Our objective was to explore how prospective altruistic kidney donors construct their decision to donate. Using a qualitative design and biographical-narrative semi-structured interviews, we aimed to produce text for analysis on two levels: the social implications for subjectivity and practice and a tentative psychodynamic explanation of the participants' psychological investment in the discour...

ABstRAct 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 ar-tifact development. First three academic discourses constructing user participa...

Recently, the Hungarian Geographical Bulletin – that had been a forum for introducing empirically focused papers covering various social and physical geographical issues for decades – became engaged increasingly in academic discourses on socio-spatial inequalities, embracing various approaches and problems with diff erent scalar foci. The theoretical and methodological diversity that ranged fro...

cultural world is a network of presuppositions which is intuitively present behind the consciousness of iranian thinkers like an indisputable, unanalyzable, general background. this network of constructive rules forms the modern iranian political discourses which are studied in this paper in terms of progressivist, identity-seeking, and contemporary political discourses. each of the above polit...

The aim of this article is to develop knowledge and understanding that supports critical conceptual interventions in design innovation theory practice. Existing discourses are dissonant paradoxical, for example positioning as at once value-free virtuous. We explain various instances dissonance by establishing relationships between modes design, discourses, systems. map interpret four revealing ...

The primary goal of the paper is to examine how Turkish and Russian Governments are using term terrorist in their diplomatic communication towards Syrian conflict. Following introduction, study outlines theoretical framework – namely securitisation theory –, then presents a concept terrorism, which focusing on instrumentalisation label discursive processes. Henceforward, attempts accomplish afo...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to connect two discourses, the discourse of cybernetics and that of