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- Sjögren, Hanna, 1984-, et al.
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Configurations of school-choosing parents in informational material from Swedish municipalities
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Marketization of the Swedish educational system has included implementations of school choice since1992. Currently Swedish municipalities design and organize school choice systems locally, and since such authorities have extensive autonomy in Sweden the organization of school choice varies between municipalities.In this presentation, we examine variations in how parents of children are instructed to use municipalsystems for public school choice from pre-school to first grade. Our aim is to describe the different waysin which parents are ‘configured as users’ (Woolgar 1991) by school choice systems in manuals andinformational material digitally provided by municipalities.We draw on theoretical insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS) on how technical systemsshape their own (future) users by describing, instructing, scripting, and limiting interactions (Woolgar1991; Star 1990). We use the theoretical concept of ‘user scripts’ (Woolgar 1991) to analyse variations in how the users of school choice systems are imagined.We analyse materials from 33 municipalities through a close reading of online information provided tocitizens in their role as parents of children in pre-school who are about to start first grade. The selection- of municipalities is based on a representative sample pertaining to municipality size, location, and political majority.We find that different implementations of school choice systems create distinct configurations of parents as school choosers (nor not) pertaining to how different meanings of choice are conceptualized and scripted.Marketization signifies the performative processes under which markets are implemented, organizationsare adjusted, and identities are shaped to fit the logics of markets. Previous studies of how systems ofchoice are implemented show that the choosing citizen is enacted and configured in several ways (e.g.,Dabisch 2022; Sjögren 2023). This study sheds light on the work it takes to perform market-logics in education and the effects of such logics on ideas concerning the purpose of education.ReferencesDabisch, V. (2022). Which child to which school? How local politicians shape catchment areas, schoolchoice and diversity. European Educational Research Journal, 147490412211162.https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041221116252Sjögren, H. (2023) Unruly customers? How parents’ (in)actions trouble civil servants and local schoolchoice systems, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, DOI: 10.1080/00313831.2023.2250355Star, S. L. (1990). Power, technology and the phenomenology of conventions: on being allergic toonions. The Sociological Review, 38(1_suppl), 26-56.Woolgar, S. (1990). Configuring the user: the case of usability trials. The Sociological Review, 38(1_suppl), 58-99.
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- Cakici, Baki, 1984-, et al.
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A workflow for software development within computational epidemiology
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Computational Science. - : Elsevier. - 1877-7503. ; 2:3, s. 216-222
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A critical investigation into computational models developed for studying the spread of communicable disease is presented. The case in point is a spatially explicit micro-meso-macro model for the entire Swedish population built on registry data, thus far used for smallpox and for influenza-like illnesses. The lessons learned from a software development project of more than 100 person months are collected into a check list. The list is intended for use by computational epidemiologists and policy makers, and the workflow incorporating these two roles is described in detail.
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- Cakici, Baki, 1984-, et al.
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CASE : a framework for computer supported outbreak detection
- 2010
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Ingår i: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1472-6947. ; 10, s. 14-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: In computer supported outbreak detection, a statistical method is applied to a collection of cases to detect any excess cases for a particular disease. Whether a detected aberration is a true outbreak is decided by a human expert. We present a technical framework designed and implemented at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control for computer supported outbreak detection, where a database of case reports for a large number of infectious diseases can be processed using one or more statistical methods selected by the user. Results: Based on case information, such as diagnosis and date, different statistical algorithms for detecting outbreaks can be applied, both on the disease level and the subtype level. The parameter settings for the algorithms can be configured independently for different diagnoses using the provided graphical interface. Input generators and output parsers are also provided for all supported algorithms. If an outbreak signal is detected, an email notification is sent to the persons listed as receivers for that particular disease. Conclusions: The framework is available as open source software, licensed under GNU General Public License Version 3. By making the code open source, we wish to encourage others to contribute to the future development of computer supported outbreak detection systems, and in particular to the development of the CASE framework.
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- Cakici, Baki, 1984-
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Disease surveillance systems
- 2011
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Recent advances in information and communication technologies have made the development and operation of complex disease surveillance systems technically feasible, and many systems have been proposed to interpret diverse data sources for health-related signals. Implementing these systems for daily use and efficiently interpreting their output, however, remains a technical challenge. This thesis presents a method for understanding disease surveillance systems structurally, examines four existing systems, and discusses the implications of developing such systems. The discussion is followed by two papers. The first paper describes the design of a national outbreak detection system for daily disease surveillance. It is currently in use at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control. The source code has been licenced under GNU v3 and is freely available. The second paper discusses methodological issues in computational epidemiology, and presents the lessons learned from a software development project in which a spatially explicit micro-meso-macro model for the entire Swedish population was built based on registry data.
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- Cakici, Baki, et al.
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Risken är att att 500 miljoner kronor kastas bort på ny en folkräkning
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Ingår i: Sydsvenskan. ; :2023-04-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Mot bakgrund av kunskapsläget är vi förvånade över att regeringen och Sverigedemokraterna avser att driva igenom att Sverige ska genomföra en folkräkning utifrån nya metoder, skriver Baki Cakici, lektor vid IT-universitetet i Köpenhamn, och Hanna Sjögren biträdande lektor i pedagogik vid Malmö universitet.
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- Cakici, Baki, 1984-
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Sustainability through surveillance : ICT discourses in design documents
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Ingår i: Surveillance & Society. - : Queen's University Library. - 1477-7487. ; 11:1/2, s. 177-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, I examine design documents from three different ICT design and development projects. I argue that they present intersecting visions of sustainability entailing the wide-spread use of ICT, describe the properties of users compatible with such ICT, and provide ways of judging the users. In the design documents, the inhabitants are made individually responsible for living sustainably, and surveillance is positioned as integral to this future with the help of ICT. Underlying the visions, I identify a translation process that captures the traces of the inhabitants' lives, classifies them according to different criteria of sustainable living, and returns them to the tapestry of everyday life to convince the users to behave differently. In the discourses of these documents, surveillance translates the traces, and the translations exert new pressures on existing power relations.
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- Cakici, Baki, 1984-
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The Informed Gaze : On the Implications of ICT-Based Surveillance
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Information and communication technologies are not value-neutral. I examine two domains, public health surveillance and sustainability, in five papers covering: (i) the design and development of a software package for computer-assisted outbreak detection; (ii) a workflow for using simulation models to provide policy advice and a list of challenges for its practice; (iii) an analysis of design documents from three smart home projects presenting intersecting visions of sustainability; (iv) an analysis of EU-financed projects dealing with sustainability and ICT; (v) an analysis of the consequences of design choices when creating surveillance technologies. My contributions include three empirical studies of surveillance discourses where I identify the forms of action that are privileged and the values that are embedded into them. In these discourses, the presence of ICT entails increased surveillance, privileging technological expertise, and prioritising centralised forms of knowledge.
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