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Each Romanian geographical region is characterized by some characteristics that can be seen as landmarks and analysed in order to assess their cultural and tourism profile. Oltenia, a historical province that dates back to the Dacian-Roman period and inhabited ever since, has a rich/vast tourism offer, with numerous cultural attractions spanning centuries/from each century. It is necessary to distinguish between the historical heritage items from different time periods ranging from the ancient Dacian, to Roman era...

The author is reflecting on the fact that a modern man is living in a rather intimate relationship with new information and communication media, starting thus various connections and degrees of integration with these media. A human subject is therefore “homo medialis“ (digitalis, interneticus, informaticus), existing on the interface, virtualised, augmented, hybridised with the technology of new media. The author believes that virtual cyberspace is bringing a man a new living space, a space that shares the idea of...

In this paper we try to highlight some features of the anthroponymy in the Carpathian-Balkan space, from the first centuries of the Christian era to the present day. To accomplish this, we will use a series of methods, grouped together in the methods of collecting of name information and the methods of analysis and interpretation of anthroponyms. Among the collection methods (sources), we highlight the collections of inscriptions, documents, various statistical records, yearbooks, websites, etc. In the analysis an...

The study focuses on academic rituals as part of university culture in Romanian universities. It also tries to underline the role of academic rituals as communication instruments for the universities, both public and private. The latter category adopted the common ceremonies for academic life to gain legitimacy and recognition as part of the higher education area. The analysis focuses on a series of rituals identified in the Romanian universities, mainly the opening of the academic year, the graduation ceremony, a...

Background: In modern Russia, the majority of people does not trust traditional advertising, so advertisers need to use alternative methods to attract attention to a product or a brand. According to Media Logics, in 2016 due to the economic crisis more than ten the largest companies in Russia refused to advertise on television, others reduced its presence on the television screen. Methods: Basic principles of dialectical logic were applied as a theoretical and methodological foundations of the research (ascent fro...

The Arctic development is closely related with the growth of labor potential and requires rise in number of population and labor resources according to economic, political and military interests of the state. In this sense, the problem of social-economic and economic-geographical development of Arctic and Northern regions and its monitoring has vital importance. Currently, research on social, economic, demographical processes on municipal level of the Arctic Russia and foreign countries has great importance. This ...

The paper deals with the theoretical reflection of digital gameplayers (sub)culture. The authors examine these aspects in connection with the media studies and also with the theory of digital games. The main objective of this paper is to point out the status of digital gameplayers community in a current socio-culture reality. The introductory part of the study defines the key terms as the audience, subculture, gamer and digital game. In the next part of the paper the authors explain the problematic of gamers´ subc...

The paper presents mathematical model of the changing age structure of the population of the region is submitted. The population is considered as a system consisting of three groups: working age, young age and elderly age. The model is a system of differential equations with respect to shares of the above three age groups in the general population and the corresponding initial conditions. The model parameters are the coefficients of fertility, mortality and age-shifting, obtained by processing statistical demograp...

The article reflects the results of investigation the phenomenon “childfree”, the movement joining the people who voluntary refused from childbearing. During the analysis of motivational orientations, worldview positions and axiological guides of the ideology followers it was revealed a special kind of childfree. These are so-called “regretting mothers” – women having children but regretting of their birth. A wide discussion of this problem began after the publication of the study results of the Israeli sociologis...

Final energy consumption in Latvian households fluctuated massively because of serious political and social changes in the country between 1990 and 2015; this study explores why final energy consumption trends in Latvia during the last decades, meanwhile in Europe is the opposite situation observed. This paper investigates the downward trend in average household energy consumption of the last 30 years and shows the impact of social factors towards energy consumption. The method applied portrays factors such as lev...

The equality between men and women has been an intense debate subject and broadly covered in media in the recent years. Several studies have proved that in many states women are outnumbered by men in leadership positions. Ensuring gender equality is one of the European Union’s main objective and necessary component in the Europe 2020 strategy. Today an increasing number of countries are adapting rules and regulations on implementing quotas in corporate governance and state-owned enterprises. The trend is that majo...

This article sets forth the problem of attitudes towards women in connection with the ethno-religious characteristics of the processing of their appearance (for example, hidjab (Islamic head-cover)). Research design. The object of the study were 500 people (250 male; 250 female), aged 18 to 25 years (mean age 20 years), residents of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Methods. The study used the author's questionnaire, which consisted of stimulus material (2 sets of photos of 4 girls; in one case it was a portrait shot from th...

