Cultural institutions are exceptional spaces where time gains new meanings. By interacting with stakeholders, responding to the needs declared by potential recipients, and setting trends – they become active participants in the process of shaping and giving meaning to cultural heritage, of which one of the most important components is also time. Therefore, it turns out that employees of cultural institutions are responsible not only for managing themselves but for managing the processes taking place within an organization as well, moreover they are also obliged to closely observe the dynamically changing world. This text aims to diagnose and describe the importance of time – according to employees – in working in cultural institutions. To prepare the article, the author used the research conducted for the purposes of her thesis entitled Time management – aporia or utopia? In line with the adopted methodological strategy, the method of narrative collage was used, consisting of collecting fictional stories from employees of cultural organizations. The analysis of the obtained research material made it possible to diagnose the challenges faced by cultural institutions, related to, inter alia, inadequate financing, failure of taking into account the individual needs and expectations of employees and chaos in the working time organization.
The aim of the conducted research was to analyze the activity of the Polish Ministry of Education and Science on Twitter and to diagnose and then describe the perspective (experiences, reflections, postulates) of Twitter users, thus enabling the analysis and evaluation of activities undertaken in the field of shaping education policy in times of Russian aggression to Ukraine. The subject of the research were entries and comments posted on the Twitter platform on the account of the Polish Ministry of Education and Science in Poland placed in the time period from February 24, 2022 (the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) to June 1, 2022 (celebration related to Children’s Day). The collected data were analyzed in the MAXQDA program in accordance with the prepared – described in detail in the article – code key. As part of the research, a total of 259 posts and 2,339 comments were analyzed. It turned out that Twitter users are reluctant to create recommendations (3% of all entries), while the vast majority of comments contain negative opinions and experiences related to education policy. The analysis also showed a worrying trend towards an increasing number of hate speech comments. Users often used the Twitter platform to mock politicians, but also made statements directed against the Ukrainian people. Based on the conducted research, it is extremely difficult to describe the activities undertaken in the field of education policy by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science. It should be noted that the analyzed entries in most cases are only very short messages, often referring only to visits or speeches by politicians. At the same time, it is worth emphasizing that comments posted by users rarely enter into substantive polemics, because they are usually only a vent for very negative emotions.
Pandemia COVID-19 przyczyniła się do powstania grup antyszczepionkowych i rozpowszechniania teorii spiskowych w mediach społecznościowych. Te pseudonaukowe teorie spiskowe doprowadziły do rozprzestrzeniania się w społeczeństwie ksenofobicznych, rasistowskich i potencjalnie szkodliwych informacji. Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu wypełnienie luki badawczej poprzez zagłębienie się w czynniki kontekstowe, które wspierają rozwój teorii spiskowych. Celem tego artykułu jest rozpoznanie istoty i aktywności członków społeczności cyfrowej oraz zidentyfikowanie kontekstów (kulturowych, ekonomicznych, politycznych, społecznych itp.) wspierających proces generowania teorii spiskowych na przykładzie grupy na Facebooku. Zastosowanym podejściem metodologicznym będzie wirtualna etnografia (netnografia), przeprowadzona poprzez eksploracyjne studium przypadku wybranej grupy na Facebooku. Dane empiryczne pochodzą z okresu od marca 2020 r. do czerwca 2022 r. Aby usprawnić analizę, zespół badawczy wyodrębnił cztery słowa kluczowe lub pojęcia – „koronawirus”, „COVID-19”, „COVID” i „SARS‑CoV-2” – w oparciu o częstotliwość ich występowania w treści. Badanie przyjmuje perspektywę interdyscyplinarną, opierając się na spostrzeżeniach z zakresu studiów medialnych, komunikacji społecznej, socjologii i antropologii. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie aktualnego stanu projektu, który otrzymał dofinansowanie w ramach Programu Strategicznego Inicjatywa Doskonałości Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the emergence of anti-vaccine groups and the dissemination of conspiracy theories on social media. These pseudoscientific conspiracy theories have led to the spread of xenophobic, racist, and potentially harmful information within society. This article aims to address a research gap by delving into the contextual factors that support the development of conspiracy theories. The aim of this article is to recognize the essence and activity of members of the digital community and to identify the contexts (cultural, economic, political, social, etc.) supporting the process of generating conspiracy theories using the example of a Facebook group. The methodological approach employed will be virtual ethnography (netnography), conducted through an exploratory case study of a selected Facebook group. The empirical data were taken from March 2020 to June 2022. To streamline the analysis, the research team extracted four keywords or concepts – “coronavirus”, “COVID-19”, “COVID”, and “SARS‑CoV-2” – based on the frequency of their occurrence in the content. The research adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing upon insights from media studies, social communication, sociology, and anthropology. The objective of this article is to present the current status of the project, which has received funding under the Strategic Program Excellence Initiative of Jagiellonian University.
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