Collective Diary Research Articles

Dear vulnerability … writing toget-her to escape and resist the neoliberal university

ABSTRACT I am lost. My writing is lost. I feel isolated, under pressure, trapped in a cage. My writing is measured and molded, suffocating in a corset of norms and expectations in the neoliberal university. In a collective diary, I can share my experiences, ponder on my feelings. I breathe, I survive, I resist. And as I write, I open up. As I write, I find myself, I find ot-hers. Through my words, sentences, and pages, I embrace my vulnerabilities: insecurity, courage, relating, becoming. I write collectively, stronger toget-her. I write to offer new understandings, to change and resist the neoliberal university. Will you join me?

Discover Diamonds-in-the-Rough Using Interactive Visual Analytics System-Tweets as a Collective Diary of the Occupy Movement

The phenomenally wide-adoption of social media has stimulated a new means in organizing and carrying-out modern social movements. Exemplified by the Occupy Movement (OM), rich information, including protest-related events and people's responses to those events, is posted and shared through social media sites such as Twitter. However, it is quite challenging to make sense of such valuable information in a collective manner, as it is often submerged by all the other content on Twitter. In this case study, we demonstrate the combination of computational methods (e.g., topic modeling and event detection) and interactive visual analytics in facilitating users to examine how relevant tweets can reflect a collective view of a social movement. In particular, we focus on discovering and associating key events throughout the OM. Based on the event frequencies, our system helps users to divide the movement into three distinct stages. Information regarding "what" the events were about, "when" and "where" the events occurred, and "who" were involved is extracted from the tweets to describe each stage of the movement. The resulting case studies show that we can indeed construct a collective diary of the social movement by analyzing events extracted from the content of the tweets.

856 Sleep-writing, sleep-talking in uncontrolled REM-predominant obstructive sleep apnea

Abstract Introduction Abnormal movements and behaviors during sleep are part of a larger group of nocturnal events that may occur during the sleep-wake cycle and/or the transitions into and out of sleep. We are presenting the case of OSA-related confusional arousals associated with sleep-writing and sleep-talking during REM-sleep. Report of case(s) 46 year old female with history of CAD, HTN, RLS, Anxiety, Depression, and REM predominant OSA (AHI of 2.9 per hour of sleep, REM AHI of 40 per hour of sleep, and oxygen saturation nadir of 91%), noncompliant with PAP therapy, returned to reestablish sleep medicine care and restart PAP therapy. The patient reported worsening of her OSA symptoms while being without PAP therapy. In addition to traditional OSA symptoms (snoring, frequent nighttime awakenings, restless legs, daytime sleepiness/fatigue), she reported episodes of sleep-talking, sleep-writing with demonstrated evidence of these events in her personal diary. She maintains a collective diary that incorporates her blood pressure readings, her weight loss accounts with records of meals in a day, as well as a separate log of letters that she will write and mail. In this diary, she has noticed sleep writing instances in each field, with no recollections subsequently on the act of writing them. The patient reported that these episodes of sleep writing would occur 3–4 times in a week, during this period of PAP noncompliance. Last reported instance of her sleep writing was October 2020. After re-initiation of PAP therapy, the patient has not reported further episodes of sleep-writing or sleep-talking. Conclusion The sleep-writing is a very rare clinical symptom in the presentation of REM-predominant OSA as well as in REM/NREM parasomnias. We were not able to come across a case of it in the sleep literature review. Sleep-talking is a well-documented phenomenon. Confusional arousals may be responsible for symptoms of sleep-writing and sleep-talking in this case. We may repeat a sleep study with split protocol and parasomnia montage using AutoBipap if needed to investigate further. Further research should be done to explore the nature and correlation of sleep-writing in clinical practice. Support (if any) N/A

