Frank Webster
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85247 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Frank Webster |
| NOMBRES | Frank |
| APELLIDO | Webster |
| FIRMA | WEBSTER F |
| AFILIACIONES | City, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7318-7713 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 146 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Mourner’s Little Helper
The value of diagnosing the pathologically bereaved, as affected by a distinct disorder from depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress disorder, has long been debated by clinicians and scholars alike. Disputes continue over whether a specific diagnosis would help those struggling after loss, even after prolonged grief disorder gained official status in 2022 as a condition recognized and defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Ment…
Trapped in the labyrinth
This paper examines how systems of income support for Canadians living with chronic pain operate as forms of structural violence. Drawing on a secondary analysis of data from an institutional ethnographic study of chronic pain and marginalization, the paper traces the everyday “work” required to access and maintain Long-Term Disability and Workers’ Compensation benefits. Through analysis of 28 interviews with people who identified as both socioec…
Knowing Otherwise”
The COVID-19 pandemic was a time of significant crisis for most Canadians. For those living with chronic pain, it was a disproportionately challenging time. There have been calls for researchers to address the experiences of chronic pain during the time of pandemic, including for those who also struggle with systemic and structural marginalization. The purpose of this study was to highlight the experiences of people living with chronic pain and p…
What are the Impacts of Task Shifting and Skill Mix Interventions in Primary Care? Results from a realist review
Background: Countries globally face a growing health human resource crisis in primary care. Task shifting and skill mix are two inter-related strategies that have been implemented to alleviate the health human resource crisis. Both interventions involve changing or expanding clinical roles, ultimately optimizing the current workforce. This realist synthesis of a systematic review aims to understand how and why task shifting and skill mix interven…
Social Isolation in Community-Dwelling Older Adults During Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic increased social isolation for many older adults, causing concern for their health and well-being. To enhance understanding of how community-dwelling older adults were impacted by prolonged social isolation during COVID-19, a qualitative descriptive study was conducted to: (1) explore the self-reported factors supporting their resilience during COVID-19 related social isolation, and (2) to help understand the intentional and…
The Disjuncture between Medication Adherence and Recovery-centered Principles in Early Psychosis Intervention
To examine how recovery principles are enacted in an early psychosis intervention (EPI) clinic, we used an institutional ethnographic approach focused on how the ideology of medication adherence organizes young people’s experiences of EPI services. Methods included ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews with 27 participants (18 clinic staff, four young people, and five family members), and textual analysis of clinic documents (e.g., case f…
Advancing the Impact of Critical Qualitative Research on Policy, Practice, and Science
Discourses of research impact shape the ways in which critical qualitative research and researchers are evaluated in contemporary academic environments. Mainstream conceptualizations of research impact arise from a positivist perspective that challenges the aims and approaches of critical qualitative research. In this paper, we propose a framework for conceptualizing the impact of critical qualitative research on policy, practice, and science. Af…
The power of potential
Despite their low and inconsistent rates of success, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are presented by fertility clinics and constructed in media and popular culture as an effective treatment for infertility. The ways in which such technologies medicalize women's health and bodies have been well documented by social scientists and feminist health researchers. However, little is known about the struggles women face in cases of "failure"; …
A critical content analysis of media reporting on opioids
The social construction of the opioid epidemic polarizes individuals as good or bad with little attention paid to underlying institutional interests both in the creation of the problem or in the solutions that are proposed. We show that as concerns about harms from opioids become more pronounced, the narrative shifts to home in on illicit street-use with a corresponding uptake of stigmatizing references to so-called addicts. Concurrently, most re…
Resisting governance and the production of trust in early psychosis intervention
The Information Society Reader
The mismeasurement of complexity
Defining patient complexity as morbidity alone is inadequate; such models neglect syndromes and conditions that are not included in formal disease classifications. Chronic pain should be included among the chronic conditions that are considered to constitute multimorbidity. In order to provide effective patient-centered care, discussions of patient complexity must also attend to the complex social and economic circumstances in which many patients…
Doing Science Differently
Hiring and promotion of qualitative researchers in the health sciences, in Canada and internationally, is impacted by the prestige of quantification as the ultimate measure of scientific quality in current academic and health-care settings. This is further exacerbated by neoliberal notions of productivity, which offer very limited forms of assessment for different ways of producing knowledge or doing science differently. While qualitative researc…
How does peer similarity influence adult children caregivers' perceptions of support from peers? A mixed-method study
