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  • 2023-05-09
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    Dezinformacja. Instrukcja obsługi

    We use disinformation in all cases and associate it mainly with the media and politics. However, fake news, manipulations and half-truths penetrate various parts of our reality and cause great damage to it. Excessive simplifications contribute to social exclusion, speculation with financial information leads to stock market declines, organized troll groups influence election results, manipulated advertisements rob us of money, and predatory magazines lead to a crisis of science. The more we think that it does not concern us, the easier we fall into the trap of disinformation. That is why it is so important to understand what disinformation really is and what it is not, where it occurs and how to recognize it, what effects it causes and what to do to counteract it. The book consists of 3 parts. The first one systematizes the most important concepts and phenomena related to disinformation, such as fake news, deep and cheapfake, clickbait and hate. The author then discusses various areas and contexts of social life in which disinformation occurs and has an impact: from stereotypes and exclusions, through health, politics, business, media, and science. In this part we can see what happens when we do not care about the quality of information and how easy it is to be manipulated. The third part of the book is devoted to the issue of social responsibility, which in the face of disinformation becomes our challenge but also an opportunity to build a better information ecosystem based on truth.
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  • 2021Peter Lang Publishing Group
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    Plato’s Conception of Justice and the Question of Human Dignity

    This book is the first comprehensive study of Plato’s conception of justice. The universality of human rights and human dignity—recognized as the source of the former—are among the crucial philosophical problems in modern-day legal orders and in contemporary culture in general. If dignity is genuinely universal, then human beings also possessed it in ancient times. Plato not only perceived human dignity, but a recognition of dignity is also visible in his conception of justice, which forms the core of his philosophy. Plato’s Republic is consistently interpreted in the book as a treatise on justice, relating to the individual and not the state. The famous myth of the cave is a story about education taking place in the world here and now. The best activity is not contemplation but acting for the benefit of others. Not ideas but individuals are the proper objects of love. Plato’s philosophy may provide foundations for modern-day human rights protection rather than for totalitarian orders.
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  • 2023-12-08
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    On self-folklorization: folk art in late-socialist-era Poland

    Kencis, Tom
    Bronner, Simon J.
    Seljamaa, Elo-Hanna
    Thirteen international scholars assess the profound impact of Soviet-era movements to study, apply, and perform folklore as a priority in socialist policy-formation and culture-building. Representing generations who lived through and after Soviet occupation, they reflect on the consequences of state-supported promotion of folk arts in a region called the Western Borderlands that include Baltic countries, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Belarus, Romania, and Hungary. In their incisive analyses, authors present original archival materials as well as ethnographic data to understand colonialist support for bottom-up folklore movements and resistance to them. Capping the volume is a timely consideration of Soviet orchestration of folkloristic work on present developments in conflicts of Russia with its neighbors and alignments with Western folkloristics and ethnology.
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