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Ongoing Pandemic

  T o the whole world, the beginning of the year 2020 became a turning moment - the countries were infected with the new virus COVID-19. One of the further actions of the government were to restrict people's presence at the places of mass gathering, return tourists to their mother-land, and close the borders utmost. Moreover, later people were asked to follow the quarantine and stay home for several weeks, minding their and others' health.      The spread of the virus - the speed, amount of infected people, consequences - was different in the countries, and due to the cultural dissimilarity and mentality, the process of acquisition and acceptance of such necessary isolation varied between human beings. Why? What is the difference if it is a ubiquitous issue?      Psychologically speaking, people have their own habits and way of life that they follow daily and feel comfortable in. And when they are limited with their resources and personally not in...

Are social Influencers responsible for their content?

     T he modern world is in the era of freely accessible information on a variety of media platforms. Meanwhile, some of the news broadcasts may be censored or monitored for the content such as lexicon used, the visual support, video, and audio accompaniment, still, some of the informative contents might be transmitted differently. As Instagram became the broad media platform for the expression of opinion, for the show of one's life, one's experience, stories, and advice, it also became the way of interaction of one person or organization with the big audience that sometimes might be 15k followers, 100k, or even 1 million.      Therefore, the issue of social responsibility - and that is the influence, motivation, propaganda, commercial, attitude, call on the action, etc - became a topic to be discussed. As all people are different and more to that they are individuals with their characters, some of them are vulnerable and sensitive to the broadcast...