Semiotic analysis. Example “Deutschland”
Culture and language are phenomena that are closely connected and deeply intertwined. Analysis of a specific culture is impossible without analysis of a symbolic system used for the communication between people belonging to this culture.
Stuart Hall and “Encoding/Decoding”
Stuart Hall displays the influence of semiotics in his writing “Encoding and Decoding in Television Discourse” where new paradigms were successfully included in social discourse and provided a new and wider framework for further media science and cultural critical researches.
The challenge of algorithmic autopoiesis
Today we live in a world where social and technological spheres have become so gigantic so they deservedly demand the re-evaluation of their position in the environment. Technology has become the new environment for the life.
Education, Global Justice and Global Democracy
We live in a totally unbalanced world. One abstract part of the world presented by the minority of the population controls the main part of the resources flow, financial mechanisms and technologies
Killing Robots and Just War Theory
Justification of war as an objective phenomenon found its place as a traditional theory of just war. Theorists of this concept explain that war can be ethical if it follows certain rules.
Functional-media literacy, Critical-media literacy, and Civic-media literacy
With new digital technologies becoming popular in society, and the development of new media tools such as messengers, social networks, blogs and online news, the scope of media literacy become significantly wider. Media literacy becomes vital for educating people about how to deal with information streams that people daily consume online.
Archetype
Archetype is a literary, philosophical and psychological concept that is used to distinguish a special category of referents which point to deeply rooted and usually unconscious senses.
Part 2. On the edge of the humanitarian catastrophe. Greece-Congo
We are wandering between countless trading tents of the biggest flea market in Greece. Dirt, unsanitary conditions and a huge amount of trash on the shelves. Local people call it "One Euro Market". Electronics, clothes, and other stuff that either is old or not demanded in mainstream markets. On the edge of capitalism, you can buy a new Nikon camera for 100 euro or a stolen iPhone 7 for 60 euros.
Part 1. On the edge of the humanitarian catastrophe. Greece
We are at the entrance of the Eleonas Camp - one of the biggest refugee camps on the territory of Athens county. This camp is a temporary host for 2000 persons who applied for asylum in Greece. Most of them are Syrian citizens, people from Afghanistan and African countries.
