Damian Guzek
Biographic Data
| ID | 654811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damian Guzek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damian |
| FAMILY NAME | Guzek |
| SIGNATURE | GUZEK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Silesia in Katowice |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2780-5656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The quasi-gods of algorithmic providence
Recommender systems now mediate information exposure for over half the global population daily, shaping beliefs, values, and life decisions at unprecedented scale. Prior research has documented polarization effects, responsibility gaps in autonomous systems, and patterns of AI sacralization in public discourse. Philosophy of technology has established that such systems function as socio-technical assemblages with world-making power rather than ne…
The far right, religion, and conspiracy theories
Landmarks in Digital Religion
RELIGION ON THE INTERNET: RESEARCH PROSPECTS AND PROMISES. . Edited by Jeffrey K. Haddon and Douglas E. Cowan. Greenwich, CT: JAI, 2000. Pp. 300. RELIGION AND CYBERSPACE. . Edited by Morten Hojsgaard and Margit Warburg. London: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 224. Paperback, $54.99. WHEN RELIGION MEETS NEW MEDIA. By Heidi Campbell. London: Routledge, 2010. Pp. 232. Paperback, $54.99. DIGITAL RELIGION, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND CULTURE: PERSPECTIVES, PRACTICES, AND …
Metaphors of suffering, illness, and death in the digital edition of the Apostolate of the Sick journal
The sick can conceptualize their suffering individually and in a community by subordinating themselves to the rules of the discourse that regulates thinking and behavior. Conceptualization can, therefore, be the result of choice, adopting a particular perspective, and filtering experience through categories that make up a specific ideological or axiological system. It is not only the result of somatic, cultural, or subcultural determination. Rese…
Komunikowanie religii w przestrzeni medialnej
Wstęp
When partisan groups get access to the digital society
In recent years, radical voices of all kinds have become increasingly visible due to digital platforms. Within this context, issues connected with religious diversity have received little attention. But valuable insights can be gained from examining how radical religious advocates embrace digital strategies, using their own marginality to ironically oppose religious diversity. This article discusses the discursive strategies of the Polish far-rig…
Exploring Twenty-First-Century Catholic Traditionalist Resistance Movement through Digital Cartoons of Pope Francis
Ever since cartoons were created as a medium of political and social commentary, they have been used to both criticize and uplift religious communities. The anti-Catholic cartoons of Thomas Nast and Jack Chick are easily recognizable, but interestingly, among twenty-first-century Catholic communities in Europe and the United States, Catholics themselves have been creating caricatures of Pope Francis, a more left-leaning pope in favor of reinforci…
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe
CEE countries faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades. Democratic processes, after relative stabilization, tremble again around polarizing values, populist leaders, or nationalistic ideologies. Online communication, especially social media platforms, play a vital role in shaping how citizens interact with the state, political actors, media, and other citizens. The collection of m…
Mediatization Cartography
The mediatization of religion which has developed in the Central and Eastern European area is based on Scandinavian social assumptions that cannot be transferred directly to other geographical areas. Starting from this fact, in this study I focus on the question of the ontology that constitutes the mediatization of religion in Central and Eastern Europe. I call this search for the criteria of mediatization’s functioning in the studied area mediat…
Political Will and Media Law
A significant element of Central and Eastern Europe’s democracies backsliding process turns out to be changes in the media law. These changes are now leading to a decline in media freedom. The article attempts to understand this phenomenon by analyzing the process of legal and policy changes in Poland. In the course of the analysis, the reader’s attention is drawn to three elements that form the mainline of events related to the weakening of medi…
Religious memory on Facebook in times of refugee crisis
The aim of this article is to analyze the religious discourse on Polish Facebook in relation to the refugee crisis. The primary focus is on how religious memory is presented. A discourse analysis implemented by the author helps to identify and examine certain nodal points related to the religious debate about refugees, and then instruments used to recall religious memory are shown. In the course of the analysis, the author uses the theory of reli…
Religious motifs within reporting of the 7/7 London bombings in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland
Existing studies have examined the significance of UK media coverage of the 7/7 London bombings. This article seeks to widen this analysis by exploring the coverage of 7/7 in the leading newspapers of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland comparatively using a new agenda-setting perspective that is grounded within network analysis. The study is devised to respond specifically to the contrasting arguments about the influence of media g…
Coverage of the Iraq War in the United States, Mainland China, Taiwan and Poland
Walter Lippmann's description in Public Opinion of the news media as the bridge between “the world outside and the pictures in our heads” is particularly apt for the two goals of this study: exploring a new perspective in agenda-setting theory grounded in network analysis, which, in turn, provides the setting for a comparative analysis of the Iraq War news coverage in newspapers of the United States, Mainland China, Taiwan and Poland. Exploring c…
Coverage of the Iraq War in the United States, Mainland China, Taiwan and Poland
Walter Lippmann's description in Public Opinion of the news media as the bridge between “the world outside and the pictures in our heads” is particularly apt for the two goals of this study: exploring a new perspective in agenda-setting theory grounded in network analysis, which, in turn, provides the setting for a comparative analysis of the Iraq War news coverage in newspapers of the United States, Mainland China, Taiwan and Poland. Exploring c…
Political Will and Media Law
A significant element of Central and Eastern Europe’s democracies backsliding process turns out to be changes in the media law. These changes are now leading to a decline in media freedom. The article attempts to understand this phenomenon by analyzing the process of legal and policy changes in Poland. In the course of the analysis, the reader’s attention is drawn to three elements that form the mainline of events related to the weakening of medi…
