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- Bülow, Pia, et al.
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In dialogue with time : identity and illness in narratives about chronic fatigue
- 2003
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In: Narrative Inquiry. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1387-6740 .- 1569-9935. ; 13:1, s. 71-97
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- When we are stricken with an illness or some other affliction, the temporal frameworks that we take for granted in our everyday lives are overturned. Thus suffering and illnesses raise questions associated with temporality: were the past events necessary and unavoidable, could anything else have happened, and what will happen next? In this article we will discuss two intertwined problems that have to do with the organization of time in narratives about illness: the interviewee’s attempt to create an interview narrative and the researcher’s need to create a temporal order and coherence in the interview material properly founded in research. With a foothold in the literary scholars Morson’s and Bernstein’s theories about shadows of time we base our argument on an analysis of narratives given in interviews by people affected by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). The analysis shows various ways time can be used as a discursive tool to temporalize illness and suffering including temporalities that frequently go outside linear time perceptions by the use of “sideshadowings”. These various ways of temporalizing illness influence, for instance, factors like issues of responsibility and freedom of action. Findings like these indicate the importance of including the interviewees’ own temporalizations in the analysis of illness narratives in social science.
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- Bülow, Pia, et al.
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Patient school as a Way of Creating Meaning in a Contested Illness : The Case of CFS
- 2003
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In: Health. - : SAGE Publications. - 1363-4593 .- 1461-7196. ; 7:2, s. 227-249
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Creating meaning in a situation of contested illness like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is an interactive process. As an example of how meaning is created, a CFS patient school organized by a hospital clinic in Sweden is discussed. This school can be seen as both a school and a medically oriented activity. The presence of different frameworks provides an opportunity to use different perspectives to understand CFS. It makes it possible for the participating men and women to regard the illness both from the outside as a social object, from the inside through personal experiences and to put the diagnosis and suffering in a larger ‘sickness’ perspective. Consequently, a number of different interpretations are brought up and used to create meaning in a situation of illness. The patients/students are thus learning discursively to manage the illness at the same time as they examine different ways to interpret their experiences through this discursive activity.
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- Bülow, Pia, 1959-
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Sharing Experiences of Contested Illness by Storytelling
- 2004
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In: Discourse & Society. - : SAGE Publications. - 0957-9265 .- 1460-3624. ; 15:1, s. 33-53
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on audiotaped conversations from a patient school for adults suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, this article examines sharing experiences of illness as a mutual activity. The analysis shows that sharing experiences in this context is primarily of the narrative kind. Three main types of narratives were found: self-contained personal stories, orchestrated chained personal stories, and co-narrated collectivized stories. Through sharing three things seem to happen: (1) the participants jointly created experiential knowledge and a mutual image of the illness, (2) the individual sufferers could compare themselves to the jointly constructed image, (3) the active sharing of experience bestows a mutual confirmation of suffering irrespective of whether the individual’s experiences correspond or deviate from the common picture. Two parallel transitions seemed to occur: the transformation of personal experience into shared collectivized experiences and the transition when the individual sufferer perceives his/her private suffering through sharing experiences with co-sufferers.
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- Hydén, Lars-Christer, 1954-, et al.
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Tidens väv : om sjukdomsberättelser
- 2004
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In: TFL : tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 0282-7913. ; 33:3-4, s. 70-83:3/4, s. 70-83
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Winther Jørgensen, Marianne, 1966-
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Diskursanalytiske strategier
- 2001
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In: At begribe og bevæge kommunikationsprocesser. Om metoder i forskningspraksis. - Roskilde : Kommunikation, RUC. - 8773495212 ; , s. 231-257
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Askenäs, Linda, et al.
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Five Roles of an Information System : A Social Constructionist Approach to Analysing the Use of ERP Systems
- 2003
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In: Informing Science. - 1547-9684 .- 1521-4672. ; 6, s. 209-220
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents a novel way of thinking about how information systems are used in organisations.Traditionally, computerised information systems are viewed as objects. In contrast, by viewing the informationsystem as an actor, the understanding of the structuration process increases. The user, beinginfluenced by the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system and giving it an actor role, thereby alsoconfers agency on the ERP system; through its very use it influences actions and thus also the structure.Based on a case study of ERP use in an ABB company over a decade, five different roles played by theERP systems were identified. The ERP systems acted as Bureaucrat, Manipulator, Administrative assistant,Consultant or were dismissed (Dismissed) in the sense that intended users chose to avoid usingthem. These terms are defined in the full text.The purpose of this approach here is not to “animate” the information systems, to give them life or amind of their own, but rather to make explicit the socially constructed roles conferred on them by usersand others who are affected by them. On this basis, it is possible to suggest how the roles can help usopen up new areas of exploration concerning the fruitful use of IT.
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- Cederling, Ulf, et al.
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A Project Management Model Based on Shared Understanding
- 2000
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In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2000. - : IEEE. - 0769504930
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Traditionally in industrial system development, the total project is decomposed into phases. The result from one phase, normally a document or a system component, is passed to the phase(s) to follow. The deliverables from the "phases" are often prescribed in standards or corporate guidelines. This metaphor, where understanding is packaged into documents, has been a cornerstone for our educational systems as well as for organizing engineering or social development projects. It is assumed that the understanding once achieved by the author(s) of the document will be transferred to its reader(s). In three longitudinal case studies of industrial development projects, a new view has evolved. The analysis team develops a capability to answer questions occurring on the fly, rather than writing down answers to initially stated issues. Our aim is to define a model based upon developing and making available shared understanding. The paper presents a survey of the case studies. In a fourth project an embryo of the new system development model is being applied and evaluated.
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- Ekinge, Roland, et al.
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Organizational Knowledge as a Basis for the Management of Development Projects
- 2000
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents conclusions from longitudinal case studies on the industrial development of complex systems. The approach is to investigate whether the traditional document based development model can be replaced by on model built upon shared understanding in teams. The need for and use of supporting tools are also discussed
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