Editorial: Doing Critical Health Communication: A Forum on Methods

Debate Forum Editorial

In the last volume of the SJIS the problem of agency and dealing with it as proposed in social science theories such as Structuration Theory and ActorNetwork Theory was subject of the debate forum. This volume takes up another timely topic namely that of the concept of ontology and its foundation for conceptual modelling, in particular the appropriateness and influence of the so-called Bunge-Wa...

Debate Forum Editorial

The debate forum in this volume addresses the relationship between information systems (IS) research and design science, a topic which has spurred increasing interest and debate in the IS community over the last decade. The opening essay of the debate forum is provided by Juhani Iivari, who has conducted influential work on IS development since the 1980s. His essay discusses ontological, episte...

FORUM EDITORIAL Updates on ‘‘Endoplasmic Reticulum Redox’’

Probably the most important message that a Forum on the reduction–oxidation (redox) environment in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) must nowadays convey is that an ‘‘ER redox state’’ as such does not exist. The ER rather features a variety of redox systems, which—in many cases—react independently with incoming substrates and xenobiotics. Thus, any statement claiming ER hyperor hypo-oxidation unde...

Editorial: postgraduate forum on genetics and society

EDITORIAL COMMENT The Neurobiology of Health Communication

This issue of Psychosomatic Medicine describes findings from an innovative study by Kang et al that used neuroimaging methods to quantify neural responses to health communications. Findings indicated that sedentary individuals who hold self-transcendent values show attenuated limbic threat responses to communications about the benefits of physical activity. Furthermore, participants who were in...