Due to the growing elderly population, adult children care-givers (ACCs) are increasingly providing complex care for one or both elderly parents. Social support from similar peers can mitigate care-giving-related health declines. To date, ‘peer similarity’ amongst care-givers has been predominantly investigated in the context of peer-matching interventions. However, because peer similarity is especially influential in ‘naturally occurring’ suppor…
A realist evaluation of value-based care delivery in home care
Awaiting knee joint replacement surgery
Total knee replacement (TKR) is an increasingly common surgery among individuals with osteoarthritis (OA). Although the outcomes of this surgery are generally deemed positive, many are not fully satisfied with their return to pre-TKR occupations. The literature on pre-TKR occupational engagement is limited and primarily describes how the symptoms associated with OA restrict participation in occupation with little attention given to the significan…
Care interrupted
Internationally, rural people have poorer health outcomes relative to their urban counterparts, and primary care providers face particular challenges in rural and remote regions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldnotes and 14 open-ended qualitative interviews with care providers and chronic pain patients in two remote resource communities in Northern Ontario, Canada, this article examines the challenges involved in providing and receiving primary care…
Theories of the Information Society
Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now part of a global information economy. Pervasive media, expanding information occupations and the development of the internet convince many that living in an Information Society is the destiny of us all. Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual relationships and breakneck change poses challenges to one and…
Information history in the modern world
Science and Technology
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Paradox and Puzzle Technoscience Social Constructionism Actor Network Theory Feminism Convergence The Role of Expertise Conclusion Future Trends References
The Information Environment of War
This article observes high levels of anxiety about war in the present era, although wars are in decline. It addresses this paradox by distinguishing ideal‐typical features of Industrial and Information War. Industrial War is fought predominantly between states over territory, harnesses industry and the military, and requires mass mobilisation of people as well as resources. Information War is the prerogative of a few advanced societies and has em…
Theories of the Information Society
Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual relationships and breakneck change poses challenges to one and all. In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster makes sense of the information explosion, taking a sceptical look at what thinkers mean when they refer to the 'Information Society' and critically examines the major post-war theories and approaches to informational development. This third edition brings the book right up to da…
Journalists Under Fire
A New Kind of War INFORMATION WAR War in the Information Age From Industrial War to Information War American Exceptionalism FRONT LINE JOURNALISM Who they are and why they do it On Assignment Working Relations Fixers and Translators Danger and Safety Training and Protection Coping with Fear and Danger Information War and Journalistic Practices in the 21st century
The Digital Sublime
The Anti-War/Peace Movement in Britain and the Conditions of Information War
Using the concept of Information War we explore the conditions and mediation of contemporary war. Examples from British anti-war and peace movements are then employed to better understand the importance of 'symbolic struggles', focusing on the importance of the internet in recent opposition to wars. These examples signify a shift away from the era where the mediation of war could be closely controlled towards one where the influences of journalis…
Understanding Contemporary Society
Theory, Theorists and Themes - Gary Browning, Abigail Halcli and Frank Webster A User's Guide to Understanding the Present PART ONE: THEORIES Postmodernism - Christopher Norris A Guide for the Perplexed Post-Feminism - Mich[gr]ele Barrett Post-History - Krishan Kumar Living at the End Post-Marxism - Terrell Carver Post-Colonialism and Beyond - Don Robotham Reflexive Modernization - Ted Benton Narrative - Susan Stephenson Rational Choice Theory - …
A critical content analysis of media reporting on opioids
The social construction of the opioid epidemic polarizes individuals as good or bad with little attention paid to underlying institutional interests both in the creation of the problem or in the solutions that are proposed. We show that as concerns about harms from opioids become more pronounced, the narrative shifts to home in on illicit street-use with a corresponding uptake of stigmatizing references to so-called addicts. Concurrently, most re…
Culture and Politics in the Information Age
Plan and control
The Anti-War/Peace Movement in Britain and the Conditions of Information War
Using the concept of Information War we explore the conditions and mediation of contemporary war. Examples from British anti-war and peace movements are then employed to better understand the importance of 'symbolic struggles', focusing on the importance of the internet in recent opposition to wars. These examples signify a shift away from the era where the mediation of war could be closely controlled towards one where the influences of journalis…
The Politics of Sex and Gender
This paper responds to the sense of “crisis” or “trouble” that dominates contemporary feminist debate about the categories of sex and gender. It argues that this perception of crisis has emerged from a fundamental confusion of theoretical and political issues concerning the implications of the sex/gender debate for political representation and agency. It explores the sense in which this confusion is manifest in a debate between Seyla Benhabib and…
I'll be Watching You
