Narrative-Based Nature of Heritage: Between Myth and Discourses: Case of Šiluva Place-Making in Progress

The article focuses on the phenomenon of myth, which cannot be seen and may not even exist based on empirical evidence, although it can function as a long-lasting wave inceptor, as demonstrated in numerous cases in history. The singular presence of myth has no linear time, and the way to approach the concealed mythic meaning that is beyond tales, oral traditions or ritual practices is based on language and narrative. Narrative is how myth manifests itself in the temporal layers of discourse through collective decision-making processes within cultures and in places. The urban cultural heritage seems to be a promising source of understanding of what sort of narrative history has been telling. We emphasize that the closest possible approach to the permanence of myth lies in this subtle between-epoch or between-generational moment wherein the discourse alters. The hermeneutics of repetition within alteration processes is what could be called the narrative of cultural heritage in towns and cities. Development of the physical heritage properties has been touched by a variety of agents, and therefore it must have gathered a nearly unlimited amount of explicit and implicit knowledge. The research further demonstrates how the myth–narrative–discourse interaction affects our understanding of the authenticity of heritage objects, shifting towards a permanent pervading authenticity which could be intensive or extensive in the tangible realm. The case of Šiluva is discussed in order to explain how myth can be used practically in placemaking.

The Image of the Other in the (post-)Covid Period: Analysis of Russian-language Internet Queries

The digital age has greatly changed the way information is stored and accessed. The Internet allows us to retrieve an unlimited amount of data from anywhere, at any time of the day or night. The search for new information consistently takes place via search engines, which process and store user query statistics. The analysis of these queries allows us to trace various social trends. At the same time, the personality of the researcher does not affect the "query" of the user, who is fully "sincere and independent" in finding the information he or she needs. Our hypothesis for this study is that by analysing the queries of Internet users we can identify the attitude of the contemporary Russian society to the Other and determine the criteria by which the image of the Other is formed. Considering the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, the researchers assumed that periods of lockdown may have had a particular effect, increasing interest in certain markers of otherness and decreasing interest in other markers. As a result, we identified 10 models of otherness during the (post)lockdown period, in which food and sexual marker groups are the dominant ones. In particular, the Other-Chinese model, as in previous years, remains worrying. The focus has shifted from the appearance to the sexual and food aspects. The COVID-19 pandemic has played a part in this. The Other-Japanese/Korean model also remains ambiguous, but there is a downward trend in alertness. As for the other models, for the most part they are allert-neutral.

The Panoptic Sort

The Panoptic Sort was published in 1993. Its focus was on privacy and surveillance. But unlike the majority of publications addressing these topics in the United States at the time that were focused on the privacy concerns of individuals, especially those related to threats associated with government surveillance, that book sought to direct the public toward the activities of commercial firms. The Panoptic Sort was intended to help us all to understand just what was at stake when the bureaucracies of government and commerce gathered, processed, and made use of an almost unlimited amount of personal and transaction-generated information to manage social, economic, and political activities within society. While the first edition provided numerous examples from marketing, employment, insurance, credit management, and the provision of government and social services, the second edition extends descriptions of the technologies that have been developed and incorporated into the panoptic sort in the nearly thirty years since its initial publication. Assessments of the implications for democracy that many associate with the possibility of an algorithmic Leviathan, invite a reconsideration of Jacques Ellul’s distressing predictions about the future that ended the first edition of The Panoptic Sort.

Digital man as a philosophical problem

It is proposed to consider a digital person as the latest stage of human development as a major object and subject of information relations in the information society at the latest stages of its development; as a postmodern type of a homo sapiens capable of processing information, creating new information phenomena, interconnections and structures. It is substantiated that the transition to a digital person occurred due to convergence of technologies of artificial intelligence, machine training and powerful databases capable of using an unlimited amount of information for its processing, classification and multiple use. The attention is drawn to the fact that a digital person is, first of all, a person of new moral values, which immerses in the virtual reality of simulations and increasingly perceives the world as a digital game environment, realizing its conventionality, controllability of its parameters and the possibility of exiting it.

Social Media Based EFL Learning: Opportunities and Challenges

The growth of communication medium from traditional oral, as in face to face interaction, or written communication, as in letters, to the era of social media where people can communicate wirelessly without having to meet in person change the way people communicate with each other. Social media has become personal necessities for almost every person in order to communicate with their peers, acquaintance, friends, and families. It becomes unseparated part of human life. Thus, social media not only has affected people’s personal life, such as interacting with families, friends, and spouses for personal purposes but also their professional life. Mainstream social media platforms provide unlimited amount of information to language learning that change how human acquire information around them. This paper discusses the paradigm shift in education, the positive and negative effects of using social media as a language learning tool, and the conceptual framework in social media based teaching.

