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NOȚIUNEA DE ”ONLINE” ÎN SISTEMUL EDUCAȚIONAL
Get PDFAceastă lucrare își propune explorarea amănunțită a termenului ”online” la nivelul instituțiilor de învățământ prin analizarea evoluției digitalizării educaționale. Scopul cercetării este identificarea impactului transpunerii în online a mediului academic, analizând modul în care decursul educațional este adaptat noilor tehnologii, precum și efectele asupra proceselor de predare și învățare. Cercetarea se fundamentează pe mai multe articole științifice și studii anterioare ce abordează subiectul digitalizării învățământului, având drept sursă de inspirație o serie de jurnale ale facultății SNSPA: SCRD Journal, SCIC Proceedings, TRUST Proceedings. Mai mult, lucrarea utilizează o gamă largă de abordări, prin îmbinarea studiului, analizei datelor și interpretarea rezultatelor sondajului de opinie. Prin acestea, se dorește obținerea unei perspective complexe și complete asupra percepției termenului ”online” la nivel educațional și nivelul de receptivitate asupra noilor tehnologii. Lucrarea include o analiză a modului în care instrumentul bazat pe Inteligența Artificială: ChatGPT poate fi utilizat în procesul educațional și în redactarea lucrărilor de licență. Rezultatul acestei cercetări va reliefa diferențele între universitățile deschise la digitalizare și cele reticiente față de aceasta, avantajele și dezavantajele implementării, precum și impactul adaptabilității atât asupra studenților, cât și a cadrelor didactice. Va fi subliniată o evoluție la nivelul integrării resurselor online, dar, cu toate acestea, evoluția este stompată de accesul inegal la tehnologie, analfabetizare digitală și pregătirea insuficientă a cadrelor didactice. Rezultatele sunt relevante în special pentru persoanele afectate direct de digitalizarea educațională: cadrele didactice și studenți, cât și pentru cercetătorii din domeniul învățământului, din perspectiva oferirii unei viziuni asupra termenului ”online” și discrepanța decalajelor digitale întâmpinate. Această lucrare reflectă contribuția personală asupra domeniului educațional și asocierea acestuia în cadrul tehnologizării, prin corelarea datelor analizate și a aspectelor teoretice în vederea propunerii unei analize comparative și a metodelor de combatere a obstacolelor în contextul actual
Images of the Moral Order: (Im)Morality and Redemption in Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
No full textThe article starts from investigating the human preoccupation with the role and importance of divine providence through the centuries, with special emphasis on eighteenth-century English images of providence and divine authority, while observing the way in which the old tradition of magic and providential action was, during the same century, gradually overcome by the influence of Christian precepts and beliefs. Eighteenth-century England does not appear, at first sight, as a particularly religious age. Yet, religious themes pervade almost all the novels of the period, focusing on issues of morality or immorality. The recurrent invocation of, and belief in, God’s guidance of humans was also related to human sinful practices under such forms as theft, adultery, or prostitution. The article analyses the way in which images of providence and human practices related to morality or immorality played an important role on the cultural scene of the eighteenth-century England, particularly in Daniel Defoe’s novel The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders and Henry Fielding’s The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Special attention is paid to some key social and cultural agents such as the priest or, at the opposite pole, the prostitute seeking redemption. Investigating these characters’ relation to the divine order and its injunctions, the article intends to reveal their moral and spiritual accomplishment or failure
Addressing the age-old question of human perfectibility in Daniel Defoe's Mere Nature Delineated: or, a Body without a Soul
No full textThis article discusses the concern with the improvement or perfectibility of human nature in eighteenth-century English society and the necessity of its encouragement considering the prevalence of human degeneration at different levels: intellectual, moral, social, political or cultural. After a brief presentation of the philosophical and literary background of the perfectibility debates, we look into Daniel Defoe's literary representation of human improvement and degeneration in his Mere Nature Delineated: or, a Body without a Soul (1726). Defoe's pamphlet had its roots in a real case of human imperfection or degradation, namely in Peter the Wild Boy's story, which gave him the opportunity to criticize his contemporaries' vices and failures.This article discusses the concern with the improvement or perfectibility of human nature in eighteenth-century English society and the necessity of its encouragement considering the prevalence of human degeneration at different levels: intellectual, moral, social, political or cultural. After a brief presentation of the philosophical and literary background of the perfectibility debates, we look into Daniel Defoe's literary representation of human improvement and degeneration in his Mere Nature Delineated: or, a Body without a Soul (1726). Defoe's pamphlet had its roots in a real case of human imperfection or degradation, namely in Peter the Wild Boy's story, which gave him the opportunity to criticize his contemporaries' vices and failures
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Images of the Moral Order: (Im)Morality and Redemption in Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
