יום שלישי, 1 בנובמבר 2011

Session 6: Online Identity and Interaction



For this assignment, I chose caloriesperhour.com, which provides weight loss tips (food calories calculator, weight loss calculator, etc.) and has a diet and weight loss forum where many people discuss weight loss (posting users’ own diet success and failure stories, sharing body images to get self-esteem, asking about medical issues, such as eating disorders, surgery, diet pills, and supplements).


Sunny Day, Scenario 1
·         A user is on a diet. She has lost a tremendous amount of weight. However, she hasn’t lost weight during past two weeks but has even gained a few pounds. Struggling, she is becoming exhausted and giving up the diet.
·         She posts her before and after body images to ask for suggestions.
·         Many users share their experiences dealing with struggles (changing types of exercise, food, etc.) and applaud her efforts.
·         Her self-esteem grows and, after a while, her diet is successful.


Sunny Day, Scenario 2
·         A user who has never tried a diet wants to lose weight.
·         Because he doesn’t have any knowledge of diet plans, he joins the forum to seek the successful diet plans other people have tried.
·         He reads threads and followed the diet plan with the largest view counts.
·         He succeeds with the diet.


Rainy Day Scenario
·         A user wants to lose weight by using diet pills.
·         She begins a post asking other forum users for recommendations.
·         Many people leave comments recommending a diet pill and telling of their successful outcomes.
·         She chooses a diet pill that has been recommended many times.
·         She takes the diet pill and suffers side effects (nausea, diarrhea, and dehydration); then she falls victim to depression.
    Users share knowledge of variety of diet pills and supplements.


                            
How is viagra cialis online pharmacy pharmacy identity shaped and expressed through interactions in this community?


Donath (2007) explains that the strong ties in networks can give support to members of the group and weak ties make people feel less responsibility but provide more access to a variety of information. Users of caloriesperhour have both strong and weak ties. They give emotional support to each other, even though they don’t meet offline, and they interact often by sending private messages. Weak ties are characterized by the fact that most people don’t know each other but share information that they can’t get offline freely because of the limits of time, place, or accessibility. 
Users give emotional support to each other.
                              
Like Bodyspace, caloriesperhour is a passion-centric social network site. “Social network sites connect people because of a shared passion, such as religion, pets, or specific hobbies” (Ploderer et al, 2008). I believe that there are common reasons for users joining and participating in these two communities. First, both communities help users to monitor their progress in the pursuit of their passion, Bodyspace users post their body images to get feedback, mostly applause, from the audience, as in a bodybuilding show; while caloriesperhour users post body image to get suggestions for diet plans. Second, I agree with Ploderer’s statement that “passion-centric social network sites connect mostly people with no previous offline connections”. I have observed that most users of caloriesperhour forum don’t meet offline but freely interact with each other online. Although I feel that there are more chances for bodybuilders to meet other forum users offline since they participate in competitions and work out together at the gym. “People form new relationships with others on social network sites. Thus, social network sites provide them with a community of like-minded people that extends their offline connections with peers, friends and coaches” (Ploderer et al.). Unlike Bodyspace users, who want to get information on how to prepare for bodybuilding competitions, users in caloriesperhour focus on searching for individual diet plans. “Comparing oneself with others is essential in any competitive sport including bodybuilding … they compare themselves with others who are in a worse position in order to enhance their self-esteem” (Ploderer et al.). In addition, most users in Bodyspace already have information about the sport—in other words, there are more experts—while caloriesperhour users are mostly amateurs and have more tendencies to struggle and share why they failed to lose weight.


According to Wellman (2003), networked individualism comes from changes in society (social changes, land use changes, and technological changes). The Internet has caused networks in society to expand from face-to-face groups to online groups, where people access the Internet using mobile phones and create online identities to interact with other people in social network sites. Donath emphasizes the importance of trust in users sharing reliable information. In caloriesperhours.com, users sometimes give and get false information. Not every user is trustworthy and sometimes represent themselves with unidentifiable information in their profiles (no avatars, no real name, etc.); nevertheless, strong ties are built because they have the same interest.


