Dialogic Principles Research Articles

Introducing the Strata Approach to Dialogue Analysis (SADA): the case of political NGOs in Israel

ABSTRACTWhile research on dialogue has been flourishing over the past few decades, critics contend that this scholarship often misses the core philosophical idea of dialogue, focusing instead on the absence or presence of dialogic principles in various organizational settings. This study has both empirical and methodological objectives: a) to solve a built-in lacuna in on-going dialogue research that frequently addresses important aspects of PR and dialogue in a blended manner, thereby undercutting the ability to develop in-depth critical research and examine the issues of dialogue more comprehensively; b) to provide an empirical contribution to understanding dialogue within the context of political NGOs’ public relations in Israel’s divided society. We suggest a layered approach as a methodological solution to this void by introducing a Strata Approach to Dialogue Analysis (SADA). Israel’s divided society, comprising various opposing groups, serves as a case study to demonstrate the advantages of SADA over current analyzes of dialogue. By revealing the differences between dialogic potential (features), actual dialogue (process), and the perception of dialogue (orientation), SADA enables the development of in-depth, critical research, i.e. examining the issue of dialogue more accurately and comprehensively.

Developing an Open Dialogue inspired model of systemic social work assessment in a local authority children's social care department

We outline a new approach to initial social work child and family assessment, focused on listening practices. The wider social context of contemporary children's services and, in particular, public concern about child death inquiries and the impacts of government's austerity policies create significant challenges for the development of listening practices. Our model seeks to develop listening practices which attend to these challenges, while retaining a focus on safe and effective social work practice. Our model develops principles of dialogicity and Open Dialogue, with systemic and narrative practices developed by Fredman and Jenkins. In crisis situations care must be taken to develop contexts for listening, where families and professionals are given opportunities to listen well to each other.Practitioner points Dialogicity principles and Open Dialogue practices can be applied in children's social care assessment contexts Listening is under‐theorised in children's social care contexts; listening theory can be applied in systemic social work assessment meetings Systemic practices can make valuable contributions to effective child and family social work Open Dialogue practices contribute to the development of communities of practice, and can be supported through manualisation

Socrates’ Casus in Contemporary Media Space

The article is devoted to the study of the ancient heritage reception in modern culture. In the last decades the media environment, in which the antique knowledge representation is in hands of authors – non-professionals in ancient history, has become a major source of historical perceptions in society. Many figures of antiquity have been turned into media characters attributed with features and notions at the athors’discretion and in mass audience interests. A famous Greek philosopher Socrates appears such a personality in contemporary media space. The article offers the analysis of some cases of the Socrates’ image usage in socio-cultural practices – education and performance. The educational sphere is represented by a current trend “Philosophy for children”, which applies the principles of Socratic dialogue as a basic teaching method. And the reconstruction of Socrates’ trial, held in New York and Athens in 2011-2012 accordingly, is taken as an illustration of performance practices. The author has arrived to the conclusion that all the described examples have to do with “adaptive interpretations” (Wojciech Wrzosek), characteristic not only of professional historiography, but of mass historical perceptions in modern society as well.

An Investigation of the Dialogical Communication Capacities of Turkish GSM Companies Websites

This article investigates the practice of dialogue through the websites of Turkish GSM companies. This study is theoretically derived from the relationship management perspective and is methodologically based on the dialogic communication principles of Kent and Taylor. The study examines the official websites of 3 Turkish GSM companies: Turkcell, Vodafone Turkiye and Turk Telekom. A preliminary content analysis was conducted in a pilot study to determine if there were distinctive features of Turkish GSM companies' websites that should be evaluated in the respective dialogic categories. Based on the results of the preliminary content analysis, a more comprehensive content analysis was performed to determine public relations practices offered via the internet.

