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Under special subheadings were shortly described: main periods of communication; four levels of literacy; information processes, operations and institutions in historical perspective; main chain of informational „contact points“; relationships between „contact points“; and some hints for policy concerning institutions, such as archives, libraries, and documentation centres, as well as new ones using unconventional tools, such as computer and telecommunication centers. Above all the role of education of potential originators of new information (e-mitters) and various kind of users (absorbers) at the university level is emphasized.

The great financial and economic crisis is a real school example of an economic disaster of incomprehensible proportions. Although (to this day) there is still not much consensus on the causes of this crisis, most experts recognize the culprits of the crisis, most notably in a financial system that has shied away from control and avoided regulation and supervision. More than ten years after the onset of the financial crisis, central bankers and politicians are patting their backs: the worst is behind us and the recovery is done. Error. It's only a matter of time before the crisis breaks out again. And with full force ... The Macroeconomic Resilience Index (jointly developed by the Swiss Institute of SRE - Swiss Re and the British University LSE - London School of Economics) shows that the global economy is less resilient to the global financial crisis today than it was in 2007. The analysis shows that 80 percent of countries (covering 31 countries with a 75% share of world GDP) is now more vulnerable in this respect, despite the fact that financial institutions are stronger and stronger than they were at the beginning of the crisis. The argument goes that the available shock absorbers for crisis management are weaker today than they were then. A World Bank blog recently published an article authored by Augusto Lopez-Claros, former Director of Global Indicators and Analysis at the World Bank. It is interesting for a number of reasons: especially since it is committed to fiscal stabilization in the coming years. He warned that in many countries public debt today is at levels last seen at the end of World War II. In his view, some form of fiscal consolidation, supported by other structural and institutional reforms, maybe the only viable path in the coming years. He also makes three arguments in support of this claim. These are overall reduced fiscal space, then increased medium-term pressures and, finally, financial market volatility. How did journalists and general business journalism react to the onset of the financial crisis and what have we learned from it? Is the new financial crisis really on the wane?

The scientific and editorial programming orientation of the scientific journal INFORMATOLOGIA (1969. – 2019.) was based on the historical, present and future promotion of information and communication sciences, publishing of selected scien-tific and professional papers by renowned internationally recognized information and communication scientists, who have earned their scientific achievements on an ongoing basis place on the pages of the reputable magazine INFORMATOLOGIA. The editorial and programmatic orientation of the scientific journal Informatologia (1969. – 2019.) was based on, numerous scientific and professional critical editorial dilemmas, analyzing, valorizing and selecting quality scientific information and communication production for publication in the journal Informatologia. In a strategic journalistic sense, the editorial board members respected high scientific standards, peer-reviewed expert opinion, and affirmed selection based on critical awareness and ethical editorial principles in the selection of copyrighted productions for the publication of scientific and professional papers.

The paper deals with exploratory, political and communication studies of the dialectics of media power or powerlessness in the process of electoral civic behaviour on the example of the Croatian parliamentary elections in 2003. The survey covers time limits from September 1 to November 30, 2003. The chosen methodology and the applied research methods are in line with contemporary research trends applied in similar media and electoral and political campaign studies. The authors point to all the complexity of studying this issue, which is catching the attention of recent communication and political science publics. The initial research hypothesis fully confirmed the predicted research results. The author's research focuses on examining the interrelationships between the media representation of political options, persons and electoral civic behaviour. An inductive-deductive analysis of media representation was also carried out in correlation with the financial resources spent on publicity and publicity campaigns. The results obtained show that there is no significant causal relationship between media representation and electoral civic behaviour. In the final interpretation of the results obtained, it is evident that, prior to the election campaign, attitudes towards electoral preference of voters did not change significantly during the media's publicity and propaganda election civic exposure. Based on the published article "Media Power Dialectics and Electoral Civic Behavior (Croatian Parliamentary Elections 2003), Informatol, Vol.39, No. 1,2006, a political and communicative retrospective discussion was held on the subject of Case Study analysis "Croatian Parliamentary Elections 2003". The research was presented on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of INFORMATOLOGIA (1969 - 2019), at the 25th International Scientific Conference "SOCIETY AND TECHNOLOGY 2019" ("DIT - 2019" - Dr. Juraj Plenković), Opatija, 28. - 30.06. 2019.

