Background Stories Research Articles

Just a story? Leadership, lived experience and integrated care.

Integrated care is based around values of involvement and shared decision-making, but these are not often reflected within planning and implementation. Barriers include continued emphasis on professional and managerial perspectives, skills gaps on how best to engage people and communitiesand insufficient investment in involvement infrastructure. Despite such challenges, people with lived experience have still led changes in policy and services. Qualitative study involving 25participants with lived experience from 12countries. Participants shared their background stories and engaged in semistructured interviews relating to leadership identity, experience of influencingand personal learning. Transcripts were analysed through a framework approach informed by narrative principles. Participants were motivated by their own experiences and a wish to improve care for future individuals and communities. Sharing their story was often the entry point for such influencing. Participants gained skills and confidence in story telling despite a lack of support and development. Many felt comfortable being described as a leader whileothers rejected this identity and preferred a different title. No common alternative term to leader was identified. Influencing services required considerable personal cost but also led to new networks, skills developmentand satisfaction when change was achieved. Leadership within integrated care is often awarded to those with structural power related to management or clinical seniority. People with lived experience are though uniquely placed to identify what needs to change and can develop inspiring visions based around their personal stories. Claiming identity as leader can be challenging due to traditional notions of who is eligible to lead and unwillingness by professionals and managers to grant such identity. People with lived experience should be recognised as leaders of integrated care and have access to developmental opportunities and practical support to strengthen their skills, including that of storytelling. PATIENT ANDPUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: The research was instigated on the request of a community advisory board of people with lived experience who shaped its design, contributed to the analysisand informed the conclusions and implications.

Digital Storytelling in Political Marketing Communication Ganjar Pranowo and Anies Baswedan on Instagram Leading Up to the 2024 Presidential Election

The research has the objective to analyze the political marketing communication content on the Instagram accounts of Ganjar Pranowo and Anies Baswedan, as well as to analyze the aspect of digital storytelling. The researcher employed a visual content analysis method based on quantitative descriptive analysis of image types. The posts were categorized into 12 types of images. Additionally, we analyzed the digital storytelling elements in the uploads that featured the most image types. The outcomes indicate that Anies' digital storytelling strategy involves more interaction with his followers compared to Ganjar's strategy. The most frequently posted image type on the @aniesbaswedan account is campaign-related, which is suitable for political marketing communication efforts leading up to the 2024 presidential election. In contrast, the most frequently posted type of image on the @ganjar_pranowo account, background stories, is considered less appropriate for such purposes. Image types with themes suitable for the 2024 Presidential Election and presented in narrative form are likely to be more engaging, potentially encouraging followers to participate in exercising their voting rights

How language and agriculture promote culture- and peace-promoting norms.

Humans are predisposed to form in-groups and out-groups that are remarkably flexible in their definition due largely to the complex language that has evolved in them. Language has allowed for the creation of shared "background stories" that can unite people who do not know each other. Second, the discovery of agriculture has resulted in the critical need to negotiate boundaries, a process that can lead to peace (but also war).

“The Radio Said They Were Just Deportees”: From Border Necropolitics to Transformative Grief in Tim Z. Hernandez’s All They Will Call You (2017)

Just as necropower discriminates between those who can and those who cannot live, post-mortem circumstances are explicitly affected by an irrefutable gentrification of memory and grievability. Drawing on the political dimension of mourning and on the concept of slow death, this paper proposes a necropolitical reading of All They Will Call You (2017), where Tim Z. Hernandez revisits the 1948 plane crash that killed 28 Mexican deportees at Los Gatos (California) and the subsequent oblivion that prevented their memorialisation except for a mass grave containing their remains and a protest song (“Deportees”) composed by Woody Guthrie. My analysis focuses on Hernandez’s attempts at dismantling the tropes of criminality and expendability that Latino immigrants are associated with as a result of their racialised vulnerability, which are distinctively aggravated in border contexts. Excavating in the background stories of these deportees seems to me an ironic contestation to the failed forensic work that left them unnamed and unritualised for seven decades. And, at the same time, I contend that, in line with the work of many activists and artists in the US–Mexico border, Hernandez mobilises solidarity while transforming our perception of migrant bare lives into one of migrant agency.