ОБРАЗНЫЕ ОЛИЦЕТВОРЕНИЯ ЗИМЫ И ВЕСНЫ В ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЙ И РУССКОЙ ПОЭЗИИ... (ОТ АЛКУИНА ДО Ф. И. ТЮТЧЕВА)

В статье рассмотрены наиболее характерные литературные трансформации обрядового мотива состязания Весны и Зимы на материале произведений европейской и русской поэзии и драматургии, включая Словопрение Весны с Зимой Алкуина, песни Совы и Кукушки из комедии У. Шекспира Бесплодные усилия любви, гимн Вальсингама и стихотворение Ф. И. Тютчева Зима недаром злится. Основное внимание уделяется сдвигам в структуре мотива, определяемым поэтикой художественного целого, а также особенностями бытования традиционного фольклорного спора в различных жанровых контекстах. Personi cations of Winter and Spring as contesting seasons being deeply rooted in many peoples consciousness have long literary history during which they have passed many changes under the in uence of cultural, aesthetic, and national language context.In the poetics of Alcuins Con ictus Veris et Hiemis (The Contest of Spring and Winter) the ideology and artistic principles of the Carolingian Renaissance were manifested in combination of folklore Spring call with the dialogical traditions of ancient bucolics and school rhetorical contests. The Winter here is given voice, but the victory of Spring is absolute and eternal, symbolizing the coming of the new Golden Age under the authority of Carolingian Christian empire. In Shakespeares songs of the Cuckoo and the Owl (in Loves Labours Lost) the dialogical principle is weakened, while the whole context is expanded. Instead of celebrating the moment of Springs arrival and Winters defeat the poetic diptych gives two separate pictures of reality as the moments in the year cycle. The winter frost associated with the death of Nature is also the natural teacher who prompts the man to surpass the boundaries of fallen nature. In Russian poetry of the 1830s the lyric principle in depicting personi cations of seasons strengthens against the background of romantic paradigm. In Alexander Pushkins hymn in honour of the Plague (in A Feast in the Time of Plague) Winter being deprived of its traditional opponent plays the part of the weakened substitute for the Plague, which does not eliminate the contrast between them. The new degree of lyricizing is manifested in Fyodor Tyutchevs lyric The Winter not without reason grows wroth (Zima nedarom zlitsya), in which the poet reverts to the picture of the con ict of seasons depicting it through lyrical description. The universal archetypes are refracted through national linguistic world picture making Tyutchevs lyric the model for their perception in Russian cultural domain.

Open dialogue in the UK: qualitative study.

Open dialogue is an integrative approach to the organisation of specialist mental health services and therapeutic meetings.AimsThis qualitative study sought to explore service users' and clinicians' experiences of network meetings during the implementation of open dialogue in a modified version, for a UK-based mental health service. In total 19 participants were interviewed (8 service users and 11 clinicians) and an inductive thematic analysis of the data was conducted. Four dominant themes were identified: (1) open dialogue delivery, (2) the impact of open dialogue principles; (3) intense interactions and enhanced communication, and (4) organisational challenges. Clinicians considered open dialogue as a preferred, but challenging way of working, while being therapeutic. The data indicated that service users' experiences of network meetings were mixed. There was a wide variety of service user views as to what the purpose of a network meeting was and for some witnessing reflective conversations felt strange. However, the majority described feeling listened to and understood, excluding one service user who described their experience as distressing. Clinicians expressed an authentic self in their interactions with service users and both service users and clinicians described network meetings as emotionally expressive, although this was described as overwhelming at times. The results of this thematic analysis indicate that service users' and clinicians' experiences of open dialogue warrant further investigation. The intensity of interactions in network meetings should be carefully considered with service users before gaining consent to commence treatment. Implementation of open dialogue should be monitored to assess clinician- and service-level adherence to the principles of the approach.Declaration of interestNone.

Türk Tiyatro Kurumlarının Instagram Kullanımlarının Diyalojik İletişim Açısından İncelenmesi


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The advances in social media applications have changed the way we communicate, interact,
 share and conduct our relationships. In our “web society”, generating dialogical communication is
 becoming more and more important. The web 2.0 is enabling organizations to engage in dialogue
 with their audience, thus transforming their communication into a more interactive manner. The
 effects of this transformation is also witnessed in the way theater institutions are communicating
 with their publics. Due to the dialogic communication fostered by web 2.0 tools, the relationship
 between theaters and their audience is becoming more interactive, intersubjective and collaborative.
 
