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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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DRESS AS A SIGN OF SELF-CREATION OF THE MODERN WOMEN
Monika FOLTYN
Contemporary Culture and Art
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012
Abstract In the article I pay particular attention to the social nature of women"s clothing. Fashion gave us a large possibility of choice – when we select concrete clothing we choose a matching identity. Feminine apparel facilitates interpersonal communication and self-expression. By proper clothing every women [...] Read more.
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SUPERNATURAL – POSTMODERN POETIC OF TV SERIES (TV SHOW)
Natalia PODBIELSKA
Contemporary Culture and Art
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012
Abstract A postmodern poetic was the article subject. To my analysis and interpretation I chose Eric Kripke"s Supernatural tv–series, aired in the United States from 2005 to the present day. In a typical study i tried to demonstrate autothematic operations, widely understood executive producers games and how [...] Read more.
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THE FUTURISM AFTER FUTURISM. ABOUT THE CONCRETIZATION OF IDEAS OF AVANT-GARDE ART IN „PARTICIPATING CULTURE"
Tadeusz MICZKA
Contemporary Culture and Art
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012
Abstract The Futurism (1909) was the first artistic activity, which rejected the past with full consequence and favoured technologies, considering hurrying forward as the only reasonable direction of development, defined as moderno latria - (disease on modernity). Not to examine detailed characteristics and [...] Read more.
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KOVÁSZNAI:WRITING THE ART HISTORY FROM THE BEGINNING
Karolina GOLINOWSKA
Contemporary Culture and Art
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 25 October 2012
Abstract The article refers to the situation that took place in the summer 2010 in Budapest. During that time, a spectacular art exhibition using the space of the Hungarian National Gallery has been organized. Its main purpose was to re-establish the position of forgotten Hungarian artist György Kovásznai in [...] Read more.
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TRANSFORMATION OF CITY IMAGE PROMOTION FORM AT THE BEGINNING OF XXI CENTURY
Izabela DOBOSZ
Communication – Marketing - Image
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 21 October 2012
Abstract The article is about the phenomenon of planned and intentional image building realized within the territorial units, based on measures from the marketing methods of controlling the market process. More and more centers of local government take part in that transformation processes in recent years, among [...] Read more.
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FICTION SCHEME OF FOLK STORY (LEGEND)
Agnieszka PRZYBYŁA-DUMIN
Communication – Marketing - Image
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 21 October 2012
Abstract The article covers the way in which human experience, fear and observation are transformed during transmission into a story - informing, warning, moralizing. Examples are based on belief-type threads, contained in stories gathered at the beginning of the twenty-first century, during research in Zagłębie [...] Read more.
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NEW FORM OF MEDIA: CITIZEN JOURNALISM
Magdalena PRZYBYSZ - STAWSKA
Information Society – Cyberspace
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 21 October 2012
Abstract In recent years the traditional press has become available in electronic form . E-press is growing, with practically all newspapers and journals having its own on-line versions. The journalistic profession is changing as well, creating a newphenomenon - citizen journalism. Its inception and progress [...] Read more.
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BEHAVIOURAL COMMUNICATION PATTERNS OF TUMBLR MICROBLOGGING PLATFORM'S USERS’
Anna BARON
Information Society – Cyberspace
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 21 October 2012
Abstract In my text I am focusing on the most popular behavioural communication patterns of Tumblr microblogging platform's users". I am beginning my reflection on them from a brief presentation of the idea behind microblogging, after which i am focusing on the description of the conception behind creating Tumblr [...] Read more.
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THE OBSESSION WITH TOUCH. TOWARDS THE TACTILE DIMENSIONS OF COMMUNICATION
Barbara ORZEŁ
Information Society – Cyberspace
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 21 October 2012
Abstract We are drifting towards the new possibilities of human"s sensorium. Today's communication can be indeed described in words: „Everything touches everything". MultiTouch screens, voice gestures, swyping - we are almost everywhere able to find aspects of communication related to the human body. [...] Read more.
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BIG DATA SOCIETY SELFWRITING AND SELFSHOWING TECHNOLOGIES: TOWARDS THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Kazimierz KRZYSZTOFEK
Information Society – Cyberspace
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-4 (72-75) 2012,  Publication date: 21 October 2012
Abstract From the beginning of cultural history the collecting, recording and processing of data have been the basis for obtaining information for decision making. Creating and improving tools for measuring have an impact on the development of empirical research, both quantitative as well as qualitative. Information [...] Read more.