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In the article “Conversations in the Smart Space" by prof. Rusi Marinov, D.Sc. are monitored the development, principles and models of smart work systems, theories of conversation and their modifications in the modern environment. Analyzed are new forms of communication such as M2M and IoT.
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Падането на Берлинската стена като глобално иконично събитие
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The article presents the results of an empirical study on the use of the term 'hybrid war' (and its analogs) in Bulgarian media. It is focused on the use of the concept in meanings and contexts different from those implied by the existing definitions. The study covers the first five months of 2019. The publications in Bulgarian online media are selected through the news aggregation and analysis system 'European Media Monitor' (EMM). The results show that, in certain cases, the concept is not only used with different meanings, but some derivative concepts are created by the media such as 'hybrid propaganda' or 'hybrid content'
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Conceptual integration theory and political Internet humour
The aim of the paper is to uncover the extent to which different forms of political Internet humour can criticise current political affairs in a developing democracy such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Specifically, applying a cognitive linguistic theory of meaning construction, namely conceptual integration theory, the paper analyses the construction of meaning of humorous Internet forms, such as memes, demotivational posters, hashtag posts, and memetic photographs, representing innovative ways of providing political commentaries on current political affairs. The meaning of political humour is constructed in conceptual blending as a basic cognitive mechanism. As it is claimed (Coulson & Pascual 2006, Coulson & Oakley 2006, Coulson 2006, Oakley & Coulson 2008) that blending can be used as a rhetorical tool influencing the audience to change the reality and even act upon it, the analysis of the construction of meaning of political humour as products of conceptual integration can reveal hidden ideologies in political discourse.
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The paper seeks to explore recent shifts within the popular culture with regard to oppression involving gender, class, race, and ethnicity that can be traced back to the #MeToo movement which was revived as a social media hashtag in October 2017 and has since spread all over the world. The paper starts with a brief overview of Western popular culture that “has recently been seen as a champion for feminism . . . with many high-profile female musicians and actresses visibly promoting the movement in their work” (Woodacre 2018, 21). Next, the paper discusses the origins of the Me Too Movement and the way it approaches the meaning of gendered oppressions as well as individualized and collective experiences of survivors of sexual abuse. This is later explored in the examination of the impact of the hashtag-led movement on three works of popular culture: Amazon’s TV series Lorena (2019), Nancy Schwartzman’s documentary Roll Red Roll (2019), and We Believe: the Best Men Can Be (2019) advertisement by Gillette. The entire case study is informed primarily by feminist theory understood as inseparable from feminist activism, following bell hooks’ Feminist theory from margin to center (1984).
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The #MeToo movement has had a profound cultural impact on US society, and notably on US party politics. While many studies have addressed the #MeToo-related controversy arising from the Brett Kavanaugh nomination to Supreme Court Justice in 2018, the relationship between #MeToo and US politics before this event has remained understudied. This article, therefore, addresses this gap by looking at the role of politics at the beginning of the #MeToo movement. Focusing on the first six months of online activity on Twitter (October 2017 – April 2018), over 2 million tweets with the #MeToo hashtag are analyzed to identify the main activity patterns across the dataset and to gain insight on user behavior and participation in the conversation. Results point to the weaponization of #MeToo in the political context from its inception. It is suggested that #MeToo reflects the polarized political climate in the US and that it can be conceptualized as part of the wider “culture wars” (Hunter 1991) that characterize the public debate.
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A space generally associated with marketers and breaking news (Hobsbawn, 2009 cited in Evans, Twomey & Talan, 2011), Twitter has also become a space debate, community building and legitimization for companies and social movements alike. The academic literature has seen a rise in interest in the micro-blogging platform. For instance, Adi and Moloney (2012) assess the strategic uses of Twitter by protest groups, Adi, Erickson and Lilleker (2014) reflect on the networks and use pattern of the same platform by politicians, namely UK Labor party representatives in the House of Lords while Adi and Grigore (2015) analyze the strategic uses of social media by corporations. Bajpai and Jaiswal (2011) on the other hand propose a framework for analyzing collective action events on Twitter and so do the creators behind visual analysis platforms like NodeXL, Gephi, Linkurious and Socioviz. Public Relations research too has provided several reflections and analyses of Twitter. Verhoeven et al (2012) and Sweetsner and Kelleher discuss how practitioners use social media; Lovejoy, Waters and Saxton evaluate how NGO are engaging stakeholders though the new medium, while Saffer, Sommerfeldt and Taylor (2013) suggest that Twitter interactivity influences the quality of organization–public relationships. With questions about the professionalization of Public Relations as well as about the portrayals and perceptions of the profession continuing to intrigue researchers, it is surprising that only Xifra and Grau (2010) looked into the type of information shared in tweets about public relations. Using the Twitter data collection and analysis option from Socioviz this paper provides an exploratory account of the #publicrelations on Twitter. Using the visualizations provided by the platform and automated data analysis to gain insight into over 10,000 tweets published during June 15-24 and July 15-24, this paper qualitatively assesses the emerging themes about public relations focusing on association of hashtags and type of messages shared and identifies the most active and most influential users within the issue topic. The paper reveals that the #publicrelations is often associated with #jobs or is hijacked and associated with tags such as #gossip or #entertainment. The paper also shows that conversation in the #publicrelations issue network is limited and that the hashtag only partially includes content relevant to the practice. In doing so the paper raises important questions about the nature of dialogue and symmetry on social media and their assessment and suggests that further research should explore twitter chats as well as continue to apply similar data collection methods as used for the study.
