Europe’s packaging sector is transforming—driven by innovation, regulation, and collaboration. The sector continues to grow while undergoing significant change, responding to increasingly complex expectations from regulators, brand owners, and consumers alike. Drawing on recent conference presentations, journal articles and market reports, the authors present detailed the key drivers of the packaging market: sustainability and regulation, the growth of e-commerce, changing consumer attitudes and lifestyles, digitalisation and innovation, advances of printing technology and packaging format innovation.
The Western Balkans is increasingly becoming a fertile ground for multimedia innovation. With rapid advancements in technology and a growing interest in digital transformation, the region is witnessing significant developments in multimedia, digital content creation, and innovative digital solutions. This study aims to explore the extent of multimedia innovation in the Western Balkans by addressing the following research question: How are multimedia industries developing in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, and what factors influence their growth?
The methodology of this research is based on a qualitative approach, incorporating an extensive review of academic literature, policy documents, and industry reports. Secondary sources, such as reports from international organizations like the European Commission, World Bank, UNESCO, and UNDP, were analyzed to understand regional trends in multimedia innovation. Additionally, information from official government websites, film festivals, and multimedia industry stakeholders was included to ensure a comprehensive assessment of the sector.
Numerous initiatives and institutions are driving multimedia innovation in the Western Balkans. The Marubi Academy of Film and Multimedia in Albania stands out as a premier institution offering education and training in film, television, and digital media. Similarly, the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, provides comprehensive programs in multimedia arts. Additional institutions such as the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and the University of Sarajevo’s Faculty of Performing Arts also contribute significantly to training future multimedia professionals. Sarajevo Film Festival and the Anibar International Animation Festival in Kosovo have become prominent platforms for showcasing multimedia works. Technological advancements such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI) are being integrated into multimedia projects in the Western Balkans.
Despite advancements, challenges remain, particularly in areas such as infrastructure development, access to high-quality equipment, and the need for more specialized education programs in multimedia fields. Addressing these gaps will be crucial to unlocking the full potential of the region’s creative economy. Governments across the Western Balkans have made significant strides in creating a favorable environment for digital innovation, but continued support, both financially and in terms of policy reforms, will be necessary to overcome existing barriers. Additionally, collaboration between countries in the region, as well as with international partners, will be key to creating a more sustainable and competitive multimedia ecosystem. Investment in digital education and training will be critical in nurturing talent and ensuring that the region will remain competitive in the future.
Михайло Іванович Верхола, Олександра Євгенівна Бабич, Ростислав Романович Качур
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Стаття присвячена розробленню математичної моделі, яка описує процес передачі та руху фарби від фарбоживильного пристрою до накочувальних валиків, передачу розчину від зволожувального апарата до форми, взаємодію фарби і розчину в зонах контакту валиків з друкарською формою, накочування фарби на друкувальні елементи та розчину на пробільні, та їх передачу поверхнею офсетного циліндра до відбитків та у зворотному напрямі. На основі математичної моделі з використанням програмного пакета Matlab Simulink побудовано симулятор, який відтворює процеси, що відбуваються у фарбодрукарській системі, і враховує режими роботи усіх її компонентів. Шляхом імітаційного моделювання виявлено зворотний рух емульгованої фарби до дукторного циліндра та її передачу на поверхню валиків зволожувального апарата. Підтверджено потребу у збільшенні кількості зволожувального розчину із зростанням площі заповнення форми друкувальними елементами. Встановлено, що із зменшенням площі заповнення форми товщина фарби на поверхнях валиків зволожувального апарата зростає, що зменшує товщину шару розчину, який подається у фарбодрукарську систему.
Islamic Religious Education (IRE) is an important subject for every student to learn. Islamic Education learning can be organized by utilizing various types of learning media, as has been implemented in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Miftahul Ulum Wonokoyo, East Java, where Islamic Education learning involves the use of print media and audio-visual media as learning tools. The purpose of this study is to examine the strategy of using learning media in IRE subjects at Madrasah Tsnawiyah Miftahul Ulum Wonokoyo. The research method used in this study is descriptive qualitative method. Data were collected through literature study, observation, and interviews with three Islamic teachers at the MTs. The collected data were analyzed through three stages, namely data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results showed that the management of the use of learning media in IRE subjects at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Miftahul Ulum Wonokoyo is still weak. This is caused by several factors, namely the lack of support from the madrasah for the procurement of IRE learning media and the lack of willingness of IRE teachers to improve their competence in the use of learning media. Efforts to improve the management of the use of learning media in IRE subjects at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Miftahul Ulum Wonokoyo require some management improvements in aspects such as the curriculum that can support the effective use of learning media, the role of teachers to improve their competence in the use of learning media, learning methods and learning media.
