Suchergebnisse

Der Artikel beschäftigt sich mit kartografischen Darstellungen als kommunikativer Vermittlungsstrategie des Imaginären am Beispiel von Karten in Fantasy-Rollenspielen. Im Rückgriff auf SCHÜTZsche Überlegungen zur Intersubjektivität und Kommunikation verstehen wir Karten als eine der Strategien im Umgang mit der "mittleren Transzendenz" in der Kommunikation mit Anderen. Die "sozialwissenschaftliche Hermeneutik" (SOEFFNER) wird als eine methodische Herangehensweise an Karten und die Interaktionen, in denen sie Verwendung finden, vorgestellt. In unseren Analysen der in Rollenspielen genutzten Karten zeigen wir, dass Karten nicht nur dazu dienen, sich zu verorten, sondern auch ein Mittel sind, einen Ort zu erzeugen, zu dem wir in sinnhafter Beziehung stehen. Karten helfen so dabei, uns das Gefühl zu geben, zu einem (imaginären) – nur mittelbar gegebenen – Territorium hinzugehören.

Book Review

The first recorded instance of whole-body-mapping for research purposes is a comparison of women's identity and the concept of the reproductive system in rural Jamaica and the UK. It was later developed in a structured workshop process in South Africa to give voice to the experiences of HIV positive individuals, decrease stigma, and advocate for provision of anti-retroviral medication. Whole-body mapping involves tracing around a person's body to create a life-sized outline, which is filled in during a creative and reflective process, producing an image representing multiple aspects of their embodied experience. Body-mapping holds promise as a qualitative, participatory research method to produce and disseminate knowledge. However, it is unclear how it is being used, by whom, and in what context. This article presents the findings of a systematic review of body-mapping in the published literature. The review identifies various implementations of body-mapping in research, therapeutic, and educational contexts. The degree of emphasis on social justice, knowledge translation, research, and therapeutic benefit varies a great deal, as does the intent and use of body-mapping. While body-mapping holds promise, more empirical investigation would be valuable in determining its characteristics in research, clinical, educative and political spheres. (author's abstract)

Abstract
The article deals with the transformation of an experimental ontology, classifying selected declarative knowledge for the domain of thematic cartography, into classes and interfaces of the Java language. The reason for this transformation is to transfer the declarative knowledge from the field of thematic cartography into the form of a program code in the Java programming language. The resulting program code containing declarations of interfaces and classes will be further used for creating a software application for an intelligent system for the interactive support of thematic map creation. The upcoming pilot project of this knowledge system is designed for the users without necessary cartographic knowledge, which will allow them to create interactively thematic maps and provide them with the support. The purpose of the use of such a tool is to prevent the users from deviating from established cartographic rules and avoid the occurrence of gross errors in resulting maps.
A properly compiled knowledge ontology facilitates the design of the prepared intelligent cartographic application, as the use of cartographic knowledge is enabled based on the automated transformation into the program code in the Java language. The generated program code contains declarations of basic concepts of thematic cartography, their structuring into classes corresponding to the source structures described in the ontology. The code also contains descriptions vertical and horizontal relations between the declared classes and also the interface for access to these classes and relations. The automated transformation of ontology into the Java code is not completely lossless. The examples of a transformation of individual components of ontology (classes, individuals, and object and datatype properties) into interfaces and classes in Java show the differences occurred during the transfer of the declarative knowledge into the program code. From these examples it is clear that the elements of ontology component description are or are not transformed into the Java code in full. The article proposes recommendations how to optimize the knowledge description on the part of ontology in order to minimize possible losses of the transformation of knowledge into the Java code