Katarzyna Drąg
holds a post-doctoral degree in media and social communication. A graduate of Polish philology and international cultural studies. Since 2011, she has been working at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow. She is the director of the Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication, and an assistant professor of Media and Social Communication Chair. Her research interests: history of media, history of journalism, the problem of forming and evolving of the ethos of a journalist (since mid XIX century), cross-cultural communicating, theory of communication and information competencies. She is a member of the scientific council of the journals: Com.Press (Crakow, Poland) and Пресознавство (Press Studies) (Lviv, Ukraine). She is a member of The Polish Communication Association (Head of History of Media Section) and member of Commission on Media Studies at Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9920-3526
Rafał Habielski
is a professor at Warsaw University (Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies), historian, press and media expert, researcher of Polish political emigration (to Great Britain, France, etc.). His scientific interests include politics, history, press and mass media, and literature, with particular focus on the history of media (press, Radio Free Europe, etc.). Between 1984 and 2012, he was employed at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Department of History of Polish Press in the 19th and 20th Centuries). In the years 2003–2010, he was a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2009, he became a member of the Committee for Studies on the Polish Diaspora at the Polish Academy of Learning in Krakow and the Scientific Council of the quarterly Studia Medioznawcze/Media Studies published through Warsaw University. In the years 2010–2014, he was a member of the Programme and Scientific Board of the National Film Library, and between 2011 and 2015, a member of the Scientific Council of the Polish History Museum. Since 2012, he has been an active member of the Polish branch of the PEN Club. His book publications include: Audycje historyczne i kulturalne Rozgłośni Polskiej Radia Wolna Europa w latach 1952–1975/Historical and Cultural Broadcasts of the Polish Section of Free Europe Radio between 1952 and 1975 (Wroclaw 2019); Rozgłośnia Polska Radia Wolna Europa w latach 1950–1975/The Polish Section of Free Europe Radio between 1950 and 1975 [co-author:] P. Machcewicz (Wroclaw 2018); Wolność czy odpowiedzialność? Prasa i polityka w II Rzeczypospolitej/Liberty or Responsibility? Press and Politics in the Second Polish Republic (Warszawa 2013). ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3686-9931
is a professor of history at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. He specialised in the social history of Poland after 1945 and the relations of Poland with Western countries. Selected works: Increase Supply, Reduce Demand and Punish Severly. A Contextual History of Meat in Communist Poland, Peter Lang Edition, Berlin 2020 (with Maria Pasztor); Polish-French Relations, 1944–1989, Peter Land Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2015 (with Maria Pasztor); Władze komunistyczne w Polsce a chłopi 1948–1956 [The Communist Power in Poland and Peasants 1948–1956], Wydawnictwo DiG, Warsaw 1995; „The Collectivization of Agriculture in Poland: Causes of Defeat”, in The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe. Comparison and Entanglements , Constantin Iordachi, Arndt Bauerkämper, eds., Central European University Press, Budapest - New York, 2014. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7882-8532
Ewa Jurga-Wosik
(Phd) is an assistant professor at Institute of Media Education and Journalism, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland. Her academic interests involve the local media in Poland and issues of access to information in Poland, information policy and access to documents in the institutions of the European Union, journalistic role performance in Poland. Publications: A. Stępińska, E. Jurga-Wosik, K. Adamczewska, D. Narożna, B. Secler, Polish Journalists’ Attitudes Towards Political Actors: Empirical Studies, Przegląd Politologiczny 2017 No 1 pp. 127–141; E. Jurga-Wosik, I. Oleksiuk (2022). Wybrane zagadnienia etyczne dziennikarstwa interpretacyjnego na tle badań empirycznych. Roczniki Nauk Społecznych, 50 (2), pp. 83–96. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9307-6009
Joanna Hobot-Marcinek
holds a post-doctoral degree in literature sciences and is a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She currently heads the Center for Multimodal Educational and Cultural Research at the Faculty of Polish Studies. She is the editor of publishing series Figurae of the Jagiellonian University Publishing House. She is the author of books: Game with censorship in New Wave Poetry (1968–1976), Crone and Goethe: the experience and transgression of old age: Tadeusz Różewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. She is a co-author of books: Ant-Beatrice:studies on the cultural history of the old drunken crone, The Old Rebel Women. Studies on the semantics of images. She holds lectures and classes on censorship in the Polish People’s Republic, cultural impact of stereotypes, polish modern literature and methodology of teaching polish language and literature. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4057-0070
holds a post-doctoral degree in social sciences (specialisation: research on media and communication) and is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies at the University of Warsaw. Media expert and advisor. Author of publications, coordinator and participant of research projects in the areas of: PR, crisis management, communication ethics, media, political communication. Member of the Polish Communication Association and the Polish Society of Media Education; an expert of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (KRASP). Juror of the prestigious PR competition “Złote Spinacze” (The Polish Public Relations Consultancies Association). Laureate of PRoton and Lew PR awards. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9096-9338
Evelina Kristanova
