30-second politics, 30 years too late: Political TV advertising in Swedish election campaigns, 2006–2018

Author(s): Marie Grusell,Lars Nord / Language(s): English / Issue: 24/2019

Televised political advertising appears in very different national political communication contexts. Sweden is an interesting case study. For many years, political ads on TV were not allowed at all. However, with the transition from analog to digital terrestrial television the public service obligations of the “hybrid” channel TV4 were dismantled. In the 2010 national election campaign, all Swedish parliamentary parties bought advertising time on TV4. This article intends to shed new light on political TV ads as a new campaign feature in a rapidly transforming political communication environment. The study relates to the concept of hybridization of election campaigns and intends to increase knowledge about hybridization processes by focusing on a critical case where one of the most adopted campaign practices worldwide is finally implemented within a specific national context and deviating political culture.

A Curriculum Analysis of Call Center Services Departments in Turkey

Author(s): Hıdır Polat,Murat Seyfi / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2019

With globalization and developments in communication technologies, there are newly-arising needs and expectations from the sector of Call Services. In order to meet these expectations, it is vital to analyze the education curriculums and to transfer innovative practices to the sector. Within this framework, the aim of this study is to analyze the curriculums of Departments of Call Center Services in universities located in Turkey by revealing the courses which the universities need to focus on in order to provide the qualified individuals demanded by the sector. 19 universities whose curriculums are obtained among 24 universities in Turkey which have “The Program of Call Center Services” are analyzed to the extent whether they have the identified field courses in their curriculums. “Survey Research” which is a method for both quantitative and qualitative research is used within the framework of the study and the acquired data is analyzed via Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Descriptive statistics methods of frequency (f) and percentage (%) are used in the phase of data evaluation. As a consequence of the acquired results, it is observed that there are inconsistencies in relationships between the curriculums of the programs of call center and sectoral expectations. It can be said, as a result of this observation, that the education level is inadequate in terms of providing qualifications which will meet the sectoral expectations to the students.

A Mission for MARS: The Success of Climate Change Skeptic Rhetoric in the US

Author(s): Alexander Ruser / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

Radio and television broadcasters accuse climate scientists of “promoting a global warming hoax”, recommending that they be “named and fi red, drawn and quartered” (Rush Limbaugh); commit “hara kiri” (Glenn Beck); and be “publicly flogged” (Mark Morano). Conservative media are crucial in promoting climate skepticism. Likewise, climate skepticism resonates well with white middle-class men. But why does the middle class continue to support “radical” positions? This article focuses on Anti-Intellectualism to explain why climate skeptic rhetoric resonates with “Middle American Radicals” (MARS).

A Phenomenological Study of Employee Perceptions of Managerial Behaviors as Personal Enactments of Organizational Culture

Author(s): Joanna Małgorzata Michalak,Robert J. Ristino / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2013

Using a phenomenological methodology, this research study examines the phenomenon of organizational culture through the perceptions of those who experience it. Rather than studying how organizational culture affects organizational behavior and success, the researchers focus on employee perceptions of culture as a consequence of experiences with managerial behaviors as personal enactments of culture. The notion of personal enactments is drawn from the work of Edgar Schein. Schein [1985] has identified three levels of organizational culture: artifacts, values and beliefs. Among artifacts, Schein identifies the personal enactments of organizational values by senior managers as one of the more important. The researchers derived the data describing these personal enactments from 20 volunteer subjects reporting in self-administered questionnaires their experiences with managerial behaviors. Respondent perceptions are described in their own words, conveying their understandings, feelings, emotions and behaviors. Responses are categorized into units of relevant meaning, organized into clusters of similar meaning and then into themes. From these themes the researchers draw some insights and understanding of how system actors both live and experience culture in an organizational setting.

