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Political Parties, Elections and Election Systems by Etem Aziri

differences between them. Classification of political parties according to the author, can be based on different criteria ranging from philosophy and political, to the political programs of up to parliamentary ... treatment of political parties as a global phenomenon. In 2004 published the book "Political parties and democracy", while two years "Sociology of political parties" - in modified version. This book differs

Marvel, Star Wars and the Risk of Being a Hero: Social Responsibilities for Transmedia Storytellers in the Age of Collective Journey

In 2018, James Gunn and Chuck Wendig both lost lucrative jobs as storytellers for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and Star Wars, respectively, as a result of their aggressively political social ... political tweet he makes. You’re alienating half your audience and I’m losing interest fast! @MarvelStudios @WaltDisneyCo’ (Sense, 2017). To which Gunn responded: In my years on social networking I have

Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography by Daniel Tanguay

The book ends with concluding remarks of the writer about the whole Leo Strauss’s thought. Although Leo Strauss’s philosophy is very complex especially in terms of so many different titles and ... twentieth century political philosophy but also enable to us with critical outlook about modern political philosophy and its problems. Apart from Introduction, the book consists of four main titles about Leo

Open Literacy: Helen of Troy, Richard Hoggart, Phonic Wars, Greta Thunberg

through new ideas. Videogames are now a political football, both in the US (where they’re blamed for gun crime) and in China (where they’re blamed for childhood myopia). Every new media form has grown up ... shared across demographic borders, and the uses to which it is put. While ‘fake news’, ‘deepfake’ images, hate speech, online trolling and confrontational (‘tribal’) uses of popular media for political

BRAZILIAN NSDI TEN YEARS LATER: CURRENT OVERVIEW, NEW CHALLENGES AND PROPOSITIONS FOR NATIONAL TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING

Cartographic data represents the main and basic component of a Spatial Data Infrastructure. SDI, in turn, has the role of supporting, with strategic information, the most diverse political and

Creativity for sustainable development?

of responsibility and political consumerism, the article explores the creative input of consumers in the zero-waste brand community as a potentially political form of advocacy for sustainable ... framework of depoliticised alternative hedonism than political consumerism. - 1 Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius is a PhD student at the University of Finland researching the creative input of customers into

Albanian Book and Libraries in Kosovo

in Kosovo by the 14th century was followed with a long interruption due to socio-political circumstances. The linguistic structure of the book in libraries by the middle of the sixties of the 20th ... the political and cultural position of Albanians was also reflected in view of the growing number of publications in Albanian and network extension of libraries also changing their cultural status. In

The Older Gamer in Games Studies: Marginalised or Idealised?

’ models within current games studies are shaped by commercial, cultural and political forces. Games studies: A long-standing focus on youth Classical theories about (game) play Classical theories ... about play offer important insights to our current discussion of older gamers. Discussions around play are mostly expounded in philosophy, psychology and education. Although most scholars used the word

The Mining of Craft: An exploration of Minecraft as a Community of Inquiry

community of inquiry is to facilitate complex conversations (sharing of experiences) between two or more people. For example, the field of philosophy values (among other things) a love of wisdom, scholarly ... work such as reading and writing, and lengthy discussions on abstract and theoretical topics. The community decides which works are counted as philosophy and which are not (Plato’s Republic is, but the

Dilthey and Darwin Combined? 19th Century Geisteswissenschaft for 21st Century Cultural Science

of Bonn, Hochschule St. Gallen, Tsinghua University Schwarzman College, and many others. His major fields of research are economics and philosophy, institutional change and economic development ... Journal of Political Economy, Ecological Economics and Entropy. His magnum opus on China was published in 20167, building on three decades of research into culture and political economy of China: China’s

Issues and Trends in the Provision of Public Library Services in Nigeria: A Literature Survey

The philosophy, orientation and nature of public library are routed in the responsibility of disseminating diverse and current information services to the members of its community. Waller and Mcshare ... , and often are members of both a library system/network and a political community. The library in New London, Connecticut, for example, is supported primarily through city taxes and is clearly a

Issues and Trends in the Provision of Public Library Services in Nigeria: A Literature Survey

The philosophy, orientation and nature of public library are routed in the responsibility of disseminating diverse and current information services to the members of its community. Waller and Mcshare ... , and often are members of both a library system/network and a political community. The library in New London, Connecticut, for example, is supported primarily through city taxes and is clearly a

Parents’ Role in Supporting, Brokering or Impeding Their Children’s Connected Learning and Media Literacy

Media Literacy Authors: Sonia Livingstone , London School of Economics and Political Science, GB X close Alicia Blum-Ross Google, US X close Abstract How do parents ... , what’s useful or misleading, when they can be trusted, or what commercial or political interests are at stake. In other words, parents are becoming aware that media literacy is no longer a matter of simply

Editorial: Relaunching Cultural Science

translating the German Kulturwissenschaft, associated with philosophy (Simmel, Cassirer), history and anthropology (Dilthey), sociology (Weber) and art history (Warburg, Gombrich). Thus, for Williams, the first ... or destruction of groups and their knowledge. Cultural science conjectures that culture is a primary causal force in socioeconomic and political change over the longue durée. If so, then the

Creative citizenship and the public policy process: A flibbertijibbet, a will-o-the-wisp, a clown?

that political leaders tend to be ‘mesmerised’ by as they write up their election manifestos. Initiatives based on such ideas rarely meet with success and therefore for Creative Citizenship not to meet ... makers. Politicians of all political persuasions are keen on ‘catching a cloud’. Indeed, cynics contend that amongst contemporary political elites, almost any populist cloud will do! The term ‘Creative

The Presence of Ethical Teaching in the "De rerum natura" of Lucretius

reconstructed in this article. 11 See ?. Le?niak, Lukrecjusz, W arszawa 1960; J. Korpanty, op. cit.; P. Boyanc?, Lucr?ce et ? ?picurisme, Paris 1963; J. H. Nichols, Epicurean Political Philosophy. Tlte ?De rerum ... doctrine. Besides the main branches of Epicurean philosophy, such as the canonic (to kanonikon), physics (to phusikon) and ethics (to ?thikon), Lucretius also talks about anthropological and theological

Morbus hermeneuticus - wyzwanie współczesnej humanistyki

develops the reflection on the status of hermeneutics in philosophy. In the discussion about ideas of freedom of cognitive process the views of M. Polanyi, O. Marquard, R. Girard, G. Simmel, J. Baudrillard

A Trojan Horse in the Citadel of Stories?

’). The paper pursues the relationship between storytelling and political narrative over the extreme long term (longue durée), using well known and lesser-known connections between Australia and Turkey to ... tell the tale. It considers how digital self-representation intersects with that political process, and what activists need to know in order to intervene more effectively. The paper is in five parts: (1

The compatibility of metadata available at VGI systems with the metadata profile employed at the Brazilian National Spatial Data Infrastructure (INDE-BR)

assessing VGI content for several purposes, especially on those relative to official database updating, because this volunteered information could promote social, economic and political development of certain

Owning your emotions or sentimental navel-gazing: Digital storytelling with South African pre-service student educators

the part of the privileged observer and resentment from the subjugated storyteller. We recommend adding a historical-political analysis of previous students’ stories to the digital storytelling process ... ) . Crucially, this focus fails to acknowledge the role of emotions in a broader historical and socio-cultural context, as a site of social control but also of political resistance (Boler 1999) . One way to