Education (General), Theory and practice of education
With this issue we come to the end of the 28th year of publication of Information Research. The journal was founded at a time a significant change in the information world, with the Internet and the World Wide Web being in the early stage of development, with the iPhone, the iPad, and social media yet to be invented. Now this year has seen the emergence of generative artificial intelligence and, just as 1995 was a transition point, in the move from print to digital, so this year is a transition point – in the move from what is still, very largely, a combination of human and computer to generate services, to a future of human and AI system of service delivery. And, perhaps, before too long, artificial intelligence acting alone.
Bibliography. Library science. Information resources
Advertisements promote their products using different persuasive strategies. They are artwork that also represents society, and its culture, and inculcate different new ideologies. This research study is an exploration of the persuasive strategies in the Pakistani advertisements of various brands of products. In addition, this research study also analyses how media and advertisements affect Pakistani society. For this study, five advertisements are chosen from Print media. To these advertisements, many things are related and could consider such as the playing field for the brand, regarding marketing, advertising, and consumers for which the advertisers have their own favoured linguistic expression. However, the current study uses the analytical paradigm of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) for the evaluation of different brand advertisements, discussed by Norman Fair Clough (1995). The analysis of selected advertisements shows how linguistic and Meta linguistic features combine and play a key role in terms of making advertisements attractive to give a maximum number of consumers to the brand.
Part of a bigger research project conducted by Media Reputation Lab (Media REP Lab) on the reputation of media in Europe, the study explores the reputation of media among informed population in Romania. A sample of 100 cases was involved in the online survey taking place in December 2019. The results provide a description of the country’s media reputation (media in general: radio, print, digital and television). For each one of these media, the valuation obtained by each of the reputational attributes (credibility, rigor, impartiality, willingness to rectify) by the informed population would be indicated. Moreover, insights on the knowledge and use, as well as on the reputation (overall and by category, considering ten key reputation aspects) - of twelve selected media - would be provided.
This article examines trends in new media journalism, identifying an independent sector which began to emerge with the internet circa 2000. It finds that publications from initially single-person start-ups like Crikey, to the large circulation New Daily, have proved viable and durable, providing alternatives to mainstream print and broadcast media. They have specialised in politics while publishing also in many other fields, characteristically emphasising user participation in both production and funding and exploiting possibilities of new digital models. This article has case studies of the publications Independent Australia, and the New Zealand-based Asia Pacific Report, to further explain the independents’ motivation and mode of operation. It reviews the media environment in two parts: a first phase from 2000 to 2010 and a second major change after 2010 with smart phones and social media. Conclusions are made that the independent sector stands to play a central role in sustaining democracy.
Communication. Mass media, Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
ABSTRACT Australia’s first woman prime minister, Julia Gillard, experienced widespread sexism and misogyny in the media coverage of her ascension. Only a decade previously New Zealand’s first elected woman prime minister, Helen Clark, rose to the top job with comparably little gendered coverage. This article compares how the print media portrayed Gillard and Clark in the first three weeks of their respective prime ministerial terms to understand why, despite both being leaders from centre-left Labor/Labour parties, there was such a significant difference in their media treatment. Three newspapers from each country were analysed using a feminist content analysis, in addition to interviews conducted with Gillard and Clark, to understand why this was the case. This study establishes that there were two key reasons: the political context in which both leaders ascended and the stark differences in the print media landscapes, particularly the conservatism of the Australian press.
Wiwik Yunitaningrum, Achmad Sofyan Hanif, Yusmawati Yusmawati
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This study results development aims to develop a sepaktakraw smash training model based on smash training aids. This research is based on a needs analysis with a survey method later according to the references and characteristics by looking at the analysis results of smash skill needs analysis model development based on media tools in the Pontianak city athletes packaged in print media products, namely a training model book. This research uses a development research method that refers to the of Borg and Gall development stages, using Pontianak athletes sample, amounting to 40 people aged 12-17 years and included in the adolescents category. Based on needs analysis data obtained 100% of athletes need the development of a sepak takraw smash training model in Pontianak city athletes based on training aids and analysis by experts developing a sepaktakraw smash training model based on training aids in Pontianak city athletes is feasible so that it can be used in the first stage of group testing limited (stage 3 trials) totaling 20 athletes and field trials in stage 4 totaling 40 concluded that the exercise model was valid so that athletes and trainers could use it during training. Whereas the effectiveness test obtained t-count ? t-table (2.21-2.028 from the calculation results shows that there is a difference between the groups treated with the smash training model material that has been validated by experts (experimental group) experiencing progress results better training compared with a group that implement this type of training of trainers (control group) conclusion from these results is a model of skill training smash sepaktakraw-based tools drills smash in adolescent athletes Pontianak decent used as a medium for training in adolescent athletes.
As the epitome of the urban, the city type “metropolis” has been experiencing an ongoing boom for two to three decades. With a quantitative text analysis of the leading German national print media, the patterns of linguistic use for the term metropolis and for the two largest cities Berlin and Hamburg are highlighted. They are interpreted as attributions of meaning in mass media communication processes and generate a semantic field whose analysis allows declarations to be made about size, function and imagery of a metropolis over time.
