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Data has become a crucial input of production for many services offered by online platforms and precondition of their competitive success. Since providers of online platforms have become aware of the advantages derived from possessing and processing vast amounts of data, they increasingly adopt data-driven strategies to achieve and maintain their competitive data advantage over competitors. The book: ...

Online and digital cultures are among the most personally gripping effects of globalisation in our increasingly networked world. While global multimedia culture may seem to endanger traditional folklore, there is no doubt that it creates new folklore as well. Folklore in the Digital Age vividly illustrates the range of e-folklore studies in updated papers and essays from the author’s 21st-century...

This online catalogue chronicles the exhibition entitled “Łódź Celebrates the 450 th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Birth,” which took place at the University of Łódź Library from 7 April to 1 May 2014.   The idea for the exhibition was put forward by the International Shakespeare Studies Centre, and realized by the representatives of the Faculty of Philology and the Faculty of International and...

Oleoculture was always an important part of ancient agriculture, which was the mainstay of the ancient economy and the writing on the subject, both ancient and modern, is immense. The present study centers upon the place of the olive in the agricultural regimes and economies of Roman and Byzantine Syria–Palestine, exploring them in environmental, technological, social and, when possible, economic contexts. The...