News framing effects on destination risk perception

News coverage of hazards is often commented to be of critical importance to individuals' perceived risk associated with tourist destinations. Despite the significance of this issue to the global tourism industry, the link between portrayals of hazards and audience reception is rarely studied in this context. This study adopted the framing theory to evaluate media effect on tourists' perceived risk of portrayals of terrorism and political instability incidents. This involved a survey-embedded experiment which manipulated potential elements of a news report concerning a hazard. The content of fictitious articles used in the experiment was created on the basis of extant risk perception theories. Results revealed that the use of risk amplifying frame and risk attenuating frame result in higher and lower ratings of risk respectively. Moreover, tourist psychographic characteristics were found to moderate the influence of news frames on perceived risk. Implications for tourism destination managers and marketers were discussed

Beasts and people. Adrian Panek’s “The Werewolf” and the figure of the “Nazi dog” and communication semiotics

W organizacji hitlerowskich obozów koncentracyjnych ważną rolę pełniły psy strażnicze i tropiące. Acz wszechobecne w świadectwach więźniów jako budzące przerażenie bestie, to w kulturowej świadomości występują jedynie jako złowrogi ornament obozowej scenerii. Podobnie marginalne miejsce zajmuje figura „hitlerowskiego psa” w tekstach polskiej kultury popularnej. Autor opracowania stawia sobie za cel bliższe przyjrzenie się temu motywowi w zbiorowej świadomości, a zwłaszcza w polskiej twórczości filmowej. Przybliża też system, w obrębie którego wykorzystywano psy. Asumpt do tych rozważań daje osadzony fabularnie w pookupacyjnej rzeczywistości interesujący film Adriana Panka „Wilkołak” z 2018 roku. Czerpiący z estetyki horroru i baśni, historyczny obraz wykorzystuje kulturowe konotacje figury obozowego psa dla ukazania uniwersalnych prawd o ludzkiej kondycji.Guard and hunting dogs played an important role in the organization of Nazi concentration camps. Although ubiquitous in the prisoners’ testimonies as terrifying beasts, they only appear in the cultural consciousness as an ominous ornament of the camp scenery. The figure of the „Nazi dog” occupies a similarly marginal place in the texts of Polish popular culture. The author of the study aims to take a closer look at this motif in collective consciousness, and especially in Polish filmmaking. It also introduces the system in which dogs were used. Embedded in the post-occupational reality, the interesting film by Adrian Panek, ‚The Werewolf’, gives rise to these considerations. Drawing on the aesthetics of horror and fairy tales, this historical image uses the cultural connotations of the figure of a camp dog to show universal truths about the human condition

Effects of Crisis Response Tone and Spokesperson's Gender on Employer Attractiveness

Timely apologies to key publics on social media are becoming an important aspect of crisis recovery but little is known of how the spokesperson’s characteristics and the tone of apology may influence the outcome. Recognising the importance of the need to attract quality workforce, this study examines the impact of social media response to a preventable crisis on organisational attractiveness. Specifically, a 2 (message tone: corporate/formal vs. human/informal) x 2 (spokesperson’s gender: male vs. female) between-subjects factorial design was used to test the effectiveness of an apology. The results suggest a significant moderated mediation effect. We find that account acceptance mediates the relationship between message tone and organisational attractiveness, and this effect is conditional on gender of the spokesperson. The results are relevant to crisis managers and brand managers that seek to attract and retain talents

In-Flight Tests of Intruder Detection Vision System

In the near future, the integration of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles into the common airspace will proceed. The changes taking place mean that the safety of light aircraft, ultralight aircraft and unmanned air vehicles (UAV) will become an increasing problem. The IDAAS project (Intruder Detection And collision Avoidance System) meets the new challenges as it aims to produce technically advanced detection and collision avoidance systems for light and unmanned aerial vehicles. The work discusses selected elements of research and practical tests of the intruder detection vision system, which is part the of IDAAS project. At the outset, the current formal requirements related to the necessity of installing anticollision systems on aircraft are presented. The concept of the IDAAS system and the structure of algorithms related to image processing are also discussed. The main part of the work presents the methodology developed for the needs of dedicated flight tests, its implementation and the results obtained. The initial tests of the IDAAS system carried out on an ultralight aircraft generally indicate the possibility of the effective detection of intruders in the airspace with the use of vision methods, although they also indicated the existence of conditions in which this detection may prove difficult or even impossible