Ericka Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3650455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ericka Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ericka |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5041-5018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Digital vulnerabilities
Recent global events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, wars and migration streams, have highlighted the promise of digital infrastructures while also showcasing how dependent we are on digital systems for accessing welfare services such as healthcare, social services and education, as well as for accessing public service media. Notably, in the context of welfare provision, different people and social groups are affected in distinct ways by such d…
The intersectional hallucinations of synthetic data
Funding Agencies|WASP-HS
Critical Data Studies Meet Sociology
Critical Data Studies Meet Sociology life today is data driven -and the basis of data collection.Industries and institutions gather more digital data for their potential to generate value and action than ever before.These range from health data (Stevens et al. 2018; Vezuridis & Timmons 2021) to environmental data (Deitz 2023; Vardy 2020) to "alternative" data which are cleaned, repackaged and sold for use by industries in need of predictive model…
The ontological politics of synthetic data: Normalities, outliers, and intersectional hallucinations
Synthetic data is increasingly used as a substitute for real data due to ethical, legal, and logistical reasons. However, the rise of synthetic data also raises critical questions about its entanglement with the politics of classification and the reproduction of social norms and categories. This paper aims to problematize the use of synthetic data by examining how its production is intertwined with the maintenance of certain worldviews and classi…
Investigating healthcare workers' technostress when welfare technology is introduced in long-term care facilities
Welfare technology has recently reached older adults in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). Many Swedish municipalities are introducing emerging technologies such as virtual reality, robotic assistive devices, and social robots in LTCFs as part of everyday care. However, not only older adults are affected by these deployments. Healthcare workers are left to master these technologiesâ and integrate them into existing care practices. Previous resear…
Affective Corners as a Problematic for Design Interactions
Domestic robots are already commonplace in many homes, while humanoid companion robots like Pepper are increasingly becoming part of different kinds of care work. Drawing on fieldwork at a robotics lab, as well as our personal encounters with domestic robots, we use here the metaphor of “hard-to-reach corners” to explore the socio-technical limitations of companion robots and our differing abilities to respond to these limitations. This article p…
Changing the world one engineer at a time – unmaking the traditional engineering education when introducing sustainability subjects
Purpose The information technology (IT) sector has been seen as central to society's transformation to a more just and sustainable society, which underlines teachers’ responsibility to foster engineers who can contribute specifically to such ends. This study aims to report an effort to significantly update an existing engineering programme in IT with this ambition and to analyse the effects and challenges associated with the transformation. Desig…
Pepper as Imposter
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Caring for affective subjects produced in intimate healthcare examinations
This article is about the feelings - affect - induced by the digital rectal exam of the prostate and the gynaecological bimanual pelvic exam, and the care doctors are or are not instructed to give. The exams are both invasive, intimate exams located at a part of the body often charged with norms and emotions related to gender and sexuality. By using the concept affective subject, we analyse how these examinations are taught to medical students, b…
What Does It Mean to Measure a Smile? Assigning numerical values to emotions
This article looks at the implications of emotion recognition, zooming in on the specific case of the care robot Pepper introduced at a hospital in Toronto. Here, emotion recognition comes with the promise of equipping robots with a less tangible, more emotive set of skills – from companionship to encouragement. Through close analysis of a variety of materials related to emotion detection software – iMotions – we look into two aspects of the tech…
Approaching distressing or sensitive topics in medical school
The authors encourage a continuous attentiveness to thinking and caring about the challenges medical students will encounter during sensitive discussions
Strange Blood. The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond by Boel Berner, [Transcript]: Open Access, 2020
Glocal Pharma: International brands and the imagination of local masculinity
An exploration of how global pharmaceutical products are localized - of what happens when they become ’glocal’ - this book examines the tensions that exist between a global pharmaceutical market and the locally bounded discourses and regulations encountered as markets are created for new drugs in particular contexts. Employing the case study of the emergence, representation and regulation of Viagra in the Swedish market, Glocal Pharma offers anal…
Intra-face
Enrolling Men, their Doctors, and Partners
Using the Pfizer funded Swedish informational site about erectile dysfunction (ED), www.potenslinjen.se, we examine how potential users, their partners, and medical doctors are enrolled in the process of creating the Swedish Viagra user. Contextualized against other critical work on Viagra, our analysis shows how the commercial discourse embeds the ED patient into a network of actors. Three separate actors are co-constituted and enrolled by this …
Post-humanities is a Feminist Issue
Beyond the Humanist Imagination
Recent stirrings wihin the humanities and the social sciences, perhaps especially within feminist theory, have engendered new materialist, feminist materialist and posthumanist approaches to life w