The author is in this paper studying influence of digital media on changes in contemporary education. Through phenomenological and hermeneutic methods, he is exploring the basic structure (invariant) of the Internet – the key component of modern digital media. The author observes that the basic structure of the Internet relies on a very fast combining of symbols with dominance of images. Knowing the Internet’s invariant, he finds out that the Internet favours associationist (rhizomatic, image-based) thinking with ...

The objective of this contribution is to investigate non-formal media education projects in the European Union. [1] The study reviews initiatives and projects in the field of media education in the Member States. The most important finding of this study is the fact that the film education, film literacy and the practical skills of filmmaking are greatly developed in the EU countries. Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania and the United Kingdom pay attention to the film literacy and film production....

The new millennium and the revolutionary medium of communication - the Internet brought a lot of change in all spheres of life to individuals and companies. In addition to many positive aspects and opportunities that the Internet provides (such as fast and instant communication, new forms of entertainment, education, an immediate source of information), it is important to recognize the presence of multiple risks linked to communication through new digital media and technologies. We consider that one of the most se...

This article considers the main trends in developing migration processes in developed countries as well as social and economic consequences for developed countries. It shows the specificities of national governance practices, which have a particular impact on the migration policy. In article the international labor migration as economic category is considered. Nowdays migration regulation policy in particular countries is confronting new challenges of continuously changing environment; and, consequently, today gov...

Using Internet search data may reveal intentions and expectations in various areas of scientific interest in social sciences. One of them is media studies and especially the research of media literacy, where search engines such as Google can shape the way of investigation of current social trends and academic discourse in the field. In this paper, we analyse various ways of using specific data gathered by Google and delivered by the Google Trends service. We examine whether the online activity measured by Google s...

To investigate the names of the person (the anthroponyms), it is necessary to respect a number of principles and methods. The principles of anthroponymic research are the principle of verification; the principle of knowing as accurately as possible the historical context in which an anthroponym or a group of anthroponyms appeared; the principle of differentiation. The research methods are grouped into two categories: the methods of collecting of the anthroponymic information and the methods of analysis and interpr...

Understanding the human–computer interaction has its own pace, it would be equally wrong to rush it or slow it down. To figure out whether to attack a new phenomenon or to stand with it, we need to choose a viewpoint. Building on background knowledge it can say that none of the disciplines deals with reality, each of them tears out a different part of reality, which is then studied using concepts and methods of that discipline and/or borrowing from other disciplines. Terry Winograd realized that the artificial wor...

Migration of the population is one of the most important demographic processes. Migration of the population has a significant impact on the changing structure of the population. One of the driving factors of migration is the search for more attractive work. In the context of the transformation of the Russian economy in recent years, there has been an increase in migration flows in connection with the search for work. Taking into account the economic difficulties of moving to a permanent place of residence in anoth...

We are living in a transitional time – contemporary television industry is rapidly evolving in order to meet uncertain and ever-changing preferences of the mainstream television audiences. Reacting to advanced technologies and different consumer practices related to mobile devices and digital media, ‘traditional’ television production companies are turning into hybrid media enterprises. As television is still seen as the most influential medium on the global scale, these development tendencies shape today’s media ...

The article discusses some aspects of the distribution of rural population and settlements of the Republic of Tatarstan since 1959 for 2013. The main factors influencing the location of rural population and settlements – geographical, social, economic, environmental, transport etc. national peculiarities of the peoples such as Russians, Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Maris, Udmurts etc.who live on the territory of the Republic,influenced For the placement and formation of a network of rural settlements. In the early t...

In this paper, we have developed a database, which represents a collection of three-dimensional models of cultural and historical heritage objects located in the central part of Tambov (Russia), both existing and completely or partially destroyed. They include the elements of Tambov fortress of the XVII century (towers, walls, church), Bogorodnichnaya church of the XVIII century and the Library named after A.S. Pushkin built on its place in the XX century, the building of the Nobility Assembly of the XIX century, ...

Estonian Theatre is a unique phenomenon. In a population of 1.3 million, one million people visit the theatre every year. Tallinn City Theatre is one of the most renowned theatre companies in Estonia. In 2016, Tallinn City Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary. Dating back to the Soviet times as Estonian Youth Theatre, a state-owned touring company made up of an entire class of fresh drama school graduates and a small number of well-known performers, it has transformed during five decades into an established, ye...

Consumers increasingly use social media for a variety of consumption-related tasks such as complaining about a brand or sharing purchase experiences. Social media growth represents an opportunity for business based on information sharing, but also complicates the work of marketing managers who need to be ready to deal with current issues in this field. In recent years, conventional means of communication have become increasingly ineffective, and have begun to give way to more innovative communication tools due, to...

