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The Kultura Journal is an international scientific journal for the theory and sociology of culture and cultural policy, which follows culture in the widest sense of the word where science, education and all human activities are taken as its integral part.
It was started in 1968 courtesy to the efforts of Stevan Majstorović, founder of the Centre for Studies in Cultural Development, with the objective to encourage integrative, analytical and critical interpretations of the modern cultural phenomena.
At the time of its establishment, the Kultura Journal was unique in the domain of intellectual thought both in terms of its concept and its design. Since the first issue, i.e. over the fifty years of its existence, Kultura has been and has remained open to creative ideas from the country and the world, as seen from the texts of important foreign authors and contributions from professionals coming from the cultural centres of former Yugoslavia, as well as domestic authors who offered new ideas and approaches to culture. The recognizable design solution of the logo of the journal and its cover page were created by the artist and calligraphist Božidar Bole Miloradović, for the very first number.
As of 1971, the issues were edited thematically, which has been dominant practice to this date, with the aim of enriching certain thematic fields in our cultural and scientific community.
The first Editorial Board of the Kultura Journal consisted of eleven members, led by the Editor-in Chief Stevan Majstorović and Trivo Inđić, as conceptual instigators of the journal which heralded a new orientation in the intellectual field. Members of the Editorial Board were: Slobodan Canić, Dragutin Gostuški, Vujadin Jokić, Danica Mojsin, Mirjana Nikolić, Nebojša Popov, Bogdan Tirnanić, Milan Vojnović and Tihomir Vučković. Over the five decades of the Kultura Journal, editorial boards changed several times.
Kultura is issued every three months (four times a year) and its printing has been financed by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia since 2001. With support of the competent ministry, all numbers of this journal, from the first to the last issue, were digitalized in 2009. As a result, a DVD containing digital form of the journal, was available with the issue No. 129, titled "Electronic libraries". A few years later, in 2013, Kultura switched to the Cyrillic script, with an important note that it still published in Latin script those authors from the region who originally use Latin script(Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia). With the issue No. 140, on the occasion of marking the 45th anniversary of the Kultura Journal, a special USB was made available, with all the texts from the numbers 1-137. The web page of the Centre for Studies in Cultural Development contains all the texts ever published in any issue of the Kultura Journal over half a century of its existence.
The Department for Registration of Journals of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, the Kultura Journal was registered in 2005 (when categorisation of scientific journals started) marked as category P53. In 2010,it was registered as category M52 in the group of journals for history, art,history, ethnology and archaeology. At the beginning of July 2012, the journal advanced to the category of national interest, by Decision of the Ministry of education, science and technological development of the Republic of Serbia (M51).
Kultura is regularly deposited with the Repository of the National Library of Serbia, and since 2010, it has been included in the Serbian Quotation Index, where the texts published in Kultura can be found in full digital form. As of 2011, the texts i.e. scientific articles, apart from the regular UDK (universal decimal classification) also carry specific DOI (Digital Object Identifier) codes, that allow for their greater visibility and international indexing under international standards. In the meantime,electronic version of the journal was started i.e. the first steps were made towards electronic edition by CEON (Service for monitoring, measuring and valorisation of scientific journals) through Aseestant electronic editing programme. This has contributed to the quality of published articles, as the editorial board now have at their disposal adequate programmes for text checking in terms of correct citation sand listings of references as well as prevention of plagiarism.
Kultura is regularly delivered to the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade, Belgrade City Library,University Library "Svetozar Marković" in Belgrade, Library of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, Library of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, Library of the Rectorate of the University of Arts in Belgrade, University Library in Niš and University Library in Kragujevac. The Kultura Journalis regularly received by numerous interested institutions of culture (libraries, theatres, museums, culture centres) as well as individuals. The Journal nurtures professional exchanges with many similar institutions and magazines in the country, region and in Europe (Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia,Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland and other countries).
In addition to respecting scientific rules and standards for publishing scientific papers, Kultura has not lost the curiosity or the freshness of an avant-garde magazine dealing with both eternal and very actual topics.