Narrating Ethnicity in Oral History Interviews: Life Stories of People Resettled from Estonia to Germany in 1941

This article demonstrates the possibilities of using oral history sources in the study of ethnicity. Interviews conducted with people who resettled from Estonia to Germany in 1941 were analysed for this purpose. It was asked why some interviewees are remarkably vague in their ethnicity narratives while some others present highly firm statements. The analysis that relies on the Communication Theory of Identity shows that interviewees’ pre-war ethnic, cultural and linguistic background was relatively insignificant. Instead, the most important distinguishing factor was involvement in the Baltic German or exile Estonian communities after World War II; the former was rather related to vagueness and the latter rather to firmness. Thus, it depended mainly on this factor what were the narrating strategies the interviewees made use of to present themselves in a desired way during the interview. In addition, the expressions, both vague and firm, were related to the widespread understanding of the primordial nature of ethnicity to which the interviewees tried to fit their own, often inconsistent, ethnic background and life stories. The results suggest that to understand the appearance of ethnicity in oral history interviews, the patterns of how ethnicity is narrated would be useful to trace and common perceptions on ethnic identity should be considered.

Middlebrow Culture, Self-mockery, and Maeve Brennan’s New Yorker Stories

ABSTRACT This article, attending to the periodical codes of The New Yorker and the magazine’s middlebrow brand of sophistication, explores the significance of Maeve Brennan’s satirical stories. While Brennan’s Irish background and Dublin stories have received critical attention, her New York stories have not yet been fully appreciated in relation to her long affiliation with The New Yorker and America’s smart magazine culture. Drawing on scholarship from periodical studies, middlebrow culture studies, and the cultural histories of The New Yorker, this article argues that the publication of The New Yorker provides a rich context in which to better understand Brennan’s satire and self-mockery as social commentaries that probe the middlebrow concerns of class anxiety and imposter syndrome.

Field Notes and Fictional Realms

OverviewAs an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of our “real” world, video games allow us to leave reality and explore new fictional worlds. These worlds are more enjoyable when they are developed from various digital materials and presented as an official story, which is called “lore.” Lore invites the player to submerge into background stories of fictional worlds, including but not limited to those in video games. Video-game lore often provides historical narratives of these worlds, sometimes even drawing on archaeological themes in the creation of characters and places. The video game League of Legends (LoL), developed by Riot Games, has its own detailed lore, often revolving around individual characters. Riot has developed this lore not only through the video game itself but through accompanying media. Although the lore is separate from the game and not necessarily needed, the advantage is that it can orient individuals to the world and the background stories of the characters and players. Additionally, it allows people who are not interested in playing the game to interact with the fictional world, given that the stories are captivating on their own. Here, we briefly discuss Riot's interactive lore website and focus on the background of two places within the LoL fictional world: Ionia and Targon. We examine the presentation of these places through an archaeological framework. Then, we evaluate how archaeology is portrayed throughout the lore, focusing specifically on archaeological field notes and the methods that we are told are employed by one of the characters. In our analysis of the portrayal of Targon, the discussion centers on how archaeological perspectives are an integral framework for the LoL lore. Lore creates a sense of place (a connection between a person and a spatial setting) for the fan community, players, and even developers. Consequently, it is useful to focus on this idea of storytelling through lore, taking a critical view of its power and how it can impact various audiences.

Pembentukan Personal Branding pada Anak Binaan Menggunakan Konsep Diri

Every individual must have a goal in living his life, which will encourage him to develop. The life goals described by individuals must be different. In fact, every individual who has certain conditions, they have to make more effort to achieve the expected goals in life. In this case, people have unusual background stories, such as the lives of target children who get a negative stigma given by society to former target children, even though there are many former target children who want to live a much better life. Therefore, personal branding using self-concept is urgently needed for children under the Special Development Institute for Class I Children in Medan. One of the objectives of this Field Work Practice is to provide assistance to foster children which is implemented in this mini project using the Group Work at the Mezzo level, namely Assessment, Intervention Planning, Intervention, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Termination. In the process of providing assistance to clients by providing education to clients on how to build personal branding and build self-concept to clients. The results obtained from mini project have been achieved because the client now knows what their purpose in life is after their criminal term ends so they don't repeat mistakes in behavior. mini project also has a good impact not only on clients but also on other children.

Evaluating Effects of Background Stories on Graph Perception.

A graph is an abstract model that represents relations among entities, for example, the interactions between characters in a novel. A background story endows entities and relations with real-world meanings and describes the semantics and context of the abstract model, for example, the actual story that the novel presents. Considering practical experience and prior research, human viewers who are familiar with the background story of a graph and those who do not know the background story may perceive the same graph differently. However, no previous research has adequately addressed this problem. This research article thus presents an evaluation that investigated the effects of background stories on graph perception. Three hypotheses that focused on the role of visual focus areas, graph structure identification, and mental model formation on graph perception were formulated and guided three controlled experiments that evaluated the hypotheses using real-world graphs with background stories. An analysis of the resulting experimental data, which compared the performance of participants who read and did not read the background stories, obtained a set of instructive findings. First, having knowledge about a graph's background story influences participants' focus areas during interactive graph explorations. Second, such knowledge significantly affects one's ability to identify community structures but not high degree and bridge structures. Third, this knowledge influences graph recognition under blurred visual conditions. These findings can bring new considerations to the design of storytelling visualizations and interactive graph explorations.

