Marketing strategy for your product or service
You work for the CSIRO [Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Australian government science agency] as a social scientist. One of your bosses approaches you explaining there is a bit of a buzz around ‘gene drive’ technology. They share the result of a survey they have already commissioned and which indicates some public support for using gene drive technology to get rid of feral cats (see here). They ask you to provide more advice and information about whether and how the CSIRO should move forward with gene drive technology in Australia, and whether the approach taken by Target Malaria (a not-for-profit which is looking at gene drive for malaria reduction) regarding stakeholder engagement on gene drive and discussed here would be something to take inspiration from.
Drawing on content from SOC251, especially weeks 7-9, write a research or policy brief evaluating what the CSIRO has done so far and how that compares with Target Malaria’s approach. Provide recommendations or possible actions based on your analysis.
Absorption is getting engrossed in recreational activities or getting engaged in every day work. During absorption attention is more focused and stable where as environmental and personal context is impaired. As voluntary control and awareness are the major elements of consciousness , when there is a disruption seen in one or both the process, disassociation is seen to be present. According to some studies there are multiple form of dissociative experience under which Absorption and Imaginative Involvement is one form under which individuals feel that when they are watching T.V or a movie they become very absorbed in the story that are unaware of what other events are happening around them(NielsG. Walller 1996)
Some filmmakers also intentionally seek to induce an altered state of consciousness in their audience, by doing this self-awareness can be reduced and personal concerns thereby dislocated, for some time. Here dissociation may act as a psychological clutch allowing the individual to disengage from aversive or wearisome experience Or they seem to be , flights into escapist behaviours (may) reflect the painfulness of having to be continuously aware of the variety of unfinished businesses in one’s life which cannot be acted upon relatively quickly.(Lisa.D.Butler,2006) According to Buttler and Palesh watching films videos or television are viewed as deliberately engaging in dissociative experiences. Video terminal Dissociation Trance was an attempt to develop knowledge of disorders which are connected to virtual realities this involve having a significant disturbances in the state of consciousness, identity, and memory, the dilution of self-awareness and self-integrity, and the replacement of the customary sense of personal identity by a new virtual identity. There are three factors considered under video terminal dissociative trance which are regression, Addiction and Dissociation, in this dissociation as a defence mechanism allows the people to avoid emotional distress for some time by screening out excessive or over whelming stimulus.( Adraino Schimmentil, 2017).