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- Dispersed narration of the new cosmopolitan novel
- The ever-increasing body of contemporary cosmopolitan theory, partly inspired by globalisation and globalisation theory, focuses on various aspects of literary and artistic cosmopolitanism since antiquity. It concerns itself especially with the so-called new cosmopolitanism whose development was primarily marked by two events: the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. Among the key foci of interest in cosmopolitan theory is the cosmopolitan novel, characterised by urban and virtual spaces as sites of global circulations, the overcoming of traditional ideas of community and fragmented, yet cohesive kaleidoscopic narration. This article aims at analysing the dispersed narration and narrative structure of the cosmopolitan novel by and narrative structure by discussing Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, a pioneer of the new cosmopolitan fiction in the 21st century. The idea is to explore the nature of narration in the novel, its meaning and effects, all of which point to a pressing need to reconsider our perception of a host of subversive and transgressive narrative techniques and strategies used in the novel today.
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- Dobrović and Brašovan
- Professional careers of prominent Serbian architects from a more recent period, Nikola Dobrović (18971967) and Dragiša Brašovan (18871965), were connected with many links which, from a historical distance, deserve an initial review. Although both expressive individuals, successful and influential in all areas of professional work, and both considered to be exemplary authors by many parameters, they did not share the same ideological/aesthetical attitudes nor the style in public appearance. In synthetic anthologies of recent Serbian constructions written over the last decades, both personalities have been viewed in light of their creative merits, holding great importance for the development of the architectural profession, and its cultural and artistic promotion. As productive authors who performed at the opposing poles of the professional scene, Dobrović and Brašovan have received equally high social and professional recognition, and also an enviable historiographical affirmation that does not seem to recede even today.
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- Does cultural participation make us happier?
- Research on the contribution of leisure activities in general and specifically cultural participation to personal wellbeing represents a relatively new and promising line of research. Results, however, are mixed - partly due to various definitions and measures of key variables, as well as their complexity and many confounding variables. This research was conducted on a sample representative for the general population of Serbia (N=1521). As potential predictors of wellbeing, we investigated a number of socio-demographic variables (gender, age, education level, employment status, financial status), subjective health status, and a list of leisure activities selected based on past research from leisure and cultural participation paradigms. A principal component analysis revealed six latent dimensions of leisure activities that were labeled as: 1) cultural participation (in a strict sense), 2) movies & entertainment, 3) folk & family, 4) outdoor activities, 5) sport, 6) e-books & e-news. A stepwise linear regression showed that subjective happiness was best predicted by a higher subjective health status, higher financial status, and higher education level, while from the domain of leisure activities, significant positive predictors were 'folk & family', 'outdoor activities', and 'cultural participation' components. Results are discussed in light of the complexity of examined phenomena, as well as practical implications for policy decision making.
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- Domination of PR over journalistic content in Serbian print media
- The paper considers structural causes for the domination of PR over information content in the media, with special emphasis on the Serbian media scene - mainly the print and online editions. Recognition of the growing global trend of storytelling finds its roots in formation and hyper fast development of the PR industry and parallel academic research and foundation of public relations as a special discipline within public studies, in a period spanning almost a century. The world economic crisis and its repercussions which have caused the biggest crisis of the media industry (primarily in the print media) ever, along with the digital storm which has totally transformed the information and communication channels, as well as the profession crisis - gave additional power to the PR and opened new spaces for the boom of the PR machinery. Continual shrinking of resources for gathering and processing of information and consequential disappearance of investigative and interpretative journalism coupled with increased possibilities for politicians and companies to deliver their messages directly to the public have created a global media trend which spilled over impoverished Serbian media scene over the last few years, making it dependant on this kind of PR content.
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- Don Delillo
- The paper considers an issue of recognising the truth in the novels of Don DeLillo in an attempt to show that works of this author never offer recognition of the truth through recognition of facts, historical documents and stories, but unveil the truth in inexplicable, mystical ways. The truth is mainly recognised collectively, while it seems that broad masses of people are connected by an invisible force that suddenly enables them to access a pool of knowlege; an extended hand of this invisible force are the media that hold the power to bring DeLillo's characters to a state similar to religious trance. The paper will also try to define the role of an artist and art production, which, as it seems, hold the key role in moving the bounderies to truth recognition in DeLilo's opus.
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- Doxology of emptiness or Who thought they saw a kitty cat
- The text offers a personal commentary on the state of literary awards in Serbia. It consists of three segments. The first one deliberates on a general cultural/political context of the phenomenon of literary awards. The second one considers the media status, promotion and misuse of literary awards for commercial purposes. The third fragment briefly questions the manner of forming literary award juries and points to two key problems: selection of jury members and lack of transparency in their work.
