2026· Bulletin of Liberal Arts University· Vol 14, pp. 187-199· 0 citations
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The scientific novelty of the work lies in the application of a synergetic approach to the analysis of network culture and the consideration of the consequences of technological singularity for this version of culture
Abstract
The information explosion that occurred at the end of the 20th century led to global paradigm shifts in society. In the context of the rapid development of the Internet and network culture, many novel phenomena have emerged within the technological singularity that were unusual for the earlier non-digital traditional culture, such as avatars, trolling, setting, and information inflation. The latter is associated with an extraordinary simplification of both an access to information, learning opportunities and self-study, as well as an extraordinary simplification of finding the right contacts. Artificial intelligence multiplies the effects of information inflation by delegating creative opportunities to the user. As a result, knowledge has ceased to be limited by education or state borders, and creativity has ceased to be the domain of abilities and talent. These inflationary processes are gaining a new meaning every year. The author touches upon topical issues of the development of network culture nd the consequences of information inflation. An assessment of these consequences is made from the point of view of axiology. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the application of a synergetic approach to the analysis of network culture and the consideration of the consequences of technological singularity for this version of culture. The issue focuses not only on the achievements of network culture, but also on the dangers associated with the negative consequences of information inflation.
A new kind of logic, a non-propositional, dialectic “Logic in Reality” (LIR), applicable to real systems and phenomena, as the “missing ingredient” required for such a theory.
Human society is unable to live and invent without communication and information exchange and without the necessary means to realize its aims. The last decades of the 20th century and especially the 21th century are considered to be the most dynamic phases in the development of society. The West and its culture, its free market economy, socio-political developments, and technological progress, have been reflected in diverse new notions, which have appeared in the vocabulary of languages.
The author argues that language as a basic means of human communication is an entity that has an interrelated system of words, word stock and grammatical structures. The author underlines the fact that language as a means of communication is prone to dying out unless it is enriched with new words that reflect the new developments of life and society. Indeed, what would happen to a language if it failed in transmitting the ideas of people to each other and stopped being a mean of conveying information and feelings from one person to another?
Finally, the author denotes two methods of word formation for the Armenian language: linear/morphemic, which for centuries has been a dominant tool for enriching and enlarging the Armenian vocabulary, and nonlinear/inner which is the result of a specific modification of meanings, morphological features and syntactic applications of the word. A third track of enriching Armenian has been borrowing words from other languages.
Աշոտ Հայրապետեան· Haigazian Armenological Revi...· 0 citations
This Intervention reflects on the multiple, contradictory and ambivalent relations human geography has with ‘the new’. Some sort of relation with the new is an inescapable and necessary part of all practices of knowledge generation. Newness, whether it be an empirical finding, an idea, a concept or an approach, can fuel the interest, wonder, urgency or surprise that can animate and sustain academic life. Yet, relations with the new are fraught. Claims of newness are enrolled into materially consequential systems and practices of audit, and the desire for newness is inseparable from the digitally mediated political economy of academic publishing. Questions persist about whether contemporary human geography is too beholden to the same or too enamoured by the new. Developing from a plenary panel at the RGS‐IBG 2025 annual conference, five contributors reflect on their own and (sub)disciplinary relations with the new in the context of these necessary but fraught relations. In doing so, the aim of the Intervention is to generate reflection and discussion about the place of newness in our research, what kinds of newness geography values, and the political and ethical implications of different ways of relating to and valorising the new.
Ben Anderson, K. Brickell, David Bissell et al.· Transactions (Institute of B...· 1 citation
Traditionally, the information process had the receiver as the end point of a negotiation that started with the producers of events and reached the audience through journalistic mediation. Now, in digital spaces, the terms have been reversed: each person creates a specific and idiosyncratic information diet, obviously relying on the mainstream media. The focus is on the recipient, who has an almost infinite number of options to choose from. The individual receiver becomes his or her own de facto gatekeeper, less supported in his or her news consumption by the journalist’s own work of news selection, hierarchisation and presentation. Moreover, he has to carry out these processes on his own, through the information channels he considers most appropriate.Starting from this scenario, which highlights the features of a new ecology of information, the paper aims to describe and analyse the complex relationship between journalistic production and publics within the mediatised public sphere. The aim is to understand how the idea of a journalistic field, understood as a “space of relationships”, manages to overcome all the personal, political and techno-economic logics within the current flow of information, in order to create the conditions for co-participation and thus the definition of a new information pact. We are faced with an information system in transition, capable of producing changes in the audience and in the way public opinion is formed. The fact that audiences are increasingly sceptical and cynical can be an “advantage”, because it is a sting in the tail for a journalism that tries too hard to chase quantity of news rather than quality.
Keywords: personal: political, journalism, news, relational work, audiences
Giacomo Buoncompagni· Heteroglossia. Quaderni di L...· 0 citations
Under conditions of information asymmetry, the signal transmission and the interpretation of signals serve as a crucial means of communication among states. The article traces the evolution of signaling theory, with particu-lar attention to the accumulation of theoretical knowledge in Western science as well as its reception and inno-vative development in the Chinese academic environment. The authors demonstrate that Western signaling theory has progressed from the “convergence of two origins” stage, i.e. the parallel emergence of game theory and psychology, to empirical deepening within rationalism, and then to a revival phase marked by the plural-istic methodologies integration, which in turn has formed a multi-level theoretical system. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese scientific community, after having gone through the stages of borrowing and mastering, of expanding research agenda, and theoretical innovation, has made a unique contribution to na-tionally distinctive theoretical development (e.g., strategic narrative). The research reveals that the evolution of signaling theory represents not only a process of continuous refinement of formal methods but also a historical process of theoretical rethinking and practical embodiment across diverse political cultures.
Jing-Kai Zhang, L. Lbova· Общество политика экономика...· 0 citations
The author, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Dilenschneider Group, elaborates on the significant worldwide changes that have taken place since the founding of Leader to Leader in 1996. He recounts that ″few if any of us knew the world in general and the United States in particular were on the brink of dramatic changes in business, trade, finance and politics.″ He describes the major changes in “the digital realm,” plus economics, finance, and more, including the transformative effects of artificial intelligence. Transformative events during this time period included the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020 and beyond. These and other events he describes continue to reverberate worldwide. He says we must also consider the phenomenon of backlash, which “is always the companion of major social, industrial and technological developments. It is a serious mistake not to expect it, and an even worse mistake to underestimate its importance.”
R. Dilenschneider· Leader to Leader· 0 citations
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