Lee, Carmen and Barton, David (2011) Constructing Glocal Identities through Multilingual Writing Practices on Flickr.com. International Multilingualism Research Journal, 5 (1). pp. 39-59.
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Background and Aims Investment in innovative health technologies has been a focus of increasing critical interest in the social sciences. With proponents of such systems expounding new techniques, a strong normative context emerges for their adoption. Informed by the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), this study focuses on the discourse used by charitable organizations involved in such investments and how their involvement contributes to the enrolment of vulnerable groups, such as cancer sufferers. A central concern of STS is the strategies scientists use when talking about their work. Methods of communication may often suggest there is only one possible solution to a perceived problem. Such determinism may be reflected in material used by fundraisers where technologies are discussed in a normative, deterministic and definitely desirable way. Charitable organizations in charge of fundraising may thus become deeply enrolled within programmes of development in which the legitimacy of knowledge claims and evidence production are difficult to examine.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Multilingualism Research Journal |
| Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language |
| ID Code: | 51454 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 24 Nov 2011 14:31 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 19:51 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/51454 |
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