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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
Journal article
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 GLOBALIZATION AND INCOME INEQUALITIES
Ewa Polak
GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS – IDEAS, POLICIES
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 17 May 2016
Abstract This paper looks at the issue of the differentiation of earnings in Poland. The article is intended to draw attention to changes in the situation of income structure in that respect over the past few years. One of the tendencies observed in the contemporary world is growing socio-economic stratification [...] Read more.
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NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE MODERN STATE – A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
Marek Rewizorski
GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS – IDEAS, POLICIES
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 17 May 2016
Abstract Neoliberal globalisation is characterised by the marketisation of sectors previously audited by the state, the incorporation of individual countries and even regions within the framework of the capitalist world market and the subordination of the various spheres of human activity to automated impersonal [...] Read more.
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ECONOMIC-BASED DYCHOTOMY BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE EAST AS AN ELEMENT OF POSITIONING ON THE WORLD MAP
Janusz Golinowski
GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS – IDEAS, POLICIES
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 17 May 2016
Abstract During the past few decades, among various intellectuals, there was a dominant opinion that universal civilisation is being created and its rules are the foundations of western civilization. Liberal democracy, pluralism, individualism or human rights were supposed to be universally desired and acclaimed [...] Read more.
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CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE NEW MEDIA
Urszula Żydek-Bednarczuk
CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE NEW MEDIA
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 14 May 2016
Abstract This article presents reflections on the complex phenomenon of information and knowledge in the new media. The introduction is a brief overview of knowledge from the point of view of classical knowledge with its taxonomy, classification and falsification. A very important part of the article is to understand [...] Read more.
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BIOLOGICAL AND SEMIOTIC TRENDS IN THE FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Anna Sarosiek
DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 14 May 2016
Abstract The aim of this paper is to present biological and semiotical inspirations influencing the work on Artifcial Intelligence. The biological approach was one of the most effective attitudes in the study of Embodied Artifcial Intelligence. Especially the theories of Jacques Loeb and Jakob von Uexküll play [...] Read more.
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THE PRACTICE OF SELF IN AN ERA OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Grażyna Osika
DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 14 May 2016
Abstract In collective consciousness two facts seem to be indisputable. Firstly, the appearance of digital communication technology has significantly transformed the environment of humanlife and secondly, we can observe the growing interest in issues of identity which means that the question of who we are becomes [...] Read more.
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CROWDFUNDING – ISSUING SHARES FOR COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES
Dariusz T. Dziuba, Małgorzata Pszczółkowska
DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 14 May 2016
Abstract The paper analyses web crowdfunding as an alternative capital raising method. The focus is on one model, namely community shares offers, discussed against the background of the crowdfunding nature, globally generated value and various business models used, with community enterprises – recipients of [...] Read more.
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SOCIAL AND NETWORK GAMES AS THE SOURCES OF INCOME ON THE INTERNET
Agnieszka Szewczyk
DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 14 May 2016
Abstract This article focuses on a relatively new problem of deriving income from the design and sale of social games and online games on the Internet. The on-line entertainment industry is characterized by a marked upward trend. The article presents the technical, economic and social considerations. Attention [...] Read more.
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JUST NUMBERS. NOTES ABOUT THE NATURE OF A DIGITAL WORLD
Marek Chlebuś
DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 13 May 2016
Abstract Only digits really exist in the digital world as only matter exists in a material world. In the first one, all physical things are pure abstraction, similarly as all numbers in the second one. Digits are the only substance of the digital worlds. This hi-tech Pythagoreanism leads to very serious consequences [...] Read more.
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FROM TCHERNOBYL TO FUKUSHIMA: ON THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF NUCLEAR ENERGY SAFETY
Piotr Stankiewicz
PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF SECURITY
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 13 May 2016
Abstract This article analyses the process of constructing the ‘safety discourse’, which is created by persons and institutions representing the Polish Nuclear Energy Programme. To explain the success of presenting nuclear energy as a safe and clean energy source a discourse analysis has been applied. Using [...] Read more.