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Title:
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I'D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER HERE AT THE CHAT: ICT AND SPACES OF AUTHORSHIP FOR YOUNG USERS OF A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE |
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Author(s):
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Rafael Wild, Rafael Diehl, Cleci Maraschin, Maria Cristina Villanova Biazus |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-36-6 |
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Editors:
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Gunilla Bradley, Diane Whitehouse and Gurmit Singh |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Information and Communication Technology, workshops, authorship, mental health. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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35 |
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Last Page:
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42 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Authorship and production of subjectivity are worth considering concepts when it comes to Information and Communication Technology in relation to society. This paper takes these concepts as guidelines, describing and analyzing an interventionist research in a public mental health service for young people. Simple digital technologies which appeal to these young service users were explored. A computer laboratory was set at the child and adolescent mental health service at the hospital, the Integrated Center for Psychosocial Care (CIAPS). This laboratory promotes workshops which deal mainly with information and communication technology (such as computer use for web browsing, writing, photography, robotics and games) for children and teenage users. We argue that information and communication technology-based workshops, performed as we present here, have the potential to change the visibility regime and the participants position in the narrative spaces in which they participate. Young users, who, in these practices, take on different roles and shift positions become able to show other visible ways of self expression, such as poems, texts and drawings. As they are published in a world wide web space their expression gains in legitimacy. We understand this as a novel cognitive political line, which we call inventive cognition as opposed to recognitive cognition. |
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