Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).3
M. Kozolup, M. Kokor, Ruslan Savchynskyi
Communication, both written and oral, as the key to academic and professional success has received much scholarly attention in the academic communities of Western Europe and North America. However, in the Eastern European educational scene, teaching academic communication, especially academic writing, in institutions of higher education has been largely neglected for a long time. This research attempts to look at academic writing practices at two universities in Ukraine and Poland from the students’ perspectives. The survey conducted among students pursuing master’s degrees in education and pedagogy at both universities aimed to reveal their attitudes, beliefs and opinions in three domains: cognitive, social and affective. The results lead to some important inferences: students’ exposure to academic writing is insufficient; the potential of writing as a learning tool is not fully understood; students’ awareness of academic integrity is rather low. The tendencies observed across institutions are mostly similar with occasional significant differences.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).10
László Petrovszki
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Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).2
W. Ejaz
The present study investigates the relationship between people’s preference of either traditional or online media for news consumption, credibility evaluation of media and their sense of European identity. In order to do so, the study draws on the Social Identity Theory and the findings of social psychologists which situate European identity a concept that corresponds to an individuals’ subjective assignment to a collective and their affective and evaluative attachment to it. The analysis based on Eurobarometer survey data reveals that preferences of both online and traditional media for political news positively affects European identity. However, such an effect is dependent on people’s pre-existing attitudes towards the EU and if they perceive the media to be neutral and credible.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).8
G. Mazzoleni, Agnieszka Stępińska
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Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).1
Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska, M. Kisilowska, Tomasz Baran, Aleksander Wysocki, Justyna Jasiewicz
Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) is a growing problem that arouses interest from scientists, media and recipients. Therefore, finding a universal way to calculate the scale of the phenomenon can not only become a common tool for estimating the extent of FOMO occurrence in any country, but also can be considered for managing this phenomenon. The article presents the results of measuring the FOMO scale in Poland in 2018. The project applied a Computer Assisted Web Interview survey of the representative sample (N=1060) of Poland’s internet users aged 15 years plus. Three groups of ‘FOMO level’ characteristics were determined (age was the most influential variable). The original method of recalculation of the FOMO scale results from figures to percentage data was developed in order to present the FOMO scale index. The FOMO items showed good internal consistency and reliability Cronbach’s α = .89, thus complementing previous international studies.
错失恐惧症(Fear Of Missing Out,简称FOMO)是一个日益严重的问题,引起了科学家、媒体和接受者的兴趣。因此,寻找一种通用的方法来计算这种现象的规模,不仅可以成为估计FOMO在任何国家发生程度的通用工具,而且可以考虑管理这种现象。本文介绍了2018年波兰FOMO量表的测量结果。该项目对15岁以上的波兰互联网用户的代表性样本(N=1060)进行了计算机辅助网络访谈调查。确定了三组“FOMO水平”特征(年龄是影响最大的变量)。最初的FOMO量表结果从数字到百分比数据的重新计算方法是为了呈现FOMO量表指数。FOMO项目具有良好的内部一致性和信度,Cronbach’s α = .89,与国际上已有的研究相辅相成。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).9
S. Gálik
The aim of this paper is to examine the monograph titled Thinking in the Network (2018), written by Miroslav Marcelli. The monograph is a contribution to a better understanding of the phenomenon of collective intelligence that is formed under the influence of new digital media, and one that could help us solve national or global problems. Marcelli emphasizes that collective intelligence needs to be cultivated. The author agrees and adds that it may be a new evolution of humanity, because the cognitive abilities have to adapt to collective thinking under the influence of digital media and communication in the cyberspace.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).7
Ignas Kalpokas
As today’s communicative acts are usually irrevocably tied with digital technology, it is important to better understand the resulting ontological and epistemological shifts. The central claim of this article is that humans can no longer be the prime referents of research, either as pure communicators or pure audiences. Instead, research must become sensitive to relational agential flows, whereby different entities interact within ontologically flat agglomerations. For this purpose, the article develops a posthumanist account of the research process that explicitly rejects traditional anthropocentric assumptions in favor of an egalitarian framework that emphasizes relationality and, therefore, constant multidirectional change without linear paths of causation.
{"title":"Agglomerations, Relationality, and In-betweenness: Re-learning to Research Agency in Digital Communication","authors":"Ignas Kalpokas","doi":"10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).7","url":null,"abstract":"As today’s communicative acts are usually irrevocably tied with digital technology, it is important to better understand the resulting ontological and epistemological shifts. The central claim of this article is that humans can no longer be the prime referents of research, either as pure communicators or pure audiences. Instead, research must become sensitive to relational agential flows, whereby different entities interact within ontologically flat agglomerations. For this purpose, the article develops a posthumanist account of the research process that explicitly rejects traditional anthropocentric assumptions in favor of an egalitarian framework that emphasizes relationality and, therefore, constant multidirectional change without linear paths of causation.","PeriodicalId":40610,"journal":{"name":"Central European Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44213865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).11
Paulina Barczyszyn-Madziarz
{"title":"Anders Hansen, David Machin (2019). Media and Communication Research Methods. London: Red Globe Press; 2nd Ed., 314 pp., ISBN: 978-1-137-52824-7.","authors":"Paulina Barczyszyn-Madziarz","doi":"10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40610,"journal":{"name":"Central European Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42308286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.13.3(27).5
Aleksandra Galus
The paper offers an analysis of media assistance, as a specific form of foreign aid, that Poland offers to strengthen media development in Belarus and Ukraine. It shows if Poland tailors media assistance according to the local context and existing challenges for democratic changes of recipient countries’ media systems. The study builds on the literature concerning the media, development and democratization, in particular looking at media assistance as both democratic aid and public diplomacy. It reveals that Poland’s approaches to media development in Belarus and Ukraine do differ: Poland mainly provides autocratic Belarus with technical support for media established outside of that country, while clearly focusing on media capacity development in democratizing Ukraine. The findings show that Polish media assistance, however, is unlikely to boost media freedom in Belarus as is usually expected as an outcome of democratic aid and is under-financed in the case of Ukraine.
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