Eyes Wide Open with Paper in Hand: The Year in Italy

Eyes Wide Open with Paper in HandThe Year in Italy Ilaria Serra (bio) We already know that 2020 is a year to remember. It is fair to wonder how many essays of this issue of Biography's International Year in Review will center on this common scarring experience. For sure the year 2020 in Italy is deeply marked by the COVID-19 pandemic and the shadow it casts on lives and life writing. This is a year that has changed the flow of time, suggesting a before and an after. Italians had a clear awareness of living through such a time hinge. At the beginning of the pandemic in March, Italy was on the forefront of the contagion and showed the grimmest record of deaths, many of which concentrated in the small area of Lombardy. It was followed by other European countries, but in those few weeks, Italians made the world news. The nation's lockdown was among the strictest in the world, with fines imposed on citizens for jogging or for going to the store more than once a week. Italians made the news for the number of deaths, but also for their lively spirits. Two images appeared across international newspapers and social media, and remain etched in minds: the long line of military trucks that transported the coffins out of the small city of Bergamo in the night because there was no space for them and it was not possible to hold funerals, and Italians singing and playing instruments from the cities' balconies in several flash mobs. Everyone in Italy knew these were times to remember, and this knowledge—as in other significant historical moments—pushed many to write. Historians calls these experiences eventi separatori (separating events), and have observed that they produce an abundance of scritture dell'io ("I" writings). In these kinds of times, such as in wars or mass migratory movements, writing becomes more necessary than ever. Behind closed doors, imprisoned by fear and lockdown mandates, people had nowhere to turn but to the blank page—on paper or on a screen. This essay considers three different initiatives that promoted and gathered autobiographical writings. They are autobiographical in a larger sense, as they are all forms of life writing, but they are not comprehensive. Rather than looking back at an entire life, they zoom in on the particular moment that—it seemed clear—would change an entire life. [End Page 83] The first is the collective journaling of a city, which united its inhabitants in a common misadventure: Donata Carelli's "Journal of Sabaudia." The second is an effort to promote autobiographical writings that heal, initiated by Libera Università dell'Autobiografia di Anghiari [Free University of Autobiography of Anghiari], and the third case is a self-conscious document for the future, a thick volume born in a "time of silence" and "other confinements": Il tempo del Silenzio: Lockdown e altri confinamenti by historian Marco Severini. This writer in particular understands, with the instinct of his profession, that this time will soon become history. Life Writing to Create Community Sabaudia is a small city on the coast south of Rome, on land that was reclaimed from swamps in Fascist times. In the 1930s, families of farmers from Veneto were sent to these areas to work their fields and "colonize" them. During the pandemic, the town was frozen on its green dunes, in stillness and waiting. Sabaudia native Donata Carelli, a screenwriter and lecturer at the University of Rome, called her fellow citizens to write journals of their COVID days, and she gathered them in the forthcoming Diario di Sabaudia. By mobilizing her town, she started a healing process through writing. "Tra dieci anni sarebbe stato bellissimo leggere il nostro diario collettivo" [in ten years it would be beautiful to read our collective diary], Carelli told her fellow citizens, in an article in the national paper Il Corriere della Sera. They welcomed the invitation and started clogging her physical mailbox and email inbox with diary pages. Writing turned the solitude of those surreal days of lockdown into a collective experience, lightening it by sharing the weight—"my pandemic" turned into "our pandemic." Writing also provided the...

“The Spirit of Old Aksakov … Added to the Charm”

Abstract This text is an extract from the “Chronicle of the Abramtsevo Estate,” a collective diary that details the daily functioning of the estate, as well as the special events, projects, and artistic activities that were held there by Savva Mamontov and his associates from 1870 until 1893. It thus provides a unique glimpse into both the personal and professional lives of one of Russia’s most important and influential artistic colonies.

Food waste volume and composition in households in Greece

<p>The purpose of this paper is the presentation of the results compiled from self weighing of household food waste and self filling of waste collection diaries that took place in Greece. A diary was compiled and given to 101 urban households in various areas of the country. The participants were asked to weigh and write down in the diary every food item wasted in their households for two full weeks (i.e., 14 days). The total per capita food waste generation in Greece is estimated to be 76.1 (±68.3) kg/inh.y. This figure is divided into the avoided food waste fraction which equals to 25.9 (±34.9) kg/inh.y, and the unavoidable fraction which is estimated to be 50.2 (±47.1) kg/inh.y. The use of diaries for recording food that is thrown away from households is a methodology that underestimates the food wasted in households because households tend to be cautious when they know that they have to weigh and report the amount of food that they throw away. The current research is the first of its kind, presenting actual field data for food waste generation by households in Greece.</p>

THE CONCEPTS OF HISTORICAL AND NON-HISTORICAL IN AESTHETIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM OF THE NOVEL “THE AVIATOR” BY E. VODOLAZKIN

The article reviews correlation between the concepts of historical and non-historical which form the author’s artistic philosophy in E. Vodolazkin’s novel “The Aviator”. The interpretation of historical process in the novel is analyzed in the context of theories by M. Blok, A. Gurevich, B. Uspensky as well as philological works by E. Vodolazkin which help to characterize the author’s intent with better precision. The reflections about time and history occupy an important part in The Aviator, the concept is being formed both from the viewpoint of the main character Innokenty as well as in the polylog of the collective diary writings. The main source of the concept is the whole complex of E. Vodolazkin’s scientific views consistently stated in his work World History in the Literature of Ancient Rus (based on the material of chronographic and the Palaea narrative of the XI-XV centuries).

