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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
Journal article
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
Journal article
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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PUBLIC DISCOURSE AS A SUBSTITUTE TO POLITICAL REPRESENTATION – A PARAINSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION OF CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACY
Wiktor SZEWCZAK
Information - Communication - Politics
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract Representation has been one of the foundations of democratic systems throughout the ages. Since the invention of indirect democracy these two phenomena have been closely related. In the article, a traditional model of political representation is examined, and it is stated that it no longer provides [...] Read more.
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DIALECTICS OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY
Edward KAROLCZUK
Information - Communication - Politics
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract In the term democracy, there is a contradiction between the businesses of the majority and the minority of citizens. In antagonistic societies, this contradiction took dramatic forms. To solve this problem, officials were drawn, a plural voting system was used, new political institutions came into being [...] Read more.
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HOMO WIKIPEDICUS AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION
Magdalena PIŁAT-BORCUCH, Artur BORCUCH
Information - Communication - Politics
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract Contemporary e-mails, blogs, online dictionaries and encyclopedias are very important sources of obtaining information. Information exchange between Internet users is growing exponentially. Social media such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia contributed to this phenomenon. In this way, the [...] Read more.
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BODY - SPACE - INTERACTIVITY. ABOUT THE USER EXPERIENCE IN KINETIC GAMES
Barbara ORZEŁ
Media in Transition Process
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract The main aim of this article is to determine the influence of kinetic games on the area of new media reality. In the whole history of console games, we can mark a very special moment, that can be called: "the kinetic turn". This milestone has changed the way we thought about the "classical" idea of " [...] Read more.
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NEW NEW MEDIA – MULTITASKING – SPACE OF FLOW
Bogdan ZELER
Media in Transition Process
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract This paper is about the problem of the behavior of new new media’s users, using the term proposed by Paul Levinson. This phenomenon is called , by other researchers, social media, Web 2.0 or the art of shielding. Examples of such behavior common in network societies are bloggers activities, Wikipedia [...] Read more.
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MEDIA METAPHORS PERCEIVED FROM A LINGUISTIC POINT OF VIEW
Urszula ŻYDEK-BEDNARCZUK
Media in Transition Process
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract The object of analysis in this article are media metaphors which appear in contemporary linguistics, cultural and media thought. This analysis is created as a form of models which may be used for inspecting other, new metaphors. The methodology is based on selected elements from cognitive linguistics [...] Read more.
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POST-MODERNITY AND TRANSFORMATION OF CULTURAL SPACE. ONE CULTURE OR RATHER THE MULTIPLICITY OF CULTURES?
Monika MICZKA-PAJESTKA
Transformations of Culture
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 27 May 2013
Abstract In this article the issue of perception and understanding of post-modernity has been considered. An attempt has also been undertaken to answer the questions: does postmodernity bring something new, and if not, does it change anything? Doesn’t it introduce confusion and chaos into the existing structures [...] Read more.
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PERFORMATIVE IDENTITY OF HOMO AESTHETICUS
Mariola SUŁKOWSKA-JANOWSKA
Transformations of Culture
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 27 May 2013
Abstract The author of this article joins a contemporary discussion on the problem of identity. The last one – in the context of Baumanian “liquidity” or Wolfgang Welsch’s idea of “autocreativity” – seems to be a performative one and is created by the postmodern subject that is called here, because of its aestheticized [...] Read more.
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TRAJECTORIES OF ORTEGA Y GASSET IN CULTURE
Joanna KUŹNICKA
Transformations of Culture
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 27 May 2013
Abstract The contemporary world is undergoing a phase of deep technocultural changes which influences the society of the 21st century, already referred to as the Web society. The accelerating change has been foreseen by one of the greatest philosophers of culture of the previous century: José Ortega y Gasset [...] Read more.
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GENIUS LOCI AS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIGURE. SEMANTIC TRANSFORMATIONS, INTERPRETIVE CONTEXTS
Ilona COPIK
Transformations of Culture
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 27 May 2013
Abstract The title of this article is the examination of the nature of genius loci phenomenon in culture as well as rethinking its status in contemporary anthropology. The subject of the analysis is the ambiguity of the concept, which functions as a multi-layered metaphor in both society and science and [...] Read more.