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Often, communication is defined as a particular form of the exchange relationships between two or more persons, two or more groups. Iassessment or solving of problems, but sharing one's own feelings, the effort to know and understand the other and the cooperation in finding a mutually satisfactory solution. Communication is a dynamic act; it's the gateway between two interior worlds. Effective communication also means the public expression of feelings and emotions. Expressing an emotion allows us to acknowledge it and to recognize ourselves in it. This study proposes to identify the style of communication, to emphasize the intensity of the religious feeling of the participants in the study, as well as their opinion regarding the need to discharge their emotions in the challenging periods of life. This research is, therefore, a necessary step, a good argument in order to raise awareness for the need for communication, and a condition for mobilizing resources in view of this approach. The survey was carried out on a sample of 120 persons, using as instruments the S.C. questionnaire (Analysis of the style of communication), the questionnaire for the assessment of religious feeling (C.E.S.R.), the questionnaire of investigation of the need to discharge one's emotions. The action of listening is an element to which the approaches of the communication phenomenon can no longer only grant a place in the area of interaction, as it can moreover provide perspectives on the size of the relationship and of the interaction itself. One of the limits of this research can be found in the reduced number of participants in the study. Researches to this respect might continue by using a representative sample, by which we could be able to determine to what extent the results show a characteristic of our society by comparison with Western ones and to what extent can we speak about cultural and mentality differences in this respect.Often, communication is defined as a particular form of the exchange relationships between two or more persons, two or more groups. It does not mean assessment or solving of problems, but sharing one's own feelings, the effort to know and understand the other and the cooperation in finding a mutually satisfactory solution. Communication is a dynamic act; it's the gateway between two interior worlds. Effective communication also means the public expression of feelings and emotions. Expressing an emotion allows us to acknowledge it and to recognize ourselves in it. This study proposes to identify the style of communication, to emphasize the intensity of the religious feeling of the participants in the study, as well as their opinion regarding the need to discharge their emotions in the challenging periods of life. This research is, therefore, a necessary step, a good argument in order to raise awareness for the need for communication, and a condition for mobilizing resources in view of this approach. The survey was carried out on a sample of 120 persons, using as instruments the S.C. questionnaire (Analysis of the style of communication), the questionnaire for the assessment of religious feeling (C.E.S.R.), the questionnaire of investigation of the need to discharge one's emotions. The action of listening is an element to which the approaches of the communication phenomenon can no longer only grant a place in the area of interaction, as it can moreover provide perspectives on the size of the relationship and of the interaction itself. One of the limits of this research can be found in the reduced number of participants in the study. Researches to this respect might continue by using a representative sample, by which we could be able to determine to what extent the results show a characteristic of our society by comparison with Western ones and to what extent can we speak about cultural and mentality differences in this respect.
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The society is made up of individuals and mirrored by the relationsbetween them. The society is not a simple sum of people, but a network ofconnections among them, the resources they use and the results of theseinteractions. The social interaction is based on social exchange. The object of theindividuals’ exchange can be: information, material objects, activities, psychologicalsupport, emotional feelings etc. When people share information or show supportthey are actually communicating. Therefore people need to communicate in ordernot to feel isolated. Transmitting and receiving information makes them know,analyze, make decisions and, especially, feel accepted. The quality of interpersonalcommunication is given by the way individuals are able to code and decode themessages they send and receive. Sometimes, when there’s a misinterpretation of amessage, the natural cooperation between individuals turns into competition. Thecompetition is conducted according to certain rules and competitors must comply.The reason is that the rules justify the respect for certain values which are superiorto the interests of those who compete. But when competition gets rough it caneasily turn into conflict. In this particularly case, using communication can solve theconflict.
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In this paper, the author, starting from literature, makes a brief analysis of political communication and message transmission during the election campaign via the Internet in general, and through social media in particular. The power of new technologies to mobilize the electorate has been proven in US election campaigns from 2008 when Barak Obama used them with great success, but also in Romania’s presidential campaign in November 2014 when Klaus Iohannis became president as a result of using the social network Facebook. In the short period since it began to be used in political communication, the Internet has managed to transform the way in which politicians, political parties, government organizations, but especially the media and, not least, the citizen acts.
