Cyfrowe (nie)kompetencje. Nowe technologie w służbie „ja”

The paper aims at examining the significance of new media for redefining meanings of social competences. As social actors witness new social situations in the technologically mediated world, they start seeking for altern...

Na film czy do kina? O sposobach redagowania pokazów kinowych okresu niemego

This funny question in the title, which is often asked to couples pretending to go to the cinema, is no longer so amusing, when we refer it to the audience enjoying the charms of the Tenth Muse during the silent movie. A...

Współczesne sposoby popularyzacji opery

Betty Friedan, Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett and the 1960s’ Challenge to the Suburban Era Mystique of Security and Order

The paper examines and compares some of the 1960s’ most representative expressions of social critique: Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Richard Sennett’...

Wampir antybohaterem? (Próżne) zmagania z rolą superbohatera na przykładzie Morbiusa, żywego wampira.

The aim of the paper is to analyze the American comic book character named Michael Morbius, the Living Vampire, who appears in Marvel comics and other audiovisual texts of culture (most notably the 1994 Spider-Man animat...