Sewell and Wilkinson (1992) argue that Just-in-Time and Total Quality Control systems are being established in the labour process so that employees can be controlled in the most efficient manner with a minimum of supervisors. Here it is argued that this is but one part of much wider processes which may appear to bring decentralisation while in fact increasingly centralising power. The broader political and cultural contexts and the historical roo…
Cultural studies and sociology at, and after, the closure of the Birmingham school1
This article analyses and comments on the sudden closure of the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology (CSS) at the University of Birmingham in July 2002. The origins of cultural studies are delineated and its reception within and outside Birmingham University is tracked. The relation to sociology and its own 'cultural turn' is observed. Explanations for the closure of CSS — amidst the enormous popularity and influence of cultural studies –…
Doing Science Differently
Hiring and promotion of qualitative researchers in the health sciences, in Canada and internationally, is impacted by the prestige of quantification as the ultimate measure of scientific quality in current academic and health-care settings. This is further exacerbated by neoliberal notions of productivity, which offer very limited forms of assessment for different ways of producing knowledge or doing science differently. While qualitative researc…
Re-inventing place
In this article, Frank Webster sets out to "swim against the current" of some recent thinking on cities. In particular, he takes to task what he calls the "new urbanism" in which cities are seen as the new drivers and switching centres of an emerging economy which is largely deindustrialized, global and places a high premium on knowledge and information professionals. Webster goes on to test these ideas against Birmingham, the UK's second largest…
Inequality and Mobilization in The Information Age
This article focuses on Manuel Castells's claim that the information age announces major changes in stratification and, accordingly, in social and political mobilization. His assertion that informational labour displaces generic labour in informational capitalism is examined in terms of its conceptual and historical accuracy, and questions are raised about the notion of meritocracy embedded in his depiction of informational labour. The idea that …
Do Bodies Matter? Sex, Gender and Politics
2002). Do Bodies Matter? Sex, Gender and Politics. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 17, No. 38, pp. 191-205
Broadcasting Politics
The power of potential
Despite their low and inconsistent rates of success, assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are presented by fertility clinics and constructed in media and popular culture as an effective treatment for infertility. The ways in which such technologies medicalize women's health and bodies have been well documented by social scientists and feminist health researchers. However, little is known about the struggles women face in cases of "failure"; …
Care interrupted
Internationally, rural people have poorer health outcomes relative to their urban counterparts, and primary care providers face particular challenges in rural and remote regions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldnotes and 14 open-ended qualitative interviews with care providers and chronic pain patients in two remote resource communities in Northern Ontario, Canada, this article examines the challenges involved in providing and receiving primary care…
Prospects Of A Virtual Culture
Benchmarking in Geography
Internationally there is concern about assessment standards and the qualities of graduating students. In the UK this is resulting in the introduction of benchmarking by disciplinary communities, including that of geography. In that context the authors report on a project across social science disciplines, including geography, in one UK university, to examine and improve the assessment of undergraduate dissertations. The project examined what asse…
What information society
Increasingly, information is regarded as a defining feature of the modem world, and it is commonplace to refer to countries such as the United States and Britain as “information societies. “ Commentators are, however, strikingly vague about the criteria used to define either information or information societies. Five analytical criteria, i.e., technological, economic, occupational, spatial, and cultural, are used to define either information or i…
Advancing the Impact of Critical Qualitative Research on Policy, Practice, and Science
Discourses of research impact shape the ways in which critical qualitative research and researchers are evaluated in contemporary academic environments. Mainstream conceptualizations of research impact arise from a positivist perspective that challenges the aims and approaches of critical qualitative research. In this paper, we propose a framework for conceptualizing the impact of critical qualitative research on policy, practice, and science. Af…
Resisting governance and the production of trust in early psychosis intervention
A realist evaluation of value-based care delivery in home care
A Reply to David Marsh
My article concerned the history and character of Cultural Studies and Sociology at and beyond the University of Birmingham, arguing that these contributed to the Department of Cultural Studies and
Theories of the Information Society
Thinking about Technology
The last twenty or so years have been rather good for social science researchers interested in technological change. The subject has been self-evidently important, what with technological innovation so pressing and palpable and with politicians and business leaders lining up to insist that industry is to the forefront of change. The upshot is that, while scholars interested in more mainstream research have found it almost
Computer Literacy
This article contends that enthusiasm for "computer literacy" programs in education is misplaced. Focusing on recent expenence in Britain, it argues that computer literacy courses are indefensible in terms of vocational needs, skill requirements, social mobility opportunities, access to power, and the needs of employers. It charges that concern for hands-on computer instruction actually disguises the most important features of the "information so…
