City University London

About: City University London is a education organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 5735 authors who have published 17285 publications receiving 453290 citations.

Conceptions of “information poverty” in LIS: a discourse analysis

Abstract: Purpose – To provide an analysis of the notion of “information poverty” in library and information science (LIS) by investigating concepts, interests and strategies leading to its construction and thus to examine its role as a constitutive element of the professional discourse.Design/methodology/approach – Starting from a Foucauldian notion of discourse, “information poverty” is examined as a statement in its relation to other statements in order to highlight assumptions and factors contributing to its construction. The analysis is based on repeated and close reading of 35 English language articles published in LIS journals between 1995 and 2005.Findings – Four especially productive discursive procedures are identified: economic determinism, technological determinism and the “information society”, historicising the “information poor”, and the library profession's moral obligation and responsibility.Research limitations/implications – The material selection is linguistically and geographically biased. Most...

Combining Logics to Transform Organizational Agency: Blending Industry and Art at Alessi

Abstract: To understand how organizations combine conflicting institutional logics strategically to create and pursue new market opportunities, we conducted an in-depth longitudinal study of the multiple eff...

Approval Ratings of Inpatient Coercive Interventions in a National Sample of Mental Health Service Users and Staff in England

Abstract: Objective: To ascertain the degree of approval amongst service users and staff for various coercive measures commonly used in acute mental health care. Methods: A cross-sectional design was adopted. The Attitudes to Containment Measures Questionnaire (ACMQ) was completed by 1,361 service users and 1,226 staff in acute care mental health services from three regions of England. This provided evaluation of eleven coercive measures (e.g. seclusion) on six dimensions of approval (e.g. indignity, safety) in a large national sample. Comparisons between groups were tested using independent samples t-tests, χ2 or Spearman correlations. Results: Both service users and staff disapproved strongly of mechanical restraint and expressed a relative preference for compulsory intramuscular medication and seclusion. Male staff, older service users and staff who had been involved in implementing coercion expressed greater approval of coercive measures. Conclusion: Mechanical restraint remains highly objectionable to staff and service users in English mental health services despite its widespread acceptance elsewhere in the world.

A systematic review of interprofessional education

Abstract: This article reports the process and outcomes of a systematic review of the evidence base for the effectiveness of interprofessional education, conducted using the guidelines for systematic review developed by the Cochrane Collaboration, whose function is described. Electronic databases (Medline and CINAHL) were searched using a combination of terms for rigorous study designs and for interprofessional education. We found 552 articles indexed with these terms from CINAHL and 510 from Medline. Two researchers reviewed each abstract independently. In total, the reviewers selected 39 articles from Medline and 44 from CINAHL which, on the basis of their abstracts, appeared to meet the criteria for our specific subject and for adequacy of quantitative research method. We obtained the full texts and two reviewers read each article independently. None of these articles were eligible for inclusion in the review, most failing to meet the Cochrane Collaboration methodological criteria. We conclude that no rigorous q...

On the Forgetting of Corporate Irresponsibility

Abstract: Why are some serious cases of corporate irresponsibility collectively forgotten? Drawing on social memory studies, we examine how this collective forgetting process can occur. We propose that a major instance of corporate irresponsibility leads to the emergence of a stakeholder mnemonic community that shares a common recollection of the past incident. This community generates and then draws on mnemonic traces to sustain a collective memory of the past event over time. In addition to the natural entropic tendency to forget, collective memory is also undermined by instrumental “forgetting work,” which we conceptualize in this article. Forgetting work involves manipulating short-term conditions of the event, silencing vocal “rememberers,” and undermining collective mnemonic traces that sustain a version of the past. This process can result in a reconfigured collective memory and collective forgetting of corporate irresponsibility events. Collective forgetting can have positive and negative consequences for t...