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Many authors agree that it is essential to integrate social networking tools and sites with education. On the other hand, environmental education represents an umbrella for many forms of education that already exist and new ones that remain to be created. Bearing this in mind as well as the increasing use of Facebook in education, the key aspect of this chapter focuses on scientific research about modeling the use of Facebook in environmental education among students of the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia. The research clearly points out the educational benefits of implementing Facebook with, subsequently, a significant improvement of students’ environmental awareness. The investigated model of using Facebook, presented in the chapter, could be useful to other educators, giving them suitable information about the possible ways to improve students` achievements in environmental and other kinds of higher education.

Konektivna akcija se razvija zahvaljujući mogućnostima koje savremene informaciono-komunikacione tehnologije pružaju za učešće pojedinaca u kolektivnim poduhvatima kao i ulozi koju igraju kao spajajući i organizujući agenti kolektivnog delanja. U takvim okolnostima konvencionalne forme organizovanja društvenih pokreta / protesta kao i formiranje čvrstih kolektivnih identiteta, postaju daleko manje potrebni. Analizom podataka prikupljenih u anketnom istraživanju sprovedenom u toku trajanja protesta (N=175), kao i onlajn ispitivanjem stavova prema ovom protestu (N=255), autori dolaze do zaključka da je organizaciona osnova "Protesta protiv diktature" najbliža ideal-tipu "samoorganizovane mreže" kao jednom od dva osnovna modela konektivne akcije. U zaključnom delu rada autori iznose mišljenje da je model konektivnog delanja adekvatan za tumačenje izbijanja digitalno posredovanih protesta, iako sa

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With the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of society’s capability to deal with an acute health crisis is, once again, brought to the forefront. In the core is the need to broaden the perspective on the determinants of a country’s ability to cope with the spread of the virus. This paper is about bringing together diverse aspects of readiness and initial reaction to a COVID-19 outbreak. We proposed an integrated evaluation framework which encapsulates six dimensions of readiness and initial reaction. Using a specific multi-level outranking method, we analysed how these dimensions affect the relative positioning of European countries in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak. The results revealed that the order of countries based on our six-dimensional assessment framework is significantly reminiscent of the actual positioning of countries in terms of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in the initial phase of the pandemic. Our findings confirm that only when a country’s readiness is complemented by an appropriate societal reaction we can expect a less severe outcome. Moreover, our study revealed different patterns of performance between former communist Eastern European and Western European countries.