West-countries museums, which had represented the traditional, historical and national values, have transformed since 1980 extending the range and character of their activities. Such transformations in Lithuania started in 1990, after regaining Lithuania independence. The museums, along with representation of „high level“ culture, started to take part in the processes of contemporary and popular culture, and the range of their activities started to vary a lot. The needs of museum visitors became one of the main issue. Anyway, the issues of interaction and relationship between museums and community, the analysis of museums sociocultural activities still remain very important problem requiring deeper studies. This study investigates municipality museums sociocultural activities. The study focuses on conceptualization of such activities, the interaction between museums and regional communities which is understood by meeting sociocultural needs of the visitors. This research project includes four pats. First three parts presents literature analysis: the theoretical basis of museums sociocultural activities, museums-community relationship peculiarities and general museums policy in Lithuania in 1990 – 2004. The fourth part includes the investigation of museums sociocultural activities in community from the visitor’s point of view. The following museums were included in the study: Panevėžys country, Biržai, Kupiškis, Pasvalys and Rokiškis municipality museums. 136 visitors... [to full text]

Magistro darbo objektas - internetas kaip viešosios erdvės arena. Darbo tikslas – atskleisti interneto specifinius bruožus, skirtumus nuo tradicinių žiniasklaidos priemonių ir išanalizuoti, kodėl internetas atitinka arba neatitinka viešajai erdvei keliamas sąlygas. Pagrindiniai darbo uždaviniai: išnagrinėti internetą J. Habermaso suformuluotos viešosios erdvės teorijos kontekste; įvertinti internetą kaip viešosios erdvės areną; apibendrintai pateikti interneto vartotojų kaip viešosios erdvės dalyvių elgesio bruožus; palyginti internetą su kitomis žiniasklaidos priemonėmis; apsibrėžti racionalių diskusijų sąvoką, jos kintamuosius bei požymius. Šiame magistro darbe, remiantis filosofų J. Habermaso, J. Baudrillardo, mokslininkų M. McLuhano, M. Posterio, A. Lyotardo ir kt. darbais, straipsniais ir teorijomis, siekta išsiaiškinti, ar naujoji medija – internetas – gali atstoti viešąją erdvę, skirtą politiškai aktyvinti visuomenę, racionaliai diskutuoti ir formuoti viešąją nuomonę. Darbe prieita prie išvados, kad internetas negali atitikti visų J. Habermaso apibūdintų viešosios erdvės egzistavimo sąlygų dėl savo specifiškumo. J. Habermaso apibūdinta viešoji sfera idealiai atitikdama visas keliamas sąlygas neegzistavo nei vienoje visuomenėje nei vienais laikais, todėl internetas taip pat negali sukurti idealaus viešumo modelio. Kaip bebūtų, internetas įnešė svarbų indėlį kuriant demokratiją ir skatinant politinį aktyvumą. Internetas pakeitė masinės žiniasklaidos santykius su... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Internet as a new form of communication emerged in the sixties (1969) when the idea of connecting computers into one network spread across the world. While accommodating and processing tremendous information flows Internet raised discussions whether the integration of many texts and voices into its space leads to anarchic or to democratic communication form. German philosopher J. Habermas laid the foundations for the Theory of Publicity’s Structural Transformation. When new communication forms emerged it was attempted to apply the model of ideal publicity to the Internet as a means of mass media which can restore the situation of the ideal language and the discussion among different layers of society. The relevance of the topic of this work is based on the attempt to analyze the properties of Internet and to attribute them to the public sphere. Now when it is considered that public spheres are disappearing from our lives it is very important to research the possibilities of Internet and its application to public interests of society. Object of this work – Internet as a public sphere arena. The main problem of this work – specificity of Internet, difficulty in meeting the conditions for the existence of public sphere model. The aim of this work – to uncover the specific features of Internet and its differences from traditional mass media, and to analyze how much Internet matches or does not match the ideal model of public sphere. The main tasks in this work: to analyze... [to full text]