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TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)

Lech W. ZACHER

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.

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METHODOLOGICAL ANARCHISM AND ITS COGNITIVE VALUE

Magdalena SZPUNAR

Transformacje cywilizacyjne – między wiedzą, wrażliwością i wyobraźnią socjologiczną

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022 Publication date: 30 March 2022

Abstract The aim of the article is to present the basic assumptions of Paul K. Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism. The article presents the value of methodological anarchism for the cognitive process, methodology and development of science, as well as the controversies associated with the application of [...] Read more.

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RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM – BETWEEN THE OLD DRIVING FORCES AND NEW NETWORKS

Lech W. ZACHER

Global Problems – Future – Politics – Values

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013 Publication date: 13 November 2013

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OBSTACLES TO SUSTAINABILITY – IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (the Case of a Transitional Economy – Poland)

Lech W. ZACHER

National Cases Augmented

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017 Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract Requirements for the sustainability in economy and society should be tailored to a given country or region. General models which often dominate in academic discourse are an important part of necessary social knowledge (of decision makers, media, NGOs etc.). They are formulated in universally relevant [...] Read more.

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THE IMPACT OF NON-ECONOMIC COERCION ON THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS IN THE LATE 1920S – EARLY 1930S IN UKRAINE

Katherine NIKOLAIETS, Yury UMANTSIV, Volodymyr HUMENIUK

Avenues of developments

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022 Publication date: 30 September 2022

Abstract The nature of the formation of non-economic coercion in agricultural production during the 1920s - 1930s is analyzed. The conditions of application of non-economic coercion and the attitude of agricultural producers to its application are determined. The changes in the direction of economic activity [...] Read more.

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE MANAGEMENT OF HOME ECONOMICS. CASE STUDIES

Anna WACHOWIAK

Avenues of developments

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022 Publication date: 30 September 2022

Abstract Home economics and the way it functions is currently a priority sphere of everyday life of all people running households. It is undergoing dynamic changes, at the microsocial level, which has an impact on global problems, including above all the ecological crisis and the resulting need to ensure sustainable [...] Read more.

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DATA ECOSYSTEM, TRANSHUMANISM AND UBICOMP. HUMAN IN SPACE — BETWEEN CYBORGISATION, BIOHYBRIDISATION AND LONGING FOR NATURE

Anna MAJ

Digital era: culture, economy, technology

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022 Publication date: 30 September 2022

Abstract The ideas of transhumanists and designers of the so-called calm technologies, which lie at the heart of the ubicomp paradigm, converge in a common vision of the bio-technological ecosystem. Human (or rather post-human) operates there in space (physical, architectural, cognitive, cultural, informational [...] Read more.

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POLISH FOLKTALE HERITAGE IN THE DIGITAL ERA

Violetta KRAWCZYK-WASILEWSKA

Digital era: culture, economy, technology

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022 Publication date: 30 September 2022

Abstract The article presents the history of Polish folktale from oral - via analog - to the digital collections. The text consists of the three paragraphs: 1. Storytelling tradition in Poland; 2. Folktale collection and research; 3.Online folk tale archives. The article is focused on the importance of the online [...] Read more.

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PHYSICAL STATES OF MATTER

Filipe WILTGEN

Digital era: culture, economy, technology

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022 Publication date: 30 September 2022

Abstract This paper addresses a an important issue about physical properties of matter that people are generally unaware. When children learn about three physical states of matter, which are common in our environment. However, as will be presented in paper, matter in the universe does not only have three physical [...] Read more.

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SOCIO-CULTURAL DETERMINANTS OF CHANGE IN THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF ANXIETY AND FEAR

Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI, Iwona BŁASZCZAK

Digital era: culture, economy, technology

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022 Publication date: 30 September 2022

Abstract The subject of presented research, is the analysis of socio-cultural determinants of anxiety and fear in the behavioral and the structural-functional dimensions. Their impact is exacerbated by the disinformation crisis and lack of trust, which are supported by the mass media, social media and tabloids [...] Read more.

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MEDIATION AS AN ELEMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IMAGE MANAGEMENT. AN OUTLINE OF THE ISSUES

Waldemar JAGODZIŃSKI

Regulacje prawne w obliczu cyfrowej rewolucji- wybrane aspekty

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022 Publication date: 30 June 2022

Abstract The aim of this article is to present mediation in administrative proceedings, one of the consensual forms of dispute resolution, as a legal institution enabling management of the image of public administration. Read more.

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BETWEEN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WILL OF SOCIETY AND ROGRAMMING" ACTION OF THE CONSTITUTION MAKER. SHAPING THE WRITTEN CONSTITUTION IN 1989 IN POLAND IN THE LIGHT OF POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGES

Rafał ŚWIERGIEL

Regulacje prawne w obliczu cyfrowej rewolucji- wybrane aspekty

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022 Publication date: 30 June 2022

Abstract The aim of the article is an attempt to look at the extent to which the changes taking place in Poland in 1989, in the political, social and economic spheres, were included in the text of the written constitution. In Poland, two constitutional amendments were adopted in 1989. The first, in April 1989 [...] Read more.

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EUROPEAN UNION LAW IN THE FACE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CREATIONS - SELECTED LEGAL ASPECTS

Adriana ZDANOWICZ-LEŚNIAK

Regulacje prawne w obliczu cyfrowej rewolucji- wybrane aspekty

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022 Publication date: 30 June 2022

Abstract The purpose of this article is to assess whether artificial intelligence (AI) creations are subject to copyright protection in the light of European Union law and the case law of the Court of Justice. The author argues that these creations de lege lata cannot be subject to the same protection as works [...] Read more.

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THREATS AND EU LEGAL SOLUTIONS IN THE FIELD OF CYBERSECURITY OF THE ENERGY SECTOR

Karolina WĄSOWSKA, Aleksandra WOJTASZEWSKA

Regulacje prawne w obliczu cyfrowej rewolucji- wybrane aspekty

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022 Publication date: 30 June 2022

Abstract The article discusses the issue of cyber security, with a particular focus on the strategic energy sector. The aim of the publication is to show the risks associated with cybercrime, as well as to discuss the most important legal and organisational solutions operating within the EU. Increasing cybercrime [...] Read more.