A Political Act in the E-Society: Digital Vigilantism and Swarms

Author(s): Augustė Dementavičienė / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

The main aim of this article is, by using the case of digital vigilantism, to analyze what new challenges could occur in the E-society and how understanding of the self and self-act is changing during the process when more and more new technologies are integrated in people’s everyday life. The swarm is a metaphor which Zygmunt Bauman uses to show how the understanding of communities is changed in liquid modernity. Swarms are based on untied, uncontrolled, short-term relationships between consumers/users to achieve some goals. Swarms could be massive in numbers and have a lot of power for a very short period. One of the examples could be digital vigilantism, which is an act of punishing certain citizens (they are believed to deserve punishment) by other Internet users. One example of DV would be to put personal information on display to spread shaming acts. The problem is that people are interested in some actions for a very short time, but the political act/change requires an active and stable effort. Despite the phenomenon of DV not getting much attention from the field of political science or political philosophy, it provides us with some insights about the current changes in our understanding of politics and the concept of what is “political” as well as inviting us to reconsider the idea of swarms as put forward by Bauman.

A SHORT HISTORY OF COMPUTER USE AT FACULTY OF PHYSICS – UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Author(s): Mircea Victor Rusu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

For physicists computing is a main activity. Starting from devising an experiment to problem solving with computer, from using mathematical tables to other aids to computation, physics has grown its strength by using each step the numerical computation. So, computing for researches as well as education was used and steadily improved by us, starting from first minicomputers to the last generation of computers and algorithms. In this presentation we will follow, in short, the evolution of computing, hard and soft, in physics at our faculty. We selected here the main field of interests that was connected with problems showing: programmed solutions, simulations and modeling, computer application and software during the time. Such a time recollection is interesting and surprises me as how diverse and far such activity was done. Examples will be from computation in tradition physics, to biology, chemistry, astronomy, medicine to data processing and visualization, data management, to create our own educational software and so on. The fields as nonlinear dynamics, complexity, chaos and fractals, as well as fluid dynamics, atomic, molecular or nuclear physics, earth or stellar physics, connected to improvement of the experiments and devices via artificial intelligence are some of our topics which will be exemplified here.

Affectivity and Social Expression

Author(s): Raluca Bălăiţă / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

An essential dimension not only of mental life, but also of relationships, the affectivity is built socially, its conventional manifestations varying depending on the social values acknowledged within a given group.An individual relates to the world simultaneously by cognition and emotion, so that the reason/passion dichotomy which, for a long period of time, has represented a red thread in the history of Western philosophy has been revised. Emotions are not opposed to reasonable conduct, but respond to a personal logic and certain implicit social norms, being in a direct relationship with the meaning the individual gives to events.Emotions are connected to social communication, represent “a way of affiliation to a social community” (David Le Breton) and the expression of relating to a situation, interlocutors, message. In this article we insist on the idea that affectivity, emotions correspond to certain reactions of the individual to a given situation which manifest by a series of physiological and psychological changes translated into mimicry, gestures, attitudes, words expression modalities which are acquired during a learning process and by constantly relating to the other members of the social group.

Aging Society - Rethinking and Redesigning Retirement

Author(s): Ivan Lekić,Tatjana Bačun,Sunčica Oberman Peterka,Ivana Barković Bojanić,Bruno Budimir,Antun Biloš,Zafer Kiliç,Burak Kiliç,Ivana Šandrk Nukić,Dražen Barković,Verica Jovanovski,Anita Pavković,Alka Obadić,Katarina Marošević,Izabela Pruchnicka-Grabias,Aleksandar Erceg,Julia Perić,Biljana Činčurak Erceg,Tomislav Nedić,Jovanka Damoska Sekuloska,Milan Puvača,Ivana Vidak,Helena Štimac,Ivan Kelić,Davorin Turkalj,Nefreteta Zekić Eberhard,Zrinka Stanić / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2020

