Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II Zagrożenia dla równowagi życie zawodowe a prywatne w kontekście wymagań stawianych współczesnym pracownikom

Author(s): Agata Szydlik-Leszczyńska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

The increase of demands towards employees caused by the fast development of technology, globalization processes, development of economy based on knowledge and, at the same time, functioning of employees in the conditions of job security absence, contributed to such phenomena such as workaholism or professional burn-out. These phenomena contribute to a dysfunction of balance between working and private life, which can be seen in the context of neglecting private life in favour of work. They lead to health loss, domestic conflicts and lack of life satisfaction. Moreover, in order to devote themselves to work, some people postpone the decision of setting up and expanding their families.

THE CONCEPT OF VIRTUAL NATIONALISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE: SOCIAL MEDIA PERSPECTIVES OF TURKEY

Author(s): Uğur Gündüz,Burcu Kaya Erdem / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The widespread use of computer-based technologies, mostly the Internet, constitutes a new dimension in the study of virtual nationalism. The use of distance-and time-shrinking information technologies – such as social media, virtual communities and websites of nationalist groups – has changed the structure and context of nationalism as well as the scholarly discourse on related topics in the digital age. Social media enable identity expression, exploration and experimentation; phenomena that are considered natural for the human experience. It is necessary to acknowledge that there are many different factors which inspire and shape the Internet communities and interactions they make within themselves. It is essential to comprehend the motives behind these influences in order to understand the group interactions on social media platforms. In this study the authors focus on the nationalist discourse in virtual communities and on social media; mainly the opposition and resistance manifestations in the cultural and social contexts are discussed. The authors thus offer a set of theoretical outlines on the given topic and base their analysis of some nationalists’ social media posts on the inductive method of inquiry. The study also concentrates on the need to figure out the negative consequences of such social media sharing in relation to various virtual groups and general users.

EVOLUTION OF DIGITAL VIDEO CONSUMPTION PATTERNS

Author(s): Martin Kuchta,Andrej Miklošík / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

In today’s markets, companies have greatly shifted their focus towards customers as the entities creating the demand for companies’ products and sources of the revenues. The consumers shape and influence the current market trends with their desires and preferences; this requires reassessing and reshaping the offers and communications from companies. Most successful offer adjustments are built on relevant research and formed by consumer insights, often based on patterns of content consumption. The main aim of this article is to identify digital video marketing trends by combining two essential pillars: the data management possibilities related to the digital environment and the evolution of media consumption habits of consumers. The authors examine secondary data which is precisely selected, collected and shaped according to the research design requirements from available Consumer Barometer Research provided and processed by Google. Identification of the six most significant digital video trends to shape digital marketing in the following years can be considered the core of the authors’ research. The results are centred on innovation progress and consumers’ consumption habits and aim to outline possible approaches to digital video production and delivery to target groups for several future years.

Situation of Tribal Population in India

Author(s): Mehar .S Gill / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2006

The Paper attempts to analyze the obtaining situation of tribal people in India. It mainly addresses the issue in terms of its demographic, cultural, educational and ecological aspects. Significantly, the tribal people are not only getting marginalized in socio-economic terms, they are also undergoing a gradual dilution of their distinct identities.

Wounds Sustained, Wounds Nurtured: Rituals of Violence at Wagah

Author(s): Monirul Islam / Language(s): English Issue: 06/2016

The Radcliffe Line at Wagah is now a world famous tourist spot where each evening thousands of tourists gather to witness the ritual of lowering the flags of India and Pakistan. Visiting the place is kind of pilgrimage for the Indians, (and must be for the Pakistanis as well), and the Wagah has gradually evolved into a shrine of patriotism. The ceremony of lowering the flag lasts about an hour when on both sides of the border there remain a kind of celebratory atmosphere—and the thing celebrated is nationalism. The patriotic frenzy, however, leads to a menacing display virtual violence as the cry varat mata ki jai ( victory to mother India) on the one side and Pakisthan jindabad(long live Pakistan) on the other bangs upon the ear and fills the air around. Each side tries to supersede the other; the cry gets louder and louder and the tension rises as if there will be an instant war. It leads the sensitive mind into troubled history of partition of India and to the indelible trauma of communal violence—the wound that the people of the subcontinent sustained during and in the aftermath of the partition in 1947. The paper will attempt to analyse the nationalistic ceremony at Wagah and will explore the problematic nature Indian nationalism and national identity. The objective is to examine the paradoxical nature of the Wagah rituals which though aimed at consolidating national identity ends up disrupting it. In the course of discussion, three cultural texts, namely, the ceremony at Wagah, the memoir of Sadat Hassan Manto‘s last days in Mumbai, and Shabnam Virmani‘s documentary film Had Anhad (Bounded Boundless) will act as intertexts of the article.