References
Wellman, Barry, Anabel Quan-Haase, Jeffrey Boase, Wenhong Chen, Keith Hampton, Isabel Isla de Diaz and Kakuko Miyata (2003).  The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 8(3). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue3/wellman.html


Donath, Judith. (2007). Signals in Social Supernets. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13(1).  http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/donath.html


Ploderer, B., S. Howard & P. Thomas (2008). Being Online, Living Offline: The Influence of Social Ties Over the Appropriation of Social Network Sites. Proceedings of CSCW 2008.

יום שבת, 29 באוקטובר 2011

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Emergency room doctors are using them to order lab tests and medication. Plastic surgeons are using them to show patients what they might look like after surgery. And medical residents are using them as a quick reference to look up drug interactions and medical conditions.
Since Apple's iPad hit the market in April, doctors at Chicago area hospitals are increasingly using the hot-selling tablet as a clinical tool.
Not only does the iPad allow doctors to view electronic medical records, wherever they are, it also gives them a way to show patients their X-rays, EKGs and other lab tests on an easy-to-read screen. Plus, it's lighter and has a longer battery life than many laptops, making it convenient for doctors to take on rounds.
Within the next month, the University of Chicago Medical Center plans to provide iPads to all of its internal medicine residents, expanding on a pilot program launched earlier this year. Similarly, Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood has given iPads to all of its orthopedic residents as part of a pilot program.
Other doctors are buying their own iPads and using them to interact with patients. At U. of C., for instance, plastic surgeon Dr. Julie Parker uses her iPad to show breast-cancer patients what they might look like after reconstructive surgery.
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Pulmonary specialists at the hospital also use iPads to explain lung disease to their patients.
Another hospital that has embraced the iPad is MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island. Once doctors there learned that they could access the hospital's electronic medical records with the iPad, "it went through here like wildfire," said Dr. Richard Watson, an emergency room physician at MetroSouth. "At least half of our staff here in the emergency room has their own iPad and carries it and uses it."
Last week, Watson used his iPad to show 14-year-old Gustavo Pintor an X-ray of his sprained right ankle. "It was cool to see," said the teen, who'd gotten hurt at soccer practice. "I feel like I understand what happened now."
Though the iPad provides a portal to the hospital's electronic record, patient information isn't actually stored on the device. And both the iPad and the hospital server are password-protected, lowering the chances that sensitive data could be swiped from a lost or stolen iPad.
Dr. Eric Nussbaum, MetroSouth's emergency room chief, said the iPad also solves one of the problems created by switching from a paper-based record system to an electronic one: having to go to a desktop computer to order lab tests or type in notes on a patient.
"With this, I'm back to the convenience of being in the patient's room, talking to them and plugging in my orders right then and there," he said.








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יום שלישי, 17 במאי 2011

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"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care—the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open." Donald Berwick, President Obama's choice to run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, June, 2009.



Berwick is an admirer of Great Britain's long-dysfunctional National Health Service, the UK's government-run health care agency.



The NHS has rationed health care for years. In Berwick's utopia, "red lists" are maintained. On those lists, the Telegraph reports, are medications that can only be prescribed by an NHS consultant, not a general practitioner. Those drugs include statins, diabetes medications, osteoporosis treatments, and medicine for Parkinson's disease.



Well, the British are rationing with their eyes open, I'll concede them that.



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יום שלישי, 3 במאי 2011

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יום חמישי, 21 באפריל 2011

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יום שלישי, 19 באפריל 2011

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#1 The Dentist
A man went to the dental surgeon to have a
tooth pulled. The dentist pulled out a freezing
needle to numb the area.

"No way! No needles! I hate needles!" the
patient shouted.
So the dentist started to hook up the laughing
gas, and the man again objected. "I can't do the gas
thing! The thought of having a gas mask on is
suffocating to me!"

The dentist then asked if the man had any
objection to taking a pill. "No," the patient said,
"I'm fine with pills."

The dentist said, "Here, take this – it’s a viagra tablet."

The patient responded, "Wow, I didn't know
Viagra works as a pain pill."

"It doesn't," said the dentist, "but it will
give you something to hold onto when I pull out your
tooth."

