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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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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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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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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CYBERSECURITY. THE ANALYSIS OF THE SELECTED ACTIVITES OF THE POLISH POLICE
Mateusz JUREK
Avenues of developments
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022,  Publication date: 30 September 2022
Abstract The issue of cybersecurity is analised in different theoretical prospects by the author. Contemporary social problems are practical context of the discussion. In this article, chosen actions of the Police due to combat cyberthreat are written about. The author characterizes indoor structures of organizational [...] 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.