Similarly to globalization, which is related in one of the earliest discussions of the concept to the irreversible, technology-driven process of convergence in which everything becomes more like everything else, all differences are erased, and needs and desires are homogenized. The term internetization – inseparably connected with globalization – was initially coined to capture the enormous influence the internet has had on the scope and magnitude of the global economy (Passaris 2006). Both tendencies do not only apply to markets and physical spaces but also to different spheres of human life and social relationships. Whereas civil society was traditionally linked to, but autonomous from the power structure of the state, internetization made the boundary between the two much more porous. In many professions a sharp boundary between production and consumptions is vanishing and a new layer of prosumers or produsers is generated, consisting of that kind of users (e.g. of the web) who simultaneously create (produce) and consume products (such as web contents) thus transforming of leisure into working time at home (creating content that indirectly enable the exploitation of human consumption capability). Similarly, the boundary between privatness and publicness, which is socially permeable and historically variable, becomes increasingly porous in the age of the internet. Both privateness and publicness are closely linked with our actions aiming to control our relationships with others by controlling information and access. The issues of privatness and publicness became particularly contentious with the advance of communication technologies (most notably the Internet) and general acknowledgement that changes in communication technology and its social uses shape, often in controversial ways, the relationship between the right to privacy and the right to communicate.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 33452381Polling has significantly influenced conceptions of public opinion, and public opinion’s role in modern economies, polities and societies. It typically divided the academic community in those admiring polling as a tool of making democratic life more efficacious and its critics arguing that it undermined it fatally. The address identifies momentous controversies between the arguments of advocates (“pros”) and opponents (“cons”) of polling in the (re-)conceptualizations of critical dimensions of public opinion as defined in the traditional normative-critical conceptualization.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 33280349Metka Kuhar and Marjeta Novak prepared a meeting for the Slovenian Association of Facilitators (in Ljubljana on February 2nd 2015), where they presented the concept of deliberation and some examples of concrete deliberation processes; then, the meeting participants (15) participated in the (experimental) deliberative discussion and finally they reflected on the process.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 33171037Javnost—The Public, journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, was established in 1994 as an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal in the social sciences to address problems of the public sphere on international and interdisciplinary levels, to stimulate the development of theory and research in the field, and to help understand and bridge the differences between cultures. Since 1996, the journal is included in the Social Sciences Citation Index and over 15 other international bibliographical indexes and abstract banks. Since 2015, it is published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis. http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rjav20
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
Slavko Splichal organized a symposium on ethics of public discourse and hate speech at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and ArtS, December 15, 2015.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 33800029