holds a post-doctoral degree in social sciences (specialisation: mass media) and is a professor at SWPS University in Warsaw (the Faculty of Humanities; Department of Culture and Media Studies). She holds lectures and classes on Journalism and Social Communication. In 2007, she received a bachelor’s degree in theology from Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Since 2021, she has been part of the editorial board of the bi-annual Nasza Przeszłość. Between 2009 and 2012, she worked as an editorial assistant of the academic and didactic series Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Librorum. She has been a member of the Polish Communication Association since 2017, and the Society for the History of the Humanities since 2021. Her research interest focuses on the history of the media, in particular on 20th-century Catholic sociocultural periodicals in Poland and contemporary books in Bulgaria. Recently, she has commenced research into digital versions of periodicals and into the religious broadcasts for Radio Free Europe’s Broadcasting Service. Her portfolio of publications consists of 7 books and over 80 papers. ORCID ID: 0000-0003 -4935-7417
Cecylia Kuta
is a historian, a holder of a post-doctoral degree in humanities, head of the Historical Research Office in Krakow of the Institute of National Remembrance, assistant professor at the The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kracow, and member of the Historical Commission of the Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the SPI (Information Professionals Association). She is also a member of the editorial board of the following scientific periodicals Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość, Zeszyty Historyczne WiN-u, Nasza Przeszłość. She researches the history of the Catholic lay association after the Second World War and of the creative and opposition communities in the Polish People’s Republic (PRL). Author of many academic and popular science publications on contemporary Polish history, including the books: ”Działacze” i “Pismaki”. Aparat bezpieczeństwa wobec organizacji katolików świeckich w Krakowie w latach 1957–1989 [“Activists” and ”Writers”. The security apparatus towards the organisation of lay Catholics in Krakow in the years 1957–1989], Kracow 2009; Niecenzurowane. Z dziejów drugiego obiegu wydawniczego w Krakowie w latach 1976–1990 [Un-censored. From the history of the second publishing circuit in Krakow 1976–1990], Krakow 2019.
has a post-doctoral degree in social sciences in the discipline of social communication and media science (UMCS 2020), associate professor and head of the Department of Social Communication, Public Relations and New Media at the Institute of Media Education and Journalism at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. He is the author of over 90 scientific publications in the field of media, religion, and politics. His research interests focus on political communication, mediatization, and public relations. He is currently a member of European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and the Polish Communication Association (PTKS). ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0099-4327
Inga Oleksiuk
is Doctor of Humanities (University of Warsaw; School of Journalism), Doctor of Law (SWPS University of Humanities and Social Science). Fellow/ Scolarship holder: Frederico II University,(Italy), British Library, (UK) Carleton University (Canada), Barcelona University (Spain, Catalonia). Fields of scientific interests: civil liberties intellectual property, creativity and AI. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2682-8968
Rafał Opulski
(Phd) is an employee of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow and the Institute of National Remembrance, graduate of the Faculty of International and Political Studies at Jagiellonian University and the Faculty of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University. Author of publications on the political propaganda of the Polish People’s Republic, Polish history in the 20th century and the anthropology of politics, including symbolic forms of governance: Opulski, R. (2019). Stalinization, de-Stalinization, and re Stalinization. 1953 behind the “Iron Curtain”. The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II, 9(2), 25–39; Opulski, R. Ficoń, M. (2020). In Search of Internal Enemies. Show Trials of the Members of the Communist Parties in Stalinist Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, in: The European Crucible of Diversities, ed by. C. Kuta, J. Marecki, L. Rotter, Krakow 2020, pp. 147–159. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9772-0298
(PhD media studies) holds a master’s degree in journalism and social communication from the University of Warsaw. She is a graduate of doctoral studies in political science at Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin, when she works now. She is a member of the Polish Communication Association and the editor-in-chief of the magazine Com.press. She is a member of Editoral Council Media over Language, which is published by Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. She is vice-chair of the Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). She is the author of a monograph on investigative journalism. Her research interests include journalism studies, whistleblowing, selected aspects of communication and social interaction, media and politics. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9583-0861
Małgorzata Strzelecka
is a Doctor of Humanities (with a specialization in 20th century history and the didactics of history), professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Since 2000, employee of the Institute of History and Archival Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University. Since 1999, employee of the University High School. Member of the Polish Historical Society & secretary of the Toruń branch. Member of the Commission on the Didactics of History at the Polish Historical Society. Associate of the Commission on the Didactics of History of the Committee on Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2004–2018 co-editor of a collection of scientific and didactic studies (XII volumes) in the series: Toruń Didactic Meetings. In her research work, she focuses on the analysis of the journalistic and social activity of the intellectuals gathered around the editorial offices of Tygodnik Powszechny and Znak monthly, on the activity of the representatives of the broadly understood social movement Znak, which consisted of, among others. the editorial offices of Catholic magazines (Tygodnik Powszechny, Znak and Więź monthlies), five Clubs of Catholic Intelligentsia, the environment of the bimonthly Chrześcijanin w Świecie, the Center for Documentation and Social Studies and the Znak Parliamentary Circle. Author of three monographs: Difficult Compromises. The environment of Tygodnik Powszechny vis-à-vis reforms of the educational system and upbringing in 1945–1989, (2009); Between Minimalism and Maximalism. Ideological dilemmas of Stanisław Stomma and Janusz Zabłocki, (2015); Woldview of Jerzy Turowicz’s. Faith, Ideas and Reasons in the Light of Journalism from 1932–1939, (2023). ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9018-4875
