Public and Private Priorities in Managing Time in Genetic Research: The Icelandic deCode Case

Wieting, Stephen G.

doi:10.1525/si.2002.25.3.271

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“…First, as shown in many studies (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff 1997; Häyrinen‐Alestalo, Snell, and Peltola 2000; Slaughter and Leslie 1997), science and technology policy debates on the subject of global competitiveness have reached academia in many countries, resulting in closer interaction among universities, governments, and industries. In this context, small Nordic countries such as Iceland (Ólafsson 1998; Wieting 2002) and Finland (Häyrinen‐Alestalo, Snell, and Peltola 2000; Kaukonen and Nieminen 1999; Miettinen 2002) have become all the more enterprising in their efforts to secure their economic competitiveness in the global marketplace, for instance, by channeling funding into potentially lucrative research areas, including biotechnology and molecular biology. During the mid‐1980s, Finnish biotechnological research suffered from several disadvantages, such as undersized research groups, insufficient project funding, defective instrumentalities, and a lack of specialists (Academy of Finland 1987).…”

Section: The University Department As a Complex Ecology Of Disciplinesmentioning

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When Disciplinary Worlds Collide: The Organizational Ecology of Disciplines in a University Department

Tuunainen

2005

Symbolic Interaction

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This study draws from the social world perspective to examine the relationships between scientific disciplines (i.e., molecular biology, plant physiology, agronomy, horticulture, and agroecology) at a university department in the field of plant production research. The interview data obtained in the study revealed that the complex organizational ecology of disciplines in the department involved four sources of conflict: (1) a challenge of the established departmental research tradition of agronomy, (2) a struggle over working space, (3) the extension into the department of an ethical‐ideological controversy over genetically modified organisms, and (4) the anchoring of disciplines to different organizational units of the university. Thus, instead of facilitating the synergistic potential of the disciplines, the organizational arrangements at the university blocked it. From this perspective, the study challenges, but does not refute, previous symbolic interactionist research by suggesting that conflicts may function as valuable analytic devices in revealing how formal organizational structures hinder the achievement of social order at the working level.

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Section: The University Department As a Complex Ecology Of Disciplinesmentioning

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When Disciplinary Worlds Collide: The Organizational Ecology of Disciplines in a University Department

Tuunainen

2005

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“…Further, having control over the meanings and truths of the past is a powerful position, for it defines in part how we think of the present (Wieting, 2002). Due to the power associated with it, controlling how populations think of the past is a point of continual struggle, and multiple pasts are generated within each generation.…”

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Identity negotiation on Facebook.com

Farquhar¹

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This study examines identity presentations on the online social networking site, Facebook.com. The two-phase research design includes a period of participant observation of a sample of 346 college students and recent graduates followed by an interview period with a sample subset of 48 interviewees. The study analyzes key performance components on the site using a symbolic interaction perspective, to determine common characteristics of Facebook profiles, importance of performance components, and categories of identity performance. Identity performance components are broken into two general categories, static and dynamic. Dynamic components, those that are updated frequently and drive much of the activity online, are far more important in terms of identity performance. Dynamic components on Facebook found to be important in this study are status updates, use of bumper stickers and pieces of flair, giving gifts, and photos. Analysis of these components supports the symbolic interaction literature in general and the works of George H. Mead specifically. The Facebook news feed allows Facebookers to continually observe identity performances of others as well as to give and receive feedback on performances. This continual flow of information allows for the development of a generalized other, used as the basis for anticipating reactions from others to potential activity. Based on these anticipations, in an effort to reduce misinterpretations, Facebookers develop exaggerated performances that serve to distinguish in-groups from out-groups. knowing when to point the way, knowing when to let me find my own way, and, most importantly, maintaining calm through this whole process. Next, I'd like to thank the remainder of my committee, Mark Andrejevic, Dan Berkowitz, Frank Durham, Jane Singer, and Steve Wieting, for their great assistance throughout my years at Iowa, first in the classroom and later in helping me navigate the areas of my research. Lastly, I would like to thank everyone who has helped me along the way. This list is far too long to present here, but you know who you are. The kindness, friendship, and instruction offered by classmates, the J-School faculty and staff, faculty and staff outside the department, and everyone else whose path crossed with mine during my time at Iowa will not be forgotten. Thank you.

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Public and Private Priorities in Managing Time in Genetic Research: The Icelandic deCode Case

Cited by 2 publications

References 42 publications

When Disciplinary Worlds Collide: The Organizational Ecology of Disciplines in a University Department

When Disciplinary Worlds Collide: The Organizational Ecology of Disciplines in a University Department

Identity negotiation on Facebook.com

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