Adults with intellectual/developmental disability (IDD), and their occupational participation, are vastly under-represented in Hollywood films. Because films often provide individuals’ only experience of people with IDD, cinematic representations can influence audience perceptions. Thus, films can help inform public perceptions about desired and appropriate occupational participation for people...

Krasno and Green have argued that political advertising has no impact on voter turnout. We remain unconvinced by their evidence, given concerns about how they measure the advertising environment, how they measure advertising tone, their choice of modeling techniques and the generalizability of their findings. These differences aside, we strongly agree that political advertising does little to u...

Where are we in the story of British democracy? Was 2016 EU Referendum a rehearsal for new political system direct democracy that ultimately benefits far right? Or will Internet replace conventional machinery government with radical form network power where people discursively experiment realities through aesthetic modes social relations? This article proffers term ‘networked participation’ to ...

This commentary talks about patient involvement in one of the biggest EU projects to date-U-BIOPRED. It describes how people and carers of people with asthma have been able to develop and drive their input and have their voice heard among the >200 healthcare professional project members. Five key principles for the success of the patient involvement group are presented: involve early, involve d...

INTRODUCTION Patient and public involvement in healthcare planning, service development and health-related research has received significant attention. However, evidence about the role of patient involvement in quality improvement work is more limited. We aimed to characterize patient involvement in three improvement projects and to identify strengths and weaknesses of contrasting approaches. ...

Descriptions of four proposals submitted to eRENA by three artists. These proposals form a basis for activities in eRENA years 2 and 3, especially in the “open” Work Package 7. In the proposals links with and aesthetic expressions of the themes in work packages 4, 5 and 6 have also been considered and promoted. The proposals strongly connect to the production themes of work package 4, the crowd...

In this paper we tell a version of the story of the bombing of the Boston Marathon. At first, two online groups gathered images, video and textual information concerning the bombing of the Boston Marathon and shared these with the FBI and amongst themselves. Secondly, these groups then created mechanisms to conduct their own investigation into the identities of the perpetrators. Finally, the la...

The manuscript “Association between participation and compliance with Continuing Medical Education and care production by physicians: a cross-sectional study” illustrates the ongoing challenge physicians face in keeping updated in order to offer their patients high-quality care. However, this need for Continuing Education is barred by the significant workload and dedication required by the prof...