WARSAW AS A SMART CITY – MODERNISATION, OR TRANSGRESSION?

Mateusz Wyrzykowski

Varia

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract A Smart City is always treated only as a goal that works well in every modern city. In deliberations on this subject, there is a lack of value that this idea brings. Sometimes it’s even treated as an argument to obtain consent to purchase novelty items that have impact only on the image of the city. [...] Read more.

CHINA. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CIVILIZATION

Alfred Skorupka

Varia

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract The article discusses the main features of Chinese civilization. For centuries, the culture of the Middle Kingdom was defined primarily by Confucianism. Today it is also influential, but the life and worldview of the Chinese are largely defined by socialism combined with many elements of the capitalist [...] Read more.

THE USE OF THE FRAMING EFFECT FOR PROMOTING COVID-19 VACCINATION

Aleksandra Szymanowska, Alexander Watzl, Jakub Szporka

Public health - problems and challenges

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract Policy makers often use techniques based on citizens\\\' cognitive errors to achieve their public policy goals. During the COVID-19 pandemic, each one of the greatest challenges faced by those in power was to mount an effective campaign to encourage widespread vaccination against the virus. The article [...] Read more.

CHANGES IN STUDENT AND FAMILY LIFE DUE TO THE PANDEMIC IN THE OPINION OF STUDENTS

Ewa Skrzetuska, Agnieszka Rowicka

Public health - problems and challenges

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract The article presents the issue of changes in the life of students who due to the need for remote learning during the pandemic, had to modify their daily study activities. Many of them returned to their family home for that time, some stayed in rented apartments, and only few lived in student dormitories [...] Read more.

ACADEMIC CULTURE OF GENERATION "Z", I.E. PEDAGOGY STUDENTS’ PRACTICE OF BEHAVIOURS THAT PART OF ACADEMIC CULTURE

Arleta Hrehorowicz, Magdalena Gietka

Public health - problems and challenges

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract The aim of the content contained in the article is to present the results of the author’s research on academic culture among the representatives of generation “Z”. The subject of this study is the degree to which SGGW pedagogy students practice behaviours that are part of academic culture. The authors [...] Read more.

MEDIA AS A SOURCE OF RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH

Bogusław Dziadzia

Public health - problems and challenges

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract The subject of article focuses on the ethical role of the media in creating a threat to public health. The discussion attempts to answer the question of how the media and broadly understood mass communication while performing several pro-social functions, can pose a risk to public health. I emphasize [...] Read more.

IN SEARCH OF A BIOCENTRIC DEFINITION OF INTELLIGENCE. PLANTS ARE SMARTER THAN 'SMART MACHINES'

Krzysztof Mudyń

Culture, technology and man in the age of new media

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract The author, referring to the classic definition of William Stern, proposes that intellgence should be understood as the ability to actively and effectively adapt, ensuring the continuity of existence in time while maintaining the relative identity of the species (system). Such an extended definition [...] Read more.

THE IRONY TECHNIQUE AND THE SUBJECT - CHANGES OF EXISTING STATE OF AFFAIR IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Monika Miczka-Pajestka

Culture, technology and man in the age of new media

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract The article dwells over the problem of putting the man as the subject in the world of multiplicity and diversity, thereby in the matter of many orders simultaneously. It indicated the current circumstances of primacy of technique and technology in the existing social norms and cultural spaces, which [...] Read more.

STAR, IDOL OR CELEBRITY? HYPERPRESENCE OF POP CULTURE MUSICIANS

Magdalena Szpunar

Culture, technology and man in the age of new media

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract The article concerns the process of democratization of fame and hyperpresence of musicians for whom it becomes a strategy in the era of overproduction of one-season stars and celebrities. The article puts forward the thesis that obtaining the status of a star, including a music star, and the popularity [...] Read more.

THE CUTE POWER OF SWEETNESS. KAWAII CULTURE AS SOFT POWER OF JAPAN

Marek Sokołowski

Culture, technology and man in the age of new media

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract The article draws attention to an important element of contemporary Japanese culture, which is the kawaii culture. Over the past thirty years, Japanese popular culture products have been massively exported, sold and consumed throughout East and Southeast Asia. The expansion of the cute Japanese animated [...] Read more.