The COVID-19 pandemic represented a unique information seeking and sharing context for billions o... more The COVID-19 pandemic represented a unique information seeking and sharing context for billions of Internet users across the globe. Although previous research has established that people often seek health information on the Internet, including through social media platforms, there was a political element to pandemic responses that is not typical of health issues such as seasonal influenza or heart conditions. This unique context, in conjunction with the public posting of the novel coronavirus DNA by Chinese scientists in January 2020, begs for analysis of how people used social media in the early phase of the pandemic to make sense of the role of genetics in COVID-19. This study represents such an analysis as a qualitative content analysis of Facebook posts concerning genetics and COVID-19. Data were collected from March through August of 2020 to identify how genetics issues were being shared on Facebook and the types of accounts that were sharing that information. Through analysis, four themes emerged representing Facebook posts about genetics and COVID-19: disease risk, testing, vaccines, and virus characteristics. These posts appeared on eight types of accounts, with five of those representing 88% of the data: education, health, lifestyle, news, and political. Results are interpreted with constructs from media dependency theory and implications for future research are presented.
Joseph Herkert, Arizona State University Polytechnic Joseph Herkert, D. Sc., P.E., is Lincoln Ass... more Joseph Herkert, Arizona State University Polytechnic Joseph Herkert, D. Sc., P.E., is Lincoln Associate Professor of Ethics and Technology at Arizona State University. He has taught engineering ethics and related courses for more than twenty years. His work on engineering ethics has appeared in engineering, law, social science, and applied ethics journals. Dr. Herkert is the past Editor of IEEE Technology & Society and a founding Associate Editor of Engineering Studies. He received his BSEE from Southern Methodist University and his doctorate in Engineering and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis. He has been honored for his contributions by the ASEE Liberal Education Division and the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology.
This study investigated translated and non-translated parent-professional meetings regarding chil... more This study investigated translated and non-translated parent-professional meetings regarding children with disabilities. Decision-making meeting transcripts were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed for content and process. Results reveal that elements of the professional system ...
Page 327. Conclusion Moving Forward with Communicative Perspectives on Organizational Knowledge R... more Page 327. Conclusion Moving Forward with Communicative Perspectives on Organizational Knowledge Robert D. McPhee, Heather E. Canary, and Joel O. Iverson This volume displays many ways that communication ideas ...
PURPOSE To explore the processes of community reintegration of children and families at least one... more PURPOSE To explore the processes of community reintegration of children and families at least one year following a paediatric brain injury from the perspective of caregivers and outpatient/community service providers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews from outpatient or community service providers (N = 14; occupational, physical, and speech and language therapists, neuropsychologists, school counsellors, recreational providers) and caregivers of six children (N = 8) at least one year after their injury. Interviews were transcribed and thematically coded using deductive (employing Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory) and inductive approaches. RESULTS Themes from both providers and caregivers indicated additional supports needed at all levels of Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory (i.e., individual, microsystem, mesosystem/exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem). Participants felt that several characteristics would be needed...
Recent research of healthcare providers identifies the critical role that professional identity p... more Recent research of healthcare providers identifies the critical role that professional identity plays in the provision of healthcare, interactions within healthcare teams, and healthcare provider perceptions of their work. However, much remains to be known regarding the role of professional identity in routine interactions for emerging healthcare professionals. This study enriches understandings of this particular issue by exploring pediatric residents' experiences with a structured hand-off tool at a children's hospital in the western United States. This study employed qualitative interview methods and iterative interpretive qualitative data analysis. Participants were 20 residents in a children's hospital. Data analysis indicated that the discourses that disseminate negotiations of face can, and often do, take place during patient hand-off, as the statements exchanged between team members can maintain or threaten face and professional identity. We suggest that shifts i...
IntroductionFinancial conflicts of interest (COI) in research exist when an investigator potentia... more IntroductionFinancial conflicts of interest (COI) in research exist when an investigator potentially benefits financially from the research in which that individual is involved. One common conflict occurs when an investigator establishes a financial relationship with an industry partner through receipt of industry-sponsored research, gifts, or remuneration from consultation, speaking engagements, etc. Several studies suggest that industry partnerships can cause conscious or subconscious bias on study design, data collection and analysis, and reporting of results, no matter the nature of the relationship (Bekelman, Li, & Gross, 2003; Berger, 2015; BesRastrollo, Schulze, Ruiz-Canela, 8>c Martinez-Gonzalez, 2013; Lexchin, Bero, Djulbegovic, & Clark, 2003; Sah & Fugh-Berman, 2013). Another common conflict of interest occurs when an investigator generates intellectual property through research. Generating intellectual property alone does not cause a financial conflict of interest, but...
The script of parenting shifts when parents learn of their child’s Down syndrome diagnosis. To bu... more The script of parenting shifts when parents learn of their child’s Down syndrome diagnosis. To build a theory of the diagnostic experience and early family sense-making process, we interviewed 33 parents and nine grandparents living in the United States who learned prenatally or neonatally of their child’s diagnosis. The core category of rescuing hope for the future encompassed the social process of sense-making over time as parents managed their sorrow, shock, and grief and amassed meaningful messages that anchored them as they looked toward the future. Application of the theory to practice underscores the import of early professional support offered to parents at key points in the sense-making process: Early as they disclose the news of the diagnosis to family and friends, and later close friends and kin assimilate meaningful messages about what the diagnosis means as they recalibrate expectations for a hopeful future.