Chemistries of Love. Impotence, erectile dysfunction and Viagra in Läkartidningen
This article examines the discourse surrounding impotence, erectile dysfunction and Viagra in the Swedish medical journal Lakartidningen. It draws on articles published from 1990 to 2006, the eight years prior to and after Viagra's 1998 introduction. Close reading of the articles has shown changes over this time period in how the impotent patient is defined. It has also revealed a transition in the discourse from the term impotence to erectile dy…
Simulating Medical Patients and Practices: Bodies and the Construction of Valid Medical Simulators
Why and how can a gynaecological simulator that has been ‘validated’ in one context, that is, accepted by experts as a functional and realistic model of the body on which to teach gynaecological exams, not be considered functional when it changes contexts and is used in another country? 1 To think through this problem, which grew out of reflections upon the ontological basis of the simulator’s different functionality within the US and Swedish con…
Dreaming of a mail-order husband: Russian-American internet romance
Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband: Russian-American Internet Romance
Surgical Simulators and Simulated Surgeons: Reconstituting Medical Practice and Practitioners in Simulations
Simulators that represent human patients are being integrated into medical education. This study examines the use of a haptic-enabled, virtual reality simulator designed to allow training in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques. The paper shows how medical practices and practitioners are constructed during a simulation. By using the theoretical tools that situated learning and communities of practice provide, combined with the concept of r…
The Complexity of Community Empowerment
Appreciating the Glocal in Community Practice: Camphill, Gaviotas and Intentional Community
The ghost of anatomies past: Simulating the one-sex body in modern medical training
An examination of the use of medical simulators shows that they contain traces of the one-sex body model found in pre-Enlightenment anatomies. The simulators present the male body as 'male including female' rather than 'male, not female'. Only when female sex organs are relevant to a practice, as in gynaecology, does a simulator need to become 'female, not male'. The widely held modernist understanding of sex and gender as binary categories is ac…
The Revitalization of Community Practice: Characteristics, Competencies, and Curricula for Community-Based Services
A recent move toward community-based services on the part of direct service agencies presents a major opportunity for the revitalization of community practice. Driven by funding from major philanthropic foundations and also by recent changes in federal entitlement legislation, these efforts at system reform are designed to make services for vulnerable populations more effective, accessible, integrated, and comprehensive in the context of the loca…
Beyond the Humanist Imagination
Recent stirrings wihin the humanities and the social sciences, perhaps especially within feminist theory, have engendered new materialist, feminist materialist and posthumanist approaches to life w
Increasing Internationalization in Social Work Programs: Healy’s Continuum As a Strategic Planning Guide
The article outlines the process whereby a graduate school of social work made its program comprehensively international, using Healy's criteria. The four goals were: raising awareness and making connections; student recruitment, support and advising; curriculum development; and international eld placements. The work of the Local Inter-National Konnections Committee is described, in particular the development of the Emphasis in International Soci…
Simulating Medical Patients and Practices: Bodies and the Construction of Valid Medical Simulators
Why and how can a gynaecological simulator that has been ‘validated’ in one context, that is, accepted by experts as a functional and realistic model of the body on which to teach gynaecological exams, not be considered functional when it changes contexts and is used in another country? 1 To think through this problem, which grew out of reflections upon the ontological basis of the simulator’s different functionality within the US and Swedish con…
Linking Professionalism and Community Organization: A Scholar/Advocate Approach
A resurgence of community practice requires that the historical tension between professionalism and community organization be resolved. This paper proposes a scholar/advocate approach to forge a link between professionals and community organizations. The scholar/advocate approach facilitates social change, provides an opportunity for social work professionals to participate in community organizing, and empowers grassroots groups. The benefits and…
Surgical Simulators and Simulated Surgeons: Reconstituting Medical Practice and Practitioners in Simulations
Simulators that represent human patients are being integrated into medical education. This study examines the use of a haptic-enabled, virtual reality simulator designed to allow training in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques. The paper shows how medical practices and practitioners are constructed during a simulation. By using the theoretical tools that situated learning and communities of practice provide, combined with the concept of r…
The Journal of Community Practice: A Social Work Journal with an Interdisciplinary Perspective
The Community Practice Pilot Project: Integrating Methods, Field, Community Assessment, and Experiential Learning
The Community Practice Pilot Project tested an approach for preparing students for work in organizations in which no social workers were employed. Field placements were clustered in a small geographic area. Classroom learning was linked with field instruction, advising, and Experiential Learning. Goals included integrating content on community-based practice into the foundation curriculum, exposing students to community building initiatives, and …
A profile of the non-profit sector in Romania: Research note
