The Forms of Expression Of Society Virtualization as a Post-Historical Phenomenon (Ukrainian Aspect)

The article aims to study of one of the relevant issues in the field of the modern post-history, namely, the virtualization of society. The latter is considered as a result of the postmodern worldview and the simulative nature of knowledge about social reality. The subject of the research involves the forms of virtual culture reflected in today’s Ukrainian society. Given the specifics of the identified issue, the author of the article draws attention to the specific methodological apparatus of the research. The narrative background of the research, as well as the principle of historicism, allows one to consider virtualization as a process of modelling social reality using computer technologies, whose image or prototype is a historical reality. It is important to note that the virtualization of society has a historical conditionality, which makes it possible to consider it as the next stage of the historical and cultural development of society. At the same time, the modern type of culture is a virtual culture, whose main creator and consumer is human. Its main feature is a pronounced innovative character. The main forms of Ukrainian society virtualization are focused on virtual communities and virtual states. Importantly, each of them mimics the social reality, whose prototype is an image characterizing the cultural identity of society.

Flowers and thorns in pregnancy: experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the repercussions of COVID-19 on the path of pregnancy. Method: Qualitative, participatory action research (PAR) study, based on Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary. A virtual culture circle was held in October 2020, with the participation of 12 pregnant women, living in the South and Southeast regions of Brazil. Results: In the virtual culture circle, pregnant women talked and critically reflected on two generating themes: flowers and thorns in the course of pregnancy. They meant living in the virtual culture circle as spaces for sharing experiences, welcoming and learning, among others. Conclusions: For the participants, pregnancy during the pandemic brought difficulties such as social isolation, absence from work and the university, fears, anxieties, loneliness and insecurities. However, it also improved health care, intensifying self-care and investment in family relationships.

Health promotion in coping with COVID-19: a Virtual Culture Circle experience

ABSTRACT Objective: To report the experience of a Virtual Culture Circle with Brazilian families about coping with COVID-19, as a space that promotes health during the pandemic. Method: Experience resulting from an extension action, the Virtual Culture Circle was held based on Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary. It counted with the participation of seven families from different locations in Brazil. During the dialogues, a house was built: the foundation represented the thematic research; walls and roof, coding and decoding; doors and windows, the critical unveiling. Results: The action-reflection-action process favored the approach and integration of the participants of the Culture Circle; despite the geographical distance, it is an innovative strategy for empowerment and health promotion. Final considerations: The Virtual Culture Circle constituted a soft technology for health care and can be explored as a tool for promoting health, especially in scenarios where face-to-face meetings are an impossibility.

Repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic from the childrens’ perspective

Objective: To understand the repercussions of Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) from the perspective of schoolchildren. Materials and method: A qualitative study, of the participant action type, based on Paulo Freire’s theoretical and methodological precepts. The participants were 10 children living in the coastal area of Santa Catarina, Brazil, from a virtual culture circle held in July 2020. An analogy was made with the colored pencil to go through the stages of the research itinerary. Results: Two generative themes emerged for discussion: the good things of the COVID-19 pandemic and the “cannots” of the pandemic. In the first theme, they highlighted more time with the family and strengthening family ties, proximity to pets, and self-care. In the second, they pointed out the impossibility of playing with friends, celebrating birthdays and hugging people. Conclusions: The children identified positive and negative points experienced during the pandemic and unveiled the challenges of transforming moments of social isolation into spaces of family proximity, although restricted to their homes.

POLA-POLA KOMUNIKASI DALAM KEBUDAYAAN DIGITAL

Artikel ini berisi kajian tentang relasi interaksional masyarakat di dunia virtual di Indonesia. Relasi tersebut dipahami telah membentuk sebuah kebudayaan tersediri, yakni kebudayaan di dunia virtual, yang dalam kajian ini disebut sebagai kebudayaan digital. Relasi interaksional yang dimaksud tidak lain adalah cara bagaimana informasi diproduksi, didistribusikan, dan dipertukarkan dalam proses komunikasi. Dengan menggunakan metode netnografi— sebuah metode yang merupakan pengembangan dari etnografi menjadi “cyber-etnografi” atau etnografi virtual—ditemukan beberapa pola tentang bagaimana proses komunikasi tersebut berlangsung, antara lain pola komunikasi berbasis “teman”, komunikasi tanpa pengirim dan komunikasi berbasis tanda semiosis. Dasar dari semua pola itu adalah tradisi kelisanan yang sejak awal memang telah melekat menjadi semacam “DNA” kebudayaan Indonesia. Oleh sebab itu, komunikasi atau interaksi online dalam kebudayaan digital Indonesia tidak pernah menjadikan komunikasi face to face (kopi darat) tersisihkan. Alih-alih demikian, komunikasi dalam dunia online menjadi bagian dari proses menuju pada komunikasi face to face.  This article contains a study of interactional relations of people on the virtual world in Indonesia. The relationship is understood to have formed a particular culture, namely virtual culture, which is referred to as digital culture in this study. The interactional relations are the way in which information is produced, distributed, and exchanged in a communication process. Using netnography method —a method developed from ethnography into “cyber-ethnography” or virtual ethnography—, several patterns about how the communication process takes place were found. The patterns include communication based on “friends”, communication without senders, and communication based on signs of semiosis. The basis of all these patterns is the oral tradition which has been inherited to be the “DNA” of Indonesian culture since long time ago. Thus, online communication or interaction in Indonesian digital culture has never made face to face communication (meet up) excluded. Instead, communication in the online world becomes a part of the process towards face to face communication. Â

Książka jako „złoty standard” w naukach humanistycznych i społecznych

The article is devoted to the role of monographs in university humanisties and social sciences. The various contexts of the main problem are analysed with the special attention to the academic promotion and the „writing as a thinking” thesis. At the end the pedagogical role of the bookas a source of linea thinking is considered.against the backgroung of the growing dominance of virtual culture.