 The aim of this article is to assess the level of dialogic communication developed by theaters
 on the internet, by analyzing the use of Instagram and Instagram stories of seven theatres from
 public and private sector in Turkey. Taking Kent and Taylor’s dialogical principles as its assessment
 criteria, the article aims to shed a light on how Instagram is to be used dialogically by theater
 institutions to foster a strong level of communication and thus fulfill their goal of enlightening the
 society. 
 
 
 

Deen (Faith) and Donya (the Secular): Al-Ghazālī’s the “Alchemy of Happiness”

The 11th -12th century Abbasid philosopher al-Ghazālī is the center of controversy today in Western societies seeking to understand Islamic radicalism. The article initially examines the al-Ghazālī debate, split between popular images of al-Ghazālī as a fanatical enemy of rational thought, and scholarly depictions of a forerunner of postmodernism. After analyzing a principle example of the latter tendency, centered on the Persian term dihlīz, the article undertakes a sociological investigation of al-Ghazālī’s Alchemy of Happiness within the historic context of the Abbasid crisis of political legitimacy. The troubled historic vista of Abbasid politics, the unique role of al-Ghazālī as representative of ideological power, and the crucial influence of the intercontinental Sufi revolution, are discussed. The analysis focuses on al-Ghazālī’s central concepts of deen (faith) and donya (the secular), that he employed to stabilize and guarantee the continued political success of the multi-civilizational Abbasid state. Spurning the dogma of unified identity, al-Ghazālī recognized the civilizational pluralism underpinning Abbasid political survival. Reconciling multiplicity and unity, al-Ghazālī labored to integrate Islamic and non-Islamic intellectual traditions. Three elements are investigated: (1) Investing epistemology with social significance, al-Ghazālī opposed orthodox conformism; (2) Denouncing ignorance, the passions, and intellectual confusion, al-Ghazālī promoted the dialogic principle – not dogma - as the unique public guarantee of the universal truth; (3) This universal truth had an exclusively secular, not religious, dimension, based on the deen/donya distinction, separating universal secular truth from religious identity. An intellectual exploration of the secular dilemma, of corresponding imaginative magnitude, hardly existed in Western societies at the time. This casts doubt on the current academic enthusiasm for representing traditional Islam in the mirror image of French post-structuralism, and the false depiction of al-Ghazālī as the dogmatic enemy of reason. It opens an entire terrain of possible research that is barely tapped, which contradicts the confused dogmas of Islamic radicalism. A secular conceptual dualism pervaded the Islamic tradition, indeed pre-dating European secularism.

A Study on Artificial Intelligence Conversation System for Emotional Exchange

This study analyzed to what degree artificial intelligence conversation systems can recognize and respond to human’s emotion language, and it aimed to suggest areas that need to be supplemented for emotional exchange conversations. For this purpose, the study conducted experiments on three kinds of speakers with artificial intelligence conversation system. As a result, the following points have to be solved for the emotional exchange in the artificial intelligence conversation system. First, from the viewpoint of recognition, it is necessary to strengthen the learning of various phrases and expressions related to the emotion, since only the emotion language composed of one word can be grasped at this time. Second, from the viewpoint of the reaction, it is necessary to construct effective dialogue and content by learning the proper dialogue principles as a communication partner for humans that can empathize and communicate, rather than as a machine that evokes instrumental purpose. The significance of the study is what an artificial intelligence conversation system needs for emotional exchange with humans to establish a foundation for a more accurate and efficient development of technology.

Evaluation of Electronic and Paper-Pen Data Capturing Tools for Data Quality in a Public Health Survey in a Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Ethiopia: Randomized Controlled Crossover Health Care Information Technology Evaluation.