Today we see the emergence of new forms of political self-organization of the society (active development of interregional relations within international organizations as well as new forms of autonomy of different territories. According to authors, one of the most effective methods of their investigation is interdisciplinary activity-geospatial approach as a method of learning the spatial forms of self-organization of a society, especially of it’s geopolitical self-organization. Disclosure of the theoretical conte...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present some alternatives/ solutions for the organizations from Romania affected by migration phenomena and also EU impact, from organization point of view. Based on data collected in a research, which can be extended correlated with EU statistics for the current situation in Romania and Europe the same, this paper will present the case of Romanians which intend to emigrate abroad temporary for Students Programs: Internships/ Practice in abroad organizations and can be a sta...

Social media have become one of the most influential communication phenomena of the 21st century. It is therefore no surprise that publishing journalistic content via social networks is quickly overcoming the rather “articificially” created distinctions between professional journalists, civic activists and “regular” members of the media audiences. As the institutionalized press is now just one of the many existing ways of reaching the general public, journalism theorists as well as professional journalists have to...

This article is devoted to the description of the gender representation of the lexeme muzhik in Internet-discourse. Currently, the study of the specific of online communication and of the functioning of language as a means of electronic communication are refers to the most relevant and current areas of linguistics. Scientific novelty of work is defined by the choice of material and a source of a research – the new technique of identification of a gender component of the men's and woman's speech by comparison of me...

Migration is nowadays much discussed topic in Europe. Despite the fact that in the past migration has been associated with development, it is now more associated with uncertainty, fear and resistance of many inhabitants in European developed countries. In different parts of the world, causes of migration are different. However, factors that motivate people to emigrate can be unified into several: political instability, low standard of living, poverty, diseases, armed conflicts, religious contradictions etc. Factor...

Currently, under the influence of digital technologies, there is a rapid transformation of economic relations and forms of interaction of economic agents, innovative goods and services form new segments of the world economy related to information and communication technologies. These sectors are gradually becoming the drivers of the economic development of the global economic system, although at present their direct contribution to the economy is rather modest in both developed and developing countries. The proces...

Analysis of the main trends of migration flows at the level of the Russian Federation does not give a complete picture of the nature of the monitoring process. The structure of Russia includes 85 regions, which differ significantly from one another depending on the socio-economic situation. In this regard, migration flows are multidirectional. A detailed assessment of population migration requires an assessment of territorial differences. To solve this problem, the cluster analysis method was used. For the formati...

This article is intended to address current problems in the formation of residents’ and migrants’ urban identities. The Russian metropolis of Yekaterinburg is taken from the perspective of social anthropology as an example to illustrate the problem. We explore the connection between the perception of migrants and the ethnographic situation in metropolises and determine the factors affecting the formation of the urban identity of migrants and the local population. The article presents an overview of these factors’ ...

The main goal of the study was to identify changes, peculiarities and problems in the life of Russian women in their third and fourth age (50-70 years old and 70+ years old correspondingly), the research subjects included problems of employment, health, psychological self-assessment of the current life, self-identification. The study presents the analysis of the part of the data collected during the all-Russian representative survey "Russian Monitoring of the Economic Situation and Health of the Population" by the...

Access to digital data through web servers and databases is facilitated by search tools. Following a user query, the search engine has a long list of bibliographic references and web pages. The efficient selection of relevant documents is very difficult given the low accuracy in the list. Typically, the user visits the first page referenced in the list, but it does not consult the fiftieth. In this article, we describe the problem of the queries language when we look for information in an automatic system (search ...

The article presents a model of migration and demographic movement of population. The model is based on the principles of sand-pile model by P. Tank, C. Wiesenfeld and H Tang. These principles have been combined with the structural-demographic theory of Peter V. Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov and Jack Goldstone. As a result of it the synthesized model of migration and demographic interactions was obtained. The constructed model allows to take into account the influence of the real geographical conditions (such as s...

The development of technologies, digitalization and Internetization is influencing the media environment and, due to this, the media offer has to expand within one media and the demand for the interconnection of different forms of its processing is becoming necessary. Interaction with recipients, especially via web pages, has become an inevitable condition for the survival of the media. Unconventionality, popularity and simplicity determine the success of a media product on the market. On the other hand, within th...