Introduction

University digital branding is a set of strategies that have the objective of positively influencing the reputation of universities, tending to improve institutional visibility and the growth of digital environments, designed as resources for members of the university community from the perspective of its use as spaces for academic research and socialization. The internet offers an almost unlimited amount of options for learning and sharing, and through this analysis, several opportunities for improvement will be identified that, with the application of appropriate and timely actions, can be used to increase visibility online.

Enriching education through electronic resources in the home process

This article is about Quality software for the creation of electronic libraries allows those who are not specialists in this field to think, collect, correctly compile and distribute collections that contain new information, even without them. This is considered to be very important, because the creation of such collections is the factor of enriching the teaching process and teaching materials. The emergence of the internet or the entire World Wide Web (World Wide Web) allows us all and each of us to gain access to an unlimited amount of information, thereby changing the attitude of society to information. Of course, it is difficult to call the Internet a reliable source for general enlightenment, and the thoughtless use of the information contained therein is even dangerous, such a situation is also, wide spread

KESANTUNAN BERBAHASA DI MEDIA SOSIAL ONLINE: TINJAUAN DESKRIPTIF PADA KOMENTAR BERITA POLITIK DI FACEBOOK

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan bentuk kesantunan berbahasa dalam unggahan berita dan komentar berita di Facebook. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif. Sumber data penelitian ini terbatas pada unggahan berita politik saja. Mengingat isi unggahan bermacam-macam dan jumlah unggahan setiap hari sangat banyak. Objek penelitian ini adalah percakapan di grup FB dengan subjek penelitian adalah percakapan berita politik. Metode pengumpulan data yang dipakai dalam penelitian ini adalah metode simak dan tulis, yakni dengan menyimak penggunaan bahasa. Pelaksanaan pengumpulan data pada penelitian ini adalah metode simak yang diwujudkan melalui teknik dasar dan teknik lanjutan. Teknik dasarnya disebut teknik sadap, sedangkan teknik lanjutannya adalah teknik simak bebas libat cakap dan teknik catat. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah ditemukannya berbagai bentuk kesantunan berbahasa dalam unggahan berita dan komentar berita politik nampak dalam empat hal, yaitu (1) penggunaan pronomina, (2) penggunaan bentuk ketidaklangsungan, (3) penggunaan kata kunci, dan (4) penggunaan kalimat bersifat empati. Kata Kunci: Kesantunan berbahasa, media sosial online, berita politik, facebookAbstract: The research aims to describe form of language politeness in uploaded news and comment in Facebook. This research was conducted in descriptive qualitative methodology. Source of research data was limited to political uploaded news in considering with the various uploaded content and the unlimited amount of uploaded news. The object of the research was the Facebook group conversation and the subject of the research was the political news conversation. The data collection method used the referral and writing methods. The implementation of data collection in this research was the referral method that was realized through basic and advanced techniques. The basic technique named tapping technique, while the advanced technique named free speech technique and note technique. The research results the discovery of various forms of language politeness in uploaded news and political news comment seen from four things, namely (1) the use of pronominal, (2) the use of form of continuity, (3) the use of key words, and (4) the use of empathetic sentences. Key words: language politeness, online social media, political news, Facebook

Congress Finally Passes Carried Interest Legislation, But is it Enough?

ABSTRACT After numerous failed previous attempts to enact legislation taxing “carried interest” income attributable to services as compensation income versus capital gains, Congress enacted Section 1061 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Unlike previous proposals, which would tax carried interest income attributable to services as compensation income, Section 1061 simply reclassifies some carried interest income attributable to services as short-term capital gain. By choosing to treat carried interest income attributable to services as short-term capital gain instead of as compensation income, Section 1061 exempts such income from self-employment tax and allows taxpayers to offset such income with an unlimited amount of short-term capital losses. This paper reviews the requirements under Section 1061 and explains several ambiguities created by the new law. In addition, this paper examines whether Section 1061 follows sound tax policy. The authors find that Section 1061 does not follow the tax policy concepts of equity and fairness, economic efficiency, neutrality, simplicity, or certainty. In addition, the authors find that Section 1061 will have minimal impact, as most carried interest is held longer than the required period to qualify as long-term capital gain.

The theory of lie: from the sophists to socrates

The last third of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century show the growth of scientific and especially, scientific-promotional papers on the problems of the particularities and forms of existence of deception and lie in European culture and social life. The concepts have emerged, proving the necessity and value of certain forms of lies for the preservation of the state, the family, and the implementation of the real practice of human communication: the existence of such activities as diplomacy, business, art and others. In some psychological and pedagogical papers define the idea of the importance of lie and deception for the development of the child’s intellectual abilities, and the success of the adult in the society. With almost unlimited amount of such literature of different theoretical levels, synthesizing the «philosophical and cultural studies of lies and deception» are much less. The papers devoted to the emergence of the first attempts of the theoretical explanation of the established practice of lying and deceiving with the help of rationally constructed theoretical constructions are not enough. This article is an attempt to fill this gap partially.