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- Dr. Ignjat Pavlas
- After the breakdown of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on October 31, 1918, the liberated areas of Banat, Bačka and Baranja were recruited by the army of the Kingdom of Serbia. These areas were de facto managed by the Serbian National Council from Novi Sad, headed by Jaša Tomić. Therefore, on November 25, 1918, in Novi Sad, the Great National Assembly of Serbs, Bunjevci and other Slavs from Banat, Bačka and Baranja convened, chaired by Ignjat Pavlas. The Assembly declared a decision to join these three regions to the Kingdom of Serbia. Later, in Belgrade, on December 1, 1918, unification was proclaimed with an independent State of Slovenians, Croats and Serbs, led by the Yugoslav Committee in Zagreb, thus forming a unique Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians.
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- Dual identity and learning through stage expression
- The art of theatre is a specific and harmonious synthesis of a variety of arts, which is why it has its effect on the viewer not only through words immersed in emotions at the time of their articulation, but also by the aesthetics of the miseenscene. This provides the theatre with great capacity for artistic expression as it simultaneously affects the senses, the mind and the emotions of the spectator. The theatre is also very appealing to children, none less than the adults. This is partly due to the fact that the stage presentations mostly feature a sort of 'purposeful obviousness' which is also a basic principle of general methodics in any educational work involving children and youth that allow sensory impressions to trigger a child's imagination, learning process, critical and divergent thought and experience of the reality. Children are therefore especially receptive to the stage art which can deeply mark their personalities. Theatrical production for children as well as the methods and contents of their stimulation are described in the book Mudrost čula peti deo - dečje dramsko stvaralaštvo (The Wisdom of Senses Volume Five: Stage Productions for Children) (2010), which is part of the edition Mudrost čula (The Wisdom of Senses). This paper presents the determinants which constitute the methodics of stage production, also described in this book, with a particular emphasis on the methods.
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- Durkheim's use of the term 'culture'
- Using the method of content analysis, in our work we offered a concise insight into the use of the term 'culture' in the work of Emile Durkheim. Bearing in mind that the heritage of enlightenment can be perceived in Durkheim's work, but indirectly the traditions of Romanticism as well, we consider the issue of using this term an important one. The specter of meanings associated with the notion of 'culture' makes it suitable for use as a kind of indicator. Much like the Rorschach stains, very different meanings can be loaded into it. Findings show that Durkheim did not use the word 'culture' very often, considering the volume of his work. He most often connected it with the scientific, intellectual, logical, etc. We paid special attention to his most important works (The Division of Labor in Society, Rules of Sociological Method, Suicide and the Elementary Forms of the Religious Life). Other works are covered by a quantitative analysis of the use of the word 'culture' in which we tried to find the most frequent attributes that appear alongside the aforementioned term. The analysis covers most of Durkheim's opus published during and after his life.
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- Dying in video games
- It is estimated that over two million people can be nominated as gamers. All of them play video games, and most of them create characters in these games and identify with them to such an extent that the characters become avatars of the players. And avatars die. Sometimes they are revived, sometimes not, depending on the game rules applicable to these characters and the worlds they inhabit. Sometimes the worlds themselves also perish. At such moments, one command can forever delete tens or hundreds of thousands of digital characters. They perish forever, in an irreversible act of server deletion, irresistibly similar to the end of the world. The end of a digital world, but still a world, especially if we observe it from the point of view of its inhabitants. From the destinies of these avatars, whether they perish in separate incidents or digital genocides, we can learn a thing or two if not about the meaning of digital existence then undoubtedly about the manner in which people relate to their own finite nature.
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- E-book
- Unlike many texts written in the past two decades about the end of the printed book, this paper deals with the end of e-books. The latest reports of big losses in electronic publishing show that printed books have taken precedence again, which seems to hold ground. However, ups and downs in e-publishing have been happening before: the initial optimism from the beginning of the 90s has been replaced by serious doubts, followed by launching of the Kindl reader that gave e-books precedence over printed versions. In contrast to this rather unstable situation on the market, the appearance of e books has caused more controversy and future predictions than any other new medium before them. Many have predicted the end to the printed books and thus the end to an entire civilization, others have announced digital culture as a whole new way of life. Only some of them hesitated to call the changes revolutionary and most agreed that e books have many advantages over the printed ones. Will anyone dare to predict anything now?.