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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
Journal article
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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THE FOUR PHASES OF INTERNET RESEARCH: A PROPOSAL FOR A CRITICAL PERIODIZATION
Simone TOSONI
Information – Communication – Media
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 12 November 2013
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NETWORKS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT MOBILISATION. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE INTERNETBASED PROTEST AND ACTIVISM RESEARCH
Kateryna NOVIKOVA
Information – Communication – Media
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 12 November 2013
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FROM NOWHERE TO EVERYWHERE: ADDRESSING THE SHIFTING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND THE CITY
Davide LAMPUGNANI
Information – Communication – Media
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 12 November 2013
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE INFORMATION CULTURE AS THE INFORMATION SOCIETY INDICATOR IN POLAND AND FINLAND
Urszula ZIMOCH
Information – Communication – Media
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 12 November 2013
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SURVEYS IN THE CONTEXT OF VIRTUAL SOCIETY – A STATISTICAL PERSPECTIVE
Aleksandra KUPIS-FIJAŁKOWSKA
Information – Communication – Media
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 12 November 2013
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SHOP OR E-COMMERCE? ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM
Agnieszka SZEWCZYK
Information – Communication – Media
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 12 November 2013
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INFORMATIONAL INFLUENCE ON PUBLIC OPINION
Iryna KOLOSOVSKA, Peter BOLTUC
Information – Communication – Media
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 12 November 2013
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DIGITAL DIVIDE, GLOBAL COMMUNICATION ORDER, AND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT: NEWSPAPERS ONLINE FROM DIFFERENT CONTINENTS
Radosław SAJNA
Information – Communication – Media
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 12 November 2013
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STEM CELLS AS THE FUTURE OF BIOMEDICINE
Dariusz BORUCZKOWSKI, Katarzyna PAWELEC, Maciej BORUCZKOWSKI, Dominika GŁADYSZ
Varia
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 31 May 2013
Abstract Humanity constantly searches for novel therapeutic approaches concerning diseases that do not respond to standard therapies and patients fail to archive a satisfactory quality of life. The stem cells carry a huge potential in treating those diseases and modern medicine has to find answers concerning [...] Read more.
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CONSPIRACIES, PROPHECIES AND STORIES. ABOUT REACTIONS TO THE UNKNOWN AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE AS WELL AS FOLKLORE GENRES EXPRESSING THEM
Agnieszka PRZYBYŁA-DUMIN
Futures – Visions, Interpretations and Narratives
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 31 May 2013
Abstract This text is about contemporary forms of response to disturbing and unexpected events, which often trigger mythical thinking familiar to us in the twenty-first century. The author analyses submitted comments, text and images emerged in conjunction with the abdication of the Pope; the height at which [...] Read more.