Celem prezentowanych badań było określenie wielkości, struktury oraz poziomu zróżnicowania bazy ekonomicznej, a także ich zmian w latach 2008-2015 w odniesieniu do małych miast województwa warmińsko-mazurskiego oraz podlaskiego. Uzyskane wyniki pozwalają stwierdzić, że czynnikami ograniczającymi rozwój tych miast są niewielkie rozmiary i niekonkurencyjna struktura bazy ekonomicznej.

Kobiecooeae z perspektywy kobiet z niepe³nosprawnooeci¹ intelektualn¹-raport z badañ fokusowych Choae rooenie zainteresowanie kwestiami p³ci w studiach nad niepe³nosprawnooeci¹, wci¹¿ niewiele jest badañ dotycz¹cych kobiecooeci b¹dŸ mêskooeci w kontekoecie niepe³nosprawnooeci intelektualnej. Przedmiotem analiz w prezentowanych badaniach jest percepcja kobiecooeci przedstawiana przez kobiety z niepe³nosprawnooeci¹ intelektualn¹ w³¹czone w ruch self-adwokatury. Badania zosta³y przeprowadzone w trzech miastach w pó³nocno-wschodniej Polsce i wziê³y w nich udzia³ trzy grupy kobiet od 6 do 9 osób (w sumie 21 kobiet w wieku 21-60 lat). Zastosowan¹ metod¹ gromadzenia danych by³ wywiad fokusowy. G³ówne problemy badawcze brzmia³y: 1) jak kobiety z niepe³nosprawnooeci¹ intelektualn¹ postrzegaj¹ swoj¹ kobiecooeae? 2) w jakich kontekstach rozpat-ruj¹ w³asne bycie kobiet¹? Wyniki badañ pokazuj¹ istnienie u badanych identyfikacji z w³asn¹ p³ci¹ oraz dostrzeganie ró¿norodnych aspektów zwi¹zanych zarówno ze sfer¹ fizyczn¹, jak i spo³eczn¹ bycia kobiet¹. Kobiecooeae rozpatrywana jest w kontekoecie wype³nianych ról spo³ecznych, cech (zewnêtrznych i wewnêtrznych) oraz zestawiana z mêskooeci¹, jako drugim biegunem p³ciowooeci. Postrzeganie kobiecooeci jest wyraŸnie inspirowane dooewiadczeniami w³asnymi oraz wzorcami wystêpuj¹cymi w najbli¿szym otoczeniu. Wyniki wskazuj¹ce na du¿¹ oewiadomooeae badanych kobiet z niepe³nosprawnooeci¹ intelektualn¹ mo¿na t³umaczyae przynale¿nooeci¹ do grupy self-adwokatów, w której samooewiadomooeae uczestniczek jest intencjonalnie rozbudowywana. S³owa kluczowe: kobiecooeae, kobiety, niepe³nosprawnooeae intelektualna, self-adwokaci Femininity as defined by females with intellectual disabilitya focus group research report Although there is a growing interest in the issues of gender in disability studies, there has been little research on femininity or masculinity in the context of intellectual disability. The paper focuses on the perception of femininity presented by female self-advocates with intellectual disabilities. The research was conducted in three towns in northeastern Poland with three focus groups of females who took part in focus interviews (a total amount of participants-21 women aged of 21-60). The main research question was: how do females with intellectual disabilities conceptualize femininity? In which contexts do they consider their own femininity? The findings show that the participants identify themselves with their gender and acknowledge various aspects of femininity connected both with the physical and social sphere. Femininity was perceived in the context of fulfilling social roles, traits (appearance and personality) and compared with masculinity. The perception of femininity by the participants was evidently inspired by their own experiences and patterns occurring in their surroundings. The results, which showed a high level of gender identity of female participants with intellectual disabilities, could be explained by belonging to the groups of self-advocates in which the partici...

Twitterature by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin as a Variant of Twitter Fiction The following article aims to present a study on twitterature-an intersection of literature and Twitter and a variant of twitter fi ction. The latter has become increasingly popular since the advent of Twitter at the end of the fi rst decade of this century and has dwarfed longer and traditional narratives. The subject of analysis will be Twitterature. The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less (2009) by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin. The author of this article argues that parodic reworkings of 76 literary classics for the 21st century readers should be analysed as a variant or subgenre rather than a fully developed literary genre. Therefore the analytical tools have been appropriated from literary realm rather than new media studies. The author's aim is not to present an outline of electronic literature or its typology, since that has been exhausted by other researchers. The main objective is rather to comment on one of the variants of electronic literature, which undertook a postmodernist dialogue with classic hypertexts (hypertexts in the Genettian sense of the word). Thus the most relevant aspects investigated here include generic boundaries, the role of the reader, inherent features as well as (Twitter) format and style respectively.