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One of the serious issues of theorizing about politeness that has recently been raised (Eelen 2001, Watts 2003) is whether the current politeness models devised by researchers adequately account for concepts and procedures to which social actors adhere when engaging themselves in real-life interactions. As an alternative to the core politeness theories of considerable tradition and volume of research that they have inspired and which conceive of politeness as a set of strategies designed to achieve harmony, avoid interpersonal conflict, enhance mutual co-operation, attend to face-wants, stay within the terms of the current Conversational Contract etc., a newly emerging paradigm of politeness understood as “discursive struggle” approaches (im)politeness issues as being discursively struggled over by the interlocutors themselves in the course of ongoing interaction. Informed by the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of this novel model of politeness and using authentic data from two radio phone-in discussion programmes from two different socio-cultural settings the paper analyzes those instances of authentic interaction involving power interruptions in which interactants appear to be engaged in the struggle for the achievement of mutually shared understanding of what constitutes (im)polite behaviour.
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The book The (re-) existence of the past in transcultural spaces is an analysis of cultural phenomena belonging to the world of art, which, like books, music, dance or ceramic tiles, are at the same time elements that accompany us in our everyday lives as cultural representations of the memory of the past. Linking them to key concepts such as cultural heritage and cultural identity has made it possible to place them in a transcultural perspective. What cultural heritage gives people is a sense of unity and of belonging to a group; it enables them to better understand the essence of the continuity between generations and the history of their origins. It also implies a common bond. Cultural identity, on the other hand, is a sense of "being in place", of belonging and fitting in. Identifying with a culture is therefore an extremely important factor in people's well-being, giving them a sense of belonging and security. It is also a reflection on the processes of acculturation, which in today's world would no longe need to take on the character of a conflict of loyalties, because participation in culture is both a bonding element, an expression of belonging, and an opportunity to manifest one's identity. That is why it is so important to be aware of one's own cultural heritage and cultural identity (both individual and group), which can be used creatively to find one's place in environments full of cultural symbols, practices and meanings that differ from those established in us through the processes of upbringing, socialisation or acculturation. Art as a plane of human activity and creativity is understood here as a field for intergenerational dialogue, transmission of ideas, coexistence and the duration of the past. It is something of a conciliation between old and new values, which enables individuals and groups to adapt to change. Transculturality, on the other hand, is a space in which multicultural and intercultural experiences are visible, which in turn translates into intercultural education projects.
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This study identifies some aspects concerning the representation of theRomanian medical system in mass media. The analyse concentrates on investigativejournalism, on reportage. I have chosen to examine a series of reportages of theRomanian press, starting from the articles of Brunea-Fox, to articles that are dedicatedto Colectiv nightclub fire and the Covid-19 pandemic. The methodological directionswhich were chosen – the analyse of linguistic elements, the typology of the titles, as wellas the Romanian hospitals’ images – they will relieve the negative connotations of therepresentations of the medical system in mass media, in crises moments, and sanitarydisasters.
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In the more recent scholarly literature on media, pop culture or celebrity studies, there has been a growing tendency to identify media, stardom and other pop culture forms of cult with religion. An increasing number of concepts have sprung up such as “media as religion” or “stardom as religion”. The primary aim of this paper is to examine whether there are essential intrinsic similarities between religion and media. To answer this question, we have examined the structural similarities between media and religion (by comparing their use of ritual and liturgy; emotions; cosmology; myth and archetype). We came to the conclusion that media religion is a non-theistic religion without God, with an exclusive emphasis on social cohesion. The absence of verticality, lack of transcendence to eternity as well as the non-existing relationship with God as a person – have determined the remaining partial conclusions presented herein.
