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ORIGINS. ERC funded research on consequences of social networking sites and social media in seven countries. Danny qualified by reason of crass insensitivity. Kimberley experienced in systemic therapy and counselling brings the sensitivity. 3 years fieldwork, only 50 interviews so far.
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ORIGINS • ERC funded research on consequences of social networking sites and social media in seven countries. • Danny qualified by reason of crass insensitivity. • Kimberley experienced in systemic therapy and counselling brings the sensitivity. • 3 years fieldwork, only 50 interviews so far. Will research the whole age range, only quarter will be patients, also talk to staff.
ALL SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS • 3 aims, hospice to patient, between palliative care workers, and patient to patient’s social universe. • Tony Walters Sociology Bath. Bring in the community behind the patient. • BUT is there a community, or just politics? Should we privilege family? Let’s just see the entirety of social communication from visits to emails. • Some only know two in village, some want to downsized their connections.
ALL CHANGE • Technophobes to Skype. Why Facebook is devised for the elderly not the young. See D. Miller Tales from Facebook based in Trinidad • 90 year old with cookery stand. • Theory of Polymedia, see entire ecology of communications as package of possibilities. • Huge diversity of responses, many detest changes, but note utter ubiquity of phone. Too early to generalise. • But story of FB as `the good death’
THE FALSE PROBLEM OF LITIGATION • Many changes are blindingly obvious e.g. • Abolish the fax and letters, replace with emails. • Huge potential for webcam, texting etc • Better recording and sharing of info. • Wifi provision in institutions • Male volunteers help assist with IT • Problem of resistance from projected fear of litigation but no real change from phonecalls.
FROM TOP DOWN TO BOTTOM UP • Traditional research by experts creating videophone sold by Microsoft. • Anthropology traditionally anti-policy, just learning from informants. • All future research will immediately be out of date. • Instead envisage interested nursing staff reporting patient best practice directly to other nursing staff through websites.