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The presented study dwells on the issue of game theory by Roger Caillois to be applied to the contemporary dimension of digital games. The actual attempt is to find out the extent to which the game principle categories apply to media products, i.e. digital games. The paradigms by authors engaged in cultural anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, besides others, served as key theoretical groundwork for the present paper. Nevertheless, the theories concluded within media study addressing the game and game principles in contemporary society have not been excluded either. In essence, the theoretical reflection introduces the basic terminology axis creating an apt platform for the game variants in use, to perform within the forms of new reality, i. e. virtual reality. The primary aim is to define elementary concepts like “game”, “game principles”, “media or virtual space”, “digital game”, and “game genres”. Secondary is then to explicate certain game principles designated by Roger Caillois present in the particular game. Material to be applied for this study ranks among the genre of action games. “Action game” particularly is a digital genre that belongs to frequent genre types as well as RPG games, strategy and others. Drawing from this fact, one of the actual digital games called Mafia III was chosen for empirical study. The main purpose of the paper is through logical analysis to illustrate the issue of games, and subsequently point out the cases of their occurrence in the media space. Theoretical postulates by Roger Caillois are by author assumed to be potentially applicable to the current media reality of digital games that come under action genres.
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A review of the book ‚Monologue or dialogue? The controversial world in the lens of global television‘ by Maria Neikova, ‚St. Kliment Ohridski‘ University Press.
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Although the European migrant crisis has not finished, it is rarely on the front pages, with only occasional reminders that it is still present. In this way, the stories of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers remained out of public focus, although they were numerous in time when the crisis was at its peak. By using quantitative and qualitative content analysis, the authors researched the ways in which migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are highlighted as individuals on the front pages of Serbian daily newspapers (Politika, Danas, Večernje novosti, Blic, Kurir, Alo and Informer) between the beginning of 2015 and the end of the first half of 2018, as well as how the image about them in this context was upgraded, confirmed or changed. During the research, two directions were clearly noticed - indicating a humanitarian character on the one hand and a security aspect on the other. The results also point to the difference between the dominant narratives in the tabloids and in the quality press. Unlike the sensationalist discourse in tabloids, mixed with fear and panic, or a quick excitement of the readers, quality press is developing the human aspect of the migrant crisis, with elements of critical research.
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12th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference (CEECOM 2019), from 19th to 21st June, 2019. The focus of CEECOM 2019 was the strategic and practical aspects of managing communications, thus establishing a wide interdisciplinary foundation for works in the field of communication, media studies and political sciences. The aim of organizations was to bring together a number of scholars with diverse backgrounds to exchange ideas regarding the present and the future of communication endeavors.
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The article examines the essence of the term „design“, which is increasingly used in scientific publications on didactics. The position to be defended here is related to the transformations in the theory of learning and the expanding influence on the role of situativity in the realization of the teacher-student interaction. The communication between them is related to the expertise in which the complex relationships between strategic thinking and action lead to the emergence of the „learning“ reality. Particularly important features of the design are creativity and perfectionality. Thanks to them, the teacher designs the training course in full and provides various scenarios for the course. In this respect, the knowledge and use of learning theories is an important prerequisite for the realization of the design approach to teaching.
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What happens when the genre you are developing dies? What happens with the Estrada musicians when the whole industry of socialist Estrada entertainment dies with the abandonment of the word ‘Estrada’? The text summarizes the results from a research of 10 newspapers, 2 online publications and the so called music reality TV shows on Nova TV and bTV as well as ‘The best years of our lives’ show on BNT in the period 1990 – 2017. The music contests add another category which the contestants abide by: ‘we must be proud as nation’ – the country is not doing well, but we are a nation of talented singers. The main results show that the musicians recreate this specific ‘national mystical language’ as Milena Iakimova defined it (Iakimova, 2011:76). The fault for the state of the Estrada music after 1990 is in ‘our own media’ which don’t play their music. Patriotism is seen as a main strategy for their role on the stage of the folk entertainment.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neuro-developmental disorder that starts in childhood and has a persistent pattern of behaviour involving lack of attention and/or hyperactivity-impulsiveness that interferes in social, academic or work processes, or reduces the quality of them. Through activities with games, children and adolescents improve memory, concentration, motor planning and time management skills. According to some studies these may present positive effects for the attention span, executive functions, working memory and other cognitive skills. However, there are few studies that explain their effects. This paper presents a systematic mapping study and underlines the direction taken by the empirical studies undertaken on the use of digital games in treating ADHD and ADD. A total of 12 articles, covering 2005 to 2015, were selected. The research questions behind the study were: RQ1 What particular characteristics have been investigated by researchers?; RQ2 What research methods have been used?; and RQ3 On which game has the study on ADD-ADHD been focused?. There are studies are focused on the risk of addiction, increased attention deficit or behaviour problems and studies evaluating the improvement in executive functions, reduction in hyperactivity and motivation. The research methods used were experimental and exploratory methods. Finally, the digital games are analyzed without distinguishing between the genres and theme of the game.