Teachers and technology
Technology and education
Broadcasting Politics
The Media, the Military and Censorship
Journal Article The Media, the Military and Censorship Get access Kevin Robins, Kevin Robins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Frank Webster Frank Webster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 27, Issue 2, March-April 1986, Pages 57–63, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/27.2.57 Published: 01 March 1986
Science, poetry and utopia
Advertising the American dream
The Underside of High-Tech
Athens without slaves… or slaves without Athens
Computer Literacy
This article contends that enthusiasm for "computer literacy" programs in education is misplaced. Focusing on recent expenence in Britain, it argues that computer literacy courses are indefensible in terms of vocational needs, skill requirements, social mobility opportunities, access to power, and the needs of employers. It charges that concern for hands-on computer instruction actually disguises the most important features of the "information so…
Plan and control
The Technical Fix
Part 1 The myth of the machine: technological futures and the technical fix the origins of the information society recession and restructuring. Part 2 The industrialisation of education: education, Utopia and crisis the English disease? education for what jobs? the new disciplines. Part 3 Beyond technocracy?: the military project the technocratic condition, or schools cannot teach what society does not know
I'll be Watching You
Sewell and Wilkinson (1992) argue that Just-in-Time and Total Quality Control systems are being established in the labour process so that employees can be controlled in the most efficient manner with a minimum of supervisors. Here it is argued that this is but one part of much wider processes which may appear to bring decentralisation while in fact increasingly centralising power. The broader political and cultural contexts and the historical roo…
What information society
Increasingly, information is regarded as a defining feature of the modem world, and it is commonplace to refer to countries such as the United States and Britain as “information societies. “ Commentators are, however, strikingly vague about the criteria used to define either information or information societies. Five analytical criteria, i.e., technological, economic, occupational, spatial, and cultural, are used to define either information or i…
Thinking about Technology
The last twenty or so years have been rather good for social science researchers interested in technological change. The subject has been self-evidently important, what with technological innovation so pressing and palpable and with politicians and business leaders lining up to insist that industry is to the forefront of change. The upshot is that, while scholars interested in more mainstream research have found it almost
Theories of the Information Society
Information has come to be regarded as a symbol of the age in which we live. Talk nowadays is of an `information technology' revolution, even of an `information society'. But just what does this mean? In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster sets out to make sense of the information explosion. He examines and assesses a variety of `images of the information society', and takes a sceptical look at what thinkers mean when they do refer …
Is this the information age
What is the nature and role of information in our epoch? Who are the main agents for change? Manuel Castells’ trilogy, The Information Age, is central to the attempt to answer these questions. Frank Webster, whilst acknowledging this, sets out a critique of some key elements of Castells’ analysis
Information, urbanism and identity
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell. Volume 1: The Rise of the Network Society. 1996, pp.556. Volume 2: The Power of Identity. 1997, pp.434
The iron cage of the information society
This paper offers an analysis and critique of recent thought about the ‘information society’. It identifies two phases of futurism, the first a technological enthusiasm that characterised the early 1980s, the second, in the 1990s, which emphasises the transformative capacity of information itself. The second phase is examined at some length, focusing on the concepts of ‘symbolic analysts’ and ‘informational labour’ in the writing especially of Ro…
Theories of the Information Society
What are our Universities for
The Power of Identity
The Politics of Sex and Gender
This paper responds to the sense of “crisis” or “trouble” that dominates contemporary feminist debate about the categories of sex and gender. It argues that this perception of crisis has emerged from a fundamental confusion of theoretical and political issues concerning the implications of the sex/gender debate for political representation and agency. It explores the sense in which this confusion is manifest in a debate between Seyla Benhabib and…
Understanding contemporary society
Information, Capitalism and Uncertainty
This article argues that the changes characterized by many commentators as announcing the ‘information age’ are better seen, not as heralding a new type of society, but as the continuation, consolidation and extension of capitalism – something which is accompanied by constant upheaval and innovation. The shift from conceiving the ‘information society’ as a result of technological breakthroughs to one which lays emphasis on the primacy of ‘informa…
Assessing the Undergraduate Dissertation
This paper reports on a study of assessment of undergraduate dissertations in the seven departments which constitute the School of Social Sciences and Law at Oxford Brookes University. Information was gathered from documented material and interviews regarding criteria used in assessment of dissertations. This was analysed to identify the range of criteria across disciplines. Criteria were also examined by administration of a questionnaire asking …
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