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The work is devoted to understanding the intrinsic characters of the "analogue" and "digital" generation of mass media, summarizing their generational media practice in the digital age. As a result, generations with stable characteristics of "analogue" and "digital" have been revealed. Also, we found out two transitional generations, the affiliation to which is established based on the level of "information competency". Besides, echo-generation was discovered – a transition between "digital" and "analogue" generat...

In the current understanding of the world, the issues of organization and management of multidimensional living space are of strategic importance. They are considered both from theoretical positions and from the point of view of sustainable development of the human community on Earth. Geographical science takes an active part in the development of these directions of the Strategy of Mankind, which is formed in the depths of natural Sciences and Humanities, first of all, it is necessary to point out that the persis...

While the idea of objectivity is key to mass media text, modern research claims increase of subjectivity. Scholars determine two main reasons for that: influence of online mass media as well as a general sociocultural trend toward confession; diffusion of mass media and political discourses. Being a part of mass media discourse and thus experiencing the above mentioned trends, editorials have transformed in functions in such a way that they no longer aim solely at delivering information but progressively at influe...

The problematic of religiosity and its relationship towards media opens several ques-tions that can only be addressed on the border of the media theory and practice. Our paper focuses on the construction of media reality of the chosen aspects of religiosity. It also analyses the importance and the role of media in establishing the public view of religiosity. It identifies key trends impacting media in this context. The paper is atten-tive to both positive and negative influences of media on the public.

Housing is the basic and social need of every person. Urban development has its own direction and character, planning. It was not different in the case of former Czechoslovakia after 1960 where preference was given to construction of residential buildings using prefabricated units, a choice of direction, which laid a foundation for a mass housing estates development thenceforth. The change in the political system after 1989 led to the creation of a post-socialist society under which the panel housing mass producti...

The paper is aimed at studying festivals of urban culture as a form of participation of urban communities in the life of a metropolitan city. It is the residents, their experience, competences, creativity that determine the growth and development of any metropolitan city. This is why the urban environment and its quality are today tools which modern cities use in their struggle for human resources. A modern city should provide the development of a variety of functional content which meets the cultural, educational...

The aim of the article is to present latest activities in the southern Poland spa resorts. Health resorts located in the piedmont and mountain regions of southern Poland are centers of outstanding natural value, including: landscape, climate and, above all, waters that are used in medicine. Also having confirmed by numerous studies and a long-standing tradition of curing many diseases. [1] Krynica-Zdroj is number one the example of polish spa town, is the most famous spa town in Poland, called the pearl of ‘Polish...

Cultural-religious tourism, as part of cultural tourism, seems to register an increase today, especially with regard to unholy/ secular monuments with a special historical load or with special architecture. This category includes the northern area of Romania, Maramures, where there are not less than 8 wooden churches in the UNESCO Heritage. Besides these there are other religious monuments. Using this monument from the touristic point of view requires an entire infrastructure. Thus, the study aims to find the nece...

Karelian Pomorie is part of the historical and geographical province of Pomorie in the North-West of Russia, stretching along the coast of the White Sea within the modern polar regions of the Russian Federation: Karelia, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk oblast. The object of our research is the part of Pomorie area within the borders of the Republic of Karelia. On the scheme of historical and geographical zoning of Karelia, the territory received the name of the Pomorie province. The isolation of the province is associate...

The article deals with classicism as a modern stylistic and aesthetic phenomenon. The authors give a retrospective analysis of some stylistic choices within the artistic culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. The study considers such phenomena as Neoclassicism of the early 20th century, Neoclassicism in the framework of strengthening totalitarianism of the 1930s, neoclassical presence in the context of the International Style of the 1940s-60s, Postmodern classicism of the 1980s, classical retrospections of the 20...

The online news delivery and dissemination format which is known as social media has infiltrated almost every aspect of modern society. Twitter is one such social media platform. This became especially popular amongst politicians and influencers from the moment the president of the United States, Donald Trump, began using it as a propaganda weapon. Twitter allows users to create profiles through which they can share user-generated or curated digital content. Moreover, sharing content - a process which effectively ...

The article concerns urban spaces that are moving towards the principles of sustainable development, which are a currently responsible for shaping the quality of the urban human environment. The inhabitants of Europe, like the rest of the world, face the necessity of making a radical change of lifestyle in cities, mainly in the field of energy consumption, water consumption and waste management. Accelerated technological progress in the world and constantly improving economic conditions of cities development are c...