The “Silver Tsunami” is here! According to various relevant sources such as the UN Population Division, the WHO, and the ILO, population across the world is getting older. By 2050, there will be more than 20% of the world’s population aged 65 years and over. Statistics for the European Union reveal the same - the age structure of the European population is expected to change significantly over the next decades and by 2060, the share of people aged 65 and above will increase from 18% to 30% compared to now, while the share of people aged above 80 will more than double. Thus, in addition to notions such as “Silver Tsunami”, “Age Wave”, and the like, it is not surprising that the European Union has launched a notion “Silver Economy” related to economic activities of the population aged 50 and over and their impact on various sectors of the national economy. This negative demographic transition, i.e. population aging, has shown four very distinctive features: unprecedented, pervasiveness, endurance and profound implications on human life in general. On a more personal level, what we are witnessing today as a trend, we will experience first-hand in the decades to come. Yet, times are changing. An aging population is becoming a reality that is surrounded by various myths when it comes to older people as workers or as consumers. The fact is that people today live longer and healthier lives, which requires a shift in perception of age when it comes to supply and demand sides of economics. It also holds true from the perspective of other disciplines. This, in turn, opens a new frontier in academic, practical and policy thinking about rethinking aging and redesigning retirement. This multidisciplinary edited book “The Aging Society: Rethinking and Redesigning Retirement” is one attempt not to be swept away by the “Silver Tsunami” tide. The content of the chapters reveals the multifaceted and highly complex issue of aging which brought together researchers from various fields. Aging has been initially dominant in medical research since it is primarily a physiological process, yet it has proven to be a social transformation with numerous repercussions calling for researchers from economics, communication, law and others to join the scientific discussion. The authors in this edition have tried to shed light on the potential of aging research by drawing attention to various topics such as aging as a normal process, concept and measurement of the quality of life of the elderly, financial challenges and retirement literacy of the older population, specific bioethical issues, silver architecture for seniors, protection of the rights and safety of older people in transport, social entrepreneurship and franchising, collaborative economy, an age-specific ICT use gap, media literacy and communication. The book has gathered authors from Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek – Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine Osijek / Clinical Hospital Center Osijek and Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture Osijek, as well as Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb (University of Zagreb), Virovitica College, Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency, University of Information Science and Technology, “St. Paul the Apostle” (Macedonia), Beykoz University, Vocational School at Department of Social Sciences (Turkey), Nisantasi University, Vocational School at Department of Logistics (Turkey), and Warsaw School of Economics (Poland). Such institutional diversity is a signal that the issue of aging is a universally attractive research topic that easily transcends disciplinary and national boundaries. As editors of this book, we feel obliged to applaud our authors for making a research effort and scientific contribution in the advent of the global COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Our gratitude is extended to our reviewers who have been affirmative towards the content and style of this work. The publication of this book will be a permanent reminder of strength, diligence, creativity and resilience of academic scholars as individuals and universities as institutions in times challenging us on both a personal and a professional level.

Alicja Jaskiernia (2018). Monitoring wolności mediów w Europie [Monitoring Media Freedom in Europe]. Warsaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza ASPRA-JR pp. 487 ISBN: 978-83-7545-840-4

Author(s): Anna Jupowicz- Ginalska / Language(s): English / Issue: 25/2020

Alina Bârgăoanu, #FakeNews. Noua cursă a înarmării, Editura Evrika, 2018, 252p (Recenzie de Mihaela Teodor)

Author(s): Mihaela TEODOR / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 19-20/2018

Cartea oferă o perspectivă nuanțată și complexă a fenomenului fake news. Fake news-ul este un fenomen care a dat naștere la un val de interes cu adevărat specataculos și la o modă, în lumea cercetării științifice din domeniul științelor sociale și nu numai. Totuși, volumul #FakeNews. Noua cursă a înarmării este unul scris cu rigoare academică, pe o bază documentară reală și cu caracter interdisciplinar, care dovedesc o lectură serioasă a fenomenelor politice, economice și sociale actuale.

Alternatif Politika

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Turkey

Alternatif Politika is an interdisciplinary international journal committed to publishing high-quality research papers in all areas of politics and international relations, as well as papers that cut across other disciplines such as cultural studies, geopolitics, and political economy. The journal's editorial philosophy is to support a pluralistic approach to the political science discipline and debate. The editor particularly welcomes submissions that are inventive in their approach, cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, evaluate the relationship between domestic and international politics, or offer comparative perspectives.

- The journal does not have article processing charges or submission charges. The authors are not paid royalties.
- The journal has high standards for peer reviewing in an effort to foster the most promising new perspectives and works and to encourage creative professional communication in political science. In this context, the journal uses "double-blind peer review" process for papers.
- This journal is an "open access" journal. All articles published in this journal are free for everyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles.
- The journal will check plagiarism for all the articles before prior publication.

