The paper focuses on the potential of a work based Personal Learning Environment. It examines relations, context, actions and learning discourses in line with Vygotsky’s sociocultural approach to cognitive development, working on the assumption that “action is mediated and cannot be separated from the milieu in which it is carried out” (Wertsch, 1991). The key aspect of learning discourses it t...

a bstr act Prominent positions in the contemporary theoretical field of the humanities tend to conceptualize late modern communities in general as aes­ thetic communities of taste. In regard to political communities, this means reducing the political to an implication of the aesthetic discourse. This article argues for addressing the aesthetic and the political as distinct discourses that are, ...

A day after the London 2012 Bid Committee succeeded in bringing the Olympic Games to Britain using the slogan “the world in one city”, a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks occurred across London (7/7). In one day, Britain’s somewhat beleaguered multiculturalism went from prompting national celebrations to being decried as “dead” by politicians and commentators alike. Against a backdrop ...

Background: Conveying instructions is an everyday use of language, and gestures are likely to be a key feature of this. Although co-speech iconic gestures are tightly integrated with language, and people with aphasia (PWA) produce procedural discourses impaired at a linguistic level, no previous studies have investigated how PWA use co-speech iconic gestures in these contexts. Aims: This study ...

Users should participate in information technology (IT) artifact development, but it has proven to be challenging. This applies also in the open source software (OSS) development. This chapter critically examines discursive construction of user participation in academic literatures and in practice, in IT artifact development. First three academic discourses constructing user participation are d...

Brand Management has during the 90s become a hot topic, the overriding perspective not only for marketing but also for stock market valuation of the whole company. Brand Managers claim to influence the positioning of the company and/or its products on the market. They also claim to create the identity of the product and to increase customer value. Another claim is to create emotional and symbol...

This paper aims at clarifying the relationship between life-world and information technology. The concept of a life-world, originally found in phenomenology, has been used as a central idea in the theories of Jürgen Habermas. The first part of the paper will give an outline of Habermas' theory of communicative action and what role the idea of a life-world plays therein. It will be shown that th...

This article aims to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of how tourism in Sápmi is positioned in the broader discourses that contribute to the construction of Sámi identities. This is done through examining how the tourism industry is represented in the ethno-political discourses in newspaper media. Employing a discourse analysis framework, we collected 165 articles from 29 major Swedis...

It is our belief that processes of innovation, if they shall lead to sustainable solutions, must be open for participation, clear and fair. They must be designed so that everyone, persons involved, affected or interested, can contribute to their issues in the most effective way. Action spaces must remain open, development and design options must be recognizable and usable. Innovation processes ...

Larn ed D ico u res Intent. The intent of Learned Discourses is to provide a forum for open discussion. These articles reflect the professional opinions of the authors regarding scientific issues. They do not represent SETAC positions or policies. And, although they are subject to editorial review for clarity, consistency, and brevity, these articles are not peer reviewed. The Learned Discourse...