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The paper presents events in Algeria that led to fall of the long-term president of the country, Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika in April 2019 and examines the role of the new media in this process. The analysis explains the reasons of the failure of the Arab Spring in this country in 2011. Critical discourse analysis of Algerian new media conducted by the author shows that despite lack of active actions in 2011, youth movements appeared in Algeria and led the protests in 2019 not only in the Internet but also in the "offline" world. Currently, the discussion about political impact of new media focuses mainly on a question whether the power of protesting societies is sufficient to overthrow a government. According to the author of the paper, it is a single-dimensional approach to the problem, what has been proven by the example of Algeria. New media have become an inseparable part of contemporary societies and their discourse, serving as a platform for disseminating information, mobilizing and participating . In Algeria, despite the fact that social media "have not yet reached maturity" (among others, because of illiteracy, mismanagement, lack of freedom of speech and true democracy), they are gradually becoming political and media public spaces for those excluded from the mainstream politics and media. The social media have caused a situation where the Algerian government has to meet growing demands of society for a greater degree of democracy, justice and freedom of the press and freedom of opinion. With their help, people learned the techniques of social mobilization, developed structures of social movement and civil society. Effects of this activity can slowly be observed not only in Algeria but throughout the Arab world.

The paper presents events in Algeria that led to fall of the long-term president of the country, Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika in April 2019 and examines the role of the new media in this process. The analysis explains the reasons of the failure of the Arab Spring in this country in 2011. Critical discourse analysis of Algerian new media conducted by the author shows that despite lack of active actions in 2011, youth movements appeared in Algeria and led the protests in 2019 not only in the Internet but also in the "offline" world. Currently, the discussion about political impact of new media focuses mainly on a question whether the power of protesting societies is sufficient to overthrow a government. According to the author of the paper, it is a single-dimensional approach to the problem, what has been proven by the example of Algeria. New media have become an inseparable part of contemporary societies and their discourse, serving as a platform for disseminating information, mobilizing and participating . In Algeria, despite the fact that social media "have not yet reached maturity" (among others, because of illiteracy, mismanagement, lack of freedom of speech and true democracy), they are gradually becoming political and media public spaces for those excluded from the mainstream politics and media. The social media have caused a situation where the Algerian government has to meet growing demands of society for a greater degree of democracy, justice and freedom of the press and freedom of opinion. With their help, people learned the techniques of social mobilization, developed structures of social movement and civil society. Effects of this activity can slowly be observed not only in Algeria but throughout the Arab world.

The study is aimed at identifying the information gap in the field of quality of life research, with regard to the quality of life and rural development indicator systems. In addition, selected indicators particularly important for the elderly in the European Union rural areas are compared. The existing indicator systems which enable an international comparison have a wide scope. Their disadvantages are that only some of them are classified by rural and urban areas (Eurostat indicators), that they are selected and presented in accordance with the current EU policy targets (rural development indicators) and that data are aggregated up to the NUTS 3 level (subregional), which makes it difficult to use this information for strategic planning at the local level. Among the three selected measures of quality of life of the elderly in rural areas, Poland ranks well below the average in access to health care.

The article aims to show the influence of culture on issues related to the state security policy at its various levels. The analysis carried out in the article compares selected actions of states in the internal and international arena in the field of security policy with Geert Hofstede's theory of cultural dimensions and the theory of Edward T. Hall. Its result shows that the cultural aspect plays a great role at each level of the state security strategy. Culture not only defines what values will be protected, but also has an impact on the means by which this goal will be achieved. The literature used in the article shows the emerging interest among researchers in issues related to security in a new view of culture, how it influences the phenomena discussed in the work and the role that culture can play in building security systems.

The Arab Spring was one of the most important events that took place in the Middle East in the 21st century. Massive protests overthrew the longtime leaders of Arab states or forced some reforms on the authorities. The West expected this event to contribute to the democratization of this region of the world, but a decade after the Arab Spring, its outcome seems to be tragic. The aim of this article is to present the changes that, contrary to popular opinion, occurred in the political systems of Arab states after the Arab Spring, and which testify to the evolution of these systems. The author, starting with a diachronic analysis of state institutions in the Middle East from classical times to the present day, shows the way of understanding the state in the Arab world, as well as its various models distinguished on the basis of the style of government. It also presents the relationship between the course of the Arab Spring and the transformations that followed, and the type of regime exercised. The analysis carried out in this way is intended to show that the evolution of the political system took place in each of the Arab states, but due to cultural and historical conditions it has a different character from the democratic transformations expected by the West.