The article represents a concept of the new civilizational and cultural paradigm in the process of formation. Determined by the coexistence of two strong types of cultures with the opposite focuses, this new paradigm designates the two cultural types by the indicators "Retro" and "Future" accordingly. Here we describe the specifics of each civilizational and cultural type. In particular, this work proves the necessity of preserving the fundamental "status quo" of these civilizational and cultural types. This neces...

Railway transport facilities are a group of interconnected and interactive parts that perform an important work or task. These include, for example, track and station security equipment, interlocking security equipment, dispatching workplaces, communication equipment elements and others. Many are dependent on electricity supply, although some of their functions may be temporarily supplied from alternative sources. The electricity distribution network, which has a number of different elements, is relatively vulnera...

Topic modeling is a method of automated definition of subtopics in a text corpus. Usage of topic modeling for short texts, e.g. tweets, is highly complicated due to their short length and grammatical restructuring, including broken word order, abbreviations, and contamination of different languages. In this paper, the authors use the BTM topic modelling algorithm (previously found to work best in comparison with two other topic models measured by automated coherence metrics Umass and NPMI) to test three topic qual...

The relevance of the study is determined by the necessity to consider the specifics of the visual components functioning of media content of the leading social and political media, presented in major social networks. The empirical study base (the research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 18-18-00007) is the content of Meduza media for the period from the 30th of April, 2018 to the 6th of May, 2018. The total amount is more than 240 units. The results of the study are provided in the arti...

The paper presents the results of a survey St. Petersburg residents about trust in e-government technologies. The study was based on the ideas of actor-network theory and the approach of social construction of technology (SCOT). 600 respondents took part in the survey (sampling error does not exceed 4%, with a 95% confidence level). The study proposes an approach to cyber-social trust in the field of e-government technologies: online services provision, citizens’ e-participation in the management of the city, soci...

The failure of the critical infrastructure elements represents a significant impact on the national security, safeguarding the basic living needs of the inhabitants, human health or the state's economy. Several critical infrastructure elements are defined, including transport. The world is threatened by several emergencies - floods, drought, tornadoes and other. These events threaten the state's critical infrastructure. Different events could trigger cascading effects. It means that the impact of an emergency on t...

In the current research, we analyse the displacement of the church from the village Timiseni to the “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum (Bucharest) as being part of the environmental conflicts which resulted after the exploitation of coal in the Carboniferous Basin Rovinari. The old community of free village people, called in the Romanian language “Mosneni”, from the village Timi?eni had been surviving over the centuries because they were placing all they had more precious, treasures and hopes for a better fu...

In recent years, the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, have gradually turned their attention towards the matter of life quality, both from an ecological, as well as from a socio-economic point of view – particularly in relation to the realities of the urban environment. Within contemporary cities, collective housing neighborhoods concentrate the highest densities of housing units, thus offering shelter to a large percentage of the population. These developments therefore have the lar...

The term "digital dementia" refers to the relationship of diminishing cognitive abilities of man and his excessive involvement in relation with social networks activities and cyber reality as such. The authors believe that the term "digital dementia" reveals some of the causes of loss of critical thinking, which correlates with an increase in young generation's interest in conspiracy theories. The article argues that it is precisely the loss of critical thinking that is associated with the phenomenon of an increas...

Civil engineering is a branch of the economy that generates many problems related to the entire life cycle of the facility. It is connected with the necessity of carrying out a number of various activities and processes already at the stage of preparing and planning investments and their implementation. Another stage, very important, lasting decades, is the stage of using objects. In engineering activities, the last stage of the object's life cycle is often overlooked, namely its demolition. It is a process that t...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of constructing a new concept “politeness” in the Soviet culture in the 1930s. The methodology of the paper is based on V. Volkov’s and S. Fitzpatrick’s ideas about mastering culture by the Soviet people. Principles of new Soviet politeness are revealed, and main etiquette situations typical for children’s everyday life are characterized (communications with classmates, teachers, parents, behaviour in public transportation, sports events) on the materials of the popular newspap...

Cultural studies address a wide range of phenomena. Among others, they deal with heritage research combining methodologies adopted in the sciences (chemistry, physics) and the humanities (art history, archival studies). Heritage studies give us a new insight into material history, history of economy, socio-economic topics and local community. The example of Gierczyn (formerly Giehren) – a small Silesian village in Poland, close to the Polish-Czech border, once part of the Kingdom of Bohemia (until 1740/42), Prussi...

The article is devoted to the study of the social and natural aspects of the city environment. The city environment is recognized as the most important factor of creating and maintaining comfort in the city. The city environment forms the quality of life. Therefore, the city receives advantages in competition for residents, tourism and investment. The study examined the views of the local expert community on the most important factors that form a comfortable city environment. Research was conducted on the example ...

