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Papers by Martin Solík
European Journal Of Media, Art & Photography
Cartoon humour does not provoke reactions of laughter and amusement randomly, immediately, withou... more Cartoon humour does not provoke reactions of laughter and amusement randomly, immediately, without any particular intention or thought, but because it is dependent on our physical and mental dispositions to perceive and interpret the observed image, which is inherently polysemic. Just as we are able to analyse social interactions and their meanings, we are able to analyse the meanings of images and notice their subjective and objective levels of interpretation. Cartooning is all about perceiving and observing details that we have learned to overlook over time. Cartoon and caricature imply visual, cultural and semantic components, especially the cartoon or otherwise caricatured image, the theme, the content and the humour – the comic, ironic or satirical sphere of life or cultural and artistic expression, taking the form of a joke, anecdote or aphorism. A caricature is a deliberate modification of a phenomenon with the intention of retouching or hyperbolizing some particulars or a si...
SGEM 2014 Scientific SubConference on PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, SOCIOLOGY AND HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, 2014
This paper presents the most interesting results of the research that was aimed at answering the ... more This paper presents the most interesting results of the research that was aimed at answering the question what value groups are dominant with the youth in connection with perception of individual and group role model incentives. Our objective was to
Human Affairs, 2014
The present article deals with issues of social recognition in the global and transnational envir... more The present article deals with issues of social recognition in the global and transnational environment. It deals with the issue of solidarity, a form of recognition that has no adequate parallel beyond nation state borders and manifests itself mainly in the transnational economy. We focus on the articulation of the extraterritorial recognition of social rights-holders at the international and transnational levels of justice. It is clear that conditions in developing countries do not allow the people there to express disapproval in ways that are typical for Western societies. We stress that states should strengthen their influence in global and transnational organizations and equally that the media should improve its informative role and should provide information on what is happening in developing parts of the world.
The problem of media reflection on social and cultural recognition has resonated in theoretical a... more The problem of media reflection on social and cultural recognition has resonated in theoretical and practical discourse for decades; however, nowadays it is becoming even more important and literally urgent. On the other hand, we are confronted with media coverage related to international terrorism and, moreover, with subsequent feeling of fear and imminent threat. The media still continue in their long-term neglect of the issues associated with global hunger and poverty in so-called developing countries, in which violent attacks and outbreaks happen on a daily basis. In Africa and Asia, this struggle is about economic and social survival. The resistance against injustice (or rather misrecognition) is expressed by social groups as well as individuals, mostly in terms of their experience with violation of the expected recognition. Misrecognition is therefore transformed into a motivational force that functions as a basis for the resistance and critique. Information dissemination is, ...
Communication Today, 2014
The study deals with the issues of social recognition in global space, focusing on its media refl... more The study deals with the issues of social recognition in global space, focusing on its media reflection. Even though recognition is one of the key terms discussed by contemporary Philosophy – and by Social Sciences as a whole – it tends to be reflected and formulated mostly on interpersonal or local levels. The authors put special emphasis on the problem of solidarity in the context of recognition, pointing out that solidarity, as a form of recognition, is not associated with any adequate parallels behind the borders of national states – this fact is obvious mostly in transnational economy. Taking into account this basic assumption, the study aims to articulate extraterritorial recognition of the possessors of social rights on international and transnational levels of justice. It is obvious that people living in countries of the ‘Third World’ are not able to express their disagreement through ways and means typical for the Western civilization. Their fights for recognition also repr...
The media have an important role in shaping social consciousness. The media influence our percept... more The media have an important role in shaping social consciousness. The media influence our perception of the world and thus the value structure that we create. Contemporary culture is dominated by images of electronic media. The audience is confronted with a world of real and invented events, stories and finally values that belong to the space and time that do not concern it. Humanity as well as an individual inherits a network of socio-cultural and moral traditions. Contemporary media transmit them as if truth has lost its value as a moral decision and exhausted its logic and importance. Our time is different. The nature of communications and media from the recent past is being replaced by a new and different reality which has been enabled by the new technology of electronic media. The values are reduced to a minimum or completely lost. The authors of this paper seek to provide insight into the possibilities of using media in the process of disseminating the moral values. At the sam...
Zprava z konference / Conference report: Philosophy and Social Science . Akademie vied Ceskej rep... more Zprava z konference / Conference report: Philosophy and Social Science . Akademie vied Ceskej republiky / Univerzita Karlova v Prahe, Praha, 9.–13. maja 2012.