AN INTELLIGENCE-BASED APPROACH TO COUNTERING SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE OPERATIONS

Author(s): Matteo E. BONFANTI / Language(s): English / Issue: 19-20/2018

The paper describes an intelligence-based approach to identify, understand and counter influence operations and campaigns that are sponsored, directed, or conducted by State or non-state actors on/through social media platforms. It examines the extent to which the collection and analysis of social media data and further contextual information can provide actionable insight into influence-aimed activities perpetrated by both State and non-state actors. It also discusses how to employ such insight for tailoring effective counter-measures at the operational, tactical and strategic levels. The paper starts by conceptually framing social media platforms and services as tools for exercising influence – or cyber-influence/persuasion – over a target. For this purpose, it examines the notions of “influence operations” and/or “campaigns”, presents their featuring elements, and shortly discusses if, how and to what extent they have changed or are changing due to the emergence of the cyber-space and new technological platforms. The study benefits from the review of the recently available literature dedicated to the employment of social media for influence purposes as well as the examination of few selected and documented case studies. Then the paper examines the crafting of intelligence on influence operations form social media data and metadata, in particular on actors engaging in these operations, their employed capabilities, modus operandi, intended goals as well as the operational constraints they face. It outlines the collection and analytical techniques serving the purpose of producing social media intelligence, presents their general advantages and limits, and highlights the challenge of enriching the knowledge on influence operations with further contextual information and intelligence. The paper concludes by proposing recommendations on how to implement the intelligence-based approach to countering influence operations or campaigns over social media in an effective manner. These include the acquisition of the necessary capabilities (human, technological, and organisational) to monitor and analyse social media information. They also include the definition of a framework to better integrate intelligence from social media in to a consistent all-source intelligence system.

An Overview Of The New Media Role
In Original Literature Publishing In Slovakia During The First Decade Of The New Millennium And Shortly After

Author(s): Marián Grupač / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Public publishing space for authors of original contemporary literature in Slovakia has changed and expanded significantly in the last three decades since 1989. Due to the development and use of modern technologies and the existence of digital virtual space, nowadays the authors of Slovak literature can publish their texts in many more media than before 1989, and almost without any limitations. However, the literary, aesthetic, cultural or fundamental artistic relevance of such contributions is in many cases controversial. In the context of the publication space of new media, internet portals and online literary magazines often publish without deeper critical selection and (often even minimal objective literary-critical reflection almost everything delivered to their editorial mailbox as by ambitious writers?), as well by those whose works are lacking basic literary talent and the necessary creativity.
 The paper maps the situation in the area of publishing original literature, especially poetry, in Slovakia at the beginning of the 21st century in the context of the use of new media and modern digital technologies.

Analele Universităţii din Craiova. Seria Ştiinţe Filologice. Limbi şi literaturi romanice.

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

Universitaria Publishing House was founded in 1992 as a specialized department of the University of Craiova and, since then, it has been an active participant in the students training process and a reliable partner for academic research, making its name through the quality and diversity of its books, with more than 5,000 printed titles. It owns 24 collections under which are edited and printed specialized works in human sciences, technical domains, courses and reference works in linguistics and philology, economics, law and philosophy, thus continually promoting general cultural and scientific values and also the values of our region, Oltenia.

The French department of the University of Craiova has been publishing the journal Annales de l’Université de Craiova. Série Langues et Littératures romanes annually, since 1997, and the articles, written in French, address language, literature, didactics and translation topics. All the papers are peer reviewed by at least two scholars or researchers with national or international visibility.

Analiza copertei

Author(s): Ionel Narița / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2020

Throughout history, the authorities tried to prevent some messages to reach the members of organizations. For this goal, they used the method of criterion or the method of lists. The criterion method is not adequate since it asks the analysis of the text or body of discourse in order to be applied. Instead, the lists method can be used analyzing only the cover of the publications. At their turn, the lists are exclusive or inclusive. The exclusive lists, like Index Librorum Prohibitorum, include the works that should not be received by a certain public, while the inclusive lists contain the publications agreed by the authorities.