Numerous factors are involved in assessments made to measure the influence of building investments on the natural environment. Most concern the period after a building development has been completed and produces a prolonged impact on nature during its useful life. As important as its future exploitation, there are factors connected with the production of building materials and structure, their transport and assembly as well as any other events associated with the execution of a building plan on site. Noteworthy is...

In the context of urban space, many new concepts now appear. There is talk of modern solutions used in urban areas. More and more information is necessary for the correct and functional management of the city. One of the most frequently used phrases is Smart City. Striving to create smart cities is now a priority. Improving the comfort of living is to be achieved thanks to the latest technologies. This is what Digital City is about to do. The digitization of the city gives the opportunity to determine the directio...

Poultry rearing has always been an integral component of social systems around the world. It is also the fastest and most flexible among the livestock sectors. It has expanded and globalized over a period of 15 years in countries of all income levels owing to its ever-growing demand. Rural poultry is estimated to be the livelihood of about one billion poor farmers of the world in areas experiencing food insecurity. It contributes to about 80% of poultry stocks in under-developing and developing countries; improvin...

Today’s research upon efficiency of user interaction with large web portals has established links between webpage popularity and crucial elements of webpage design, such as page layout and navigation on the portal, or, more narrowly, menu design. But despite their established importance, the two aforementioned elements of web design are next to never studied together, and their relative roles in rising webpage ranks are virtually unknown. In this paper, we assess pages with high betweenness centrality within the s...

In the context of stimulating personal development, an individual approach to each individual is very important. Considering this approach with respect to modern academic education, it is worth implementing a master-student tradition, lost today with the massification of education. Based on the literature analysis, the following two approaches can be indicated to build personal knowledge. The western strategy focuses on the development and transfer of explicit knowledge, built in a created system of knowledge mana...

A contemporary multicultural society needs multiculturally educated teachers who are able to pass on their knowledge to the pupils. Teaching foreign languages should educate individuals not only from the linguistic point of view but also in cultural terms. Culture is a specific feature of every country. It includes music, paintings, sculptures, films, architecture, etc. The presence of the Culture Studies in teaching foreign languages develops three basic levels: pupils' empathy and understanding, factual knowledg...

The great opportunity to classify risks of the introduction of digital solutions to the organizations, which provide educational services, lies behind the opportunity to measure the degree of implementation of digital solutions in the organization and the degree of collaborations about digital solutions, both inside and outside of the organization. The paper classifies the risks of introducing digital solutions, depending on the stage of the life cycle. Authors analyzed risks of introduction, growth and maturity a...

The article analyzes the transformation of the conditions of understanding classics fiction texts in connection with the change of means of communication during the information revolution. The contradiction between modern and classic forms of text presentation is state, which caused the problem of misunderstandings of classics texts by the modern reader. The necessity of interdisciplinary studies of the reasons for a text misunderstanding, including the linguistic approach, where the problem of text misunderstandi...

The digital era implies not only changes in the workforce, it has an even greater impact on managers 'education, and from this perspective managers' training needs to be given greater attention. Training has the main starting point for the target audience, but it is not necessary to ignore the start and initial level of the trained. Also, the education and experience of managers who are trained are equally important. In this context, the educational system needs to adapt to the needs of the digital era, not just f...

The article summarizes the results of national surveys conducted in three Russian cities (Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk). Based on the results of the study, the article provides the overview how contemporary youth in Russia percepts the ideas about the cultural and historical path of Russia, the value field of actual Russian culture (moral guidelines, the basis of integration, spiritual unity) and priorities of the state cultural policy. The authors point out the key trends in the self-determination of mo...

Drought represents a significant threat not only for the Czech Republic but also for the whole world. This threat is mainly influenced by climate change. Climate change increases air temperature. This article focuses on drought in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic has experienced significant differences in temperatures in recent years. In particular, a change in the temperatures of the seasons can be observed and almost the disappearance of some seasons. Winter has significant fluctuations in shock and temper...

The caves of the Slovak and Aggtelek Karst have been included in the World List since 1995 heritage of UNESCO. These caves are based on bilateral nomination Slovak-Hungarian the project has become a value not only for Slovakia and Hungary, but for all mankind. On karst below them, more than 1000 caves and abysses with different forms have been discovered sinter and ice fillings. Such cave density does not occur in the mild climate zone probably nowhere in the world. Speleological tourism is a form of tourism that ...

