PLACES OF INTEREST - a personal view

Authors

  • Nadežda Stojković, PhD Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš

Abstract

Information and content are declaratively available to everyone and everywhere nowadays. There are internet browsers that allow for those to be accessed. In that sea of everything said and written on just about any topic, there is a need for digital literacy, which in turn, is finely interwoven with the issue of filtering the information available. This is a question all the more pressing amidst our era’s constant influx of information of increasingly questionable quality, delivered with increasingly uncompromising ploys for our attention. A huge and complex issue as it is, yet it comes down to sorting facts and information against a trustworthy source.  One kind of such sources are certainly and foremostly the established institutions and renowned experts. However, this plentitude of information makes it all the more challenging for new names to arise as authorities that can be relied upon for the choice, quality and possibly the interpretation of the information selected.

Author Biography

  • Nadežda Stojković, PhD, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš

    Nadežda Stojković, PhD, Assistant Professor, Lecturer of English Language, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia.

    Main areas of interest and research: English for Specific and Academic Purposes, academic writing,  relationship between language and identity, literature.

    Author of textbooks Written and Spoken Communications in English for Science and Technology, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, 2005, and coauthor of English for Students of Information and Communication Technologies, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, 2012.

    Author of a chapter in each of the following books: Identity and Difference, Peter Lang Publishers, Switzerland, 2005, Metafrastikes Optikes: Epiloges ke Diaforetikotita. Athens University: Parousia, 2006, Languages for Specific Purposes – Searching for Common Solutions, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, Education Landscapes in the 21st Century: Cross-cultural Challenges and Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2008, Recounting Cultural Encounters, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2009, Identity Issues, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2010, ‘Cultural diplomacy as a Form of Intercultural communication’, Cambridge Schoolars Publishing, 2013 (pending), ‘The Liberation of the Self through a Self Imposed Exile’, in The Beauty of Convention, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013 (pending).
    Initiator and the President of the Program Committee of the First International Conference on Teaching English for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Univeristy of Niš, 17-19 May, 2013.

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Published

2014-05-05

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014): Vol 2, No 1 (2014)

Section

Articles