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The text presents a reconstruction of the experience of autism by blogging self-advocates. The starting point is the concept of autobiographical self-learning. The study included a qualitative analysis of the content of open blogs on the Internet, whose authors are people who declare themselves to be autistic. The analysis was conducted on the basis of the grounded theory. MAXQDA software was used.
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The terms belonging to theatre have been permanently transferred and adapted to various epistemic spaces, in the pursuit of organizing a coherent explanation pattern, the “script” being the “the speaking stage that the discourse involves in order to be produced and that, in exchange, needs to confirm through its utterance” . “The communication discourse” promotes understanding based on inferential reasoning, structured by the fundamental principles of conscious learning whose results will configure the identity of the cognitive structure of the teachable subject. This primary understanding, pertaining to the logical significance, will be a condition for further acceptance of an interpretation course, based on heuristic processes, on the consistent character of learning, reflected within the relationship with the incorporated information belonging to the student’s knowledge. The passage from potential to achievement is dependent on the intention and desire of the sender who has to translate an interior need. As part of the teaching discourse, “the creative discourse” is the practice context of the student’s creative potential, tributary to the development of the “lecture competence” with reference to Romanian as a school subject, aiming at the conscious approval of the interpretation process. This can be described in terms of labor concerning the creation process, the literature context facilitates the relationship between the education subject and various “paratope” belonging to Romanian and universal literature, through which the reaction to the symbolic valences of the literary works can be obvious. The identification process between the reader and the creation substantiated through a “school trial” should start from the re-enactment of the author’s labor process, through a participative activity associated to the questioning labor, organized according to the textbook score. It has to provide the student an understanding and interpretation pattern in order to guarantee a “successful” reading, that should harmonize various interpretation strategies.
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This paper aims to outline the significance ofthe category of human nature, as variously understood, in both public and moral discourse. The first part is devoted to the category of human nature with respect to political philosophy. It presents the classical conceptualizations of human nature and their implications for modern poli- tical philosophy. This part of the paper also contains remarks concerning the require- ment of compatibility with human nature in ethical discourse. The second part focuses on the category of human nature in recent public discourse on the legal acceptance of partnerships in Poland. The author argues that this discourse was specifically oriented towardsits incompatibility with human nature (instead of acom- patibility with nature or those limitations a human being is subject to). Moreover, the author signals some doubts as to the character of any allegations concerning the incompatibility of partnerships with nature.
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V procese nebývalých spoločenských premien a rastu konkurencie vytváranie vzťahov s verejnosťou (PR – Public Relations) nadobudlo pre podniky strategický význam. Komunikačná akcelerácia a šírka komunikačného „zásahu“ v globálnom komunikačnom priestore jednoznačne ovplyvňujú kvalitu podnikateľského mikroprostredia, obchodné podmienky s partnermi a v konečnom dôsledku ovplyvňujú hodnotu samotného podniku. Nová situácia nastoľuje nové požiadavky, tzn. že rozvíjanie vzťahov s verejnosťou si vyžaduje kreatívne postupy, multiplikovanosť zdieľaných komunikačných obsahov, variantné využívanie rozličných komunikačných technológií a nástrojov. Zároveň sa očakáva interaktivita vzťahov a integrovaný vplyv aj v nečakaných krízových situáciách.
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Vplyv komunikácie z hľadiska pôsobenia na zákazníka je ťažko merateľný, jednoznačne však možno konštatovať, že je menej účinný ako v minulosti. Menia sa atribúty utvárajúce komunikačnú silu, prechádzajúcu niekedy do extrému hraničiaceho s komunikačnou agresiou. Vyplýva to z diferencovanosti spoločensky uznávaných hodnôt, individuálnej axiológie súbežne s rastom vzdelanosti a odporom k dirigizmu z akéhokoľvek zdroja. Prúd rôznorodých spoločenských smerovaní celkom prirodzene spôsobuje skokovité a zvlášť individuálne diferencované premeny životných podmienok a tým aj životného štýlu zákazníkov koexistujúcich trhových segmentov a zákazníckych generácií.
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Any instructor of Business English, either with university students, or during training with employees and people from all walks of life wanting to brush and hone their English for Specific Purposes, sooner rather than later, is confronted with the claim that “this is all great, but can you give us some practical advice on how to improve our communication skills in business?” I would consider this to be the main point of appeal for this book – the fact that it actually showcases practical advice on how to deal with all sorts of issues arising in communication acts in the context of business.
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This study examines a hundred years since the first journalists’ congress in Romania (1922). The event was a prominent one, due to the debate topics, through the presence of representative participants, and through the projects that were initiated. Freedom of expression, journalists’ relations with political entities, the necessity to unite all professional organizations in a federation, in order to resist the tendencies of political parties to legislate the press, the professional training of journalists –these are some of the topics of the congress.
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