The crisis of content verbality in Internet discourse

Исследуется кризис вербальности контента в интернет-дискурсе, его активная визуализация, связанная с новыми открытиями в области компьютерных технологий. Цель работы - дать полиаспектную характеристику этому явлению и обозначить перспективы его влияния на речемыслительную деятельность подрастающего поколения, составляющего большую часть пользователей социальных сетей. Актуальность данной проблематики обусловлена обеспокоенностью филологической общественностью тем, что мир становится все менее лингвистическим. Новизна заключается в том, что впервые интернет-дискурс рассматривается в контексте кризиса вербальности контента. При таких темпах визуализации медиатекстов вполне вероятно обострение кризиса вербальности, последствия которого могут негативно сказаться на мыслетворческой деятельности у подрастающего поколения, которая возможна только при высокой языковой компетенции. The paper examines the crisis of content verbality in the Internet discourse, its active visualization associated with new discoveries in the field of computer technology. The aim of the work is to give a multi-aspect characterization of this phenomenon and outline the prospects of its influence on the speech-thinking activity of the younger generation, which makes up the majority of users of social networks. The relevance of this issue is due to the concern of the philological community that the world is becoming less and less linguistic. The novelty lies in the fact that for the first time Internet discourse is considered in the context of the crisis of content verbality. At such a rate of visualization of media texts, it is likely that the crisis of verbality will aggravate, the consequences of which can negatively affect the thinking activity of the younger generation, which is possible only with high linguistic competence.

The development of innovative potential of employees with the use of visual technologies during post-crisis period

This article presents the research results on transformation of innovative potential of company employees during the post-crisis period by means of active visualization. A large number of executives distinguish the signs of experiencing crisis by company employees. There is striking need for implementation of innovations in the work of companies for the purpose of adjusting to the current situation in the world. The article describes innovative potential along with its content (creative approach towards work; attitude of personnel towards work in the situation of uncertainty; proactivity; low level of anxiety; high search activity). The data acquired in the course of diagnosis of innovative potential allows determining several groups of employees with different level of readiness for its fulfillment: with critical and low level of readiness for innovation; with tolerable level of readiness for innovation; with evident level of readiness for innovation. The majority of respondents are attributed the group with low level of readiness for innovation. The main sections of the program for training employees pertinent to the development of their innovative potential are outlined. The key component in implementation of such program consists in active visualization as a means for transformation of employees’ perceptions on innovation. It was determined that the use of visualization within the framework of helping employees to overcome changes significantly increased their innovative potential and readiness for innovation in their work. The respondents marked the increase in observation skills, ability to think outside the box, and relief of the fear of changes that take place in the company in post-crisis period.

Training as an Activity for Optimizing Emotional and Personality Wellbeing

Emotional and personality wellbeing (EPW) represents a complex system capturing a great number of elements, subjects, and objects that differ in a qualitative diversity of internal bonds and complexity of system–structural relationships with other systems and social milieu. This training aimed at optimizing emotional andpersonality wellbeing including a psychological impact on various components of the respondents’ implicit perceptions about their wellbeing, the individual’s awareness of wellbeing factors, their own limitations, adaptive resources, ability to reconstruct notional sphere and a constructive fashion of behavior. Extreme conditions of the activity predetermine most destructive effects on emotional and personal wellbeing.In light of this, the authors introduce the training program in the group of rescuers whose job involves a great number of physical and psychological risks. The training incorporates 5 four-hour thematic blocks and implies the use of such techniques as reflexive self-analysis and focusing, active visualization, techniques aimed at semantic processes’ facilitating, positive reinterpretation, as well as elements of bodily therapy, action-based and gaming techniques, coaching, sand therapy. The effectiveness of the training offered was confirmed upon applying the Wilcockson criterion that showed the validity of differences in SEPW (Self-evaluation of Emotional and Personality Wellbeing) indicators before and after the training: positive indicators have become significantly higher, negative – significantly lower; difference between mean values of integrated EPW indicators and mean value of EPW index have grown significantly. Thus, the training effectiveness was confirmed due to increased awareness of EPW self-evaluation and a wider repertoire of techniques providing normalization of actual psycho-emotional state. The authors underline that the developed training scenariocan be used in any vocational group with the account of specific character of its members’ activities. Keywords: emotional and personality wellbeing, self-evaluation, optimization,training

Supporting Spatial Cognition in Vascular Visualization

In this chapter, we introduce visualization techniques which have been developed with the goal to improve diagnosis based on volumetric angiography datasets. In particular, we propose passive as well as active techniques to make analysis of 3D angiography datasets more efficient and effective. The passive visualization techniques emphasize the depth structure of a dataset and require no user interaction. The proposed passive visualization techniques comprise depth-based color coding techniques, different types of edge enhancement and the application of rendering techniques which have been inspired by illustrations in order to enhance depth perception of complex blood vessel systems. The active visualization techniques presented within this chapter support user interaction and include depth-based replacements of the mouse cursor as well as multiple views providing further insights. We will also present the results of a user study we have conducted in order to evaluate the techniques.