The article examines the representation of enemies – their dehumanization – during the Asia-Pacific War. The first part is dedicated to propaganda and explains why it is used in countries involved in armed conflicts – it motivates soldiers to fight and civilians to support the state. The text then discusses the image of the Japanese in various media produced by the United States and how Americans portrayed them – typical references included barbarism, homogeneity, and animality. The final part shows how Japanese propaganda depicted Americans and the British, with common references to greed and demonization.

This article focuses on the musical aspect of the TikTok application. The aim of the study is to identify elements of a musical piece and other factors that may influence the popularity of a song published on this platform. The main research method is the analysis of the content of songs that have gone viral on TikTok. In addition, existing sources related to the subject of the study were analysed. The results of the research show that the elements that can contribute to a piece of music “breaking out” on TikTok include: lyrics that address typical human problems, a fast tempo, and simple and effective choreography created for the song. The resonance of the song with pop culture and the activity of influencers also play a significant role in its promotion.

Contemporary reflection on the legacy of colonialism shows that this system not only shaped the political and economic structures of the world, but also had a lasting impact on ways of thinking, narratives and representations. The article presents Joseph Conrad’s Heart of darkness as a key text for understanding the complexity of colonial power relations and the mechanisms of dehumanisation and legitimisation of violence. Taking into account both classic and contemporary statements in the postcolonial debate (Achebe, Fanon, Said and Spivak among others), the author attempts to interpret the novel as a space of tension between Western Civilization ideology and its moral and symbolic collapse. Conrad not only exposes the illusion of civilisational superiority, but also shows colonialism as a process of mutual destruction – degrading both the colonised and the colonisers. Heart of Darkness remains a powerful voice in the debate on violence, otherness and the limits of humanity.

The concept of DeafSpace was developed in response to the everyday experiences and communication needs of deaf people, which determine their distinctiveness, differences in perceiving distances, visual control, and comfort in assimilating information. It is also a manifestation of recognition of the different perceptions of sign language users and their high visual competence. Constructed wherever deaf and hearing people function together, it facilitates intercultural contact in multilingual groups and allows for a departure from the stigmatisation associated with disability and the socio-cultural model of perceiving deafness. The researcher questions the role of space in shaping linguistic practices that connect deaf and hearing people from different cultural circles. The analysis is based on research conducted at the Silesian Museum and conclusions from a study visit to Gallaudet University in November 2024.

This article, drawing on selected examples from the filmmaking of Kazimierz Kutz, Janusz Kidawa, Jan Kidawa-Błoński, Lech Majewski, and Józef Kłyk, presents a project of Silesian memory of the community’s history, captured through visual storytelling. Analyzing Silesian identity, the author uses the category of “Domowizna,” understood as an extended home, constituting a source material and mental universe through which knowledge about reality is disseminated from the perspective of a community, e.g. the Silesian one, and its participants, e.g. the Silesians. The author demonstrates that each of these filmmakers drew on oral traditions (Silesian “godka”) and verbal motor skills to define a universe that unifies the Silesian community.

New media, Internet and especially media Web. 2.0 are seen as the place of information exchange, creating dialogue, opening to the Other, Different, they are becoming a meeting place (Ryszard Kapuscinski). However, if we examine the space of the blogosphere, Facebook, Twitter, it can be seen as something quite different, the opposite. The network society becomes on the one hand, the community, connecting all users on the network, on the other hand, we can observe alienation from this society, people became more excluded and alone. In the new media we often meet up with closed space for “Ours” and to reject the “Others”. This kind of media became the birth place of 
“democracy 2.0” and “outraged network” (Manuell Castells). The Democracy 2.0. is being born in front of our eyes and its character is determined by the biggest Internet players, politics and also – the one that stays in “contra” – regular Internet users.

The aim of this article is to present the relationships between women and men in Nubian villages. In everyday life, private space, assigned to women, and public space, belonging to men, are constantly constructed by social relations. The determinant of these relations is the moral purity of women. In my analysis, I will refer to the concept of embodied space proposed by Setha Low.