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Genuine participation in participant-centred research initiatives: the rhetoric and the potential reality
Oliver Feeney (Feeney, O.); Pascal Borry (Borry, P.); Heike Felzmann (Felzmann, H.); Lucia Galvagni (Galvagni, L.); Ari Haukkala (Haukkala, A.); Michele Loi (Loi, M.); Salvor Nordal (Nordal, S.); Vojin Rakic (Rakic, V.); Brígida Riso (Riso, B.); Sigrid Sterckx (Sterckx, S.); Danya Vears (Vears, D.); et al.
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Journal of Community Genetics
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2018
Língua
Inglês
País
Alemanha
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Abstract/Resumo
The introduction of Web 2.0 technology, along with a population increasingly proficient in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), coupled with the rapid advancements in genetic testing methods, has seen an increase in the presence of participant-centred research initiatives. Such initiatives, aided by the centrality of ICT interconnections, and the ethos they propound seem to further embody the ideal of increasing the participatory nature of research, beyond what might be possible in non-ICT contexts alone. However, the majority of such research seems to actualise a much narrower definition of ‘participation’—where it is merely the case that such research initiatives have increased contact with participants through ICT but are otherwise non-participatory in any important normative sense. Furthermore, the rhetoric of participant-centred initiatives tends to inflate this minimalist form of participation into something that it is not, i.e. something genuinely participatory, with greater connections with both the ICT-facilitated political contexts and the largely non-ICT participatory initiatives that have expanded in contemporary health and research contexts. In this paper, we highlight that genuine (ICT-based) ‘participation’ should enable a reasonable minimum threshold of participatory engagement through, at least, three central participatory elements: educative, sense of being involved and degree of control. While we agree with criticisms that, at present, genuine participation seems more rhetoric than reality, we believe that there is clear potential for a greater ICT-facilitated participatory engagement on all three participatory elements. We outline some practical steps such initiatives could take to further develop these elements and thereby their level of ICT-facilitated participatory engagement.
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Palavras-chave
Participant-centred research,ICT,Participatory engagement,Web 2.0
  • Medicina Clínica - Ciências Médicas
  • Ciências da Saúde - Ciências Médicas
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Referência de financiamento Entidade Financiadora
COST Action IS10303 CHIP ME União Europeia
UID/SOC/03126/2013 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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