Communication Today, 2015
The last decades have brought advanced communication technologies and new trends associated with ... more The last decades have brought advanced communication technologies and new trends associated with communication between people from different cultures and minorities; however, the present situation forces us to face increasingly escalated conflicts, terrorist attacks and military operations. The questions of recognition, in their full complexity, have been a part of western thinking – even though not in its very centre – for several decades. The first part of the study mainly deals with the issue of social dimension of different forms of recognition proposed by Axel Honneth. The second part of the article addresses the problem of social injustice. Social movements presume that they are able to establish new normative goals. The struggle for moral recognition is, however, motivated by experience of expected abuse, and functions as the very source of moral development. Perfect society is therefore a society built upon subjects that offer mutual recognition; members of such a perfect so...
As Gilbert Cohen-Seat says, we live in a universe of icono-sphere. We are surrounded by number of... more As Gilbert Cohen-Seat says, we live in a universe of icono-sphere. We are surrounded by number of signs of different nature and different affiliation to sign systems. The same is true for advertising that works with signs and sign systems quite significantly, utilizing them particularly for commercial purposes. However, it is not easy to understand each sign immediately. We may suppose that the recipient and the advertiser have common interests (although their motives are quite different) and one of these interests refers to the need to understand signs in the best and quickest ways possible. Semiotics refers to the explanation of mechanisms and functions of the text as well as visual communicators and gives us a chance of better understanding of the nature of the social processes. It studies how the signs produce meanings while presuming that such meanings depend on structural alignment of signs that comes into existence through the processes of signification. Advertising seeks to ...
Youth cultures came into existence after the Second World War. At first it was very hard to defin... more Youth cultures came into existence after the Second World War. At first it was very hard to define them in the context of their motivations and other related aspects. Most people who lived in the post-war era still had to „find themselves‟ and thus they tried hard to integrate into particular cultural groups. Many individuals eventually found the situation suitable for their needs and desires and therefore stayed within „closed‟ subcultural groups but the majority turned the attention to popular, i.e. mainstream culture. The main reasons for such an attitude include reluctance to „rebellion‟ and simplicity as well as „smoothness‟ of this cultural stream which is related to its universal popularity. People create their own identities; inner development of human values and desires tends to be connected with various subcultural groups – such groups are often very influential and their collective principles are hard to „walk away‟ from. Striving to fit into a specific group, individuals...
European Journal Of Media, Art & Photography
Cartoon humour does not provoke reactions of laughter and amusement randomly, immediately, withou... more Cartoon humour does not provoke reactions of laughter and amusement randomly, immediately, without any particular intention or thought, but because it is dependent on our physical and mental dispositions to perceive and interpret the observed image, which is inherently polysemic. Just as we are able to analyse social interactions and their meanings, we are able to analyse the meanings of images and notice their subjective and objective levels of interpretation. Cartooning is all about perceiving and observing details that we have learned to overlook over time. Cartoon and caricature imply visual, cultural and semantic components, especially the cartoon or otherwise caricatured image, the theme, the content and the humour – the comic, ironic or satirical sphere of life or cultural and artistic expression, taking the form of a joke, anecdote or aphorism. A caricature is a deliberate modification of a phenomenon with the intention of retouching or hyperbolizing some particulars or a si...
SGEM 2014 Scientific SubConference on PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, SOCIOLOGY AND HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, 2014
This paper presents the most interesting results of the research that was aimed at answering the ... more This paper presents the most interesting results of the research that was aimed at answering the question what value groups are dominant with the youth in connection with perception of individual and group role model incentives. Our objective was to
Human Affairs, 2014
The present article deals with issues of social recognition in the global and transnational envir... more The present article deals with issues of social recognition in the global and transnational environment. It deals with the issue of solidarity, a form of recognition that has no adequate parallel beyond nation state borders and manifests itself mainly in the transnational economy. We focus on the articulation of the extraterritorial recognition of social rights-holders at the international and transnational levels of justice. It is clear that conditions in developing countries do not allow the people there to express disapproval in ways that are typical for Western societies. We stress that states should strengthen their influence in global and transnational organizations and equally that the media should improve its informative role and should provide information on what is happening in developing parts of the world.
The problem of media reflection on social and cultural recognition has resonated in theoretical a... more The problem of media reflection on social and cultural recognition has resonated in theoretical and practical discourse for decades; however, nowadays it is becoming even more important and literally urgent. On the other hand, we are confronted with media coverage related to international terrorism and, moreover, with subsequent feeling of fear and imminent threat. The media still continue in their long-term neglect of the issues associated with global hunger and poverty in so-called developing countries, in which violent attacks and outbreaks happen on a daily basis. In Africa and Asia, this struggle is about economic and social survival. The resistance against injustice (or rather misrecognition) is expressed by social groups as well as individuals, mostly in terms of their experience with violation of the expected recognition. Misrecognition is therefore transformed into a motivational force that functions as a basis for the resistance and critique. Information dissemination is, ...