Cities. Urban geography, Urbanization. City and country
The closing of national and international print media is the impact of technological development today. Print media is faced with the high cost of production and the change of society using mass media to seek information. Invention Information technology and communication that allows all forms of information to digital create a major impact on the media, especially print media. Online media provides a new color for the press and news readers, the news is fast, easy to access, and cheap. Media that can not keep up with technology will be closed.
Unstructured data generated from sources such as the social media and traditional text documents are increasing and form a larger proportion of unanalysed data especially in the developing countries. In this study, we analysed data received from the major print and non-print media houses in Uganda through the Twitter platform to generate non-trivial knowledge by using text mining analytics. We also explored the determinants of derived sentiments in Twitter messaging. The results show that sentiments generated from tweets derived from the main print media houses (Daily Monitor and New Vision) were positively correlated, so were the sentiments from the non-print media (NBS TV and NTV) for the study period. Most of the sentiments on topics of security, politics and economics were found to be negative, while those on sports were positive. Furthermore, the tweet sentiment statistical logistic model revealed that negative sentiments were determined by the retweet status, retweet count and source of the tweets. Moreover, the positive sentiments were determined by the topic of discussion, type of media house and other sources of tweets ($$p<0.05$$p<0.05). Therefore, we recommend further extensions on the predictive statistical models to classify sentiments from social media based on the concept of big data analytics.
Saharan oases are all suffering a severe abandonment due to economic, social and political reasons. Abandonment is also the main cause for decay, thus in turn affecting at the same time the primary economical resources, the palm grove and the built environment. The latter one is also fighting a common sense of rejection, resulting from the belief that traditional housing is uncomfortable, dirty, not lasting and unhealthy. A restoration project run by the University of Cagliari in Figuig (Morocco), opened to reflect on a new attitude in the intervention of conservation, showing that actions pointed to re-use of buildings, building traditions and traditional materials can bring to a win-win result where the memory joined to the habitat, the local identity and the local micro-economy are given a renewed and substantial significance.
Conservation and restoration of prints, Architectural drawing and design
The objective of this work is to investigate the use of PCC, and the impact of its coating weight on paper coating. In this study, two base papers from Mazandaran Wood and Paper Industries (APC and NS), and two coating compositions with the solid content of 25% containing PCC filler (100 parts), PVA binder (14 parts) and dispersant (1 part) were used. The first composition included PCC B102 for opacity increment, and the second one PCC 9020 for the improvement of brightness. Two rod RDS14 and RDS30 were used for different coating weights. After coating, the treated samples were dried in room conditions at air temperature of 25◦C and relative humidity of 54%. Physical and optical properties of control and treated samples such as air resistance, thickness, Cobb60, brightness, yellowness, opacity and roughness were determined. In comparison to the control group, all the treated samples showed improvement in brightness, opacity, yellowness and air resistance. By the two different formulations and two rods, paper roughness was increased, and the increment of water absorption was due to capillary development in coating texture. The analysis of variances showed that the usage of PCC 9020 had considerable effect on roughness of papers. In NS papers, change of PCC caused significant difference in brightness and roughness, but in APC papers did not. The change of coating rod in APC papers had significant effect on water absorption, brightness and opacity but did not show in NS.
Taking into consideration the necessity of the production of the resource-saving and ergonomic book and magazine covers under conditions of the recent highly competitive environment of the printed products distribution and the consumer pricing, the analysis of the conducted research identified the relation the changes in the indexes of strengthen capacity of single- and two-ply binding materials samples as well as pasted ones. These findings have applied relevance while selecting the covering components for their production with minimized economic indicators.
The results of experimental researches revealed the differences in the efforts of the destruction of single and double samples: the variation is from 1.91 % (for coated paper weighing 150 g/m2) to 41.77 % (for coated paper weighing 300 g/m2). It is assumed that the covers, constructively production of a double sheet of binding material, wear out during prolonged use and the effects of destructive operational factors in proportions of the approximate experimental results obtained for each of the materials used.
The research of the same type of binder materials on the strength of the stretching of the samples revealed the difference in the impact of binder glue on strength indicators. Analysis of the graphs of strength indicators reproduces a gradual increase in the digital characteristics of the strength of samples of coated paper in relation to the increase in the weight of paper and a sample of chrome-ersatz paper made from waste paper, as well as the impact of different types of adhesives on strength indicators, which creates a partial information base for their expedient use.
The total influence of the structure of materials and adhesives on which glued sheets of paper and cardboard showed the maximum strength values during stretching in glued samples of coated paper weighing 350 g/m2, coated paper weighing 300 g/m2 and a 0.3 mm thick chrome-ersatz paper, glue-bonded polyvinyl acetate dispersion.