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe
CEE countries faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades. Democratic processes, after relative stabilization, tremble again around polarizing values, populist leaders, or nationalistic ideologies. Online communication, especially social media platforms, play a vital role in shaping how citizens interact with the state, political actors, media, and other citizens. The collection of m…
Religious motifs within reporting of the 7/7 London bombings in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland
Existing studies have examined the significance of UK media coverage of the 7/7 London bombings. This article seeks to widen this analysis by exploring the coverage of 7/7 in the leading newspapers of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland comparatively using a new agenda-setting perspective that is grounded within network analysis. The study is devised to respond specifically to the contrasting arguments about the influence of media g…
Coverage of the Iraq War in the United States, Mainland China, Taiwan and Poland
Walter Lippmann's description in Public Opinion of the news media as the bridge between “the world outside and the pictures in our heads” is particularly apt for the two goals of this study: exploring a new perspective in agenda-setting theory grounded in network analysis, which, in turn, provides the setting for a comparative analysis of the Iraq War news coverage in newspapers of the United States, Mainland China, Taiwan and Poland. Exploring c…
Religious memory on Facebook in times of refugee crisis
The aim of this article is to analyze the religious discourse on Polish Facebook in relation to the refugee crisis. The primary focus is on how religious memory is presented. A discourse analysis implemented by the author helps to identify and examine certain nodal points related to the religious debate about refugees, and then instruments used to recall religious memory are shown. In the course of the analysis, the author uses the theory of reli…
Religious motifs within reporting of the 7/7 London bombings in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland
Existing studies have examined the significance of UK media coverage of the 7/7 London bombings. This article seeks to widen this analysis by exploring the coverage of 7/7 in the leading newspapers of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland comparatively using a new agenda-setting perspective that is grounded within network analysis. The study is devised to respond specifically to the contrasting arguments about the influence of media g…
Political Will and Media Law
A significant element of Central and Eastern Europe’s democracies backsliding process turns out to be changes in the media law. These changes are now leading to a decline in media freedom. The article attempts to understand this phenomenon by analyzing the process of legal and policy changes in Poland. In the course of the analysis, the reader’s attention is drawn to three elements that form the mainline of events related to the weakening of medi…
Mediatization Cartography
The mediatization of religion which has developed in the Central and Eastern European area is based on Scandinavian social assumptions that cannot be transferred directly to other geographical areas. Starting from this fact, in this study I focus on the question of the ontology that constitutes the mediatization of religion in Central and Eastern Europe. I call this search for the criteria of mediatization’s functioning in the studied area mediat…
When partisan groups get access to the digital society
In recent years, radical voices of all kinds have become increasingly visible due to digital platforms. Within this context, issues connected with religious diversity have received little attention. But valuable insights can be gained from examining how radical religious advocates embrace digital strategies, using their own marginality to ironically oppose religious diversity. This article discusses the discursive strategies of the Polish far-rig…
Exploring Twenty-First-Century Catholic Traditionalist Resistance Movement through Digital Cartoons of Pope Francis
Ever since cartoons were created as a medium of political and social commentary, they have been used to both criticize and uplift religious communities. The anti-Catholic cartoons of Thomas Nast and Jack Chick are easily recognizable, but interestingly, among twenty-first-century Catholic communities in Europe and the United States, Catholics themselves have been creating caricatures of Pope Francis, a more left-leaning pope in favor of reinforci…
Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe
CEE countries faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades. Democratic processes, after relative stabilization, tremble again around polarizing values, populist leaders, or nationalistic ideologies. Online communication, especially social media platforms, play a vital role in shaping how citizens interact with the state, political actors, media, and other citizens. The collection of m…
Komunikowanie religii w przestrzeni medialnej
Wstęp
Landmarks in Digital Religion
RELIGION ON THE INTERNET: RESEARCH PROSPECTS AND PROMISES. . Edited by Jeffrey K. Haddon and Douglas E. Cowan. Greenwich, CT: JAI, 2000. Pp. 300. RELIGION AND CYBERSPACE. . Edited by Morten Hojsgaard and Margit Warburg. London: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 224. Paperback, $54.99. WHEN RELIGION MEETS NEW MEDIA. By Heidi Campbell. London: Routledge, 2010. Pp. 232. Paperback, $54.99. DIGITAL RELIGION, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND CULTURE: PERSPECTIVES, PRACTICES, AND …
Metaphors of suffering, illness, and death in the digital edition of the Apostolate of the Sick journal
The sick can conceptualize their suffering individually and in a community by subordinating themselves to the rules of the discourse that regulates thinking and behavior. Conceptualization can, therefore, be the result of choice, adopting a particular perspective, and filtering experience through categories that make up a specific ideological or axiological system. It is not only the result of somatic, cultural, or subcultural determination. Rese…
The quasi-gods of algorithmic providence
Recommender systems now mediate information exposure for over half the global population daily, shaping beliefs, values, and life decisions at unprecedented scale. Prior research has documented polarization effects, responsibility gaps in autonomous systems, and patterns of AI sacralization in public discourse. Philosophy of technology has established that such systems function as socio-technical assemblages with world-making power rather than ne…
The far right, religion, and conspiracy theories
Media, Religion, Digital Communication (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)