The challenge to provide a nation-wide healthcare service continues unabated in the 21st century as politicians and managers drive through policies to modernize the UK National Health Service (NHS). Established around 60 years ago to offer free healthcare at the point of delivery to all citizens, the NHS now accounts for the largest portion of public expenditure after social security, with tota...

Every night, traditional Irish musicians gather in sessions at pubs and other public spaces to play tunes together. Each public space has its own tradition and history: i.e., context, players, repertoire, styles, etc. Moreover, this tradition is temporally situated; for example, tunes go in and out of fashion. Yet, tunes themselves are mobile—they travel from session to session via recordings, ...

News work conducted more like business creates clashes between the journalistic and managerial professional ethos of editors. While journalists’ includes values self-regulation, autonomy, public service, managerialism promotes ideals, measurable outcomes, organizational efficiency—values that journalism is claimed to support. This article aims show how editors negotiate their work-related at ju...

This study provided a comparative analysis of three social network sites, the open-to-all Facebook, the professionally oriented LinkedIn and the exclusive, members-only ASmallWorld.The analysis focused on the underlying structure or architecture of these sites, on the premise that it may set the tone for particular types of interaction.Through this comparative examination, four themes emerged, ...

Th e aim of this paper is to describe and analyse attitudes and behaviours of the student population (N=1347) of the University of Rijeka towards environmental issues. Data were collected during the summer semester of the 2015/2016 academic year. Paper seeks to explore the connection between the following measured concepts: socio-ecological orientations, pro-environmental behaviour, ethos types...

Since Thomas Kuhn introduced the idea of incommensurable paradigms as contexts of inquiry, contextualist analyses of science have abounded. However, the ways in which local and disciplinary contexts of inquiry involve common goods remain largely unexplored. Collaborative research practices clearly depend on common goods: on the one hand, scientists work together in order to increase the good of...