We are confident that the science and art of highlighting and processing native talents develop as knowledge accumulates. In this study, we aim to analyze the relationship between the volume of musical knowledge and the professional experience of the participants in the research. The sample consists of students from the School of Music, Theatre and Visual Arts. Music has the role of influencing and stimulating self-knowledge, authentic values, the transformation of consciousness. These are instruments with which p...

The aim of the article is to analyze the transformations of the spatial structure occurring on single-family housing estates, in the context of existing planning regulations. These transformations, in order to adapt buildings (originally of small cubature) to contemporary standards and needs, consists primarily of their horizontal and vertical development. The BGK estate on Kolo (in Warsaw), created in the pre-war period, was selected as the research area. It consisted of one-storey buildings (with a usable attic)...

This article deals with the problem of clustering North Russian cities on specific socio-demographic characteristics. The K-means method was chosen as the clustering algorithm. This clustering allows us to identify the specifics and important trends in the development of these settlements. The paper presents a cluster analysis of the data of Northern cities on their socio-demographic characteristics. The most informative was the division of all cities into 7 clusters. The division of countries into more clusters w...

In the era of modern scientific and information revolution, the energy warfare (armed warfare) takes on an anachronistic face, and the destruction of opponent, at first glance, takes on an invisible form, which is referred to as the term “information warfare”. This warfare involves, often against their will and often unconsciously, the entire human society, whole states and nations with circles of authority, administration, economic, cultural and scientific spheres (anthropotechnical method). Destructive informati...

Review of the projects experience and best practices in the development of participatory design and budgeting in St. Petersburg from 2016 up to 2019, which makes it possible to directly participate in the allocation of the city budget and improve the quality of life in the city. It analyzes various practices to involve citizens in budgeting through their participation in proposing and selecting the initiatives to be financed from the budgetary funds, and the subsequent monitoring of the project implementation. Thi...

The authors of this work generated and examined the principles of integrating architecture into nature in urban planning. The aim of the paper is to study how the abovementioned principles have been formed in the theory of architecture and urban planning. Since ancient times humans have been looking for ways of consolidation with nature, because rational usage of landscape, water resources and environment was one of the most important conditions of comfortable life and sometimes even survival. However, as civiliza...

Nowadays the phenomenon of the urbanization is passing through an intensification process. As a result, by increasing the pressure on space, the local administration must firmly respond to the demands of an increasingly population requirements. Thus, the quality of life becomes a concept that measures resident’s appreciation of living standards, in relation to the environment’s characteristics and personal well-being. In this context, the present work, referring to the perception of the quality of life by the popu...

The relevance of the article is due to the important cultural-forming importance of ethnic festivals and their influence on the continuity of spiritual values in the modern cultural environment. The author's understanding of new directions in the subject of creative works arising under the influence of forms and technologies of the ethnic festival is given. The research of domestic and foreign authors is presented. The aim of the work is to analyze the influence of the ethnic festival on the development of Amateur...

Festivities are one of the most stable forms of spiritual culture, which nowadays undergo significant transformations: the spectrum of festivities, their functions, traditions, the attitudes of people and their knowledge about the festive culture are changing. The influence of western European festivities is another significant trend that has become evident in contemporary Latvia. The research analyses the specificity of the perception of Halloween in the south-eastern region of Latvia – Latgale (the major object ...

The Roman Ancient culture makes no exception from the long line of humanity's empires, which have not paid attention to femininity in its beauty and goodness, instruction and education. The Roman woman represented, both during the Empire and in the Republic, a controversial subject and treated most often differently. While common women only received elementary skills (writing and reading), upper and middle-class women had the right to a selected education, granted by the family's position. Ever since birth, the st...

The global collapse of the environment is inevitable. Developed states should work alongside developing countries to make sure that their economies do not contribute to increasing pollution problems. Today's politicians should think about supporting pollution reduction programs rather than expanding industrialization as much as possible. Environmental conservation strategies should be accepted on a global scale, and people should start thinking about a significant reduction in energy consumption without sacrificin...

Romania represents a new pole of interest of people engaged in leisure time spending within musical festivals. Thus, lately, the Romanian musical festivals have achieved significant progress, which is easy to visualize due to intense promotion and beneficial marketing, but also through the major national and international interest for the two important events that are the subject of this research. This research focuses on visualizing the main problems raised by the participants of the Untold and Neversea festivals...

Increasing the production of unstructured information on the Web requires further analysis of the query component of information retrieval systems. The problem concerns the extraction of knowledge from the "raw query" formulated during an interrogation of the index databases of the Web which evolves constantly with the multiplication of the data. The activity of retrieving information from the initial query makes it possible to understand the information extraction (or behavioral) capabilities of the user on the W...