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The paper presents a process for conceptualising and deploying IT (information technology) good practices formulated during the implementation of the „Education in the area of time management and cost management of judicial proceedings – case management” project (a part of Poland’s Human Capital Programme). This project was one of the components supporting the reform of the Polish judiciary and was aimed at increasing the efficiency of the judicial system by lowering costs and increasing employee skills. The paper describes all of the project phases the authors participated in their capacity as both experts and researchers. These included learning about the auto-diagnosis of 30 pilot courts, through conducting on-site visits in chosen courts, to formulating the final deployment concepts of six IT good practices implemented in a selected pool of 60 courts.
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At a time when information technology has a strong impact on society, it is important to identify the level of its influence on foreign language teaching and learning. The paper presents research into the effectiveness of English language computer aided instruction in high schools. The research is based on a twelve-week long project carried out in a high school in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim of the project was to observe the language competencies of one hundred high school students who followed two types of foreign language instruction: traditional and computer aided. The results showed significant effectiveness of computer aided instruction in developing students’ competencies, particularly vocabulary acquisition. The paper presents recommendations based on the findings.
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This article covers consideration of the e-mail marketing of financial products and services aimed at consumers. The research paper presents the practice of banks used by those institutions in the e-marketing, basic concepts such as information, offer, advertisement, communication or spam, have been considered. Article touches in particular on relevant problems linked to sending advertising materials by e-mail, such as: specifying what kinds of messages can a bank send to its customers, whether a bank can send such messages to all its customers, whether a bank can send such messages only to its customers, what the consumers rights with respect to receiving unwanted and unasked for commercial information are. The research paper took into consideration current judicature and views of the representatives of a legal doctrine.
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The contemporary media message can be perceived in two perspectives: an active one, in which women perform a role of journalists and editors, and a passive perspective, in which they become a part of media message. The latter aspect is the most controversial for many reasons. Walter Lippmann defines a stereotype as an image created in the mind which allows a subordination of a certain fragment of reality a priori. The media’s visible, negative influence on women has them create a reality beyond the boundaries of acceptance, presenting it in a way the audience expects. A new kind of feminism appears, i.e. one which answers the receiver’s needs (succumbing to the expectations and exposing to the view), and a question appears – whether in the time of the feminist legacy, thereby changes resulting from the development of the media, feminists should gain their own unique style? In a way this begins to happen. Due to the development of the media, women gained an unrestricted possibility to express their views, and the reception and availability of the media lifts the restrictions and causes an inconspicuous person to please and sweep the crowd and his or her voice to be impossible to be ignored in the discourse.
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The dynamic development of the Internet and the constant search for new ways of reaching the user bring about the availability of materials that were previously unattainable. Performance art, thanks to its special openness to new methods of expression, reaches the mass media, while showing the individual’s psyche and character of the author’s work. The set of gestures, their sequence and narration are the basis for creating performance art, understood not only as a clear alternative to conventional art, but also characterized by unpredictability, in which the viewer is not prepared for the way messages are received. Undoubtedly, social platforms create an illusion. “The influencer” can reach thousands of viewers and gain fame without leaving home. Without a doubt, social media have created a new entry point to the global art scene, opening way to a wide spectrum of diverse artistic activities. The method of recording, the non-cutaneous nature of the phenomenon makes it possible to own performative actions. The context of a performance is particularly important. It affects what can be universally recognized as art. The question arises (since we distinguish two values of the performative action: in the art gallery and on the street), what frames on the social media allow the audience to interpret it as art, and assuming that it is an art, does it change the perception of a given phenomenon?
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The text concerns the performativeness of the process of making photographs. It discusses examples of experiencing photography through such medium as the photographer’s body. The relations between the photographer and the technological changes of photography have been analysed. The main subject is the process of making photographs concluded with a reflection on the relation between the viewer and the large format photographic artwork.
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The article presents the works of Aneta Kamińska as an example of the phenomenon of remediation, it is the impact of digital media on poetry and literary communication. The authoress examines the subsequent volumes of poetry and forms of Kamińska’s online activity. She points at a specifically feminine approach to new technologies. The article describes changes in the structure of the poems, as well as the status of the authoress and the nature of her communication with readers. It discusses also the stages of Aneta Kamińska’s work. These are: the traditional volume, the volume imitating hypertext which has been partly digitized and is available online as an interactive poetic hypertext. Then discusses the impact of Internet communication on her poetry. Finally presents multimedia projects, in which words are combined with video, audio and animation. In the end we may ask the question: does the generator of poetry, used by the poet, open up the interaction between man and machines?