The COVID-19 pandemic represented a unique information seeking and sharing context for billions o... more The COVID-19 pandemic represented a unique information seeking and sharing context for billions of Internet users across the globe. Although previous research has established that people often seek health information on the Internet, including through social media platforms, there was a political element to pandemic responses that is not typical of health issues such as seasonal influenza or heart conditions. This unique context, in conjunction with the public posting of the novel coronavirus DNA by Chinese scientists in January 2020, begs for analysis of how people used social media in the early phase of the pandemic to make sense of the role of genetics in COVID-19. This study represents such an analysis as a qualitative content analysis of Facebook posts concerning genetics and COVID-19. Data were collected from March through August of 2020 to identify how genetics issues were being shared on Facebook and the types of accounts that were sharing that information. Through analysis, four themes emerged representing Facebook posts about genetics and COVID-19: disease risk, testing, vaccines, and virus characteristics. These posts appeared on eight types of accounts, with five of those representing 88% of the data: education, health, lifestyle, news, and political. Results are interpreted with constructs from media dependency theory and implications for future research are presented.
Joseph Herkert, Arizona State University Polytechnic Joseph Herkert, D. Sc., P.E., is Lincoln Ass... more Joseph Herkert, Arizona State University Polytechnic Joseph Herkert, D. Sc., P.E., is Lincoln Associate Professor of Ethics and Technology at Arizona State University. He has taught engineering ethics and related courses for more than twenty years. His work on engineering ethics has appeared in engineering, law, social science, and applied ethics journals. Dr. Herkert is the past Editor of IEEE Technology & Society and a founding Associate Editor of Engineering Studies. He received his BSEE from Southern Methodist University and his doctorate in Engineering and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis. He has been honored for his contributions by the ASEE Liberal Education Division and the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology.
This study investigated translated and non-translated parent-professional meetings regarding chil... more This study investigated translated and non-translated parent-professional meetings regarding children with disabilities. Decision-making meeting transcripts were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed for content and process. Results reveal that elements of the professional system ...
Page 327. Conclusion Moving Forward with Communicative Perspectives on Organizational Knowledge R... more Page 327. Conclusion Moving Forward with Communicative Perspectives on Organizational Knowledge Robert D. McPhee, Heather E. Canary, and Joel O. Iverson This volume displays many ways that communication ideas ...
PURPOSE To explore the processes of community reintegration of children and families at least one... more PURPOSE To explore the processes of community reintegration of children and families at least one year following a paediatric brain injury from the perspective of caregivers and outpatient/community service providers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews from outpatient or community service providers (N = 14; occupational, physical, and speech and language therapists, neuropsychologists, school counsellors, recreational providers) and caregivers of six children (N = 8) at least one year after their injury. Interviews were transcribed and thematically coded using deductive (employing Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory) and inductive approaches. RESULTS Themes from both providers and caregivers indicated additional supports needed at all levels of Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory (i.e., individual, microsystem, mesosystem/exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem). Participants felt that several characteristics would be needed...
Recent research of healthcare providers identifies the critical role that professional identity p... more Recent research of healthcare providers identifies the critical role that professional identity plays in the provision of healthcare, interactions within healthcare teams, and healthcare provider perceptions of their work. However, much remains to be known regarding the role of professional identity in routine interactions for emerging healthcare professionals. This study enriches understandings of this particular issue by exploring pediatric residents' experiences with a structured hand-off tool at a children's hospital in the western United States. This study employed qualitative interview methods and iterative interpretive qualitative data analysis. Participants were 20 residents in a children's hospital. Data analysis indicated that the discourses that disseminate negotiations of face can, and often do, take place during patient hand-off, as the statements exchanged between team members can maintain or threaten face and professional identity. We suggest that shifts i...
IntroductionFinancial conflicts of interest (COI) in research exist when an investigator potentia... more IntroductionFinancial conflicts of interest (COI) in research exist when an investigator potentially benefits financially from the research in which that individual is involved. One common conflict occurs when an investigator establishes a financial relationship with an industry partner through receipt of industry-sponsored research, gifts, or remuneration from consultation, speaking engagements, etc. Several studies suggest that industry partnerships can cause conscious or subconscious bias on study design, data collection and analysis, and reporting of results, no matter the nature of the relationship (Bekelman, Li, & Gross, 2003; Berger, 2015; BesRastrollo, Schulze, Ruiz-Canela, 8>c Martinez-Gonzalez, 2013; Lexchin, Bero, Djulbegovic, & Clark, 2003; Sah & Fugh-Berman, 2013). Another common conflict of interest occurs when an investigator generates intellectual property through research. Generating intellectual property alone does not cause a financial conflict of interest, but...
The script of parenting shifts when parents learn of their child’s Down syndrome diagnosis. To bu... more The script of parenting shifts when parents learn of their child’s Down syndrome diagnosis. To build a theory of the diagnostic experience and early family sense-making process, we interviewed 33 parents and nine grandparents living in the United States who learned prenatally or neonatally of their child’s diagnosis. The core category of rescuing hope for the future encompassed the social process of sense-making over time as parents managed their sorrow, shock, and grief and amassed meaningful messages that anchored them as they looked toward the future. Application of the theory to practice underscores the import of early professional support offered to parents at key points in the sense-making process: Early as they disclose the news of the diagnosis to family and friends, and later close friends and kin assimilate meaningful messages about what the diagnosis means as they recalibrate expectations for a hopeful future.
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