POLAND. Critical junctures in the media transformation process.

This report discusses the cultural conditions for media and democracy monitoring abilities considering Poland’s critical junctures. Through an in-depth examination of the turning points in media technology, politics, and culture from 2000–2020, evidence of the cultural blend of political power and the media as a mismatch between democratic law-making (standards setting) and standards implementation (self-regulation included). The highly interwoven social layers of media transformations prove a high level of political parallelism, the multiplication of codes of journalistic and societal polarisation, the most critical risks in Poland’s trajectory of media freedom. Following the Mediadelcom methodology, opportunities and risks for media and democracy are analysed in connection with 1) Legal regulations and ethics, 2) Journalism studies, 3) Media usage patterns and 4) Media education and literacy. The report highlights the most critical knowledge share gaps, which include looking at media from the perspective of agency of change (actors + time) and collaboration between the media industry and scholars. To this end, this study calls for the cultural contexts alongside in-depth research on organisations (working conditions, workplace diversity, management systems and structures) and the culture of media and democracy stakeholders (people and their values, pride, satisfaction, and motivation)

POLAND. Risks and Opportunities Related to Media and Journalism Studies (2000–2020). Case Study on the National Research and Monitoring Capabilities.

This report presents findings on Polish media scholarship via researching and disseminating knowledge on media and democracy. By examining four critical Mediadelcom domains (criteria), this report goes a long way in explaining the main areas of researchers’ expertise, alongside monitoring capabilities, quality, and findability of scholarly and media-policy-related sources. To this end, we aim to present the key scholarly subjects alongside the potential value of media research and data accessibility for media professionals and industries. The findings are based on desk research (media regulation and self-regulation) and a scholarly database of 1000 works identified within the EU project research (the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies, University of Warsaw). This report illustrates that Poland’s scholarly studies and media data highly depend on national higher education research conditions, with recent shifts towards a comparative approach in the aftermath of Europeanisation alongside the digital-driven and user-oriented era. The overall hypothesis is that Polish scholarship is founded on Western-oriented ideas and theories and an urgency to shift towards data-driven media and de-westernisation. With an ongoing need to look at monitoring capabilities via media and research culture

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SummaryExploiting microservices to architect enterprise applications is becoming commonplace. This makes it crucial to provide some support for designing and analyzing microservice‐based applications, for example, for understanding whether a microservice‐based application adheres to the main design principles of microservices and for choosing how to refactor it when this is not the case. To provide such support, in this article we present the TOSCA toolchain. More precisely, we first introduce the TOSCA model to represent the architecture of microservice‐based applications with the OASIS standard TOSCA. We then describe a technique to automatically mine the architecture of a microservice‐based application and represent it with TOSCA, given the Kubernetes deployment of the application. We also present a methodology to analyze the TOSCA representation of a microservice‐based architecture to systematically identify the architectural smells potentially affecting the corresponding application and to resolve them. Finally, we present two prototype tools, Miner and Freshener, implementing our mining solution and the support for identifying and resolving architectural smells in microservice‐based applications, respectively. We then assess —by discussing some case studies— how effectively Miner, Freshener, and the TOSCA toolchain can support researchers and practitioners working with microservices

CITY:mobil. Stadtvertraegliche Mobilitaet: Handlungsstrategien fuer eine oekologisch und sozial vertraegliche, oekonomisch effiziente Verkehrsentwicklung in Stadtregionen. Subprojekt 2: Mobilitaet und Stadtstruktur Enbericht

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