No full textThe article starts from investigating the human preoccupation with the role and importance of divine providence through the centuries, with special emphasis on eighteenth-century English images of providence and divine authority, while observing the way in which the old tradition of magic and providential action was, during the same century, gradually overcome by the influence of Christian precepts and beliefs. Eighteenth-century England does not appear, at first sight, as a particularly religious age. Yet, religious themes pervade almost all the novels of the period, focusing on issues of morality or immorality. The recurrent invocation of, and belief in, God’s guidance of humans was also related to human sinful practices under such forms as theft, adultery, or prostitution. The article analyses the way in which images of providence and human practices related to morality or immorality played an important role on the cultural scene of the eighteenth-century England, particularly in Daniel Defoe’s novel The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders and Henry Fielding’s The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Special attention is paid to some key social and cultural agents such as the priest or, at the opposite pole, the prostitute seeking redemption. Investigating these characters’ relation to the divine order and its injunctions, the article intends to reveal their moral and spiritual accomplishment or failure
KNYGŲ KAIP PREKIŲ ŽENKLŲ SKLAIDA IR AUTORIAUS TAPATYBĖS REIKŠMĖ: LYGINAMASIS POŽIŪRIS
No full textMarketing books discuss personality branding, institutional branding, corporate branding, product branding, or touristic branding, but books are excluded from the discussion on product brands, even though we witness a growing interest in books and writers as cultural products. More than that, we may say that the book is a commodity in the context of the consumer revolution and “the commoditization of knowledge”, to use Roberta Sassatelli’s phrase [31]. If nations, towns, universities, business schools, celebrities, even TV programmes are brands, then books could be considered as brands, too. We could even say that books are commodified brands and the branding process must involve efficient branding strategies, so authors construct a brand as a marker of their identity in the postmodern commodified world.The paper looks at some current strategies for book and authorial branding, which were theoretically launched by American authors, and the ways in which they are practised by English and Romanian authors. Firstly, we provide the aims and scope of the study and the conceptual framework assisting us in the discussion of current trends in book branding, and we also expound the trajectory from classical brand types to books as brands. Secondly, we present the major features of the book branding process and illustrate some book and authorial branding strategies and the extent of their usage in England and Romania, such as self-publishing, the digitalization of the writer, the commodification of arts or the pact between art and business, which instantiates this phenomenon. The results of the comparative exploration of these branding strategies disclose the various differences between Romanian and English literary production, management and marketing practices that enable books and their authors to respond to the new cultural and commercial demands.The investigation takes its cue from aspects concerning literary production, modern publishing and print culture, marketing discourse and practices, cultural production, and cultural studies in general.Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of BacăuStr. Spiru Haret, nr. 8, Bacău 600114, RomaniaE-mail address: Kalbant apie knygų prekybą, nagrinėjama institucijų, asmenybių, korporacijų ir bendrųjų produktų, net turistinių prekių ir kitokių ženklų sklaida, tačiau apie pačias knygas kaip prekių ženklus dažniausiai nutylima, nors susidomėjimas knygomis ir jų kūrėjais kaip kultūros produktais akivaizdžiai didėja. Negana to, Robertos Sassatelli žodžiais galime teigti, kad vartojimo revoliucijos ir „žinių suprekinimo“ kontekste knygos tampa preke. Jei tautos, miestai, universitetai, verslo mokyklos, asmenybės, net televizijos programos yra prekių ženklai, tai ir knygas galima vertinti kaip prekių ženklus. Galima net sakyti, kad knygos – tai sukomercinti prekių ženklai ir jų sklaidos procesas turi apimti našias strategijas: autoriai kuria savo prekės ženklą kaip savo tapatybės žymenį postmoderniame suprekintame pasaulyje.Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos kai kurios šiuolaikinės knygų ir autorių kaip prekių ženklų sklaidos strategijos, kurių teorinį pagrindą sukūrė JAV autoriai, ir tai, kaip šias strategijas taiko Jungtinės Karalystės ir Rumunijos autoriai. Pirmiausia apibūdinami tyrimo tikslai, apimtis ir konceptualioji sistema, padedanti aptarti dabartines knygų kaip prekės ženklų sklaidos kryptis, taip pat aiškinama, kaip buvo pereita nuo klasikinių prekės ženklų tipų prie knygų kaip prekės ženklų, atskleidžiami svarbiausi knygų kaip prekės ženklų sklaidos ypatumai, kai kurios knygų ir autorių kaip prekės ženklų sklaidos strategijos ir jų naudojimo mastas Jungtinėje Karalystėje bei Rumunijoje (autorinė leidyba, tekstų skaitmeninimas, menų suprekinimas arba meno ir verslo susiliejimas kaip šio reiškinio išraiška). Lyginamasis šių strategijų tyrimas išryškina Jungtinės Karalystės ir Rumunijos rašytinės kūrybos, vadybos ir rinkodaros praktikų skirtumus, kurie knygoms ir jų autoriams padeda atitikti naujus kultūrinius ir komercinius poreikius.Nagrinėti šią temą paskatino spausdintinės produkcijos, dabarties knygų leidybos ir spaudos kultūros aktualijos, rinkodaros diskursas ir jo praktika, kultūrinės produkcijos ir kultūros studijos apskritai
Revisiting British royalty myths in Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader
Get PDFA number of English writers have started to criticize the monarchy in line with
public anti-monarchist views which are mainly stimulated by campaign group
Republic.2 Among them, Sue Townsend (1946 – ) is both comical and subtly ironic
in her novels The Queen and I (1992), Number Ten (2002) or Queen Camilla
(2006). In The Uncommon Reader (2006/2008), the critical voice of another
English writer, Alan Bennett (1934 – ), is milder and more sympathetic; yet,
underneath the apparently humorous attitude concerning the British monarchy, he
also tackles some significant concerns or complaints of the British subjects
concerning their sovereign
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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