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The author presents poetry by Kamila Janiak in the context of avant-guard pop-culture. She deals mainly with punk and cyber-punk motifs of this poetry, which allow to understand them as a feminist, post-human and anti-capitalist project. She shows how Janiak for her purposes uses détournements: she takes on the one hand principles, which rule in the “controlled societies” and on the other hand pop-culture aesthetics and psychodelic rock music.
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The article attempts to analyze the poetry of Katarzyna Fetlińska with the main stress laid upon her volume Sekstaśmy (Sex Tapes). The author tries to verify critical tracks and generalizations, introduced mostly by editorial and publishing descriptions which promote the collection. He exposes the importance of dramatic and surprisingly non-ironic themes chosen by the poet, who confronts herself with the most tragic aspects of human existence: loneliness and death. The main theme of the sketch is eroticism, sexuality and even pornographic character of her poetry, directed against metaphysically scandalous friability of interpersonal relations, human objectification and nothingness of being.
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The features, functions, and usage of media and media environment which have an important role in the lives of today’s children are increasing day by day. T is study aims to evaluate media environments and the children’s experience from their points of view. T e study followed the qualitative design and the participants of the study consisted of 34 preschool students. Children were asked questions to learn their opinions about television, tablet computers, the internet, and smartphones. T e results revealed that children had knowledge about the media environment and they used it intensively. However, they were not aware of the possible dangers of the media contents substantially. It was understood that children did not get any knowledge or education about media usage and most of the children encountered negative content. T e results suggest a need for training in media literacy for children.
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The article argues for audience studies that draw on the analysis of artefactual, spatial, temporal and sensorial aspects of media consumption and build on so-called medium theory and the theory of practice in sociology. In part two of the article, we interpret the results of a qualitative empirical study regarding the daily use of media technology among young people aged 19–29 years. The study finds that the circumstances in which digital media have colonised all spheres of public life and in which online social life has become completely naturalised have led to constant online connectivity as well as highly fragmented and dispersed communication practices of users as they move among different media. The analysis of media consumption diaries points to radical mediatisation, which is playing an important role in the changing generational structure of feeling.
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W dniach 5–7 października 2016 r. odbyło się w Kielcach I Europejskie Forum Nowych Technologii i Innowacji w Edukacji, w którym uczestniczyli m.in. przedstawiciele redakcji czasopisma „Studia Pedagogiczne. Problemy Społeczne, Edukacyjne i Artystyczne”. Ideą forum było budowanie płaszczyzny wymiany informacji i miejsca spotkań wszystkich uczestników życia oświatowego. Należy zaznaczyć, iż w wydarzeniu wzięło udział niemal 200 prelegentów, pedagogów, ekspertów od nowych technologii i przedstawicieli pozarządowych instytucji. W forum aktywnie uczestniczyli także nauczyciele i studenci Wydziału Pedagogicznego UJK.
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The articles explores the relationships between position of culture in everyday life of young people, their media consumption and civic engagement, by focusing on the role of digital media. Among others, the study shows the limitations of universal understanding of the youth. Based on the results of a quantitative online survey among 793 young people in Ljubljana, this study identifies distinctive types of youth cultural involvement: the biggest group is apolitical and from the cultural events excluded youth, while the socially and politically most engaged youth seem to be the so called »cultural creators«.
