scholarly journals Polsat Games – the new approach to a speciality channel

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-205
Author(s):  
Przemysław Ciszek
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Film Material ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
League Of Legends

Video games have been broadcasted on television for several decades, but gaming programs reached their peak at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Their popularity dropped significantly when access to the Internet became popular. Game fans thus gained access to information and film material from video games. Polsat Games is another TV channel in Polsat’s rich offer. It deals with the subject of video games with a strong emphasis on e-sport. In addition to broadcasts about games, documentaries and quasi-documentaries as well as anime series are broadcast on it. The channel has launched its own esports league where players play League of Legends. The channel’s viewers are mostly young men, but its viewership results are not impressive. Internet channels on YouTube and Twitch which Polsat Games provides are more popular than the traditional TV channel, transmitting games live and publishing episodes of gaming shows.

scholarly journals A Cybersecurity Experience with Cloud Virtual-Remote Laboratories

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Llanos Tobarra ◽  
Antonio Robles-Gómez ◽  
Rafael Pastor ◽  
Roberto Hernández ◽  
Andrés Duque ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Great Increase ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Remote Laboratories ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Available Information

In recent years, there has been a great increase in the daily use of technology, to the extent that people are almost permanently connected to the Internet. In our particular case, we are interested in maintaining information security, which is known as cybersecurity. Traditional security techniques are obsolete, so it becomes necessary to acquire new practical skills with a problem-based learning methodology. Therefore, this paper presents a new approach based on virtual-remote laboratories for the creation of dynamic cybersecurity scenarios in the Cloud. Additionally, the factors that influence the intentions of the participants in the subject employed for this work have been studied. This information has been gathered by using both the answers obtained from an opinion survey and available information in the activity records of the educative labs.

Transforming Prejudice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa R. Michelson ◽  
Brian F. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Persuasive Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
The Subject

Over the last few decades, public opinion has shifted dramatically to be more supportive of gay and lesbian people and their rights, including support for same-sex relationships and marriage. Support for transgender people and rights, in contrast, remains relatively low. As a result, transgender people suffer from discrimination and violence. Shifting attitudes toward transgender people requires a new approach to persuasive communication, one that recognizes the discomfort that many people feel about the subject but also one that appeals to core values and emotions in a way that encourages them to shift their perspective. This book introduces a new theory—Identity Reassurance Theory—which outlines how to transform prejudice against transgender people. The book provides concrete suggestions about how to reduce defensive reactions, helping people take a journey from prejudice to support. Support for Identity Reassurance Theory comes from a series of experiments conducted with individuals face to face, via the Internet, and in the laboratory. When individuals are put in a happier state of mind or when they are reminded about the good in people, they are more supportive of transgender rights. When they are told a story about a mother who did not support transgender people and rights until her own child came out as transgender, they are more likely to support transgender rights. In these and other experiments, Transforming Prejudice describes a method of boosting the self-esteem of recipients of communication to lower their defenses and to encourage them to be more accepting of others who are different than they are.

scholarly journals Usability and functionality of websites of commune offices as stimulants of sustainable development of e-government

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 01029
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Agata Tomaszewicz
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Services ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The West ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Show

Sustainable development of e-government should be based on facilitating the meeting of society’s needs, mostly through enhancing access to information and providing public services which can be realized through the Internet, which is especially important in the time of dynamic increase in the number of its users. Creating useful and functional websites of offices, which will fully allow the enjoyment of benefits coming form new technologies, is an indispensable condition of this realization. Due to the above, research has been conducted the subject matter of which was the assessment of the content of the websites of commune offices of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in the context of adjusting them to the needs of local communities. The websites of the offices were analyzed in terms of their usability, functionality and the level of advancement of selected self-government e-services, where the criterion was, i.a. the substantial content, accuracy, technical and ergonomic quality. The results of the conducted research show that creating websites allowing smooth implementation of electronic services, employing standardized procedures related to the process of providing services makes the office more transparent and thus more citizen-friendly. This will also allow the improvement of the quality of their life as result-wise improvement of administrative serving the society thanks to offering an additional way of carrying out public services. These actions need to be recognized as an indispensable condition for enhancing the efficiency of e-government contributing to its sustainable development.

scholarly journals Characterization of ecologically dysfunctional municipalities: a contribution to Environmental Democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (71) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celso Maran de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
The State ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Environmental Democracy

This research aims to promote a discussion on how to characterize an ecologically dysfunctional municipality, in terms directly linked to environmental legal noncompliance, and how it can impact the axes of Environmental Democracy, based on the identification of institutionalized environmental conflicts by governmental agencies that have a duty to conduct investigations and punish its offenders. The methodology used was a documental analysis of works published on the subject in books, specialized magazines, scientific articles available in libraries or on the internet; and the analysis of a case study, which took place in a medium-sized municipality in the state of São Paulo. Using the methodology, we were able to characterize ecologically dysfunctional municipalities, and their impacts on the structural axes of Environmental Democracy, in order to provide access to information, increase citizen participation, and resolve environmental conflicts.