BackgroundPeriodic demographic health surveillance and surveys are the main sources of health information in developing countries. Conducting a survey requires extensive use of paper-pen and manual work and lengthy processes to generate the required information. Despite the rise of popularity in using electronic data collection systems to alleviate the problems, sufficient evidence is not available to support the use of electronic data capture (EDC) tools in interviewer-administered data collection processes.ObjectiveThis study aimed to compare data quality parameters in the data collected using mobile electronic and standard paper-based data capture tools in one of the health and demographic surveillance sites in northwest Ethiopia.MethodsA randomized controlled crossover health care information technology evaluation was conducted from May 10, 2016, to June 3, 2016, in a demographic and surveillance site. A total of 12 interviewers, as 2 individuals (one of them with a tablet computer and the other with a paper-based questionnaire) in 6 groups were assigned in the 6 towns of the surveillance premises. Data collectors switched the data collection method based on computer-generated random order. Data were cleaned using a MySQL program and transferred to SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 24.0) and R statistical software (R version 3.4.3, the R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform) for analysis. Descriptive and mixed ordinal logistic analyses were employed. The qualitative interview audio record from the system users was transcribed, coded, categorized, and linked to the International Organization for Standardization 9241-part 10 dialogue principles for system usability. The usability of this open data kit–based system was assessed using quantitative System Usability Scale (SUS) and matching of qualitative data with the isometric dialogue principles.ResultsFrom the submitted 1246 complete records of questionnaires in each tool, 41.89% (522/1246) of the paper and pen data capture (PPDC) and 30.89% (385/1246) of the EDC tool questionnaires had one or more types of data quality errors. The overall error rates were 1.67% and 0.60% for PPDC and EDC, respectively. The chances of more errors on the PPDC tool were multiplied by 1.015 for each additional question in the interview compared with EDC. The SUS score of the data collectors was 85.6. In the qualitative data response mapping, EDC had more positive suitability of task responses with few error tolerance characteristics.ConclusionsEDC possessed significantly better data quality and efficiency compared with PPDC, explained with fewer errors, instant data submission, and easy handling. The EDC proved to be a usable data collection tool in the rural study setting. Implementation organization needs to consider consistent power source, decent internet connection, standby technical support, and security assurance for the mobile device users for planning full-fledged implementation and integration of the system in the surveillance site.

The use of Facebook in the recruitment of foster carers: A dialogic analysis

Social media is becoming increasingly important for communication and community building, yet research on the use of social media by non‐profit organisations is limited and largely restricted to content analysis of social media comments. This article contributes to addressing this research gap, through a survey‐based study of the perspectives of key informants in U.K. Local Authority fostering teams on their use of social media. Specifically, it examines the extent to which the Facebook activity of local authority fostering teams is aligned with the principles of successful social media engagement, as represented by dialogic strategies and outcomes. A questionnaire on the use of Facebook was circulated to all local authority fostering teams in England. Findings suggest that although there is progress, many teams are at an early stage in their social media journey and that there is considerable variation between agencies. The limited evidence of engagement in relation to dialogic principles suggests that there is some adoption of a strategic approach. In particular, of the three dialogic principles associated with successful online engagement, two (updating and community building) were applied by about half of local authority fostering teams and the third (engagement) by just over a quarter.

Diyalojik Estetik Kavramının Dijital Sanatlar Bağlamında İncelenmesi

Digital Technology has dramatically changed the way human beings communicate. It has made distance communication possible and changed our world into a ‘Global Village’. Besides, it has influenced art experiences in a dramatical way. Like other forms of information, art is also able to reach wider audiences in all parts of the world, thus creating an effective cross-cultural communication. Throughout its history, art has always been the basis for a dialogue. However, it is the digital art which has introduced the dialogical principles in visual arts. The aim of this article is to analyze digital arts from a dialogical perspective. Focusing mainly on Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic philosophy, the article aims to present how the trajectories of digital art and dialogical aesthetics intersect. The article proposes that although interactive art and dialogical art share many characteristics in common, all interactive digital art is not dialogic; therefore, the focus of this article will be on digital arts which use telecommunication media as a means of dialogic meaning production.