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The design and implementation of a big data project differs from a typical business intelligence project that might be presented concurrently within the same organization. A big data initiative typically triggers a large scale IT project that is expected to deliver the desired outcomes. The industry has identified two major methodologies for running a data centric project, in particular SEMMAi (Sample, Explore, Modify, Model and Assess) and CRISP-DMii (Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining). More general, the professional organizations PMI (Project Management Institute) and IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) have defined their methods for project management and business analysis based on the best current industry practices.However, big data projects place new challenges that are not considered by the existing methodologies. The building of end-to-end big data analytical solution for optimization of the supply chain, pricing and promotion, product launch, shop potential and customer value is facing both business and technical challenges. The most common business challenges are unclear and/or poorly defined business cases; irrelevant data; poor data quality; overlooked data granularity; improper contextualization of data; unprepared or bad prepared data; non-meaningful results; lack of skillset. Some of the technical challenges are related to lag of resources and technology limitations; availability of data sources; storage difficulties; security issues; performance problems; little flexibility; and ineffective DevOps. This paper discusses an applied business analytics approach to IT projects and addresses the above-described aspects. The authors present their work on research and development of new methodological framework and analytical instruments applicable in both business endeavors, and educational initiatives, targeting big data. The proposed framework is based on proprietary methodology and advanced analytics tools. It is focused on the development and the implementation of practical solutions for project managers, business analysts, IT practitioners and Business/Data Analytics students.Under discussion are also the necessary skills and knowledge for the successful big data business analyst, and some of the main organizational and operational aspects of the big data projects, including the continuous model deployment
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Modern computer information systems continue to increase their presence in the fields of business analysis and education. This trend is presented in the article with the help of a server-based multiagent business simulation for multinational corporations, created in Microsoft Excel. The simulation is based on the widely used in the business practice and in different on-campus and distance learning courses method PESLE analysis. One of its unique feature is the use of BBNN theory for the generation of external economic shocks, which affect the macroeconomic environment. The mathematical model is trained based on dynamic data of macroeconomic indicators for several countries. Coefficients obtained during the training process are used to generate fluctuations in the international markets close to the reality. The simulation consists of several fiscal periods. In each period, students assigned to different teams are making decisions related to the creation and the implementation of a business strategy of a fictitious multinational corporation, and are developing and analyzing different aspects of its financial analysis, market research, operations, international human resource management, pricing, and others. The simulation also includes several agents that act as competing corporations. Their action has an impact on the distribution of market shares in the various segments. The overall performance evaluation approach is based on a framework for an in-depth analysis of key performance indicators of the fictitious international firms, and is measured for each decision round of the simulation game.
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Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming more and more prominent within the medical sector and it today used to treat PTSD patients, burn victims, simulate surgeries and much more. This research paper aims to present some of these major practices. Additionally, this paper presents the idea of using VR to help patients suffering from Type II Diabetes, manage their disease and achieve optimal treatment outcomes, by introducing them to virtual environments where they can exercise without being concerned with lack of time and space, social stigma, air pollution or other constraints. This research paper is an empirical research aiming to examine the current use of VR in the medical industry and discuss how VR might help patients tackling diabetes.
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International politics and economics are not independent. Often, countries face economic sanctions or deteriorated economic prospects because of adverse political developments. Foreign trade (exports and imports of goods), capital flow in form of foreign direct investments (FDI) or cross-border capital investments have frequently been studied to understand political relationships between countries. On one hand, we have quantitative macroeconomic indicators, and on the other we face qualitative multilevel political relations and events. To better understand the intertwined nature of economics and politics, we use the digitized massive archival news data, the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) to model and systematically quantify global political processes. We then apply statistical and machine learning methods to analyze these political events correlations with global economies and societies. We categorize countries in four groups, based on the World Bank’s income classification, and find that international relations have strong correlation with economic parameters, highly dependent on countries’ income levels.
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Crude Oil prices are one of the primary drivers of the world economy. The oil reserves are distributed only in several countries, and the rest of the world is highly dependent on the price and availability of this essential energy source. The worldwide economic growth has a substantial impact on oil consumption. On the other hand, oil prices affect expectations of economic growth of countries strongly dependent on oil production or consumption. Crude oil prices are mainly determined by the oil production policies set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Additionally, crude oil prices react to a variety of geopolitical and economic events that can lead to unplanned under- or oversupply of oil.The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) is the most comprehensive and most up-to-date open source dataset of global events and contains over a 380 million events records in over 300 categories covering most of the world from 1979 to present. We use GDELT event database to study the mutual dependencies of crude oil prices and global events.We select the top ten crude oil exporters and importers and study the events that originate from or target these countries. We cover close to seventy percent of the overall world crude oil exports and imports. We extract the average Goldstein index, the average tone of the event news, the number of events occurring in the Source country, and the fraction of internal events. We then build a set of event-sentiment-based indicators and analyze the evolution of these indicators in relation with crude oil prices over time. We investigate event volatilities as well as event correlations with crude oil prices.
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