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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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PROBLEMS WITH COMMUNICATION
Wiesław SZTUMSKI
Information in Transformations of the Society
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 28 May 2017
Abstract The question of interpersonal communication within the group and between them is for some time the subject of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research from different theoretical and practical reasons. Since the second half of the twentieth century, scientists began to study the communication [...] Read more.
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VISUAL AND MEDIA EXPERIENCE OF A CHILD AT EARLY SCHOOL AGE AS A SPACE FOR THE SCHOOL’S EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Ewa KOCHANOWSKA
Transformations and Turbulence in Culture and in the Media
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 25 May 2017
Abstract The space of life and education of a modern child is characterized by elements of media and visual culture. From their early age, children develop in the culture of image. The ability to the correct reception of pictorial content by a child should be enriched with critical reflection, and this requires [...] Read more.
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(UN)SERVICEABLE SOCIALISM. POLITICAL MOTIVES AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMAGE IN DEPECHE MODE: THE CASE OF ,,CONSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN”
Krzysztof CHACZKO
Transformations and Turbulence in Culture and in the Media
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 25 May 2017
Abstract This article attempts to answer three questions about the long play ,,Construction Time Again” Depeche Mode. First, why the album was received as a political manifesto? Secondly, what motives guided the musicians? And thirdly, what was the transformation of the image of the group? To answer these questions [...] Read more.
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3D, 4D… TOWARDS THE MULTI-SENSORY CINEMA – TOWARDS THE MULTI-SENSORY MEDIA
Barbara ORZEŁ
Transformations and Turbulence in Culture and in the Media
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 25 May 2017
Abstract The main aim of this article is to determine the influence of 3- and 4-Dimention technology on the area of new media reality. The history of stereoscopic vision (the Renaissance perspective, stereoscopic photography, laterna magica, the “kaleidoscopic perspective” and the kinetoscope) finally concentrates [...] Read more.
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DATA INTERCEPTION: NEW MEDIA ART AND CYBERACTIVISM AS TOOLS OF RESISTANCE AGAINST THE CONTROL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS. SELECTED COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
Anna MAJ
Transformations and Turbulence in Culture and in the Media
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 25 May 2017
Abstract The paper is an original attempt to theoretically organize the most important artistic and activistic strategies used nowadays as a form of resistance against intelligent systems of individual and social control. Selected strategies used by cyberartists and hacktivists are subversive modes of new technologies [...] Read more.
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BACKGROUND CHECKING OF THE HISTORY – MEDIA TRANSFORMATIONS VERSUS CULTURAL CONTINUITIES
Ilona COPIK
Transformations and Turbulence in Culture and in the Media
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 25 May 2017
Abstract The aim of the article is an attempt to analyze the history of media in terms of media revolutions, which revive it; and to do a thorough research of the socio – cultural causes and consequencesof introducing the new media and technology, making it more general – the influence of technology on human [...] Read more.
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GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: GLOBAL DEREGULATION. A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEDIA AND CULTURE
Wojciech CHYŁA
Transformations and Turbulence in Culture and in the Media
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 25 May 2017
Abstract The dissertation concentrates on a completely new form of culture described as ‘multiculturalistic metaculture’, which influences all traditionally understood ones. It is not based on institutions but on technical networks and programmes. It works like a planetary rhizome, which eliminates the level [...] Read more.
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COLLECTIVE MEMORY MYTHIZATION AND EXERCISING POLITICAL POWER IN THE SITUATION OF CONFLICT OCCURRENCE
Eugeniusz PONCZEK
Transformations of Politics - Controversies, Mythization
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 24 May 2017
Abstract The way of exercising political power is presented in the attitude of the decision- makers and people responsible for their implementation. Exercising power may be accompanied by a shorter or longer political crisis turning into a more or less lasting conflict. The opinion about the way of exercising [...] Read more.
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EVOLUTION OF VOTING BEHAVIOR – THE SECOND WAVE OF COUNTERMOBILIZATION
Jakub POTULSKI
Transformations of Politics - Controversies, Mythization
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 24 May 2017
Abstract In recent years we can observe the changes taking place in Western European party systems. The growing popularity of such politicians as Marine Le Pen, Victor Orban, Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders and others change the balance of power on the political scene. Electoral success of populists parties and [...] Read more.
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THE REMINISCENCE OF YOUTHFUL REBELLIOUSNESS, THAT IS WHAT PAWEŁ KUKIZ WANTS
Paweł MALENDOWICZ
Transformations of Politics - Controversies, Mythization
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 24 May 2017
Abstract Paweł Kukiz is a Polish musician, actor and newspaper columnist. He became famous for his psychedelic punk rock music pieces that were performed during the music festival in Jarocin. This city was the symbol of youthful rebelliousness in the eighties in Poland. Kukiz was also a lead singer in a popular [...] Read more.