AWARENESS OF DIGITAL THREATS AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUTH, IN THE OPINION OF THEIR PARENTS – STUDY RESULTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
Danuta Szeligiewicz-Urban
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Parental Support ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The paper deals with the issue of awareness of digital threats among children and teenagers. The empirical study analyzes the opinions of parents of preschool and school children using an online questionnaire. The results show that in the opinion of parents, the awareness of various risks in children remains average, and it fluctuates between 30-40% in relation to most of the analyzed issues. A number of favorable and unfavorable changes in the behavior of the respondents’ children as a result of using the Internet and video games are also shown. The analysis of the correlation coefficients shows that the parents’ gender is only significant in the case of two issues (parental support and ridiculing content), and that there is no dependence on education in the studied group. The greatest number of correlations in various studied issues was observed for the age of the child. In addition, the results shed new light on the subject matter, showing the evolution of parents’ attitudes towards more conscious parental control over the use of the Internet and video games.

Positive Reintegration as a Way of Small and Medium-Sized Business Development

2012 ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
A. Zolotov ◽  
M. Mukhanov
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Alternative Possibility ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Compensation Mechanisms ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modernization Process

А new approach to policy-making in the field of economic reforms in modernizing countries (on the sample of SME promotion) is the subject of this article. Based on summarizing the ten-year experience of de-bureaucratization policy implementation to reduce the administrative pressure on SME, the conclusion of its insufficient efficiency and sustainability is made. The alternative possibility is the positive reintegration approach, which provides multiparty policy-making process, special compensation mechanisms for the losing sides, monitoring and enforcement operations. In conclusion matching between positive reintegration principles and socio-cultural factors inherent in modernization process is provided.

Social organization in the Orcadian Neolithic: identification of elite domestic structures and settlements through analysis of excavation data

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
David MacInnes
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Qualitative Evidence ◽  
Methods Of Analysis ◽  
The Subject

The nature of social organization during the Orcadian Neolithic has been the subject of discussion for several decades with much of the debate focused on answering an insightful question posed by Colin Renfrew in 1979. He asked, how was society organised to construct the larger, innovative monuments of the Orcadian Late Neolithic that were centralised in the western Mainland? There are many possible answers to the question but little evidence pointing to a probable solution, so the discussion has continued for many years. This paper takes a new approach by asking a different question: what can be learned about Orcadian Neolithic social organization from the quantitative and qualitative evidence accumulating from excavated domestic structures and settlements?In an attempt to answer this question, quantitative and qualitative data about domestic structures and about settlements was collected from published reports on 15 Orcadian Neolithic excavated sites. The published data is less extensive than hoped but is sufficient to support a provisional answer: a social hierarchy probably did not develop in the Early Neolithic but almost certainly did in the Late Neolithic, for which the data is more comprehensive.While this is only one approach of several possible ways to consider the question, it is by exploring different methods of analysis and comparing them that an understanding of the Orcadian Neolithic can move forward.

Methods of Countering Cyber Recruitment (Iraq Model)

2019 ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Hind Mohammed Abdul Jabbar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Network ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Other Hand

Connecting to the  electronic information network (internet) became the most characteristic that distinguish this era However , the long hours which young men daily spend on the internet On the other hand ,there are many people who are waiting for the chance to talk and convince them with their views This will lead the young people to be part in the project of the “cyber armies “that involved with states and terrorist organizations  This project has been able  to recruitment hundreds of people every day to work in its rank . It is very difficult to control these websites because we can see the terrorist presence in all its forms in the internet   In addition there are many incubation environments that feed in particular the young people minds                                                                                         Because they are suffering from the lack of social justice Also the unemployment, deprivation , social and political repression So , that terrorist organizations can attract young people through the internet by convincing them to their views and ideas . So these organizations will enable to be more  stronger.

THE STATE OF OPEN ACCESS ADOPTION IN LEGAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Solomon Bopape
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Open Access Resources ◽  
The Right

The study of law focuses, among other aspects, on important issues relating to equality, fairness and justice in as far as free access to information and knowledgeis concerned. The launching of the Open Access to Law Movement in 1992, the promulgation of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarshipin 2009, and the formation of national and regional Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) should serve as an indication of how well the legal world is committed to freely publishing and distributing legal information and knowledge through the Internet to legal practitioners, legal scholars and the public at large aroundthe world. In order to establish the amount of legal scholarly content which is accessible through open access publishing innovations and initiatives, this studyanalysed the contents of websites for selected open access resources on the Internet internationally and in South Africa. The results of the study showed that there has been a steady developing trend towards the adoption of open access for legal scholarly literature internationally, while in South Africa legal scholarly literature is under the control of commercial publishers. This should be an issue for the legal scholarship which, among its focus, is to impart knowledge about the right of access to information and knowledge.

Prevalence, Co-Occurrence, and Correlates of Substance and Behavioral Addictions Among American Indian Adolescents in California

2021 ◽  
pp. 004723792110170
Author(s):  
Steve Sussman ◽  
Jennifer B. Unger ◽  
Cynthia Begay ◽  
Lou Moerner ◽  
Claradina Soto
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Life Stressors ◽  
Behavioral Addictions ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Indian Adolescents ◽  
American Indian Adolescents

The present study investigated the prevalence and co-occurrence of addictions to tobacco, alcohol, other drugs, food/eating, the internet, texting, video games, shopping, love, sex, exercise, work, and gambling among American Indian (AI) youth in California. As with previous work in other cultural groups, the most prevalent addictions were love, internet, and exercise, though prevalence and co-occurrence of these addictions were relatively high among AI youth. A negative life events measure was associated with all the addictions, suggesting that life stressors are associated with high rates of multiple types of addictions among AI youth. There is a need for more research to better understand the relations of life stressors with multiple addictions among AI youth as well as how to remediate these behaviors.

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