Wild food collection and nutrition under commercial agriculture expansion in agriculture-forest landscapes

Wild food constitutes a substantial part of household food consumption around the world, but rapid land use changes influence the availability of wild foods, which has implications for smallholders' food and nutrient intake. With increasing commercial agriculture and biodiversity conservation efforts in forested tropical regions, many shifting cultivation systems are being intensified and their extent restricted. Studies examining the consequences of such pressures commonly overlook the diminishing role of wild food. Using a combination of collection diaries, participant observation, remote sensing, and interviews, we examined the role of agriculture-forest landscapes in the provision of wild food in rapidly transforming shifting cultivation communities in northern Laos. We found that wild food contributed less to human diets in areas where pressure on land from commercial agriculture and conservation efforts was more intense. Our results demonstrate that increasing pressure on land creates changes in the shifting cultivation landscape and people's use thereof with negative effects on the quality of nutrition, including protein deficiency, especially in communities adjacent to core conservation areas. Our study shows the importance of adopting a more nutrition-sensitive approach to the linkages between commercial agriculture and biodiversity conservation (and the policies that promote them), wild food provisioning, and food security.

Swansong 1945: a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich

Swansong 1945: a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich

A combination of methods needed to assess the actual use of provisioning ecosystem services

Failure to recognize that potential provisioning ecosystem services are not necessarily collected and used by people may have important consequences for management of land and resources. Accounting for people's actual use of ecosystem services in decision making processes requires a robust methodological approach that goes beyond mapping the presence of ecosystem services. But no such universally accepted method exists, and there are several shortcomings of existing methods such as the application of land use/cover as a proxy for provisioning ecosystem service availability and surveys based on respondents' recall to assess people's collection of e.g. wild food. By combining four complementary methods and applying these to the shifting cultivation systems of Laos, we show how people’s actual use of ecosystem services from agricultural fields differs from ecosystem service availability. Our study is the first in Southeast Asia to combine plot monitoring, collection diaries, repeat interviews, and participant observation. By applying these multiple methods borrowed from anthropology and botany among other research domains, the study illustrates that no single method is sufficient on its own. It is of key importance for scientists to adopt methods that can account for both availability of various services and actual use of those services.

Daisy, Oswald e o Processo Erosivo do Modernismo Brasileiro

O objetivo deste ensaio é analisar e interpretar a figura de Maria de Lourdes Castro Pontes, a Daisy ou Miss Cyclone do diário coletivo O perfeito cozinheiro das almas deste mundo (1918), no pano de fundo da história do Modernismo brasileiro. Nesse sentido, essa autora-personagem torna-se portadora de especificidades subjetiva e estética que podem abrir novas perspectivas para a abordagem do Modernismo, bem como da obra e da figura de Oswald de Andrade. A hipótese que proponho é a de que a imagem incompleta e fragmentária que temos de Daisy equivale à da própria noção que temos do Modernismo brasileiro.

Fatti, politica, fantasia. L’impegno narrativo contemporaneo attraverso due casi di studio: Presente e Piove all’insù .

This paper deals with two distinct modalities of contemporary writings used as a means of civil and political engagement: low-fictionality and “fully novelistic” narrative forms. After a short theoretical analysis which, starting from Walter Benjamin, assessing the most recent perturbations in the narrative system, the paper looks at the collective diary “Presente” to show the way through which the strict factualness of this narration is increasingly questioned through the book, while a creative twist — i.e. an antirealistic sprouting, which causes the veridictive strategies of the diaristic forms as a means to describe reality to collapse. The second book here analysed is the novel “Piove all’insu”, of which this paper emphasizes the distance from other contemporary “historical” or “meta-historical” narrations, as well as “novels of remembrance” diffused in the last few years. At the same time the paper points out how at the very center of this novel is an utopian drive, strongly anti-factual, as a basis for political action. The conclusions insist on how both these forms, albeit so different from each other, do not consider social or political commitment feasible without using the figural force so typical of fiction.