With the revolution of December 1989, citizens of Romania gained the right to form non-profit organisations for the first time in 40 years. Since then, Romania has begun to explore the frontiers of private initiative through the introduction of non-profit, non-governmental organisations as well as profit-making businesses. In this article we review the historical development and legal framework of Romania's emerging non-profit sector. We also pro…
The Quickening of Community Practice
Appreciating the Glocal in Community Practice: Camphill, Gaviotas and Intentional Community
The ghost of anatomies past: Simulating the one-sex body in modern medical training
An examination of the use of medical simulators shows that they contain traces of the one-sex body model found in pre-Enlightenment anatomies. The simulators present the male body as 'male including female' rather than 'male, not female'. Only when female sex organs are relevant to a practice, as in gynaecology, does a simulator need to become 'female, not male'. The widely held modernist understanding of sex and gender as binary categories is ac…
Introduction to the Issue, the Journal, and the Editors
Female-Headed Homeless Families: A Comparative Profile
Homeless families are a rising proportion of the contemporary homeless population. However, no data have heretofore documented a profile of sheltered homeless families over time. Data collected in St. Louis from 1983 to 1988 indicate that homeless families are likely to be young, minimally educated, female-headed minority families with one or two preschool chil dren. The emergence of these women and children as the dominant population of homeless…
Social Work Practice With Homeless Persons: State of the Art
This article reviews the state of the art of social work practice with homeless persons. The purpose of this article is to make social work practitioners and researchers aware of the empirically supported knowledge about homeless people and how to help them. Different types of interventions for different types of homeless persons are reviewed and 10 areas for practice innovation and advocacy are identified. The authors argue for a practice resear…
Homelessness Policy in the United States
Asset-Based Social Welfare Policy: Homeownership for the Poor
Asset-based social welfare policy is an emerging theme in public policy that focuses on accumulation of wealth rather than on levels of household consumption. In this paper, housing policy is used to illustrate asset-based policy for the poor. Rather than increasing income-based rent subsidies, asset-based housing policy would promote homeownership. Homeownership has played a critical role in the upward mobility of immigrant groups (Bauman, 1987)…
The ontological politics of synthetic data: Normalities, outliers, and intersectional hallucinations
Synthetic data is increasingly used as a substitute for real data due to ethical, legal, and logistical reasons. However, the rise of synthetic data also raises critical questions about its entanglement with the politics of classification and the reproduction of social norms and categories. This paper aims to problematize the use of synthetic data by examining how its production is intertwined with the maintenance of certain worldviews and classi…
Post-humanities is a Feminist Issue
Working and Nonworking Women: Onset of Homelessness Within the Context of Their Lives
This article reports on qualitative interviews with 25 women who were former residents of an emergency shelter. The interviews used a personal narrative approach to place the onset of homelessness within the context of the women's lives. They revealed that the onset of homelessness was different for working and nonworking women and that the women gained new perspectives on their problems from living in a shelter. They viewed homelessness as part …
Integrated Program Development: A Model for Meeting the Complex Needs of Homeless Persons
Homelessness is caused both by structural and personal factors. Thus, comprehensive services are required to meet the complex needs of homeless persons. This article reviews case management and group work practice with homeless persons and argues that effective social work practice must incorporate both intervention methods. Integrated Program Development (IPD), a program framework for shelter services, is presented. A pilot project at the Salvat…
The Utilization of the Social Sciences
Female-Headed Homeless Families: A Comparative Profile
Homeless families are a rising proportion of the contemporary homeless population. However, no data have heretofore documented a profile of sheltered homeless families over time. Data collected in St. Louis from 1983 to 1988 indicate that homeless families are likely to be young, minimally educated, female-headed minority families with one or two preschool chil dren. The emergence of these women and children as the dominant population of homeless…
Court-Ordered Consent Decree for the Homeless: Process, Conflict and Control
A 1985 class action suit on behalf of homeless individuals living in the City of St. Louis mandates both short-term and long-term services to homeless persons. These court-ordered requirements bring together an interesting triparite system: (1) the adversarial and justice-oriented legal system, (b) the highly political city government, and (c) the traditionally voluntary system of human service providers. Service provision to the homeless, the ut…
Asset-Based Social Welfare Policy: Homeownership for the Poor
Asset-based social welfare policy is an emerging theme in public policy that focuses on accumulation of wealth rather than on levels of household consumption. In this paper, housing policy is used to illustrate asset-based policy for the poor. Rather than increasing income-based rent subsidies, asset-based housing policy would promote homeownership. Homeownership has played a critical role in the upward mobility of immigrant groups (Bauman, 1987)…
Homelessness Policy in the United States
Linking Professionalism and Community Organization: A Scholar/Advocate Approach
A resurgence of community practice requires that the historical tension between professionalism and community organization be resolved. This paper proposes a scholar/advocate approach to forge a link between professionals and community organizations. The scholar/advocate approach facilitates social change, provides an opportunity for social work professionals to participate in community organizing, and empowers grassroots groups. The benefits and…
