The article focuses on an empirical procedure aimed to harness digital games in exploring sensible issues in social research. By merging qualitative and creative methods and taking into account suggestions from Sociology, Media Studies, and Game Studies, the suggested approach combines single interv…

The focus of the article is on data-self technology in digital entertainment - virtual entities that replicate and/or are influenced by players’ behaviors and actions, working as agential mirrors on the screen. Little efforts have been done in investigating their potential in social research and edu…

The use of violent video-games among teenagers is becoming undisputed. The goal of this study is identifying the video-game typology played by teenagers in two most important High Schools in the two most important cities of Albania and present the effect of this video-games. There were twenty-six pa…

Richard Rorty wrote on many occasions that called the linguistic turn was an attempt to keep philosophy an armchair discipline. “The idea - he said - was to mark off a space for a priori knowledge into which neither sociology nor history nor art nor natural science could intrude”. Linguistic analysi…

In my contribution I want to investigate, from a theoretical point of view but also with methodological and practical consequences, the qualitative role of metaphor in social research. As tool able to improve and facilitate the visualization of complex ideas and states of mind, this rhetorical figur…

I. Kadare dallohet nga të gjithë shkrimtarët shqiptarë të shekullit të kaluar për prirjen e tij drejt mitologjisë, aq sa vepra e tij mund të lexohet edhe si një vepër mitologjike, ose neomitike. Ky shkrim synon të evidentojë mënyrat sesi shkrimtari operon me korpusin e miteve greke, që mbetet më i p…

A Rio de Janeiro crossing during the Winter of 2011. Urban, social and economic contrasts and contradictions of a city that is preparing to host the World Cup in 2014 and the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016. The ‘street cleaning’ of cidade maravilhosa: the next sporting competitions and respectiv…

Në fushën Gjuhët dhe komunikimi, gjuha shqipe dhe letërsia trajtohen së bashku dhe janë përfshirë në një tekst të vetëm shkollor. Ky integrim sjell përfitime dhe sfida në procesin e mësimit të gramatikës në shkollat e mesme të ulëta në Kosovë. Qëllimi i hulumtimit ishte të shqyrtojë mënyrën se si më…