WALTER KEMPOWSKI'S DAS ECHOLOT. ABGESANG ’45 FROM ARCHIVE TO PRINT

ABSTRACTThis article analyses Das Echolot. Abgesang ’45, the final volume of Walter Kempowski's ten‐volume ‘collective diary’ of the Second World War, against the background of recent theoretical discussions about the subjective experience of history and the juxtaposition of homogenised and heterogeneous forms of memory. It also goes into Kempowski's archive of autobiographical material, now held at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, in order to compare the texts published in Abgesang ’45 with the versions originally presented to Kempowski. The analysis shows how the material sent to Kempowski is often far from being a collection of original letters, diaries and notes from the last years of the war, as suggested by the subtitle of the Echolot project – ‘ein kollektives Tagebuch’. It also shows that while Abgesang ’45 does contain internal dialogue that captures some of the heterogeneity that is associated with individual memories, this dialogue ultimately loses out to a collective account of German suffering through Kempowski's method of selecting, adapting and recontextualising the archive material.

The swedish athletics study: design of a protocol for large-scale epidemiological studies in individual sports

BackgroundEpidemiological studies of injury have mainly been performed on team sports. Present methods for data collection and analysis neglect important features of individual sports.AimsTo develop a study protocol for large-scale...

Collecting household water usage data: telephone questionnaire or diary?

BackgroundQuantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA), a modelling approach, is used to assess health risks. Inputs into the QMRA process include data that characterise the intensity, frequency and duration of exposure to risk(s). Data gaps for water exposure assessment include the duration and frequency of urban non-potable (non-drinking) water use. The primary objective of this study was to compare household water usage results obtained using two data collection tools, a computer assisted telephone interview (CATI) and a 7-day water activity diary, in order to assess the effect of different methodological survey approaches on derived exposure estimates. Costs and logistical aspects of each data collection tool were also examined.MethodsA total of 232 households in an Australian dual reticulation scheme (where households are supplied with two grades of water through separate pipe networks) were surveyed about their water usage using both a CATI and a 7-day diary. Householders were questioned about their use of recycled water for toilet flushing, garden watering and other outdoor activities. Householders were also questioned about their water use in the laundry. Agreement between reported CATI and diary water usage responses was assessed.ResultsResults of this study showed that the level of agreement between CATI and diary responses was greater for more frequent water-related activities except toilet flushing and for those activities where standard durations or settings were employed. In addition, this study showed that the unit cost of diary administration was greater than for the CATI, excluding consideration of the initial selection and recruitment steps.ConclusionThis study showed that it is possible to successfully 'remotely' coordinate diary completion providing that adequate instructions are given and that diary recording forms are well designed. In addition, good diary return rates can be achieved using a monetary incentive and the diary format allows for collective recording, rather than an individual's estimation, of household water usage. Accordingly, there is merit in further exploring the use of diaries for collection of water usage information either in combination with a mail out for recruitment, or potentially in the future with Internet-based recruitment (as household Internet uptake increases).

Soviet Diary as a Medium of Communality and Intersubjectivity: A Study of a Collective Diary