La educación patrimonial transcompleja en el aula mente social y las instituciones educativas

This research article presents a research with a hermeneutics-comprehensive, diatopic and ecosophical approach as a transmethod of theoretical construction; observing theoretical axes of Transcomplex Patrimonial Education (TPE) in the social mind classroom and educational institutions. The research aims at understanding everything related to Patrimonial Education, all its knowledge and each of the categories: culture, transcomplexity, cultural heritage, transmodernity, ecosophy, among others. In the final rhizome, there are new looks from the TPE builders, which are processes re-appraised to our native culture: In the first place, students learn, unlearn and relearn patrimonial knowledge and educational loops are created under different levels of reality from the scientific knowledge to underground knowledge and vice versa. Then, with the dialogic principle of the TPE, equality is seen as a dialogue between individuals and communities, promoting cultural diversity as a heritage value along with the highest cultural heritage: land. Finally, the social and political inclusion of our aborigines is claimed from decolonization, responsibility and solidarity perceived as the communion of people who recognize and manifest themselves as brothers in a country that shelters them.

세계시민주의를 위한 불교적 Cosmopolitanism의 의미 : 空性과 法界緣起觀의 대화 원리를 중심으로

세계시민주의를 위한 불교적 Cosmopolitanism의 의미 : 空性과 法界緣起觀의 대화 원리를 중심으로

Mentoring early career women geographers in the neoliberal academy: dialogue, reflexivity, and ethics of care

ABSTRACTFaculty mentoring is a critical part of career advancement in higher education. Programmes that provide mentoring for early career scholars, especially women and underrepresented faculty members, are shown to support and improve the success rate of both faculty and their universities. This paper examines the challenges and rewards of mentoring women faculty from a feminist geographical perspective. Mentoring is often situated in hierarchical and masculinist structures and neoliberal environments of higher education in which expectations are stacked against women and underrepresented faculty. This analysis contributes to the mentoring literature by examining mentoring from a feminist perspective, including attention to the principles of dialogue, reflexivity, and ethics of care, and providing strategies of resistance to support successful mentoring. Our research focuses on a mentoring model with an advanced and an early career women faculty member located at two different institutions in the U.S. This research is grounded in autoethnography as a way to support and build on the role of transparency about expectations, personal and professional reward systems, and logistics in this relationship. We conclude that feminist mentoring entails critical engagement with the experiences of faculty in the neoliberal academy in order to develop sustainable and supportive mentoring.

Partnerstwo lokalne w ekonomii społecznej jako nowy paradygmat budowania spójności społecznej ​

The social economy has been trying to recognize its partnering role by the public and business sectors over recent years. The results are visible in the increasing use of its instruments in policy implemented by both the government and the regional authorities. The essence of local partnership is one of the key issues inherent in the new paradigm of building social cohesion and is a tool for a new economic and social order. The task of local partnership, understood as a kind of relationship between public entities, business and non-governmental organizations based on the principles of dialogue, reciprocity and equivalence, is to combine knowledge, experience and initiatives of various people and institutions in solving social problems.

The role of interreligious dialogues on religious tolerance

The application of the word ‘dialogue’ has a life as long as history and the old texts of religions are full of dialogues prevailing among different religious people. Reviewing and analysing the background and history of religious dialogue in the world, more than anything else, we understand the principle of necessity and position of dialogue as a common and public principle among religions, which in a broader view has been acceptable to most, if not all, religious people. This issue indicates that a spiritual and inherent sense is within the substantial core of all humans towards dialogue, which as a natural and inherent feature has been prevailing from the beginning of creation up to the present, and it will continue so. Firstly, employing the dialogue or saying and listening either to the inner self or the other people, when it is being formed with a commitment to human principles, will make human overpass a self-oriented attitude and recognition other persons. Secondly, it makes him/her listen and tolerate others’ views. Thirdly, it makes him/her be committed towards the principle of tolerance and recognise of the other(s) as well. On this basis, the continuity of the principle of dialogue and emphasis on this innate tradition will cause the spread of the culture of tolerance, peace and tranquillity. Furthermore, distancing from dialogue will lay down grounds for a self-oriented attitude, prejudice, pride, omission of others and violence in human society. On this case, while giving originality to dialogue, Islam clearly and firmly puts dialogue forth as a basic principle in human relations and a base to achieve the common ideals of human communities, which are discussed in detail in this article.