holds a doctoral degree in social sciences (specialisation: political science) and she is an assistant professor at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. In 2011, she received a master’s degree in sociology from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. She has been a member of the Polish Political Science Association since 2012, and the Polish Communication Association since 2016. Her research interests include political communication with focus on the Polish national movement, political press, online political communication. She holds lectures and classes on history of political communication, media policy, public relations, social engineering, network society, international and intercultural communication. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9878-1401
Małgorzata Such-Pyrgiel
is an associated professor (habilitated doctor) of social sciences in the discipline of sociological sciences, methodologist. Vice-Rector for education and evaluation of research, for student matter, education in branch location and cooperation with the environment at the Alcide De Gasperi University of Euroregional Economy in Józefów. The author of publications on digital society and new technologies, participant of seminars and conferences devoted to this subject. In her works, she presents the social dimension of digital transformation as the 4th industrial revolution, affecting the life of modern human being. She is particularly interested in the analysis of changes in communication, education, media, labor market and public administration under the influence of intensive development of new digital technologies. Conducted research and published texts fit into the area of three sociological specialties: sociology of contemporary societies and modern and new technologies of marketing and economics, as well as lifestyle. As a promoter of the policy of quality and improvement of education, she is a member of the Polish Accreditation Committee, appointed by the Minister of Education, a member of the Polish Sociological Society and the European Sociological Society ESA and well as a manager of many research, development, and implementation projects. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5435-1154
Rafał Śpiewak
(Phd in the humanities in the field of history, habilitation in social sciences in the discipline of communication and media sciences) is an assistant Professor at the Department of Marketing and Market Research of the University of Economics in Katowice. Priest of the Archdiocese of Katowice. From 2006–2016, academic chaplain, founder and chaplain of the St. Raphael Kalinowski Home Hospice in Rybnik, chaplain to scouts, independence organisations and the Pilsudczycy Association, expert of the Katowice Archdiocese Second Synod Church Heritage Commission. Member of the Polish Communication Association and the Polish Society for Media Education. Since 2021 pastor of the parish of St. Joseph in Chorzów. Dean of the Chorzów deanery. Interested in social and political aspects of the Catholic press in Upper Silesia, media deontology, communicative competence, use of new media in religious communication. Author of Gazeta Katolicka. Pismo Duchowieństwa i ludu polskiego na Śląsku 1896–1910. Historical and doctrinal study. Chorzów Museum Publishing House, Kraków-Chorzów 2006; Społeczeństwo – naród – państwo na łamach „Gościa Niedzielnego” 1923–1939, University of Economics in Katowice Publishing House, Katowice 2022. Co-author: Rodzina w kryzysie czy kryzys w rodzinie, Fidelis Publishing House, Pszów 2013; W świcie aksjologii, polityki i kultury. Students towards media (based on empirical research), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Katowicach, Katowice 2018; Polskość w narracjach medialnych z perspektywy Górnego Śląska, University of Economics in Katowice Publishing House, Katowice 2019. Writes poems and paints pictures (oil on canvas). ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2559-8232
holds a post-doctoral degree in social sciences (specialization: social communication and media) and is a professor at the Jagiellonian University. Graduate of the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and Administration, Institute of Political Sciences. She has completed Postgraduate Management Studies at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) and Management and Business Studies at the Department of Applied Economics of the Jagiellonian University. She works at the Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University. Head of the Department of International Communication and Media; Vice-Dean For Educational Affairs Faculty of Management and Social Communication of Jagiellonian University. University lecturer and author of award-winning monographs and numerous of scientific publications on media functioning and information management. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8840-703X
Tomasz Walkowiak
is an assistant professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland. He is the editor of 9 monographs, author, and co-author of over 210 papers published in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His research interests include text mining, stylometry, and out-of-distribution analysis. He is currently involved in the CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) project, which aims to create a pan-European research infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences. It facilitates work with very large collections of natural language texts. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7749-4251
has been conducting research and teaching at Jagiellonian University since 2008. She is associated with the Institute of Media Journalism and Social Communication. For over 20 years, she also worked as a journalist and producer on radio and television. Her main areas of research interest are television content, media genres, television formats, journalistic workshop, and AI in television production and programming. She is a member of the Polish Communication Association. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4073-4693
Jan Wieczorek
is a linguist, an assistant professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland. He is an user involvement officer at the CLARIN-PL Language Technology Centre. His research interests relate directly to text semantics, discourse analysis and stylometry. He is particularly interested in the application of natural language processing (NLP) in modern research in the fields of digital humanities and social sciences. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8709-7754