Keywords: Moldova; sovereignity; Kremlin; narratives; communication; information; media; propaganda; Russia; EU; Romania; NATO;
This chapter describes four Kremlin narratives that are hostile to Moldovan sovereignty, namely ’Russkii Mir and Soviet Nostalgia’, ‘Federalization Will Ensure Equality’, ‘The European Union is Bad, Russia’s Customs Union is What You Need’, and ‘Romania and NATO are a Threat to Peace’. These narratives overlap and are often contradictory and contain lies. Still, they share some basic principles—they leverage Moldovan vulnerabilities, touch the emotions of different local audiences, and attempt to develop mistrust toward modern Western countries and Trans-Atlantic values and relationships.
More...Keywords: Imperative-attributive emotions; Norms; Society; State; Orders; Attitude Being; Law;
Traditional theories, as normative, sociological and psychological,explain the nature and essence of Law by way is not wrong, so the way these theories explain the Law is correct, but only in part by they explain the Law.That’s mean these theories are particular and not comprehensive.By Psychological theory of Law Petrazicky, imperative – attributive emotions makes the Law. According to George Gurvitch's Sociological theory,the normative fact is every manifestation of social reality and according to Kelzen's normative theory the Law is content only of orders of state.We think, all of this theories, represent some reduction of Law. The Law is impossible to reduce on way this theories explain it especial. The Law is possible to receive only on way of wholeness. That’s mean, the Law is contented not from facts this theories especial find as Law, then in facts of all this theories.
More...Keywords: bibliotherapy; poetry therapy; therapeutic reading; therapeutic writing; mental health; emotional wellbeing; person-centred approach
This chapter aims to give a general overview of the theoretical and practical background of person-centred group biblio/poetry therapy, and introduces the ‘Pécs School’ (Hungary) which represents this field. The author summarizes some opportunities of biblio/poetry therapy offered to different target groups, facilitated by professionals trained in Pécs. This work is based on books and other text-like materials used as mental health tools to spark interactive and (self)reflective reading, writing, and discussion that promote personal growth, and improve positive outcomes for people of various gender and age groups in different social contexts, living with mental health and emotional wellbeing issues.
More...Keywords: Social Network Analysis; Twitter; UK; high education;
The rate of use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn has increased drastically over the last decade. Twitter is the eighth most popular website in the world, with an average of nearly eleven million hits a day. Twitter may be used for synchronous and asynchronous online conversations, asking and answering questions, and sharing opinions, ideas, and resources. Twitter also offers a platform for quick communication that could play a role as a catalyst for the learning process. This paper presents an investigation into the use of the Twitter social media platform by selected top universities in UK. Twitter data from that account in the 1-year period was captured. First was coded, the total number of tweets, like ranking, usable (non-spam) tweets, the number of retweeted, hashtags and tweets on the official Twitter accounts of selected universities. In this study, NodeXL program was visualized and analyzed by drawing the data from Twitter. As such data sets of no more than 2,500 tweets were gathered for each search topic. After 60 years of experience with computer-based text analysis approaches can be used to define rule-based classification, theme extraction, ontology/taxonomy modeling, topic categorization and document summarization. Statistics (degree and weighted degree, centrality statistics, network diameter, graph density, average path length) were then calculated for each node and for the network using the statistical module of NodeXL. The data were visualized using Fruchterman-Reingold and Harel-Koren Fast Multiscale algorithms as shown in the figures below. The implications of this finding are discussed
More...Keywords: discursive analysis;autobiographical narratives;prison camp literature
More...Keywords: personal experience;perception;geographical images;national curriculum in geography;geography course books
The research spectrum of spatial experiences and perception in geography is very wide – from freehand sketches, by testing images and attitudes towards the environmentor social phenomena, to the issues of people’s emotional connection and identification with different areas, especially with the place of residence. Investigating places through personal experiences may be an important element of geographical education programs, showing that they are interpreted by modern geographers very broadly and as multidimensional phenomena. The article identifies and compares the place and importance of the issues concerning personal experiences, perception and images of places in geographical education in Poland and England.