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This article looks for an answer to the questions how specific media and musical texts and figures (scripts, shows, songs, singers, hosts) are perceived by the audience, i.e. reception. How power narratives, reflected in media and music, and power media practices take on a life of their own, outside of media context and channels from top to bottom – folklorization. How low media-musical idioms, which can be in dissonance with the official ones, flourish from the bottom to the top. Several cases related to the media reception of folk singers (Petkana Zaharieva, Mita Stoycheva, Gyurga Pindzhurovа) and their newly created songs are considered.
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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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The article analyzes the news about the Euro-Atlantic integration of the Western Balkan countries on the website of the Bulgarian National Radio from 1999 to 2018. The choice of the Bulgarian National Radio is dictated by its public media function – to offer variety of topics from all over the world. The Radio is among the few media outlets in the country that includes such a rich diversity of foreign news to and from the six countries of the Western Balkans. The purpose of the text is to answer the question which events related to the Euro-Atlantic integration of the region are included in the media agenda and which are not. The conclusions were drawn on the basis of a content analysis of publications on the Radio site during the period and interviews with international editors from the media. Given the large time span of the study, eight key milestones in the Euro-Atlantic integration of the Western Balkan countries were selected
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The present article aims to expose the role that the speech patterns of US President Donald Trump plays in the construction of his own political image as well as his stance on key issues pertaining to US foreign policy. It also makes a brief overview of the research on Trump’s speech patterns and discourse markers. A short analysis is made of the lexical, grammatical and stylistic perculiarities of his official statements on the EU and the relations between the United States and their European partners. The research is based on a range of the president’s media statements published in a number of English-language media outlets made during his tour across the EU and NATO, which reveal the limited vocabulary and imprecise grammar. The theoretical and methodological framework is interdisciplinary and includes political studies, the constructivist paradigm in the theories of international relations and some branches of modern linguistics. А special research interest are the discourse markers of Trump’s statements that are at once a linguistic element and an important component of social relations. The analysis shows Trump’s populist attitude as well as the rearranagment of some foreign policy priorities.
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This paper aims at outlining phonostylistic tendencies with reference to the presentation of Brexit in the Bagehot rubric of The Economist from 2017 to mid-2019. The introductory section offers a theoretical framework according to which sound symbolism is important and indispensable part of language. The next section presents an analysis of the empirical data. The concluding section summarises the empirical results and makes predictions regarding the phonostylistic presentation of Brexit until Britain leaves the EU.
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In this article, the author presents some aspects of the Romanian energy system which undergoes crucial transformations in the conditions of sustainable development. The promotion of energy from renewable resources is one of the challenges currently facing the Romanian economy. Due to the efficient political support so far, the electricity generated by renewable energy already represents a relevant share of 24%. As a result, forced market integration and higher renewable energy supply are considered crucial in the next stages of the transformation process. In the long term, the opportunity of installing new coal and natural gas capacities will be given by the evolution of the prices of the ETS certificates, the necessity of establishing a strategic reserve for the SEN safety, the increase of the demand for electricity, the performance of the installed capacities, of the prices of technologies. Romania is among the 14 EU member states that maintain the option of using nuclear energy and investments in two nuclear power plants. But the energy produced by nuclear power plants can be replaced by electricity obtained from renewable sources with much lower costs under sustainable development conditions.
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In this study the authors surveyed and compared the Central European (Hungarian, Czech and Slovakian) vets’ and farm managers’ opinion on the critical risk factors and effective farm management of Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex (PRDC). From February to May 2014, 39 farm managers (32 from Hungary, 6 from Czechia, 1 from Slovakia) and 37 vets (26 from Hungary, 10 from Czechia, 1 from Slovakia) working on 75 farrow-to-finish swine farms with 82,500 sows were personally questioned about their opinion on the risk factors and successful management factors for PRDC. The findings revealed that lack of effective farm management and the relating prevalent, recurring, operational problems have the most detrimental effect on the PRDC status on the Central-European pig farms. The results show that the vets considered the majority of the PRDC general risk factors (e.g. housing) to be more reasonable than the farm managers, however, the perceptions of the severity of PRDC pathogens showed much more similarity. It can be concluded that the swine farm managers and vets in Central-Europe should more often conduct a systematic farm monitoring to avoid the operational blindness and to better understand the risk factors of PRDC.
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Information aggressors, especially the Russian Federation, are not “reinventing the wheel”. They use existing mechanisms. Journalists and the media, regardless of the provenance, are the first on the “information front” in the war over people’s hearts and minds. They have a choice: ignore or refute this fact or accept their role as a key element in state security and the information space.
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