Although remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPASs) offer great advantages and creative possibilities, they are primarily designed for outdoor use by different end-users for activities such as inspections, agriculture, real estate, security and so on. The creative industries are starting to use RPASs for outdoor filming and photography. However, since the existing RPASs lack a precise, robust and affordable indoor positioning system as well as advanced safety features, the control of any RPAS in an indoor environme...

This study focuses on the performance improving of social assisted search by using the Redis system as a cache layer between an application and a MySQL system which stores data extracted from the behavior of many users. Since searches made by one particular user can be viewed as a Markov chain, there is need for a lot of data to be read and displayed to the user, and simultaneously small piece of the user behavior data should be written in the database in order to serve in the future searches made by other users. ...

The author deals with the issue of stronger tabloidization of the so-called quality media and political scene in post-millennial years. She points to the acceptance of tabloidization processes in conditions of late modern societies and in the chaos of postmodern cultures. She presents and illuminates the processes that determine formation of the mental atmosphere in the first and second decades of the new millennium. According to her, these are in particular creation of a new cultural logic and a change of media l...

The contemporary society is drawn towards the spectacular, the out-of-the-ordinary, the amazing. Many companies, communities, cities acknowledge this feature and fight for public recognition by joining competitions and taking the effort to be placed in rankings. The paper focuses on Romanian records registered in the world-famous Guinness book of records as strategies for gaining recognition and reputation management. The study makes an overview of Romanian records and presents the case-study of Timisoara, which h...

This article analyzes pension reforms conducted since the 2000s in Russia and in the so-called "Beveridge countries" (England, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland), as well as in Germany. The main ways of pension provision modernization were set in the new Russian pension scheme development strategy of 2012. Russia is aiming for international standards in this area, however it does not take into account the consequences of some of its steps. As before its goal is to decrease the level of poverty and social ine...

The article examines the problem of the need for actualization of progressive ideas of feminist and gender thought in modern society. Feminist thought and its unconventional views on social realities actualized a number of fundamental problems that have coordinated a certain path of the civilization development. Special attention is paid to the fact that global integration processes and human society globalisation had a great qualitative influence on on the social climate in the modern world. At the same time gend...

There is a system of interactions between demographic processes and regional social and economic development. On the one hand, they must be taken into account when determining the prospects for the economic and social development of the country and its regions, on the other hand in the process of making and implementing management decisions. The impact of demographic processes on sustainable social and economic development can be traced in the following main directions: • In the reproduction of labor resources - n...

The purpose of this study is to determine the peculiarities of migratory activity of the population in the 21st century. In this study, attention will be paid to the main factors determining the migratory activity of the population. Determining the key factors will provide a practical opportunity for describing and analyzing extremely dynamic and constantly changing processes by the degree and intensity of their manifestation in the changing world. The monitoring of migration flows will be carried out in a retrosp...

The aim of the submitted work is to detect relevant opinions, knowledge and impulses in the spectrum of filmologic reflection related to documentary film from its beginnings up to the stage of looking for new perspectives in new conditions. The accessible literature only randomly or marginally deals with the position and importance of individual personalities, groups, movements and profile theoretical works and their influence upon the development of documentary cinematography practice. Even less attention is paid...

The Blue Whale contest is believed to be ? sinister teenage ARG based on a series of tasks given by the administrators of social network VKontakte (VK) groups over the course of 50 days. The overall goal is committing suicide, on the 50th day. It is assumed that by May of 2016 the game has been a reason of more than 130 juveniles' suicides in Russia. While the allegation on 130 deaths caused by game originally mentioned in the “Novaya Gazeta” was not confirmed officially, the prototypes of the game apparently exis...

The research is dedicated to revealing the factors stimulating the labor migration growth trend of the Russian university graduates. In this article the growth rates are characterized, the factors increasing the youth orientation to building their career abroad are determined. The stages of the moving intention shaping process are defined and the identifying indicators are suggested. The authors approbate the diagnostic tools and receive the results, characterizing the distribution of the graduates based on the “l...

With the increased production of data related to the web and library collections, database growth continues to grow. This scalable web has generated derived information from social networks. Indeed, information (true and/or false) comes from social media (Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, etc.), and that appear in the results of the search engines. All these productions generate problems of documentary noise linked to the increasing number of multilingual resources on the Internet. The search for information in several la...

The term Paleo-Asiatic peoples (Paleoasiatic) was proposed by the Russian scientist L. I. Strencom in the middle of the 19th century to refer to a number of indigenous peoples of the North and North-East Siberia with the archaic features of culture, characteristic of the Neolithic stage of development. The basis for selection of these people in a special group was that their languages are not connected with large language families of Northern Asia. This is the reason that they are preserved in the place names of t...