3. Bodies of knowledge: lay and biomedical understandings of musculoskeletal disorders

Busby, Helen; Williams, Gareth; Rogers, Anne

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.00087

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“…In the process of filtering and assembling heterogeneous information through use of keywords, users first checked whether the information they found met their respective interests, confirming previous studies (Nettleton, Burrows, and O'Malley 2005;Adams, de Bont, and Berg 2006;Höcher 2008). Instead of evaluating websites as relevant or irrelevant per se, they rather interpreted the medical information in relation to their own thought styles, resembling case studies from the literature on critical PUS (Lambert and Rose 1996;Busby, Williams, and Rogers 1997). Having been asked how she evaluated medical websites, a young university employee, who searched for experiential knowledge, answered immediately: "Well, actually, if I find the information that I need there.…”

Section: Thought Styles Abstract and Evaluation Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Search Engines Matter: From Educating Users Towards Engaging with Online Health Information Practices

Mager

2012

Policy & Internet

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While the Internet is often discussed as empowering or endangering patients due to broadening access to medical and health-related information, little is known about the way patients actually get informed about medical conditions and how the technology shapes their practices. This article draws on 40 user observations and 40 qualitative interviews to explore how users employ the web to obtain knowledge about a chronic disease in the Austrian context. Following concepts from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) it explores how users' individual medical preferences and search engines' mechanisms of pre-filtering information co-shape online health information practices. The analysis demonstrates that search engines are not passive intermediaries, but rather actively shape how users browse through, select and evaluate health information in the context of their own bodies of knowledge. Accordingly, new skills are required on the part of users, but also on the part of medical professionals and policy makers. Both policy makers and doctors should engage with users' highly individual search practices and establish more dialogueoriented and technology-focused health policy measures, rather than trying to educate users with standardized quality criteria for websites not responding to users' online routines and needs.

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Section: Thought Styles Abstract and Evaluation Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Search Engines Matter: From Educating Users Towards Engaging with Online Health Information Practices

Mager

2012

Policy & Internet

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“…Through highlighting the perspectives of parents, this paper contributes to previous research arguing that lay people possess expertise by virtue of their experientially acquired knowledge (Busby et al, 1997;Monaghan, 1999). I suggest here that knowledge learned within the private sphere can contribute to more inclusive forms of care that do not construct difference as a problem or an abnormality to be resolved through technical and assimilationist programmes.…”

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Experiential knowledge challenges ‘normality’ and individualized citizenship: towards ‘another way of being’

Fisher

2007

Disability & Society

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“…Such comments demonstrated the extent to which everyday understandings of the brain are used to make sense of findings [27, 28]:“Of course it’s nice to have a second language but I don’t beleive this science twaddle for one second. The human brain can only contain a finite amount of information and as English speakers we are fortunate not to need a secondary language.…”

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“…More importantly, readers’ comments illustrate how media audiences make sense of research findings. Personal experiences were especially dominant in shaping readers’ accounts of their (dis)agreements with the findings of Bak et al; deploying such experiences in commentaries can be seen as one way of establishing authority in commenting on the article [8], as well as of making sense of findings by integrating the results into existing knowledge [5, 7, 27, 36, 37]. Personal experiences were also drawn upon when investing ‘therapeutic promise’ in discovery science (e.g.…”

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The Movement of Research from the Laboratory to the Living Room: a Case Study of Public Engagement with Cognitive Science

2016

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Media reporting of science has consequences for public debates on the ethics of research. Accordingly, it is crucial to understand how the sciences of the brain and the mind are covered in the media, and how coverage is received and negotiated. The authors report here their sociological findings from a case study of media coverage and associated reader comments of an article (‘Does bilingualism influence cognitive aging?’) from Annals of Neurology. The media attention attracted by the article was high for cognitive science; further, as associates/members of the Centre where it was produced, the authors of the research reported here had rare insight into how the scientists responsible for the Annals of Neurology article interacted with the media. The data corpus included 37 news items and 228 readers’ comments, examined via qualitative thematic analysis. Media coverage of the article was largely accurate, without merely copying the press release. Analysis of reader comments showed these to be an important resource for considering issues of import to neuroethics scholars, as well as to scientists themselves (including how science communication shapes and is shaped by ethical, epistemic, and popular discourse). In particular, the findings demonstrate how personal experiences were vital in shaping readers’ accounts of their (dis)agreements with the scientific article. Furthermore, the data show how scientific research can catalyse political discussions in ways likely unanticipated by scientists. The analysis indicates the importance of dialogue between journalists, laboratory scientists and social scientists in order to support the communication of the messages researchers intend.

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3. Bodies of knowledge: lay and biomedical understandings of musculoskeletal disorders

Cited by 36 publications

References 45 publications

Search Engines Matter: From Educating Users Towards Engaging with Online Health Information Practices

Search Engines Matter: From Educating Users Towards Engaging with Online Health Information Practices

Experiential knowledge challenges ‘normality’ and individualized citizenship: towards ‘another way of being’

The Movement of Research from the Laboratory to the Living Room: a Case Study of Public Engagement with Cognitive Science

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