Miasto – w stronę ponowoczesnej wielokulturowości

Author(s): Przemysław Kisiel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

The article characterizes multiculturalism in the modern city. It begins by analysing the notion that cultural diversity is a natural feature of the city. But the contemporary processes of cultural diffusion, globalisation and the fragmentation and recomposition of culture have a significant impact on the production of the postmodern multiculturalism of cities, which is supported by the formation of an individual level of cultural identity. The analysis also distinguishes and characterises the basic types of postmodern multi­culturalism: immanent multiculturalism, instrumental multiculturalism and tourist multiculturalism.

Brytyjskie studia kulturowe a polski strach przed polityką

Author(s): Arkadiusz Nyzio / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2014

Despite considerable change over recent years, British cultural studies and the work of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, the very cradle of this discipline, remain on the peripheries of Polish cultural studies. While the causes of this remain under debate, the author deduces that one of them is of utmost importance: the aversion to politics and politicians, observable in the Polish public discourse since 1989, which has amounted to a politicophobia. This phenomenon makes it difficult to accept “an ‘engaged’ set of disciplines”, as Stuart Hall put it. The author argues that overcoming this barrier is one of the key pieces of the development of cultural studies in Poland.

Przyjemność upodmiotowionych przedmiotów. Dziedzictwo brytyjskich studiów kulturowych, realizm spekulatywny i gry wideo

Author(s): Mateusz Felczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2014

The article deals with the subject of computer games seen from two perspectives: British cultural studies and speculative realism, represented by Graham Harman and Quentin Meillassoux. The author argues that video games are located in the area of interest between the anti‐anthropocentric approach of object‐oriented ontology, and pop‐cultural approach according to the British cultural studies. The article analyses the status of various objects present in computer games (such as tools to be found in digital environments, protagonists and players themselves) and draws the conclusion that all the relations between them are of equal importance to the status of video games as pop‐cultural artifacts in the modern society.

Od centrum do marginesów szkoły z Birmingham. Czarny feminizm bell hooks w kontekście studiów kulturowych (recenzja)

Author(s): Ewa Drygalska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2014

Review of: bell hooks, Teoria feministyczna: od marginesu do centrum, przeł. Ewa Majewska, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2013

The Effect of Technology on Language and the Importance of Language Technologies

Author(s): Rafał Uzar / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2013

Back in the 1970s, the celebrated writer, scientist and inventor Arthur C. Clarke envisaged a world in which computers could be accessed in one’s own home and could provide us with information to help with our daily needs. Clarke talked about people being able to access their bank accounts and buy theatre tickets with a console the size of a book. A decade later the science fiction writer William Gibson termed the word ‘cyberspace’ in Burning Chrome, a full seven years before Tim Berners‐Lee invented the world wide web in 1989. Hypertext came soon after and with it the explosion that was the internet and the rise of the machines – personal computers, tablets, smartphones and the suchlike. The internet is essentially a gargantuan repository of language, both written and spoken. Hypertext, can be seen as an elegant metaphor for what the internet is, a dynamically evolving receptacle of linguistic information: hyper text. But technology, the internet and personal computing, has not only helped us compartmentalise and store our linguistic resources, it has also helped to fashion our language. Since the birth of hypertext, the virtual world and PCs, technology has had a profound effect on language. Our power to shape language has grown unexpectedly, our access to linguistic tools has expanded exponentially and our communicative abilities have bloomed beyond our wildest dreams. The paper will detail how ‘going online’ has changed our attitudes to language. Ideas of censorship and readership have dramatically altered over the past twenty five years. Technology has liberated language through the new medium that is the internet allowing for unfettered (and undisciplined?) language use.

When Man Becomes Machine. The Creation of ‘Symborgs’ in Pop Cultural Universes

Author(s): Ewelina Twardoch / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2013

The aim of the study is to characterize the process of creating ‘symborgs’ in popular culture universes. The author analyzes the ambiguous relationship between human and machine in such productions as: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Pacific Rim, Iron Man, RoboCop and others. In the article are confronted two ways of human being connected with the machine: the ‘external” and ‘internal” ones. The author refers to the concept of technology which is a part of Joanna Zylinska’s and Sarah Kember’s ‘creative media’ project and also to the category of ‘symborg’ formulated by Stelarc. The crucial issue is here also to show the interferences between the imagine world created by popular cultures creators and the real one, to which examples are the phenomenon of Quantified Self community and project Avatar 2045.

Technologized Culture or Cultured Technology? Video Games as a New Form of Storytelling

Author(s): Ewa Drab / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2013

The paper is a brief analysis of the connection between storytelling, the development of technology and video games. The questions asked behind the study are: What is the influence of technological advancements on narratives? What are the new elements which appear in stories of video games? What has been the evolution of storytelling in the field of electronic entertainment? What is the impact of a game genre on video game narratives? What are characteristics of genres which manifest the greatest degree of influence on the in‐game storytelling?

