder de sociale netværk-steder og nye forret­nings­modeller for udnyttelse af brugerskabt indhold? Jeg vil i fore­læsningen argumentere for at de nye medier indebærer en udvidet medialisering, der på flere punkter går ud over det etablerede mediali­serings­­begreb.