Organizacja, struktura oraz działanie ruchu anty- i alterglobalizacyjnego w państwach Unii Europejskiej

This paper discusses the main notions of the theory of organization and operation of a social movement that has been termed the anti-, and alter-globalization movement since the late 1990s. Its beginnings can be found in the protests of the populations of both Americas, mainly those of Mexico and the US, against a free-trade zone and agreements of states with international organizations. Attention should be paid to the structures the movement has built in European Union states, most closely related to globalization processes. Here both formal structures are encountered, such as the non-government organization Attac, and informal organizations operating on the principles of direct democracy. Formal organizations formulate legal and legitimate statutes and attempt to discuss the issues of globalization at the level of public debate. This is the path chosen by the parties of the so-called ‘new politics’ – prophetic, left-wing and libertarian parties. Informal organizations usually operate along principles of direct action and dialogue inside the movement itself. The key role in the shaping of the organizational structures of the anti-, and alter-globalization movements in Europe is played by the international European Social Forum, which is the venue for annual meetings and debates of different ideological currents.

Reddit as a new platform for public relations: Organizations' use of dialogic principles and their publics' responses in the subreddit IAmA

Applying Kent and Taylor’s (2002) dialogic communication framework, this study aims to explore in what ways organizations implement dialogic principles in the subreddit IAmA, a specific section of Reddit. This study also focuses on the less-researched publics’ side of computer-mediated PR. Twenty-three threads were purposively selected within the year-long timeframe of 1 February 2014 until 1 February 2015, including 40,903 comments of which 1,482 are responses from organizations. A qualitative content analysis was applied. The findings suggest that there is room for improvement in organizations’ use of dialogic principles and highlight the complexity of audience responses. While each dialogic principle can be argued to theoretically have a positive effect on these responses, audiences on Reddit especially hold transparency, open communication, and honesty in high regard and expect organizations’ threads to have extrinsic and/or intrinsic value for the publics besides having value for the organization in marketing and PR context.

Intertextuality and Dialectics of the Self in Barnes's The Sense of an Ending and in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

The article examines the literary relationship between The Sense of an Ending and Anna Karenina. Following Kristeva’s definition of intertextuality, resting upon the complex dialogic way in which words become intertwined in a literary work of art, it pursues the analysis of permeability of a literary act. The comparative reading process of The Sense of an Ending and of Anna Karenina brings to light the importance of the dialogical principle present in these texts, both in structural and thematic terms. The sense of strangeness or unfathomability involved in the encounter with otherness arises questions about the epistemological nature of the cultural web that constitutes uniqueness. The evocation of the self and of alterity announced in the element of unfamiliarity and resistance in its confrontation with the other helps us to penetrate deeper into the realm of subjectivity. The relationship of The Sense of an Ending to Anna Karenina, revisited in this article, rests upon comparative analysis of discursive practices employed in both texts. The analysis describes a host of symbolic ways in which The Sense of an Ending exploits consciousness and ideas from Anna Karenina, setting up reader’s perception that the creation of literary texts arises mostly from the permanent contact of these texts with prior texts. Emphasizing Bakhtin’s [1] idea that this contact is “a dialogic contact between several literary works of art” (p.162), the article reflects on different communicative practices, including both the identification of literary sources and the anticipation of future meditations on reading a sense of literary memory as observed in these texts. Specifically, revisiting philosophical reflections on the sense of a self, proposed in Anna Karenina, The Sense of an Ending achieves a connection between personal and collective levels in a process by which literary memory exploits the issue of identity.