In the literature, financial literacy and financial awareness are described as knowledge, skills and behaviour that can eliminate undesirable financial risks, as well as encourage entrepreneurial behaviour. Official education of citizens around the world has begun in 2003, but in Croatia such a systematic approach started in 2015. Considering the fact that young people are the bearers of future trends this research focuses on identifying young people's awareness of financial issues as a precondition for financial literacy. This research was conducted using mixed methodology and Sequential Explanatory Design. The first part of the research was conducted using a survey method among 1731 students in Croatia and the second part by using focus groups that included 21 participants.

In the process of overcoming the knowledge gap we need to begin from the fact that interest in societal problems and societal events does not develop automatically in people at ali. Family and free time subjectively seem closer to people. To this we need to add that people with a lower level of education find it difficult to establish a personal relationship toward complex societal situations and complex societal problems, which would awaken an interest in searching for and receiving information on them. In order for this relationship toward information to be activated it is necessary, among other things, to theoretically and practically research the phenomenon of active search for, and reception of, information. Searching for information is constantly linked to subjectively seen and experienced events and problems, which treat mass media based on the usefulness of information. Therefore, it is a task of primary importance for the mass media to present societal problems to various social groups as subjective problems. In relation to the topic of the mass media, people with a higher level of education have an advantage because their general knowledge is at the same time their for knowledge or previously gained information. Such persons will accept the presented subject easier. Apart from that, existing foreknowledge acts stimulatingly and activates the search for information, while weaker of nonexistent for knowledge is de-stimulating in this sense, so those persons remain without a stance, and with that, also without a behaviour and orientation in life.

This paper is a first attempt at making an analysis and trying to present a summary of the main characteristics of a newly founded undergraduate program for Translators and Interpreters at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Maribor. The author tried to outline the structure of the program, which is based on the development of competences in the field of translation science, with the aid of theoretical and didactic approaches. The policy of EU-integration, demands qualified translators and interpreters, and the profession of translation aspires to unified educational criteria. Theoretical and scientific postulates confirm the presented strategy of education in the context of harmonization and optimizing European undergraduate programs and curriculums for future translators and interpreters

The paper is analyzing basic operative terms of visual communication in contemporary digital media environment, which determinates analytical units of media communication and the new culture of communicating and message dissemination. Theory discussion is conducted by diachronic and synchrony analysis of elements of visual communication in digital environment and theory of public action. The main goal is to establish new communicative paradigm of media communication which includes the evaluation of digital skills, media literacy and the characteristics of the new hybrid digital society. Authors observe modern media communication and visual digitalization, not only in technical sense of transmission and adjustment of analog signal into digital signal, but also, simultaneous development of digital culture and adaptation of media content, media production and distribution of content to the new web environment (Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web 4.0 and theoretical possibilities of so called Web 5.0) deriving the new contexts of social power.

The diagnosis of the problem of the contemporary world in the area of global media communication is a basic challenge for existing and modernised educational systems. Without a complete vision of the world, people cannot exist in a fully aware way. Hence, the most important questions related to such social development in which no one would be excluded from the world-wide circulation of information. The general assumptions of common media education have been presented in the article.

Visual elements of the message are functional only if the criteria of graphic design and communicational structure are appreciated, which are taking psychophysiological characteristic of the human eye into consideration, basic laws of perception and outside factors (media, place of the message). The paper is dealing with the problem of successful usage of visual elements in outdoor advertising on the example of billboards of croatian parliamentary parties in the time of the parliamentary elections. The research is aimed questioning are the political parties designed their billboards using professional standards of graphic design. The paper is exploring success in designing key visual elements. Theory discussion is conducted thru forming and analysis of the structure of professional criteria for the usage of visual elements and analysis of their application on billboards of parliamentary parties.

A analysis of human facial images has become increasingly important due to its numerous applications. In this regards, extracting facial parameter is vital and various studies have been done in this field. Hence in our proposed work, first time up to our knowledge, a robust automatic method is introduced for determining facial angles from profile view images using radon transform. Radon transform is a kind of linear integration along a specific direction and angles play an important role to do this transform. The global features were rather considered by constructing a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and also local features were rather considered by locality preserving projection (LPP). Our proposed combined algorithm has not only good precision, but also efficient performance and robust with noisy, scale and rotated image environments. In this work, several experiments have been conducted to analyze the robustness of our proposed Radon Combined Global and Local Preserving Features (RCGLPF) algorithm along with other existing conventional algorithms.