385 Ab Imperio, 3/2002 Yasuhiro MATSUI SOVIET DIARY AS A MEDIUM OF COMMUNALITY AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY: A STUDY OF A COLLECTIVE DIARY One of the most fascinating research trends in the post-Soviet historiography is the analysis of surviving diaries written by ordinary people during Stalin’s reign. There is no doubt that Jochen Hellbeck is a leading historian of this new trend and his articles are a very interesting and ambitious attempt to override a long lasting debate between the totalitarian and revisionist schools. It seems, however, that by basing his work on select diaries, Hellbeck has excessively focused on one aspect of Soviet subjectivity.1 This becomes evident by the prominence of terms starting with “self”: “self-transformation”, “self-perfection”, “self-purification” and so on. Certain individuals profiled in Hellbeck’s work – Podlubnyi,Afinogenov, etc. – are extraordinarily serious about remaking themselves and seek to amalgamate their self-identities 1 This analysis of Hellbeck’s approach to Soviet subjectivity is based on the following articles: Jochen Hellbeck. Fashioning the Stalinist Soul: The Diary of Stepan Podlubnyi (1931-39) //Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 1996. # 44; Idem. Writing the Self in the Time of Terror: Alexander Afinogenov’s Diary of 1937 // Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler (Eds.). Self and Story in Russian History. Cornell University Press, 2000; Idem. Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts // The Russian Review. 2001. No. 60. 386 Y. Matsui, Soviet Diary as a Medium of Communality and Intersubjectivity... with Stalinist values. In addition, these subjects’ behavior and way of thinking leave us with the image that they are lonely, confronted with the regime and its socialist construction projects without any real human relations or interaction with others. Frankly speaking, this reminds us again of the atomization thesis touted by totalitarian theorists. Hellbeck himself seems to partially admit as much, noting that the totalitarianists’ “view of society as being ‘atomized’ by the totalitarian regime comes tantalizingly close to Podlubnyi’s experience,” although he distinguishes himself from the totalitarian school, which assumed the existence of a private sphere expressing a ‘real’self distinct from the Stalinist value system.2 In any event, the emphasis on the meaning of diaries as a tool of self-purification and self-identification with the regime leads to the image that Stalin’s Russia was a totalitarian society to a much greater degree than even most totalitarian theorists could conceive. I propose a different approach to Soviet subjectivity by analyzing a different kind of diary. This short essay will give an overview of a collective diary and examine communal and interpersonal relations among ordinary people under Stalin and after. * * * Several students sharing a dorm room and studying at the faculty of literature at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (Moskovskii gosudarstvennyi pedagogicheskii institut) began keeping the collective diary. In 1932, four female students set up a domestic commune (bytovaia kommuna) and 2 Hellbeck. Fashioning the Stalinist Soul. P. 359. The last point is the most important in Hellbeck’s view. He emphasizes that there could be no subject and no self distinct from the value and political system of a given regime. Even if this premise were to be accepted, it seems that the varying extent to which each subject comprehended the “nature” of the regime and attempted to distinguish oneself from its value system should not be underestimated. For example,A. G. Man’kov, a white-color worker and a student in the 1930s, grasped the Stalinist regime in a distinctive totalitarian framework and criticized the hardships of daily life in his contemporarily composed diary. It is likely that he acquired such a perception through extensive reading. Reading, in general, is supposed to be significant in making self. But reading, contrary to writing and speaking, has a possibility to open self toward the outside world and a different value system. Man’kov reached a kind of totalitarian theory through reading about the Italian Fascism and comparing it with the regime in which he lived. See A. G. Man’kov. Iz dnevnika 1938-1941 gg. // Zvezda. 1995. No 11. Pp. 182, 193-194. And see Yasuhiro Matsui. Youth Attitudes Towards Stalin’s Revolution and the Stalinist Regime, 1929-1941 // Acta Slavica Iaponica...

Electronic versus paper instruments for daily data collection

PURPOSE: Collecting daily information on a series of similar, recurring events such as menstrual bleeding, headaches, or insulin levels using paper instruments is subject to problems such as missing or incorrectly recorded data, and retrospective data entry. The authors are developing and evaluating electronic data collection using hand-held personal computers (H/PC) for a variety of health-related applications, including tracking premenstrual syndrome (PMS), fertility awareness, and headaches, to improve accuracy and timeliness of data collection.METHODS: ProCycle is a prototype electronic diary for collection of daily data on menstrual bleeding, medications, and health symptoms. In a 3-month pilot test in 25 regularly cycling women, we compared its performance with a paper calendar regarding missing and incorrect data, data entry lag, data cleaning time, and users' preferences with respect to factors such as remembering to enter data, convenience, and overall preference. Additional programs for PMS, fertility, and headaches are being field tested on subjects from the Boston and New York areas, comparing performance with paper versions.RESULTS: In the pilot test, missing data occurred less frequently with ProCycle than with paper, particularly for any days with missing symptoms (4% vs. 35%, p < 0.05). ProCycle did not permit any data recording mistakes such as circling contradictory responses (e.g., bleeding and no bleeding), compared with incorrect data on 13% of paper calendars. Data entry/cleaning time was 81% lower for ProCycle. 70% of users preferred ProCycle overall, compared with 9% preferring paper (p < 0.01).CONCLUSIONS: Although the initial cost of the H/PC is significantly higher than paper, there are no recurring charges for printing or data entry, and data cleaning is minimal. Electronic instruments on an H/PC provide an efficient, accurate method of data collection, applicable to a number of areas of health-related research involving daily data collection.