Attribution of Sijo Song Authorship to Historical Figures: Sijo of Late Goryeo and Early Joseon

This study examines the authenticity of sijo songs attributed to the late Goryeo (918–1392) and early Joseon (1392–1897) periods. These sijo songs primarily adhere to themes of loyalty to the ruined Goryeo dynasty, or to the tragic execution of King Danjong (r. 1452–1455) in the early Joseon period. The former is typically represented by Jeong Mongju 鄭夢周 and Gil Jae 吉再, and the latter by Wang Bangyeon 王邦衍 and Seong Sammun 成三問. The background stories and attributed authorship of sijo songs are not always aligned with historical facts and often contradict official records. The background stories first emerged in unofficial history books in the seventeenth century, though the original sijo texts predate these narratives. At the time, the sarim 士林 (Neo-Confucian literati without political power) class played a pivotal role in developing these background stories. They yearned to restore the loyalists' honor and consolidate their ideological and political power; thus, they disseminated sijo songs associated with stories of loyalty through unofficial historical texts. Later, the compilers of public songbooks affirmed the sijo–author relationship in songbooks that proliferated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Consequently, the myths of early sijo and loyalty were formed and solidified.

A Study on Some Probability Problems in Proverb Situations

From the perspective of probability theory, this study makes a mathematical model of the proverbs themselves or the background stories reflected by them, carries out experiments and analyses, fully excavating the philosophical, scientific, and cultural connotations contained in the proverbs, and reveals the relationship between “mathematics,” “philosophy,” and “culture.” With the interpretation of probability theory, common sayings show their charm in traditional culture, and the application of probability theory has also been expanded and extended. In this paper, the problems reflected in the proverbs, such as “slanders three to, the mother does not love,” “In repentance, there is salvation., “Three cobblers with their wits combined exceed the mastermind of Zhuge Liang.,“ and “Gain the initiative by preemptive strike, otherwise you will be very passive.” are mathematically and modelically analyzed and tested from the perspective of probability theory and the philosophical culture, and scientific thought behind the proverbs are expounded. “One who sticks to his folly and does nothing to stand by a tree stump waiting for a hare,” “dripping water wears through a stone,” and “iron pestle grinds a needle” are a group of common sayings, which directly reflect the principle of small probability events and its two sides through the story behind them.

P-094: EXPLORING SCHOOL LIVED EXPERIENCES OF SECONDARY STUDENTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE THROUGH THEIR PARENTS’ LENS

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the academic and emotion of secondary students with sickle cell disease school experiences as their parents recalled them. Educators are responsible for ensuring access to quality education for all students. Students with disabilities have a legal right to a free appropriate public education under Section 504 and the Individualized Education Program (IEP). The chronic illness this research will focus on is children living with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that causes severe pain episodes when sickled blood cells get stuck in blood vessels. To explore these experiences, the researcher employed a qualitative phenomenological approach to inquiry. The researcher also employed a social constructivism approach. Materials and methods: The study purpose was to investigate students’ academic and emotional school lived experiences through interviews and a focus group. The research method involved using the data from interviews, artifacts, and the focus group to analyze the parents’ experiences, background stories, and perspectives. The research method also included reviewing some parents’ artifacts, such as attendance records, grades, IEPs and 504 plans, and psychological evaluations to understand their educational attainment, absenteeism, and achievement. One participant shared the school attendance policy with the researcher as an additional artifact to provide additional insight into the phenomenon. Results: . The four themes that emerged were: (a) the need for a consistent approach by school staff, with awareness and understanding in an inclusive setting, (b) challenges faced by children with sickle cell disease in a school setting, (c) parents need for empowerment, and (d) need for adaptability in school culture and practices. The findings, results, and interpretations from this qualitative, phenomenological study support the need for increased awareness and support for secondary students with sickle cell disease as it relates to student achievement, emotion, and psychosocial challenges. Conclusion: Recommendation 1: Effective collaboration between schools and medical/psychosocial team Recommendation 2: Provide Targeted Professional Development Recommendation 3: Create Personalized Learning Options for Some Students with Sickle Cell Disease Recommendation 4: Promote Parent and Student Empowerment 1. Listen to mother’s story 2. Parent, Student and School Team Engagement Council 3. Parent Support Group 4. Review Hospital Homebound policy The authors do not declare any conflict of interest