Stereo Vision and the Imaginary Man. The Influence of 3D Technology on the Experience of the Film Viewer

Author(s): Piotr Fortuna / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2013

The article is an attempt to understand the impact of 3D technology on the experience of a contemporary film viewer. The theoretical framework of the analysis is determined by Edgar Morin’s anthropological interpretation of the cinema, which is, however, considerably reinterpreted by the author of the paper. The aesthetic distinctness of stereo vision is particularly appreciated here. Besides, French theoretician’s thesis that “the subjective increase [of image’s value] is a function of its objectivity” is discussed. The author argues that in the case of stereo vision it is just the opposite. He finds reasons for that conclusion in Morin’s book, as well as in the psychology of perception and French phenomenology. Not only does 3D technology weaken the projection-identification process, but it also disturbs the latter, thus interfering with the fundamental mechanisms of the cinema.

Fifty Shades Of Real. The Sexual and the Virtual in Spike Jonze’s Her

Author(s): Rafał Morusiewicz / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2013

The article discusses the portrayal of interhuman and sexual relations in Spike Jonze’s Her and examines the role the role of technology, especially virtual constructs and artificial subjectivities in the broader context of sexual politics and power relations. It looks at the theoretical implications of virtual relationships, including the issues of normativity and analyzes the question of “realness” and its degrees, as determined by social and political constructs of sexuality.

Zwrot historyczny. Wstęp

Author(s): Łukasz Biskupski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2013

Jesteśmy tutaj i gdzie indziej. Magia sceniczna końca XIX wieku a pojawienie się (i zanikanie) wirtualnego obrazu jako korzenie kina

Author(s): Tom Gunning / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2013

This essay is not only written to widen the prehistory of cinema with the story of magical illusions. Too often, this type of genealogy was limited to enumerating consecutive technological innovations, suggesting a teleological advance leading to the invention of cinema. I rather hope that I draw the attention of researchers dealing with cinema on the longue durée of visual media and on the complex consonance of technology, spectatorship and visual imagery, so important at the end of the 19th century.

Kino atrakcji. Historia, krytyka, mapa i kartoteka

Author(s): Michał Pabiś-Orzeszyna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2013

In this article I would like to present some reflections on the role played by the “cinema of attractions” in the history of film studies. First part of my essay includes the preliminary description of this idea: its definition, polemical context and change that “cinema of attractions“ brought to the dominant mode of historiographical investigation in the light of so called “Brighton project” and “historical turn”. The aim of the second part is to outline the possible critical comments on “cinema of attraction” mostly rooted in David Bordwell’s and Charles Musser’s writings. In the third part I would like to sketch how those objections can be tempered if we enrich our understanding of “cinema of attraction” with knowledge about the historical – material and intellectual – milieu in which this notion emerged. In this context I propose to see historiographical method conducted by the proponents of “cinema of attraction” (i.e. Tom Gunning, André Gaudreault) in the light of specific version of cinephilia that came to light in New York in the 1970s.

Fanfiction a funkcjonowanie literatury popularnej. Zarys perspektywy historycznej

Author(s): Aldona Kobus / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2013

An essay attempting to trace an early history of fan fiction, taking it not only as a production of fandom’s artefacts but also as a pop cultural strategy of creation, a very part of reception and function of popular literature. Studying examples of the early fandoms, such as Jane Austen’s and Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels, their fan-made sequels and other works based on their output and their position as a part of official publishing market, the text tries to undermine narrow understanding fan fiction as very young and subversive part of modern culture. It focuses also on specific situation of collective writing and grassroots distribution of so called “weird fiction” at the beginning of 20th century upon studying the case of H. P. Lovecraft’s novels. By comparison of status of fan‐written stories at the beginning of the century and in the late 60s, it queries about changes not only on the publishing market but also in our understanding of authorship and literary work, the function of intertextuality in popular culture and stigmatisation of fan‐written works.

Naukowiec czy artysta? Polskie interpretacje poglądów Marshalla McLuhana

Author(s): Kalina Kukiełko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2013

The main aim of this article is to present interpretations of Marshall McLuhan’s views made by Polish scholars and commentators. In Poland, long‐term discussion concerning McLuhan’s hypotheses has been reduced mainly to the question of their “artistic” or “scientific” character. Among Polish polemicists, the controversial Canadian has found scrupulous critics as well as ardent followers. Both were astonished by his extraordinary erudition and practically boundless areas of interests. However, there is still no certainty as regards whether we should see McLuhan’s texts as strict scientific publications or rather as a kind of attractive artistic commentary.

„Bezgraniczna rozrywka” Josepha Garncarza, czyli o prezentacji filmów w Niemczech przed I wojną światową (recenzja)

Author(s): Andrzej Dębski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2013

Review of „Masslose Unterhaltung. Zur Etablierung des Films in Deutschland 1896–1914” by Joseph Garncarz