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The Covid-19 pandemic has changed just about everything in terms of how we operate personally and professionally. Now involves less physical contact and more digital touchpoints. The study looks at the third period of the pandemic in Latvia, almost two years after the initial outbreak of Covid-19 and at a point when most European countries have achieved majority/ herd immunity thanks to double vaccination. At this time, vaccination certificates have already been introduced in Latvia, which would allow the curb of ...

Digitalisation was introduced very rapidly into the daily lives of Northern Europeans and, therefore, this process brought with it significant change to many daily spheres and routines for the country’s population. Nordic countries (including Baltic countries) often top the rankings in terms of innovation and digitalisation, positioning themselves as the digital leaders of Europe. The Baltic region is emerging as Europe’s innovation hub. It is not always easy for senior citizens to adapt to these changes. Mode...

Children are growing up in a digital environment and, from early on, they get used to watching films and images first and foremost, well before they learn to read. The screen keeps entertaining even very young “illiterate”. Slowly but steadily the screen becomes the child’s best friend and their main window onto the outside world, as determined by digital addiction. It contains moving pictures and is predominated by fascinating narratives. Therefore, within the framework of this study, it seemed important to...

The method of dialogue analysis to be used in relation to a literary text as proposed by the Russian linguist, Mikhail Bakhtin, can be used in media communications research. His dialogism comes in handy in the analysis of mass communications processes, especially for the purpose of establishing why the same fact or event is interpreted differently in reports by various media sources. The advantage of heteroglossia as defined by Bakhtin is that it allows us to look at changes that are made to the same report after ...

Intrapersonal communication is classed as being the exchange of information with oneself through a process of internal vocalisation and reflective thinking. It is an important element of the human communication process, one which triggers the starting position for communication information chain as В‘it functions as a motive which causes movement resulting in the movement of an informative impulseВ’ [10, 83]. As a result of movement, changes its meaning as it participates in the act of change in terms of symbolic ...