Determination of Demographic Changes of Acute Pulmonary Embolism Patients Applied to Emergency Service: Retrospective Analysis of 60 Cases

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the clinical and demographical traits of the increasing number of patients diagnosed with pulmonary embolism and hence to contribute to the literature in order to analyze the possible changes occurred in time. Our study is a retrospective study conducted with all patients over the age of 18 who applied to the emergency service and diagnosed with pulmonary embolism between 01.01.2017 and 01.01.2019. Demographic and clinical data of patients such as patients’ complaints, background story, physical examination and laboratory inspections were determined by analyzing physical files formed at the application and saved data in the information system, and relationship between all the data was analyzed by determination of calculated wells criteria scores. Results: A total of 60 patients were included in the study. The average age of the patients was 64.46 (16.95). Among the patients, 34 (56.7%) were female while 26 (43.3%) were male. Shortness of breath and chest-back pain were the leading complaints of emergency service applications by 36 (60%) and 16 (26%), respectively. The leading background stories of the cases were malignity with 14 (23%) patients, and hypertension with 12 (20%) patients. The most common physical examination indication was bruit with 21 (35%) patients and pretibial edema with 11 (18%) patients, while 12 (20%) patients did not show any symptom. Thrombolytic treatment was applied to 4 patients in the emergency service. Conclusion We believe that studies investigating demographic traits of life-critical and easy to skip diseases like pulmonary embolism which causes to apply to the emergency service will contribute to diagnosis.

Surrealist Artworks as a Stimulus for Student Artistic Expression

Abstract Works of fine art present an inexhaustible source of imagination, aesthetics, and creativity and can stimulate the development of personal creativity. Communication with artworks is possible if trained to understand and aesthetically experience them. It is therefore important to be in contact with the rich symbolic meanings of the language of art. If we want to educate students to be able to communicate and understand the cultural dynamics of art forms and to successfully communicate with art forms in the future and develop their visual art literacy, we should implement artistic educational content in higher education. Contact with artworks allows students to better understand their thoughts and feelings and, if using appropriate methods, an artwork can stimulate students to be creative. This paper investigates the influence of Surrealist paintings (made by Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali) on stimulating the artistic creativity of 46 first-year students of Early and Preschool Education at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, Croatia. The results are presented using a qualitative methodology, i.e. a specific method of aesthetic transfer (perception, reception, and reaction) that brings the observer of the artwork into aesthetic interaction with the work and stimulates their experience of the work along with their creativity. Experiencing the artworks of Surrealism aroused students’ emotions and aesthetic experience, allowing them to create background stories about the observed. Using various freely chosen art techniques, they also made their own artworks, which influenced the development of student creativity.

Research on the Integration Path of Local Music Culture and Music Education in Local Colleges and Universities—Taking Baoding College as an Example

In music education in local colleges and universities, the targeted dissemination of local music culture in teaching and the rational development and utilization of local music resources are the trends of music curriculum reform. Professor Xie Jiaxing said that music culture and national culture not only depend on the inheritance of artists, but also need the dissemination of more music culture practitioners. We must stand firm and pay attention to local music culture. The author is engaged in music education in local colleges and universities. He has initially carried out teaching and scientific research on this topic, and has collected and sorted out local music in Baoding. In the music education of local colleges and universities, we should first pay attention to the construction of local music education courses and the integrity of the curriculum education system, and take local music culture as the main content of music education, so that students can further understand their own nationality through the study of local music courses. Music style, music form and music culture background stories, stimulate students’ interest and enthusiasm in local music learning, and improve classroom teaching effect.

‘Seeing’ music from manga: visualizing music with embodied mechanisms of musical experience

This study investigates how music is represented in musical-themed manga by visual components referred to as ‘visualized music’, and how embodied mechanisms of musical experience conceive these visual manifestations. Using Šorm and Steen’s (2018) Visual Metaphor Identification Procedure (VISMIP), the authors discovered four metaphors, and seven metonymies and ‘manpu’ (i.e. iconic signs used in manga) that are widely applied in visualizing music. In addition, they incorporated Juslin and Västfjäll’s (2008) framework and further proposed five major embodied mechanisms of musical experience: (1) brain stem reflex, (2) emotional contagion, (3) visual imagery, (4) emotional memory related to music, and (5) musical expectancy. Their results showed that these embodied mechanisms are the foundations of visualized music. The brain stem reflex, the underlying structure of most metonymies and manpu, triggers us to represent some acoustic characteristics by using sound symbolic components. These include emotional contagion-inducing metaphors representing emotional responses, such as ‘ MUSIC/EMOTION IS WEATHER’, which further entails their acoustic characteristics and visual imagery, the most important mechanism, basing our overall comprehension of music and metaphorical mapping between music and image-schemata. Readers also use emotional simulations to understand the visual imagery that further constructs their impressions toward music, emotional memory grounding manifestations related to music used to build background stories and intensify reader empathy, and lastly, musical expectancy, involving the ability of prediction and consciousness, usually associated with ‘ MUSIC IS LIGHT’. In this way, this study sheds light on our overall understanding of audio-visual cross-modality, musical experience, metaphor and embodied experience.