Integrated Program Development: A Model for Meeting the Complex Needs of Homeless Persons
Homelessness is caused both by structural and personal factors. Thus, comprehensive services are required to meet the complex needs of homeless persons. This article reviews case management and group work practice with homeless persons and argues that effective social work practice must incorporate both intervention methods. Integrated Program Development (IPD), a program framework for shelter services, is presented. A pilot project at the Salvat…
Social Work Practice With Homeless Persons: State of the Art
This article reviews the state of the art of social work practice with homeless persons. The purpose of this article is to make social work practitioners and researchers aware of the empirically supported knowledge about homeless people and how to help them. Different types of interventions for different types of homeless persons are reviewed and 10 areas for practice innovation and advocacy are identified. The authors argue for a practice resear…
Demographic Differences Between Sheltered Homeless Families and Housed Poor Families: Implications for Policy and Practice
This study compares homeless families with a representative sample of low income family households in St. Louis city and county to determine how they differ on key demographic variables. The research addresses methodological problems in prior research by comparing the findings of this study's random sample to the findings of four previous comparison studies. Findings from this study's random comparison sample are presented. Homeless families are …
A profile of the non-profit sector in Romania: Research note
With the revolution of December 1989, citizens of Romania gained the right to form non-profit organisations for the first time in 40 years. Since then, Romania has begun to explore the frontiers of private initiative through the introduction of non-profit, non-governmental organisations as well as profit-making businesses. In this article we review the historical development and legal framework of Romania's emerging non-profit sector. We also pro…
The Revitalization of Community Practice: Characteristics, Competencies, and Curricula for Community-Based Services
A recent move toward community-based services on the part of direct service agencies presents a major opportunity for the revitalization of community practice. Driven by funding from major philanthropic foundations and also by recent changes in federal entitlement legislation, these efforts at system reform are designed to make services for vulnerable populations more effective, accessible, integrated, and comprehensive in the context of the loca…
Working and Nonworking Women: Onset of Homelessness Within the Context of Their Lives
This article reports on qualitative interviews with 25 women who were former residents of an emergency shelter. The interviews used a personal narrative approach to place the onset of homelessness within the context of the women's lives. They revealed that the onset of homelessness was different for working and nonworking women and that the women gained new perspectives on their problems from living in a shelter. They viewed homelessness as part …
The Community Practice Pilot Project: Integrating Methods, Field, Community Assessment, and Experiential Learning
The Community Practice Pilot Project tested an approach for preparing students for work in organizations in which no social workers were employed. Field placements were clustered in a small geographic area. Classroom learning was linked with field instruction, advising, and Experiential Learning. Goals included integrating content on community-based practice into the foundation curriculum, exposing students to community building initiatives, and …
Reflecting Community Practice in Action: The Values and Aims of JCP
Introduction to the Issue, the Journal, and the Editors
The Journal of Community Practice: A Social Work Journal with an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Increasing Internationalization in Social Work Programs: Healy’s Continuum As a Strategic Planning Guide
The article outlines the process whereby a graduate school of social work made its program comprehensively international, using Healy's criteria. The four goals were: raising awareness and making connections; student recruitment, support and advising; curriculum development; and international eld placements. The work of the Local Inter-National Konnections Committee is described, in particular the development of the Emphasis in International Soci…
The Quickening of Community Practice
The Past, Present, and Future of International Social Work
The Complexity of Community Empowerment
Appreciating the Glocal in Community Practice: Camphill, Gaviotas and Intentional Community
The ghost of anatomies past: Simulating the one-sex body in modern medical training
An examination of the use of medical simulators shows that they contain traces of the one-sex body model found in pre-Enlightenment anatomies. The simulators present the male body as 'male including female' rather than 'male, not female'. Only when female sex organs are relevant to a practice, as in gynaecology, does a simulator need to become 'female, not male'. The widely held modernist understanding of sex and gender as binary categories is ac…
Dreaming of a mail-order husband: Russian-American internet romance
Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband: Russian-American Internet Romance
Surgical Simulators and Simulated Surgeons: Reconstituting Medical Practice and Practitioners in Simulations
Simulators that represent human patients are being integrated into medical education. This study examines the use of a haptic-enabled, virtual reality simulator designed to allow training in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques. The paper shows how medical practices and practitioners are constructed during a simulation. By using the theoretical tools that situated learning and communities of practice provide, combined with the concept of r…
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