Extending an emerging body of work documenting the migration of technical production models into other domains of social activity, this article analyzes how “open source” works at the levels of both practice and ideology. Through interviews and analysis of public documents relating to Howard Dean’s run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2003–2004, this article reveals how many Intern...

identification of the factors causing change in policy process plays an important role in implementing healthy policy process. narrative policy framework introduces new concepts and tools to identify the factors causing policy change. one of the important variables in narrative policy framework is narrative structure. narrative structure has so many elements which the main one is plot. plot lin...

The present article investigates explanations for gendered trends in Physics and Engineering access, reporting findings from a large-scale study funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and drawing primarily on data from interviews with 132 15-16 year-old adolescents and their parents. Survey results in our study and elsewhere show strong gender disparities in anticipated pursuit o...

the present study has objectively investigated and reviewed 164 managers, employees and workers of tuka steel investment holding company (tsih co.) as one of the most successful companies in iran's steel industry. the survey approach has been adopted to serve the following purposes of this study: a) to define the prevailing organizational culture in steel industry; and b) to review alignment do...

Knowledge transfer has been an important issue for organizational knowledge management programs. This article reviews the plethora of user-generated video activity and the issues it creates for knowledge management activities. Video’s media richness combined with its ability to convey rich narratives can facilitate sensemaking and learning. However, structure and culture are important factors t...

PURPOSE To verify the use of conjunctions in narratives, and to investigate the influence of stimuli's complexity over the type of conjunctions used by children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children with typical language development. METHODS Participants were 40 children (20 with typical language development and 20 with SLI) with ages between 7 and 10 years, paired by age range...

OBJECTIVE Previous research examining self-concept differentiation (SCD) has been characterized by (a) a focus on behavioral traits and (b) the conflation of mean-level and inter-contextual differentiation. In two studies, we considered non-conflated measures of SCD at the three levels of personality description in relation to adjustment. METHOD In Study 1, participants completed measures of ...

This study examined transportation effects of first- and third-person narratives as well as the role of transportation in the persuasion process. In particular, the authors evaluated the role of transportation in affecting cognitive and affective responses. Last, they addressed the relation between (a) cognitive and affective responses and (b) antidrug expectancies. Participants were 500 underg...

Please cite this article in press as: Karapanos, E. Comput. (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intc With the increasing sophistication of mobile computing, a growing interest has been paid to locative media that aim at providing immersive experiences. Location aware narratives are a particular kind of locative media that aim at ‘‘telling stories that unfold in real space’’. This paper presents...

What is the role of the artist in re-creating a cultural landscape where the psychology and identity are shaped by multiple narratives of wars? the author’s art practice attempts to demonstrate the role of digital media in providing a platform for visual representation of multiple narratives. Article Frontispiece. Destruction N° 3, mixed media and human blood, digital print, 40 cm × 53 cm, 2003...