Anxiety, Uncertainty and Resilience during the Pandemic Period-Anthropological and Psychological Perspectives

Following any natural disaster, tragedy, calamities, there are upsurge of mental health issues found worldwide. COVID 19 is no exception to them. Public health and infection control domains were the first hit at the peak of pandemic. The news and information were bombarded in traditional print and electronic Medias as well as in social Medias. The tsunami of infodemic was a recent topic of discussion. The responsible reporting, media role, role of Government and Non Government organizations are immense. To combat these challenges and ensuring peace and tranquillity are the biggest task of the policymakers ahead.

Countering the Spread of Religious Extremism in Contemporary Society (the Case of the Federal List of Extremist Materials)

The article highlights the problems of countering religious extremism in Russia based on the results of the analysis of publications in the Federal List of Extremist Materials, which includes about 5 000 publications both in traditional print media and electronic materials posted on the Internet. The authors have analyzed editions covering religious issues from the viewpoint of lawfulness of recognizing them to be extremist ones. Main methods of studying religious materials to detect signs of extremism have been presented. The authors have identified the specificity of placing and distributing extremist religious information on the Internet, which is a source of spreading destructive ideas, ideologies, as well as a means of communication for extremist organizations. The paper briefly describes the activity of libraries working with the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Libraries receiving, storing and making literature available for public use should constantly analyze the information posted in the Federal List of Extremist Materials, and take appropriate measures to store and provide readers with documents of this kind in compliance with certain rules or to withdraw such materials from library collections. Thus, a library as a social institution counteracts the spread of extremist materials and, consequently, religious extremism in the society.

The Multisensory Experience of Handling and Reading Books

The failure of e-books to take over from the traditional print format, as was so confidently predicted would happen only a few years ago, highlights how there is more to reading than merely the content of what we see. In fact, like any other object, the experience of interacting with a book, especially an old or historic volume, offers the reader the potential for a multisensory encounter. One that involves not only what the book looks and feels like, both the weight of the volume and the feel of the pages, but also the distinctive smell. In fact, one might also want to consider the particular sound made by the pages as they are turned over. However, it is the smell of older, and seemingly more olfactorily-redolent, works that appears to be especially effective at triggering nostalgic associations amongst readers. It is therefore only by understanding the multisensory nature of handling books, as stressed by this review, that one can really hope to fully appreciate the enduring appeal of the traditional format in the modern digital era. Several recent exhibitions that have attempted to engage their visitors by means of exploring the multisensory appeal of historic books or manuscripts in their collections are briefly discussed. While the multisensory mental imagery that is typically evoked by reading is unlikely to differ much between the print and e-book formats, there is nevertheless still some evidence to suggest that physical books can occasionally convey information more effectively than their digital counterparts.

Self-Publishing

In the twenty-first century, the barriers to authorship are lower than ever. Whether on blogs or on communal discussion forums, Facebook ‘walls’, or Twitter threads, anyone with access to the internet can fancy him or herself an author. The road to genuine cultural capital, however, still passes through the book, whether in its traditional print format or in the guise of ebooks consumed on Kindles, Nooks, and other electronic devices. Here too, though, a publishing revolution is underway. Thanks to services such as CreateSpace or iUniverse, it is cheaper than ever to self-publish a book, and, thanks to Amazon, it is easier to disseminate one. In this chapter, Jeffrey Di Leo shows how the results of this development are dramatic, both in a numeric sense and in a qualitative one.

Not Seen and Not Heard? The Representation of Young Women and Their Political Interests in the Traditional Print Public Sphere

A number of marginalized groups, including women and young people face multiple disadvantages in the traditional print media public sphere. As an inherently political space, young women’s position within the public sphere has implications for their wider role in politics and society. However, few studies analyze this specific intersection of youth and gender empirically. Using recent original data, this article analyzes how young women and their interests are represented in the traditional media public sphere. It uses the lens of political claims analysis, a method that collects data on strategic interventions that express a political opinion either verbal or nonverbal, by collective actors in the public sphere, in addition to the thematic content analysis of the coded claims. This is an exploratory analysis of original political claims data and news content gathered from a range of newspapers across nine European countries from the period 2010 to 2016. It finds that the main qualities of representation confirm patterns within existing literature, with a centrality of young women’s bodies within our sample, and a low level of agency or “active” role for young women within claims relating to their own interest. Furthermore, we empirically confirm trends which offer examples of more progressive representations of young women and their interests, including the significance of civil society actors in promoting the rights of young women and the theme of gender (in)equality in professional life, which enables space for a greater level of agency for young women than most other debates.

A new Journal for telecommunications with an added purpose

The Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (ajTDE) is the reincarnation of the Telecommunications Journal of Australia (TJA), under the guidance of essentially the same Editorial Board – give and take a few distinguished members – who had moved the traditional ‘print and post’ version of TJA (published since June 1935) to its exclusively online version (from November 2007 to June 2013).

ONE-STOP ACCESS POINT TO LIBRARY RESOURCES: IN SEARCH OF REALIZATION

The problem of organizing on library site a united interface to search all the resources library provides for its users is considered. It is demonstrated, that patrons of a modern library often have to use several interfaces to search for traditional print resources, for items of its own digital library and for a number of licensed resources on their own platforms.The problem of organizing on library site a united interface to search all the resources library provides for its users is considered. It is demonstrated, that patrons of a modern library often have to use several interfaces to search for traditional print resources, for items of its own digital library and for a number of licensed resources on their own platforms.The problem of including local publishers resources in global discovery index is stressed as well as inability to tune knowledge base on open access articles level in hybrid journals. The main conclusion is: Russian research libraries, which provide access to dozens of licensed resource collections of international and foreign content providers, should use global discovery services to fulfill their mission.

Securing digital documents using digital watermarking

The intellectual property of digital documents has been protected by using many methods of digital watermarking. Digital documents have been so much of advantages over print documents. Digital documents are less expensive and easy to store, transport, and searched compared to traditional print documents. But it has its owner limitation too. A simple image editor can be used to modify and make a forged document. Digital documents can be tampered easily. In order to utilize the whole benefits of digital document, these limitations have to overcome these limitations by embedding some text, logo sequence that identifies the owner of the document.. In this research LSB technique has been used to embedding Digital watermarking , the proposed method consist of two major part: the embedding part and extraction part. The BMP picture type has been used in embedding process for accuracy and uncompressed image, and it is the best type in embedding process. This technique used to discover the genuine documentThe experiments show the proposed technique has 100% accuracy in authenticating the genuine document and Multimedia content security.