More...Keywords: The Elephant Man; David Lynch; clinical gaze; cinema; medicine; freak show; deformed body; horror; pornography; body genres
A large part of David Lynch’s oeuvre centres around corporeal anxieties and grotesque, divergent bodies drawing attention to their own biological nature. One such example is the 1980 feature The Elephant Man, focusing on John Merrick, a freak show performer severely afflicted with a disfiguring disease. The film juxtaposes key characters in the film and moves between their different perspectives: that of Merrick, a freak show performer; Doctor Treves, a man of science; Bytes, an entertainer; and finally, a number of peripheral observers from both the high and low classes of Victorian society. The titular Elephant Man’s disfigured body becomes the object of spectacle both in a freak show and in a medical lecture theatre. This paper compares scenes presenting Merrick’s body as an exhibit and argues that Lynch draws parallels between the domain of sensational entertainment (Merrick as a carnival monster) and scientific analysis (Merrick as a medical specimen). In this way, the film highlights the similarities between the perception of the body in those two seemingly incongruous discourses. I suggest that the exhibition of a monstrous body in The Elephant Man, both in the context of a sideshow and Victorian medical lecture, are consciously theatrical.
More...Keywords: international migration; research; methodology; Southern Mexico; gender; women; ethnographic case study;
An ethnographic case study approach to understanding women’s actions and reactions to husbands’ emigration or potential emigration offers a distinct set of challenges to a U.S. based researcher. International migration research in a foreign context likely offers challenges in language, culture, lifestyle, as well as potential gender norm impediments. A mixed methods approach contributed to successfully overcoming barriers through an array of research methods, strategies, and tactics, as well as practicing flexibility in data gathering methods. Even this researcher’s influence on the research was minimized and alleviated, to a degree, through ascertaining common ground with many of the women. Research with the women of San Juan Guelavía, Oaxaca, Mexico offered numerous and constant challenges, each overcome with ensuing rewards.
More...Keywords: Lola and Billy the Kid; cinematography; LGBT; gender;
In societies, the concept of "biological sex" has been used to describe male and female genders. In this case, which points to a dual system, LGBT (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender) individuals are considered as disadvantaged groups and are pushed out of norm, based on heteronormative norms. In the heteronormative society model, LGBT individuals are characterized by many prejudicial expressions such as "perverted", "pervert", "diseased". In this structure, LGBT individuals, labeled as "the other", can face life and rights violations, along with their isolation from the public space.
More...Keywords: war; migration; family; transnationality; Turkish-German families; insider viewpoint;
The destructive effects of the Second World War, which resulted in great loss and suffering in the not so distant past, still has an important place in the lives of countless people living in different geographical locations. German families constitute a population whose members witnessed the bitter outcomes of the war in no small measure. War-related memories of families have been handed down from generation to generation up to the present day. Despite many of the generation who actually lived through the war preferring to erase the traces of it from their day to day lives, their children and even their grandchildren have taken on board this memory (Koçyiğit, 2016).
More...Keywords: articulation; metaphor; metaphtonymy; metonymy; sign; signed languages; source domain;vehicle;
The paper assumes the cognitive linguistic perspective and illustrates patterns of similarity in the expression of figurative meanings on the lexical levels of phonic and signed languages. Major types of metaphors, metonymies, and some forms of metaphor-metonymy interaction are present in both these systems of communication. While in phonic languages the source domains of metaphors and the vehicles of metonymies usually operate on the level of words or expressions, their signed counterparts can be traced only to selected articulation parameters of individual signs. In spite of this fundamental structural difference, figurative meanings in the languages of the deaf are as pervasive as in phonic communication.
More...Keywords: Postmemory; book; emotions of readership
Memory is used in literature as „the guarantee of the genuineness” of events. Due to this fact, it happens to be used as a tool of indoctrinating the reader: relying on their own or generational memory, writers valorise some facts and ignore or diminish the role of others. A book as a form of transferring memory has been discredited. The only literary way to pass down to the younger generation the truth about the experiences of the older generation is by unleashing the emotions of readership.
More...Keywords: migration;a radio feature;the other;philosophy of dialogue;use of sound
Following its latest intensification in 2015, the migrant crisis has become one of the most prevalent topics in media. Over the months, the overflow of reports led to public indifference towards refugees’ struggles. The migrants – stereotypically perceived as aliens – were to be treated as expendable and useless, which resulted in growing tensions and social division on the subject. The author of this article intends to prove that a feature, especially a radio one can be one of the ways to encourage dialogue between cultures. Following the thoughts of Ryszard Kapuściński and Emmanuel Levinas, the author claims that encountering “The Other” is amongst the most important challenges of the 21st century. The three radio features analyzed in the article seem to validate the medium of radio as one that may be a way to fight ‘globalized passivity’.
