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One of the most apparent features of information society is the increasing number, diversity and complexity as well as the continuous and fast change of technical tools surrounding everything and everyone. In an interaction with the adoption of new technologies, the receptive medium, the society does also change, while the environmental changes require adaptation. The change, as the new tools and the additional services are becoming a part of the citizens’ everyday life at an extent never seen before, develops new deviances. However, the role of law in this change is constant: it has to regulate the social relations in a way that it could ensure social collaboration and prevent, punish any offence against it. Several branches of law within this complex legal system have a different role, where criminal law means the sanction keystone and stands guard. However, to be able to understand the role of criminal law, we have to discover the environment that needs to be regulated and to understand the incentives of deviant behaviours within this change.

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This paper explores the role of translation in the informational era (Webster 2006a, 2006b; Castells 2009, 2010a, 2010b). The first section surveys the place of informative texts within Translation Studies, starting with Reiss’s (1976) text type taxonomy. The second section discusses the concept of the informational society, as characteristic of the trend towards globalization brought about by technological advances, with particular attention to the spread of the Internet and the marketization of information. This is related to the explosion of news and information outlets that attempt to reach a global market. The final section turns specifically to the role of translation vis-à-vis the informational society, and mentions the problems arising from the invisible activity of translation rather than the invisibility of the professionals, since the producers of many of these media texts do not even consider themselves translators.

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-economy] IHM (2003a): Magyar Információs Társadalom Stratégia [Hungarian Information Society Strategy]. Downloadable also in English from the website of the Ministry of Informatics and Telecommunication: www.ihm.hu Vámos

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The mobile communication of children and teenagers has spread rapidly. For their generation, mobile communication has become a fixed and stable part of life. Children and teenagers use mobile terminals differently to adults, and gender and age differences create different use. Mobile communication is often connected with cross-media surfing: e.g. Internet, e-mail and IRC-channels. The University of Tampere has studied the mobile communication of under 18-year-olds since 1997. The cultural research conducted is based on qualitative methods.

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Deviances of information society

About harassment and cyber-stalking

Acta Juridica Hungarica
Author:
Zoltán Szathmáry

The fact of harassment is a remarkable step in the complex protection of private sphere, but due to its novelty it is still difficult to adopt in practice. Among the most typical behaviours of harassment, the Criminal Code itself names the commitment through telecommunication tools that-referring to the title-means harassment through internet as an infocommunication system. The modern, digital communication facilities enable an informal communication among participants that hides reality. The single ways of communication (e-mail, chat) only have written basis, other sensors of cognition, perception do not play any role. As a result of the lack of social controll, one of the most significant hurdles of aggression, the social distress does not exist. Therefore some emotions (anger, jealousy) or aggression can be directed straight towards the target of the harassor. The internet can be a tool as well that the principal can use in order to gather personal information about the victim to make the subsequent harassment easier. These circumstances provide different opportunities to the harassor, therefore it is worth to deal detailed with this way of commitment. The suggestions and highlights of the study aim to eliminate the difficulties of law interpretation, to define the enforceable concept of private life, and to enable the possible realisation of the facts.

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