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According to a number of scholars, the rise of Twitter publishing had to lead a new level of informational openness in social networks and to increase of press freedom. At the same time, some recent studies have shown significant criticism towards political efficacy of Twitter [7]. We analyze Twitter as a part of the hybridized media system [6] suggesting after Adam and Pfetsch [1] that political dimension of hybridization and spill-over effects between different media will be specific to the socio-political conte...

The category of time is interesting for representatives of various research fields. Time is referred to space, world of objects, and motion. Human, by referring to time, makes it anthropologic and brings in an axiological aspect. Time from the position of personality is a subjective category. The present paper is a study of subjective notions of time held by Old Believers, a sub-ethnos or ethno-confessional group of Old Believers living on the territory of Latvia since the 17th century, after the church schism in ...

Region is a territory united by common features that differentiate the concrete area from other neighbouring territories. It is characterized by persistent and stable cultural models, which have formed and continue shaping in the course of history and which determine its pace and direction of development. The cultural space in its essence cannot be viewed only horizontally, it should be viewed also vertically as a depository of intangible values. The mundane or traditional that is concerned with the worldly matter...