Out of the Yellow/Black Peril Discourse: Humanizing China–Africa Relations in Mukuka Chipanta's A Casualty of Power

Abstract As African communities start to assert a more visible presence in Chinese cities and vice versa, highly racialized discourses have appeared online with regards to a new Yellow Peril in Africa and correspondingly, an unprecedented Black Peril in China. On one hand, such malicious sentiments manifest in unofficial realms that stand in stark contrast with the official rhetoric of South–South Cooperation championed by the Chinese and African states. On the other hand, cultural production, especially fictional narratives, has emerged as another unofficial realm that seeks to humanize China–Africa relations from different angles. This article focuses on Mukuka Chipanta's A Casualty of Power, a novel with a unique focus on Chinese involvement in Zambia's mining industry. Based on contemporary incidents of interracial conflicts between African mine workers and their Chinese supervisors, the novel offers a multiplicity of critical perspectives and background stories concerning the role of Chinese migrants in Zambian society. Engaging China–Africa cultural production with the conceptual framework of the Global South, I point out the novel's achievements as well as limits in its humanization efforts and argue that these limits demonstrate the need to break away from narrow definitions of “the Global South Novel” determined by value positions.

Adaptation as Emigration: Different Paths to Americanization in Miljenko Jergović’s “Buick Rivera” and Goran Rušinović’s Film Adaptation

The following essay compares the novel Buick Rivera (2002), written by Bosnian Croat author Miljenko Jergovic, and its 2008 film adaptation by Goran Rusinovic. The novel’s main plot, dealing with the accidental meeting between a Bosnjak (Bosnian Muslim) expatriate and a Bosnian Serb war criminal in the US, seems unchanged in the film version. However, the director modifies the original setting and several details in the characters’ background stories. Analyzing these changes and the story’s cinematic rendition, we comment on the two authors’ varying approaches to topics such as war, ethical responsibility, emigration, and assimilation in post-9/11 American society. The analysis furthermore develops the idea of the film adaptation process as a unique form of transmediatic and transcultural emigration, in which the plot migrates from one medium to another and from one culture to another with specific effects.

Not all evidence is created equal: assessment artifacts in maker education

Purpose When using embedded, student-centered assessment tools for maker education, understanding the characteristics of a body of evidence can help teachers guide the assessment process. This study aims to examine assessment artifacts from a makerspace program and present a set of qualities that emerged, which researchers and maker educators can use to evaluate the quality of evidence before interpreting it and making claims about student learning. Design/methodology/approach This study used the interpretive analysis approach to identify salient qualities in a body of evidence of maker learning. Data sources included student assessment artifacts, researchers’ analytic memos, notes on the coding and analysis process, background stories and field observations. Findings The study found that the assessment artifacts generated by students aligned with the maker-related target skills. A set of qualities was produced that can be used to describe the strength of a body of evidence and help determine whether it is appropriate to be used in the meaning making phase. Practical implications The qualities identified in this study can be directly incorporated into the embedded assessment toolkit to provide feedback on the strength of evidence for learning in makerspaces. Originality/value Assessment methods for maker education are nascent, and ways to describe the quality of a student-generated body of evidence have not yet been established. This study applies existing knowledge of embedded assessment and reflective practice toward the creation of a new way of assessing skills that are difficult to measure.

Adolescents’ Digital Game-Related Information-Seeking

Digital games are a very popular medium among people of all ages. While information related to games is in high demand among adolescents, their digital game-related information-seeking remains an understudied subject. This study explored what kind of digital game-related information adolescents seek, and from what information sources. The data were collected from adolescents’ essays (N=91) and analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The results show that adolescents seek information on new games, guidance for gaming, and information on games’ development, background stories, and future. Information is sought from internet sources, face-to-face sources, and books. The results offer valuable insights on adolescents’ information behavior and practices in a wider context as well as adolescents’ perspective on digital game-related information-seeking.