The relevance of the study is based on the fact that in sociology, the phenomenon
of mass media is included in the object-subject field of several industries:
sociology of mass media, sociology of the media means, sociology of journalism,
sociology of the Internet, and sociology of online media. The novelty of the work
is determined by the…[Read more]

The cultivation of political fears of the state and radical change of attitudes in
the minds of people is possible in certain socio-political and economic
conditions and massive propaganda in the mass media. The concept of political
fear is insufficiently studied in psycholinguistics. This article is dedicated to
exploring the political fears…[Read more]

The relevance of the study is determined by the question as to in which version
the environmental consciousness of a person should be considered. The novelty
of the study is determined by the possibility of not only forming ecological
awareness but also imparting environmental education in their professional
and everyday living environments.…[Read more]

The first edition of the Macaronic works of Teofilo Folengo (called Paganini/ P after the publisher) is a beautiful work printed in graceful Italic font, 27 lines per page, with explanatory and humorous glosses in the margins.

In 1517 Teofilo Folengo published an epic poem under the name Merlin. Another Folengo pseudonym (or heteronym) wrote a wildly creative account of the dicovery of this text and praise for the author.

Unfortunately, tragedies occur all around the world every day. It is perceived by many as particularly devastating when children are the victims of the tragedy. When these events do occur, the media is likely to cover them in part due to the innocence and vulnerability of the victims. In reading media accounts of tragedies involving children, we…[Read more]

El aumento del cúmulo de documentación científica ha favorecido el desarrollo de medios tecnológicos para la descripción y gestión de documentos en línea. El formato automatizado de gestión bibliográfica MARC 21, se presenta como el más utilizado dentro de las bibliotecas y centros de documentación debido a sus capacidades de gestión y funcionalid…[Read more]

Sedentary pathways to organise teaching and learning in fixed-abode classrooms remain a dominant formal schooling practice. This is in contrast to nomadic pathways, which see teachers and/or learners engaged in a form of mobility whilst teaching/learning outside permanent sedentary settings. In northern Nigeria, not all children participating in…[Read more]

Maybe it’s unsurprising that I think about scholarly communication in terms similar to U.S. politics. I originally drafted this article for the Library Publishing Coalition blog before the 2020 election and revised it for C&RL News during the weirdly long interregnum period before the actual inauguration. The 2016 Republican National Committee w…[Read more]

Philology haunts the humanities, through both its defendants and its detractors. This article examines the construction of philology as the premier science of the long nineteenth century in Europe. It aims to bring the history of philology up to date by taking it seriously as a science and giving it the kind of treatment that has dominated the…[Read more]

Who leads, participates in, and is served by global knowledge infrastructure? Check out these takeaways from the recent Library Publishing Forum Conference from the perspective of a member of the planning committee.

Lady Liberty! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Theological Questions is an Open Educational Resource (free textbook) that originates from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. There it is used in the first of two required core theology courses. It is designed to give a broad historical overview of theological questions from the perspective of the Catholic tradition. It seeks to represent f…[Read more]

La Arquitectura de Información es la disciplina que contribuye al diseño web. Si está centrado en el usuario favorece que este satisfaga sus necesidades informativas. El sitio web de la Dirección de Información Científico Técnica (biblioteca universitaria), de la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, no satisface las necesidade…[Read more]

This article reflects on how our own technological developments can help us see Herodotus’ archetype of historical inquiry in a new light. It explores various aspects of place in the Histories—as spaces that are lived, constructed, and relational—to show how and why the idea of place can be such a powerful means for linking information and under…[Read more]

This is a gut-reaction response to the recent article “The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts” by Melissa Terras, et al, published in Big Data and Society on April 6, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211006165. My main argument is that exploiting labor and appropriating cultural heritage are int…[Read more]

This presentation brings together and builds on previous studies of queer representation using the LGBTQ Video Game Archive and the Represent Me games database (Cole et al. 2017) in order to investigate unexplored trends and invisible queer intersections in video games. Specifically, we draw on Queer Intersections in Video Games (Mejeur 2018), a…[Read more]

This research examined how the context in which an object is placed affects the information that person viewing the object gleans from it. It used objects displayed in museums as they were easily accessible and were a ready source of a variety of types of display and information.

It used the concept of ‘object as document’, initially dev…[Read more]