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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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PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: ANTINOMIES AND LIMITS OF THE MODERN EXPERTS’ PRACTICES
Maciej POPŁAWSKI
New Relations and Approaches in Mecical Care
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 28 May 2017
Abstract The aim of this article is to indicate and discuss some antinomies and limits of contemporary expert systems taking psychiatry and therapy as the examples. New experts which recently appeared next to traditional authorities of soul and life as much as the complexity and ambiguity caused by their coexistence [...] Read more.
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PARTNER, CLIENT OR PATIENT? AUTONOMY OF PATIENT AND PHYSICIAN AND MODELS OF MEDICINE
Filip BARDZIŃSKI
New Relations and Approaches in Mecical Care
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 28 May 2017
Abstract In this paper, I will argue in favor of a dire need to re-evaluate the classic model of physician-patient relation, based on the notion of paternalism. By observing negative and unwanted consequences, coming from both the theoretical attempts to develop more symmetrical models of such relations, as [...] Read more.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF SUBJECTS AND ISSUES PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES IN THE YEARS 2001-2015 AND THEIR AVAILABILITY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT
Stanisława KUREK-KOKOCIŃSKA
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 article focuses on the bibliographic materials and bibliographies of current humanities (linguistics, rhetoric, philosophy, Biblical Studies, Political Science), published in the years 2001 to 2016 on the pages of scientific periodicals („Poradnik Językowy”, „Forum Artis Rhetoricae. Kwartalnik poświęcony [...] Read more.
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RESOURCES AND OBSTACLES OF BUILDING INFORMATION SOCIETY IN POLAND - PERCEPTION OF SOCIAL PEDAGOGUE
Małgorzata ORŁOWSKA
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 Access and efficient use of ITI techniques, especially the Internet, are fundamental for development not only in economic sense but also civilization sense in modern society. Meanwhile, there is no general knowledge about the number of people who have access to the computer and the internet and how [...] 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
Journal article
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.