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The preface provides an overview of the main topics discussed in the volume dedicated to the Challenges in English teaching and research.
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The preface provides an overview of the main topics discussed in the volume dedicated to the Challenges in English teaching and research.
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The article provides a brief overview of the socio-educational functions of Facebook by examining some ethno-psychological aspects associated with the stereotypes and hate speech in Bulgaria. The focus is on discriminatory practices in Facebook and its consumption and the use of social media by public institutions, in education, business and civic organizations. The article used examples from the Bulgarian practice and scientific articles and materials.
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“Media Economics” by Petranka Fileva, Prof., Dr. of Soc. Sc. – book review
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(Няколко думи за книгата на Ралица Ковачева „Център и периферия на европеизираните публични сфери”)
‘Centre and Periphery of the Europeanised Public Spheres’ by Ralitsa Kovacheva – book review
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The paper is a theoretical account of human capacity for reflexive conscious experience. The conceptual background of the topic is shaped by the empiricism – rationalism debate initiated by R. Descartes and J. Locke. The contemporary background inherited the positions in the old controversy. Next an original view on reflexivity is proposed. It is summarized in 11 theses. The main idea is the organization of the reflexive situation around a reflexive Self. The latter is composed of two parts – active spontaneous “I” and a passive content “me”. Both are shifting fast as fast phases of a full Self. The Self is internally reflexive. The Self is responsively reflective to the rest of the situation. Thus reflexivity is doubled. This subjective amplification makes reflexive feelings “stereoscopic”. Self-centered situations become intensely detailed due to the reflective attitude and it makes it viewed in a new way. In the report the prototypic reflexive situation is discussed.The latter is constituted by the meaning context, experienced by the Self of the individual in a specific socio-cultural setting. A vast variety of reflexive patterns may be comprehended by arrangement around a prototype. Personal reflexivity is prototypic. The other reflexive states share partially properties of personal reflexive experience. Complex volitions are constituted by personal reflection. For the alleviation of the coordination going on, the Self relies on rules, specific affordances, performing a number of functions – instrumental, defining, criterial, etc. Rules are designed to master a particular situation in which the Self, meaning and setting also converge. The very mastering of situations of cognitive or existential-value nature leads to the acquisition of reflexive skills, first supported by rules. Later the rules are implicitly felt or become habits. Rules are important didactic means in the educational reflexive practice. Therefore they should be known about their didactic applications.
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The paper presents data from interviews conducted in 2006–2007 with four repre- sentatives of the Prague street art and graffiti scene who worked in the Czech capital city at the beginning of the 2000s. Part of the article deals with creative activities in the Prague subway where most of the interviewed authors created their works. The author thus offers the perspective of the authors of the Prague street art and graffiti scenes and presents their view of the (il)legal works of art from around ten years ago in the context of the current discourse in social sciences. Over the last twenty years, this discourse has evolved to such an extent that it now enables to see the phenome- non of urban public works of art as a phenomenon full of paradoxes. Graffiti and street art therefore cannot be interpreted only from the point of view of legality or the art of resistance. Their definition must remain sufficiently open, since certain ambivalence, contradiction and ghostliness are characteristic of it equally as of life in a modern global city that is inherently tied to it.
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Les photographies documentaires, mais aussi les photographies de presse, font appel à des femmes démunies en tant que personnages appropriés aux différents types d'illustrations de maux sociaux. L’attention portée à la situation précaire d’innombrables femmes devient un aspect récurrent chaque fois qu’il faut faire face à la précarité et à la pauvreté. Dans ce texte, nous observons comment les person-nages féminins sont décrits à partir d’une étude comparative des deux régimes: l’information et le documentaire. Nous avons cherché à comprendre comment leurs modes d'enregistrement permettent des expériences visuelles distinctes, ce qui attes-terait des changements dans leurs formes de représentation et de figuration dans la culture visuelle, mais principalement dans la manière dont ces femmes apparaissent. *** Documentary photographs, but also photographs of the press, refer to impoverished women as characters appropriate to the different types of illustration of social ills. The focus on the precarious situation of countless women becomes a recurrent aspect whenever one must deal with precariousness and poverty. In this text we observe how female characters are portrayed from a comparative study between two photographic regimes: the informative and the documentary. We sought to understand how their modes of representation and figuration enable distinct visual experiences, which would attest to changes in their forms of representation in the visual culture, but mainly in the ways these women appear.
