Društvene mreže predstavljaju važan segment digitalnog života u savremenom društvu. Kao dominantan prostor komunikacije i kreativnog izraza među mladima, društvene mreže se zloupotrebljavaju i kao sredstvo cyberbullying-a uz ozbiljne psihološke posljedice. Dodatno, algoritmi društvenih mreža određuju vidljivost sadržaja prema kriterijima veće interaktivnosti, što doprinosi širenju nasilnog ili štetnog ponašanja u digitalnom prostoru. S pojavom umjetne inteligencije javljaju se i novi izazovi, zbog čega je važno osigurati da se na institucionalnom nivou donose pravovremene, informisane odluke o najprikladnijim strategijama i regulativnim pristupima da bi se zaštitila djeca i mladi kao posebno ranjive društvene grupe. Kao odgovor na društvenu zabrinutost u vezi sa negativnim uticajem socijalnih mreža na sigurnost i razvoj djece i adolescenata, na globalnom nivou je primjetan trend uvođenja zabrane ili razmatranja restrikcija za korištenje društvenih mreža maloljetnim osobama. Mjerama se nastoje, između ostalog, ukinuti i digitalni kanali cyberbullying-a i smanjiti rizici za izloženost neprikladnim ili štetnim sadržajima. Kao dodatni argumenti navode se psihološka dobrobit mladih i podsticaj za vršnjačku socijalizaciju uživo. Alternativni pristup podrazumijeva kontinuirano provođenje edukacije kroz programe medijske i informacijske pismenosti (MIL) koji imaju za cilj jačanje digitalne otpornosti mladih osoba. Navedeni programi nastoje kod mladih razviti kritičko razumijevanje digitalnih medija, odgovorno online ponašanje te sposobnost prepoznavanja i reagovanja na različite oblike digitalnog nasilja. Ovaj rad polazi od dva navedena pristupa u nastojanju da doprinese boljem razumijevanju učinkovitosti regulatornih, odnosno, edukativnih mjera u suzbijanju online nasilja među mladima, kao i umanjivanju potencijalnih rizika i negativnih posljedica po njihovo mentalno i fizičko zdravlje. Temelji se na analizi relevantne naučne literature i komparativnom pregledu savremenih regulatornih i obrazovnih pristupa u prevenciji online nasilja među mladima. U tom kontekstu postavlja se pitanje u kojoj mjeri restriktivne mjere, poput zabrane društvenih mreža, dugoročno doprinose smanjenju online nasilja među mladima u odnosu na edukativne pristupe koji se temelje na razvoju medijske i informacijske pismenosti.  

The article explores the ways in which contemporary social movements operate in the era of globalization, with an emphasis on their forms of organization and action within a networked society. Theoretically, our research primarily relies on Castells’ theory of networked social movements. The aim of the article is to highlight the significance of the concepts of networked structures and intersectionality, both in physical spaces and online environments. Through an analysis of relevant existing theory in the domain and analysis of illustrative examples, the article explores how social movements adapt to changing social conditions of contemporary world and develop their strategies of resistance and solidarity. In conclusion, the article demonstrates that intersectional networks and digital tools are crucial for the sustainable functioning of movements and for connecting diverse identities, struggles, and social spheres.

The times of social distancing and movement restrictions caused by Covid-19 have been marked by significant changes in all aspects of life. Due to preventive pandemic measures direct access of audiences to cultural institutions was unabled and performative arts moved to an online, virtual environment physicaly distancing performers from the audience. In this paper, we discuss adaptations that took place in the domain of culture and arts offering a virtual, technologically mediated experience, deprived from some dimensions of senses, emotional engagement, interaction and communication in vivo. Our research, therefore aims to inform on audiances’ aesthetic experience which was on the one hand devoided of bodily, situated performances, or on the other hand taking place with reduced number of spectators in an open space sites during the social distancing times. Key issues we focus on are transformations of performing arts in terms of audience participation and similar kinds of modifications that were not merely an answer to a current crisis, but a shift towards the new hybrid models of digital culture overcoming classic conceptual oppositions such as real-virtual, individual-collective and mass-elite. Our insights on performative arts and new media spheres hybridisation process as well as audiences’ altered position during social distancing times are based on literature in the field of sociology of culture and arts, esthetics and mediology.

This paper raises a discussion on innovation, nature of knowledge and the growing significance of skills in contemporary society. We propose the argument that knowledge is commonly perceived in terms of skills only, as a result of an applicability logic rule in knowledge based social orders. Moreover, innovation is recognized as yet another central issue of our times that is strongly interrelated to technological developments and the realm od science. Creativity as a specific human feature, on the other hand, is widely accepted as a critical precondition for generating innovative products and ideas. The essential problem lies in the oversight of the role humanities and arts play in nurturing humanistic values, whereas means are commonly mistaken for an end.

In this paper we explore social responses, attitudes and social practices of everyday life in the midst of a complete social closure at an early stage of corona crisis, based on original empirical survey data collected via online questionnaire (N=352) during the lockdown and state of emergency in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Aiming to analyse social implications of the ongoing crisis and directions for future research we have particularly focused on several dimensions: work, free time and everyday activities, attitudes towards the new uncertainty and specific needs of different social groups in the context of crisis. Social responses to novel living circumstances have highlighted problems related to the status of vulnerable groups present from before in a society that is most commonly categorized as a country in transition marked by post-war challenges. Results show that established discrimination practices have resurfaced while vulnerable social groups’ living conditions have significantly aggravated even early at the times of pandemic emergence.