#2 The Search

One night , after the couple had retired for the night, the woman became aware that her husband was touching her in a most unusual manner. He started by running his hand across her shoulders and the small of her back. He ran his hand over her breasts, touching them very lightly. Then, he proceeded to run his hand gently down her side, sliding his hand over her stomach, and then down the other side to a point below her waist. He continued on, gently feeling her hips, first one side and the other.

His hand ran further down the outside of her thighs. His gentle stroking then started up the inside of her left thigh, stopped and then returned to do the same to her right thigh. By this time the woman was becoming aroused and she squirmed a little to better position herself. The man stopped abruptly and rolled over to his side of the bed.

" Why are you stopping darling"? she whispered.

He whispered back, " I found the remote".

#3 Best Patients

Who are the best patients !

Five surgeons from across the country are discussing who are the best patients to perform surgery.

The first surgeon, an Irishman from New York, says, "I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."

The second, an Italian from Chicago, responds. "Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside is color coded."

The third surgeon, an Englishman from Dallas, says, "No, I really think librarians are the best, everything inside them is in alphabetical order."

The fourth surgeon, Mexican from Los Angeles chimes in: "You know, I like construction workers ... those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over."

But the fifth surgeon, an Indian from Rose Bud Rez, shut them all up when he observed: "You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There's no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the head and the ass are interchangeable

#4 The Therapist

A husband and wife came for counseling after 15 years of marriage. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a passionate, painful tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the 15 years they had been married. She went on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of un-met needs she had endured over the course of their marriage. Finally, after allowing this to go on for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk and, after asking the wife to stand, he embraced and kissed her passionately. The woman shut up and quietly sat down as though in a daze.

The therapist turned to the husband and said, "This is what your wife needs at least three times a week. Can you do this?" The husband thought for a moment and replied, 'Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I golf."


#5 Man Jokes...with apologies to the ladies.

Why is a Laundromat a really bad place to pick up a woman?
Because a woman who can't even afford a washing machine will probably never be able to support you.
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Why do women have smaller feet than men?
It's one of those "evolutionary things" that allows
them to stand closer to the kitchen sink.
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If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, who do you let in first?
The dog, of course. He'll shut up once you let him in.
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Scientists have discovered a food that diminishes
a woman's sex drive by 90%.
It's called a Wedding Cake.
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Women will never be equal to men until they can
walk down the street with a bald head and a beer
gut, and still think they are sexy.
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In the beginning, God created the earth and rested.
Then God created Man and rested.
Then God created Woman.
Since the then, niether God nor Man has rested.


#6 Ole


A Minnesota story!!!

All of his life Ole had heard stories of an amazing family tradition. It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 21st birthday.

On that day, they'd walk across the lake to the boat club for their first legal drink. So when Ole's 21st birthday came around, he and his pal Sven took a boat out to the middle of the lake. Ole stepped out of the boat and nearly drowned! Sven just managed to pull him to safety.

Furious and confused, Ole went to see his grandmother. "Grandma, it's my 21st birthday, so why can't I walk across the lake like my father, his father, and his father before him?"

Granny looked into Ole's eyes and said, "Because, you dumb ass, your Father, grandfather and great-grandfather were born in January; you were born in July."



A Doctor in Minnesota wanted to get off work and go hunting, so he
approached his assistant "Ole, I am going hunting tomorrow and we
don't want to close the clinic. I want you to take care of the clinic
and take care of our patients".

"Yes, sir!!!" answers Ole.

The doctor goes hunting and returns the following day and asks: "So,
Ole, how was your day?"

Ole told him that he took care of three patients. "The first one had a headache so I gave him TYLENOL."

"Bravo Ya Ole, and the second one?" asks the doctor.

"The second one had stomach burning and I gave him MAALOX, sir" says Ole.

"Bravo, bravo Ole! You're good at this and what about the third one?" asks the doctor.

"Sir, I was sitting here and suddenly the door opens and a woman
enters like a flame, she undresses herself, taking off everything
including her bra and her panties and lies down on the table, spreading her legs and shouts: HELP ME! For 5 years I have not seen any man!!!!!"

And what did you do Ole?" asks the doctor.

"I put drops in her eyes."