This paper presents the results of a small scale survey on attitudes, habits and practices of Croatian working population in relation to digital curation of personal digital data. The survey was driven by the following research questions: What are the attitudes of working population towards organizing and safekeeping digital documents that they create in everyday life? To what extent is personal digital archiving among working population a planned activity or just a side-effect of generating content in the digital environment? How do they organize and preserve digital data and documents, both offline and online? What are their attitudes to digital afterlife and digital legacy? Data has been collected in the period from November 2015 to January 2016 through an online questionnaire distributed through online social networks and e-mails aiming to reach the employed population in the age group from 18 to 65 in Croatia. The analysis of the results shows detailed behaviour patterns when it comes to preservation practices as well as attitudes towards taking responsibility for safekeeping personal digital data and documents. The results are also discussed in the light of the implication that these issues may have on user studies and services in libraries and archives.

Authors and other creative workers today are faced with the (r)evolution of digital technology and media that slowly change and challenge the way they create, disseminate, and preserve their work. The purpose of this paper is to explore the attitudes, habits, and practices of contemporary Croatian writers in a small-scale sample in terms of the creation, organization, and preservation of digital documents and various literary forms. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with nine contemporary Croatian writers and examined through narrative analysis of the interview transcripts. The research highlighted areas that need to be more thoroughly considered when we are dealing with issues of personal digital archiving, digital legacies, and the preservation of digital cultural heritage in general. In-depth interviews with respondents indicated one particularly important issue: that preserving the context of their work is as important as preserving the work itself.

The purpose of this study is to map the practices regarding open educational resources’ (OERs) development and implementation at European higher education institutions (HEIs) in the field of library and information science (LIS) during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify the challenges and obstacles to their full and optimal utilization, both during crisis situations and beyond. A systematic literature review and questionnaire-based survey yielded results from 56 European LIS schools/departments (n = 56). Statistical analysis was performed using the R programming language, and descriptive statistics were used to quantify the data sets. The results have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic served as an impetus for the adoption of OERs, particularly in the context of digital education (DE) and remote learning. However, there is still a lack of awareness of the many benefits and opportunities they provide to higher education, as evidenced by the fact than less than half LIS schools/departments used OERs. Certain issues were identified, such as the lack of institutional policies regarding OERs, inadequate peer-review of OERs, and, in most cases, the absence of monitoring and evaluation practices for OERs. The results and insights from this study can be used to improve all aspects of OERs’ implementation and thus accelerate their adoption, both with regard to LIS schools/departments and other fields. Further research into the topic through interviews and focus groups should provide a deeper understanding of opportunities, challenges and practices surrounding the adoption of OERs in the field of LIS education.

Author's rights and copyright law have gone through quite a few changes in the 'post-print' culture of binary systems, digital formations and techno-practices. Technological development supports a new concept of author's rights by promoting a free internet and digital market, as well as new contemporary experience of culture that is rooted in digital technology, mass communication and the world of multimedia and virtuality. Though computer and digital technology have served both authors and users in various ways, they have also served as a very fertile ground for sharing copyrighted content, thus leading to numerous copyright infringements and conflicts with the copyright law. The aim of this paper is to identify and analyze the ways in which computer and digital technology have given rise to new trends in the production (e.g. remix culture) and consumption (e.g. peer-to-peer file sharing technology) of culture, but also to determine how new forms of distribution, use and sharing of digital content changed and shaped the perception of authorship in the 21 st century. In order to analyze the dynamic, nature and structure by which new digital and networking technologies are affecting the concept of authorship and author's rights and to test the consistency of previously established hypotheses, we conducted a survey amongst the general public. 535 questionnaires were completed. Data was analyzed using SPSS tool and a quantitative method of analysis. In the analysis special attention was given to both, the concept of authorship in the digital environment and the concept of peer-to-peer file sharing technology as not so new, but still very popular networked architecture for distributing, using and sharing digital content.

Cilj. Cilj je rada razmotriti moguće uzroke krize demokracije koja zahvaća šire de- mokratske odnose i procese u sferama društvenosti, kulture, ekonomije i politike. Kriza demokracije posebno se razmatra u kontekstu tehnosfere koja počiva na moći umjetne inteligencije i umjetnog života. Rad otvara pitanje važnosti i uloge medijske pismenosti kao jednog od ključnih rješenja za krizu demokracije i eskalaciju dezinformacija u javnom diskursu. Pristup/metodologija. Rad se temelji na sustavnom pregledu i analizi literature i dostupnih istraživanja koji kreiraju teorijski okvir za definiranje i razumijevanje pitanja krize demokracije i njezine povezanosti s problematikom tehnicizacije (datafikacije i algoritmizacije) društva i društvenih procesa, odnosno s izazovima dezinfodemije koja kroz marginalizaciju istine i nekritičko sagledavanje informacija otvara prostor za dolazak post-istine. Rezultati. Ovim se radom želi potaknuti promišljanje struke, donositelja odluka, ali i šire javnosti o uravnoteživanju osjećaja (individualne i kolektivne) odgovornosti i mogućnosti stvarne kontrole, odnosno odgovornosti i djelovanja pojedinca i odgovornosti i djelovanja javnog i privatnog sektora. Također želi se potaknuti dijalog o nužnosti kreiranja strategije i programa za promicanje i razvoj medijske pismenosti i kritičkog mišljenja u svrhu ne samo suprotstavljanja dezinformacijama već i kritičkog razumije- vanja društvenih odnosa i distribucije društvene i političke moći. Originalnost/vrijednost. Rad povezuje pitanja algoritmizacije, krize demokracije  i medijske pismenosti. Medijska je pismenost temelj informiranog građanstva, pa tako i temelj demokratskog društva. Znanja, vještine i kompetencije medijske pismenosti u informacijskom društvu ne mogu se odnositi više samo na mogućnost pojedinca da se uspješno kreće „tradicionalnim“ informacijskim i medijskim prostorom, već se moraju referirati i na problematiku kretanja komputacijskim prostorom informacija za čiju su složenu, dinamičnu i disonantnu strukturu sve više odgovorni korporativni algoritmi ili algoritmi tzv. treće strane. Povezivanje triju pitanja možda nikada nije bilo nužnije nego u dobu obilježenom općom društveno-političkom sumnjom i apatijom i rastućom diskrepancijom između sve složenijih i sofisticiranijih tehnika (dez)informiranja i medijske (ne)pismenosti građana.