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Coverage of the problem of human trafficking in the media: content analysis of materials of editions of Russian Federation
The mass media is a powerful and important instrument in the process of combating such a serious problem of the 21st century, as human trafficking. Covering this topic demands from representatives of journalism profession on having special experience and approaches, because it is connected with the process of difficult conversation with victims and accomplices of trafficking. It is on the one hand, but on the other hand – it is relative with intercourse with the representatives of law enforcement and power structures. Additionally, there is a row of characteristics and specifies of work with the sources of information, about which every journalist must be aware who is specializing on this topic, that was considered here. The article demonstrates the content analysis of these factors at the example of the materials of such newspapers and magazines of Russia as “Ogonyok” (“Light”), “Argumenti i fakti” (“Arguments and facts”), “Mir novostey” (“World of news”), “Migraciya XXI vek” (“Migration XXI century”) for 2009-2017 which were selected by the author.
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Le deuil au sein d’une communauté d’amateurs
This paper focuses on the specificity of interactions in a group of mourning created within a community of amateurs in a sociodigital network. it allows to observe that on the creation of a post-mortem digital identity of thedeceased constituting at the discretion of tributes is articulated with emphasis ofmemories, thoughts and affects also participating to the presentation of themselves and the bereaved. The comparison of the main results of analysis of this group with those of 4 other groups without community link, highlights that, in spite of the fame of the deceased, the collective dimension of the identity is more at stake than the individual dimension when the mourning is made within a community. *** Cet article s’intéresse à la spécificité des interactions ayant lieu dans le cadre d’un groupe de deuil créé au sein d’une communauté d’amateurs sur un réseausocionumérique. Il permet d’observer que la création d’une identité numérique postmortemdu défunt se constituant au gré des hommages s’articule avec la mise enavant de souvenirs, pensées et affects participant également de la présentation quefont d’eux-mêmes les endeuillés. La comparaison des principaux résultats d’analysede ce groupe avec ceux de 4 autres groupes sans lien communautaire fait ressortirque, en dépit de la notoriété du défunt, la dimension collective de l’identité est davantage en jeu que la dimension individuelle lorsque le deuil s’effectue au sein d’une communauté.
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Communication Practices in Asylum Seekers Reception Centres: from Information Precarity to Voluntary Return
This article focuses on the complex communication constructed betweenthe Belgian Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil)and asylum seekers: what do they say to asylum seekers? Why and how? Beyond themessage, it is the relation of communication (Wolton, 2018) between receptionauthorities and asylum seekers that is explored through the analysis of communicationduring the reception phase. As a consequence of the communication to asylumseekers’ being hardly visible (Van Neste-Gottignies & Mistiaen, 2018), they arefound to experience “information precarity” (Wall, Otis Campbell & Janbek, 2015).Although the “invisibility” of reception discourses seems to prevail, there is an exception:communication regarding voluntary return programmes. This article aimsspecifically to deeply understand this communicational practice to asylum seekers:what does it contain? Beyond the content: what different forms does it take? Why isFedasil communication on voluntary return to asylums seekers predominant? Theanalysis takes into account the complexity and variety of mediums of communication,from mediated forms of communication to face-to-face interactions. To studypractices, a corpus linguistics analysis is combined with field survey methods in aBelgian asylum seekers reception centre.