More...Keywords: media theory of reading; reading studies; preliteracy; family reading culture; reading environment
This paper revises the category of the emergent reader in the light of the media theory of reading. The purpose is to find a solution to the long-occurring problems of the readers from the age of the television and the digital age, among which are easier reading refusal,reading incomprehension and susceptibility to manipulation when reading. Methods: Systematic and critical analysis was applied to the studies of the new theory of the First Thousand Days of Life, as well as to the effects of the preliteracy and emergent literacy programs. We also took into account the findings and the recommendations for future research on the developing readers,formulated in the “Stavanger Declaration Concerning the Future of Reading” published in January 2019. The results show that reading foundations are laid much earlier before it was ever thought – a circumstance that is underestimated by parents, politicians, educators and even researchers.Taking into account the increasing risks in the global reading medium, we propose the development of policies for expert trainings on “future image” of the child, professional mentor son home and family reading and personal tutors for reading culture.
More...Keywords: oral history; narrative analysis; Rwandan genocide memories;
April to June every year, Rwandans commemorate the 1994 genocide. Extensive oral historical narratives are brought to life. Under the Aegis Trust for the prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity, stories are re-enacted and shared. Narratives of memories are seen as instruments to heal historical trauma. Rwanda has since moved from ravages of the genocide to political and economic stability. Although, Rwanda records a history of ethnic killings and near genocide from 1950s, it is the 1994 genocide that rocked its fabric of peace. Des Forges (2007) argues the genocide was not an outburst of uncontrolled rage of ethnic hatred, but a discontent to historical grievances and widening economic disparities between the Hutu elites and Rwandan poor. To suppress dissent, state and militia extremists planned and orchestrated the genocide. After the genocide, an International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was set up to try suspects. It was supplemented with Gacaca courts - a modified traditional conflict resolution system. In this paper, I aim to analyse oral history as a qualitative methodology. The narratives archived on video recount how Rwandans heal the genocide trauma through remembering. According to Moyer (1993) oral history involves a systematic gathering of testimonies of people who have experienced a significant event. It is not based on non-factual information, rather on verifiable facts that can be analyzed and placed in accurate historical contexts. This paper will adapt an oral historical narrative analysis of video testimonies from the Aegis Trust.
More...Keywords: aesthetics;shame;contemporary Polish literature;experience
This article focuses on literary approaches to the emotion of shame. My thesis is that literature can be perceived as a tool for overcoming feelings of shame, as it is capable of expressing even the most intimate human experiences in aesthetic terms, outside stereotypical moral judgments. From this perspective I discuss exhibitionistic tendencies on the author’s part and complementary voyeuristic impulses on the part of the reader. In this context I then consider the phenomenon of literary provocation and its function to then analyse two examples from Polish contemporary literature: Polka by M. Gretkowska – a literary journal of pregnancy – and Lovetown by M. Witkowski. Both, in my opinion, offer interesting aesthetic views on intimate but relevant aspects of everyday life.
More...Keywords: liberature;aisthesis;aesthetic experience;polysensory perception
This article proposes to inspect the phenomenon of liberature from the perspective of the reconfiguration of aisthesis, as described by Wolfgang Welsch. In the German researcher’s approach, this consists in questioning the primacy of vision in favour of other senses, and is, first of all, an effect of the dominance of the media. However, in a broader approach towards the reasons of transformations, aisthesis must be looked for in phenomena that are summarised in the formula of “new aesthetics”, as proposed by Arnold Berleant. One of the significant features of this concept is the constant expansion of the area of art and the appearance of forms that stimulate the audience’s experience, requiring the activation of new sensory receptors. Without a doubt, liberature is one of those forms of art that requires interactivity and a special involvement. Being a unique example of the co-existence of various types of messages (verbal, iconic and material), liberature requires a polysensory perception. This, in turn, can be a source of aesthetic satisfaction, but also a reason for an impoverishment of the aesthetic experience spanning between aisthesis and anaisthesis.
More...Keywords: fake news; security culture; threat; risk; vulnerability; counter-action;
The reality of the current century is shaping new security challenges. Spectacular changesin terms of technological progress, the ubiquity of digital technologies, the digital revolution,the global digital order, the constantly increasing importance of digital platforms, the speed atwhich information is transmitted, the algorithmization of personal life, the power to direct andchange public opinion, are only a few features of the 21st century.With this evolution, threats, risk factors and current vulnerabilities of each state havereached new states of manifestation. In this context, the fake news phenomenon has thepotential to influence the attitude and change the perception of entire audience segments.A first step in combating this phenomenon is to familiarize the population with thisconcept that is rapidly becoming a threat. Building a strong security culture and identifyingvulnerabilities constitute important steps in establishing a good foundation for a secureenvironment.
More...Keywords: holocaust;cultural memory;art history;
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