Questioning Familiar Narratives

Creating, maintaining and questioning (hetero)relational normality in narratives about vaginal reconstruction

Analyzing 10 interviews with women diagnosed with and treated for congenital absence of the vagina, this article theorises the notion of ideal (hetero)relational normality. It explores how the women negotiate, relate to and challenge this notion and examines the normative and bodily work that it calls for in my case study. The article specifically underscores the corporeal dimension of (hetero)...

From Silence into Language: Questioning the Power of Physician Illness Narratives.

Physicians' narratives of their own experiences of illness can be a kind of empathic bridge across the divide between a professional healer and a sick patient. This essay considers ways in which physicians' narratives of their own and family members' experiences of cancer shape encounters with patients and patients' experiences of illness. It analyzes ethical dimensions of physicians' narrative...

Questioning Representations

The role of models in the design of computer systems to support interpersonal and cooperative work is examined. It is argued that the current generation of models over-emphasise determinism at the expense of interpretation in the work process. It is further argued that there are many cases in which designs pass between many different professional groups (office workers, managers, analysts, desi...

Entropic Questioning

Questioning Mashups

Mashups have been defined in earlier development stages of the web. Their main motivation is to build new services from existing resources. This principle is still productive. Assumptions on what mashups take in, which interfaces and services they provide and where they are networked need an overhaul. Focusing on a reuse of resources exploiting all their affordances while opening wider ranges f...