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Saturday 28 April 2012

Tutorial Six


This blog is about how healthy food should be more affordable than unhealthy foods and how much more expensive it is to eat a healthy diet compared to an unhealthy one. The intended purpose of the site is to encourage debate about the cost of healthy foods such as fruit and vegies. The article encourages people to comment on the points made and responds to everyone that is made. This response to comments encourages more people to contribute to the debate.
This blog is about healthy eating and how to make sure you remain healthy and not get sick. The intended purpose of the site is to inform readers on how they can make sure that kids are kept healthy and avoid falling ill. The article has a comment area at the bottom of the page to encourage viewers to respond and bring up their own ideas on how to maintain the health of kids.
This blog is about how to make sandwiches that have faces on them so that they can be more presentable to kids so the kids will eat these. The intended purpose of the site is to teach the viewer how to dress up there food and more it more appealing to kids. There is a comment area at the bottom of the page that encourages viewers to respond and talk about their own experiences of making these for their kids.

People choose to contribute to the community to try and encourage others to ensure that the kids eat healthy food. The information shared on the blog is reciprocal as the authors of the blogs usually reply to the information that others contribute to the discussions. These blogs relate to occupational deprivation through the fact that without a proper diet kids will not have the energy to participate in their meaningful occupations. Occupational deprivation is stated as being an external circumstance that influences and prevents someone from their occupation over an extended period of time (Townsend E.A. & Polaitajko, 2007). These blogs show occupational transition through if the government made healthy food cheaper then it will leave more income for people to spend on occupations that they want to. Occupational Transition is ‘Circumstances creating a change in the nature or type of occupational engagement pursued by or available to an individual. Such transitions may be the result of choice, changes in physical or mental status, life transitions, geographical change, geopolitical strife, or other factors’ (Christiansen & Townsend, 2010, p.421).
Possible ethical issues could be that people’s comments could be offensive to others as there is no control on getting rid of the potentially harmful comments. Yet people who write the comments on the blogs can write under any name they want to write it under and they choose to share only as much as they want to share on the comment section.
The benefits of the community being online is that it is accessible to people from different areas in the world with different backgrounds so will have more of a wider opinion and view of the topic. Also you can be any alias you want and so you can write things up and remain anonymous so more people will open up and discuss more personal matters.
The limitations are that not all people are computer literate, meaning that not everybody knows/ has the capability to use a computer and access the internet to access these communities. Also if you do not have broadband or fast internet it might deter the person to access these communities because it will take such a long time to get to the page they want and to write/ read the comments they want to read. Plus it is easier for others to criticise what you say on the internet, because they are not having to do it directly in front of you so there is a higher chance someone will challenge your thoughts or feelings.

 Christiansen, C. H., & Townsend, E. A. (2010). Introduction to Occupation (2 ed.). New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.

Townsend E.A. & Polaitajko, H. J. (2007). Enabling Occupation II: Advancing an occupational therapy for health, well-being, & justice through occupation. Ottawa: Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists.

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