Działania „neopozorne”. Uwagi na temat przeobrażeń komunikowania publicznego i życia naukowego
“Neo-apparent” actions. Some remarks on changes of public communication and academic life

Summary/Abstract: The times of “real socialism” have abounded with apparent actions in Jan Lutynski’s sense. It seemed after 1989 that such changes as political democratization, marketization of economy and introduction of the principle of publicity into the public sphere should yield a gradual marginalization of apparent actions. Instead, there are still plenty of apparent actions in Polish social life, even if their sources, mechanisms and functions have partly changed. The article refers to the two areas where apparent actions are particularly intense. In the fields of science and higher education, a number of detrimental and usually tabooed fictions have cumulated, especially in the domain of research, publications and mass education. The sphere of mass media, journalism, public debates and shaping of public opinion contains equally destructive illusions. Recent tendencies in apparent actions urge a theoretical reflection on apparent communication and apparent knowledge, and help to single out “neo-apparent” actions.

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