Communication Today, 2014
The study deals with the issues of social recognition in global space, focusing on its media refl... more The study deals with the issues of social recognition in global space, focusing on its media reflection. Even though recognition is one of the key terms discussed by contemporary Philosophy – and by Social Sciences as a whole – it tends to be reflected and formulated mostly on interpersonal or local levels. The authors put special emphasis on the problem of solidarity in the context of recognition, pointing out that solidarity, as a form of recognition, is not associated with any adequate parallels behind the borders of national states – this fact is obvious mostly in transnational economy. Taking into account this basic assumption, the study aims to articulate extraterritorial recognition of the possessors of social rights on international and transnational levels of justice. It is obvious that people living in countries of the ‘Third World’ are not able to express their disagreement through ways and means typical for the Western civilization. Their fights for recognition also repr...
The media have an important role in shaping social consciousness. The media influence our percept... more The media have an important role in shaping social consciousness. The media influence our perception of the world and thus the value structure that we create. Contemporary culture is dominated by images of electronic media. The audience is confronted with a world of real and invented events, stories and finally values that belong to the space and time that do not concern it. Humanity as well as an individual inherits a network of socio-cultural and moral traditions. Contemporary media transmit them as if truth has lost its value as a moral decision and exhausted its logic and importance. Our time is different. The nature of communications and media from the recent past is being replaced by a new and different reality which has been enabled by the new technology of electronic media. The values are reduced to a minimum or completely lost. The authors of this paper seek to provide insight into the possibilities of using media in the process of disseminating the moral values. At the sam...
Zprava z konference / Conference report: Philosophy and Social Science . Akademie vied Ceskej rep... more Zprava z konference / Conference report: Philosophy and Social Science . Akademie vied Ceskej republiky / Univerzita Karlova v Prahe, Praha, 9.–13. maja 2012.
Communication Today, 2015
The last decades have brought advanced communication technologies and new trends associated with ... more The last decades have brought advanced communication technologies and new trends associated with communication between people from different cultures and minorities; however, the present situation forces us to face increasingly escalated conflicts, terrorist attacks and military operations. The questions of recognition, in their full complexity, have been a part of western thinking – even though not in its very centre – for several decades. The first part of the study mainly deals with the issue of social dimension of different forms of recognition proposed by Axel Honneth. The second part of the article addresses the problem of social injustice. Social movements presume that they are able to establish new normative goals. The struggle for moral recognition is, however, motivated by experience of expected abuse, and functions as the very source of moral development. Perfect society is therefore a society built upon subjects that offer mutual recognition; members of such a perfect so...
As Gilbert Cohen-Seat says, we live in a universe of icono-sphere. We are surrounded by number of... more As Gilbert Cohen-Seat says, we live in a universe of icono-sphere. We are surrounded by number of signs of different nature and different affiliation to sign systems. The same is true for advertising that works with signs and sign systems quite significantly, utilizing them particularly for commercial purposes. However, it is not easy to understand each sign immediately. We may suppose that the recipient and the advertiser have common interests (although their motives are quite different) and one of these interests refers to the need to understand signs in the best and quickest ways possible. Semiotics refers to the explanation of mechanisms and functions of the text as well as visual communicators and gives us a chance of better understanding of the nature of the social processes. It studies how the signs produce meanings while presuming that such meanings depend on structural alignment of signs that comes into existence through the processes of signification. Advertising seeks to ...
Youth cultures came into existence after the Second World War. At first it was very hard to defin... more Youth cultures came into existence after the Second World War. At first it was very hard to define them in the context of their motivations and other related aspects. Most people who lived in the post-war era still had to „find themselves‟ and thus they tried hard to integrate into particular cultural groups. Many individuals eventually found the situation suitable for their needs and desires and therefore stayed within „closed‟ subcultural groups but the majority turned the attention to popular, i.e. mainstream culture. The main reasons for such an attitude include reluctance to „rebellion‟ and simplicity as well as „smoothness‟ of this cultural stream which is related to its universal popularity. People create their own identities; inner development of human values and desires tends to be connected with various subcultural groups – such groups are often very influential and their collective principles are hard to „walk away‟ from. Striving to fit into a specific group, individuals...