Analiza obilježja poštanske mreže u Bjelovarsko-bilogorskoj županiji

Author(s): Katarina Mostarac,Zvonko Kavran,Petar Feletar / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 13/2019

According to the regulatory framework, universal service in the postal system ought to be accessible to all citizens of the Republic of Croatia under equal and transparent conditions, regardless of their geographical position. The universal service provider has to establish the postal network in such a way that the elements thereof be accessible to all citizens. The accessibility of the elements of the postal network and services is ensured by regulatory criteria (international and domestic regulations) that the universal service provider ought to fulfil. The organisation of the postal network in rural areas is rather demanding, since the network has to ensure accessibility in order to fulfil the universal service obligation even under the conditions of reduced economic activity. The paper analyses the status of postal network accessibility in the Bjelovar-Bilogora County. This will also enable the analysis of the regulatory criteria and their impact on the actual accessibility of the postal service.

ANALYSIS OF STATIC AND INTERACTIVE CONTENT ON ECOMMERCE WEBSITES WITH FOCUS ON WEARABLE ELECTRONICS

Author(s): Iveta Balážiová / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

This research focuses on e-commerce websites with smart wearable electronics in Slovakia with regard to the interactive elements inserted into a static webpage. Depending on the amount of interactive functions, the work systematically differentiates the individual types of content on the e-commerce websites into three categories: non-interactive content, lower interactivity content and higher interactivity content. With the help of content analysis and descriptive statistics, the numerical calculation of occurrence of the above elements is shown for each category. We found that huge sales platforms with a broad spectrum of services and products used interactive and static content in a greater extent than other e-commerce websites. The main result of the survey is the fact that Slovak e-shops use static elements more than the interactive ones. The above findings indicate that e-commerce websites prefer a rather traditional form of content marketing compared to the interactive one, which is on the rise according to marketing experts

Anna Bischof, Zuzana Jürgens (Hrsg.), Voices of Freedom – Western Interference? 60 Years of Radio Free Europe

Author(s): Jan Lipinsky / Language(s): German / Issue: 4/2017

Review of: Voices of Freedom – Western Interference? 60 Years of Radio Free Europe. Hrsg. von Anna B i s c h o f und Zuzana J ü r g e n s . (Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum, Bd. 130.) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Göttingen 2015. XII, 294 S., Ill. ISBN 978-3-525- 37310-1. (€ 49,99.). Reviewed by Jan Lipinsky.

Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

ANNALS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA FOR JOURNALISM, COMMUNICATION AND MANAGEMENT ( ISSN 2501-3513 ) is an international publication founded by the Center for Scientific Research in Communication Sciences, Media and Public Opinion (CCSCMOP) and the Department of Journalism, Communication and Education Sciences, Faculty of Letters, University of Craiova.

The printed edition is published by Sitech Publishing House – Craiova, a prestigious publishing house acknowledged by the Ministry of National Education of Romania.

AUCJCM is an open-access double blinded peer-review yearly academic publication intended for researchers interested in the study of journalism, communication and management.

AUCJCM encourages the publishing of theoretical and practical papers covering topics from the universe of social sciences:
– communication studies, communicology, communication theory;
– journalism, journalistic communication, media business;
– culture and life, philosophy, psychology;
– management, cultural management, media and communication management;

Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Nigeria Development: An Appraisal of Media Roles

Author(s): Arikewuyo Ahmed Kamaldeen,Sallah Abdulbaqi Saudat,Muhammad Adisa Rasaq / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Nigerian development problem is partly linked to corruption which begets malnutrition, illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, hunger and infrastructure decay. Due to the failures of numerous development strategies in Nigeria, this paper provides an overview of mass media efforts in fighting corruption. Similarly, the paper applies social responsibility and development media theory in campaigning against the said corruption. Using secondary data of Transparency International from(2000-2018) on the World Corruption Perception Index and Ranking, the study revealed that the media have been very relevant in curbing corruption and entrenching development through its watchdog role and mass enlightening in the provision of information that facilitates job creation, economy improvement, enhanced security and re-orientation of the masses. The study equally revealed that the level of bribery, looting of treasury, abuse of power and secret dealings are perceived to be rapidly reducing in Nigeria. Further, the study equally showed that Nigeria moved from 148th to 144th position out of 180 countries in the 2018 (CPI) report of corrupt countries. Hence, this paper proposes critical media independence, vibrant and active judicial system coupled with exemplary leadership for a more feasible development schemes in Nigeria.