Xhosalising English? Negotiating meaning and identity in Economics

Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire.

Sexuality is generally considered an important aspect of self-hood. Therefore, individuals who do not experience sexual attraction, and embrace an asexual identity are in a unique position to inform the social construction of sexuality. This study explores the experiences of asexual individuals utilizing open ended Internet survey data from 102 self-identified asexual people. In this paper I de...

Negotiating Trust in Identity Metasystem

Many federated identity management systems have been proposed to solve the problem of authorizing users across security domains. Although these solutions attempt to follow the user-centric design approach to empower users by letting them make important decisions on whether to release sensitive information, they do not provide much help to users in making good decisions. More importantly, privac...

MEANING MEDIATING MECHANISM Prototype for constructing and negotiating meaning in collaborative design

Architectural Design and Construction Planning involves the integration of diverse, sometimes conflicting criteria into a coherent solution. This paper presents a theoretical framework of information flow in design, called ‘filter mediated design’, that explores a method for negotiating architectural design and construction planning across domains, by examining issues of perception, generation ...

Managing Organizational Change: Negotiating Meaning and Power-Resistance Relations

Theoretical developments in the analysis of organizations have recently turned to an “organizational becoming” perspective, which sees the social world as enacted in the micro-context of communicative interactions among individuals through which meaning is negotiated. According to this view, organizational change is endemic, natural and ongoing; it occurs in every-day interactions as actors eng...

Disability and Identity: Negotiating Self in a Changing Society