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Over the last few years a conservative wave has been unfolding in Bulgarian media. It affects many aspects of content and attacks primarily liberal and left-wing point of views. The text analyses the topless pictures on Page 3 of the largest Bulgarian daily Telegraph as part of this conservative turnover. The pictures claim to be innocent erotica, but the analysis reveals that they are part of a widely spread sexism of the newspaper. The ideological effects of such form of representation of women are traced. The conservative approach seeks to win the women's consent to their pre-assigned roles in society.
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The research is implemented by fourth year students in Journalism, specialization Radio, at Sofia University. Research team: Genika Grigorova, Greta Grigorova, Dobromir Tsvetkov, Eva Taseva, Katrin Asenova, Kristian Dudekov, Maria Nikolova, Nikolai Sulov, Preslava Marinova, Ralitsa Vasileva, Simona Dafinova, Franchaska Hristova. Computer data processing: Genika Grigorova.
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The article presents results of the research, implemented by fourth year students in Journalism, specialization Radio, at Sofia University. Research team: Veronika Iotova, Evelin Tsaneva, Elena Miteva, Emilia Ilieva, Kaloyan Guglev, Mihaela Simonovska, Natasha Stoichkov, Simona Todorova, Teodor Penev, Flora Velcheva, Tsvetina Ivanova; with the participation of Alexia Petrova, Iliana Pavlova and Momchil Rusev.
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Интервю с Розмари Стателова за новата й книга 'Естрада и социализъм: проблясъци'
Interview with Rosemary Statelova about her new book „Estrada and Socialism: Glimpses“
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Рецензия на книгата на Гергана Райжекова „Невидимият рок. Алтернативната рок сцена в България“
A review of Gergana Rayzhekova’s book “The invisible rock. The alternative rock scene in Bulgaria”
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Conference report on the International academic conference “From word to action: tales and representations”, Sofia University, 02.05-04.05 2019
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Modern society changes in accord with the recent developments in the sphere of information technology and the intensive communications worldwide.E-learning facilitates the access to information sources and enhances the acquisition of knowledge and skills. Additionally, blended learning combines traditional in-person classroom interaction with electronic learning and contributes to the achievement of optimal results in teaching both adults and children. Collaborative learning implemented in an electronic context creates the necessary conditions for the formation of an electronic learning community. Blended learning based on the principles of the action-oriented approach ensures the continuity of the learning process by overcoming the restrictions over the time, the place and the pace of work.
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How to define an identity? As a product of individual or result of social and cultural influences through the ages? One, main and only answer could not exist. Ones identity in post-modern reality will be elusive. From time to time, from information or network to alghorithmic society some new identity concepts have appeared. But it is a fact that the category of identity becames smooth and undefined nowadays. We all have its plural. Technologies of self may be a solution to search for specific identity settings. Looking at actions and attitudes that lead to the realization of the goals and self-improvement, technologies of self represent the modern coordinates of identity formation. The use of analog and digital tools makes it possible to control and characterize the factors forming ones personality. In the end, it is expressed as media practices. This article is an essay to redefine the concept of technologies of self, including digital return during last 20 years. The conclusions are based on the analysis of the author’s qualitative research. The paper presents a short specification of the definitions focused on daily on-line activities and user habits.
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My personal motivation to write this article was a consequence of the “heated discussion” on the occasion of the Istanbul Convention. During the working period it became clear to me the need to include Bulgarian low of protection against domestic violence as well. My analysis is a psychological one, in some places – linguistic, but for sure not a legal one, a field in which I am not qualified. In both documents there are no specific texts that defend children and men as victims of domestic violence compared to many texts specifically dedicated to the protection of women from domestic violence. In my opinion, this violates the equality of citizens according to the Bulgarian Constitution, which are guaranteed regardless of gender, age, ethnicity and religion. In conclusion I suggest a serious information campaign то be held, in which mass media to play a significant role followed by public opinion polling and a new parliamentary debate and voting on the Istanbul Convention.
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