Revista Essachess Vol.2 Nr.2 (22) din 2018. Critical thinking

Revista Essachess Vol.2 Nr.2 (22) din 2018. Critical Thinking - Inside Out. Public Discourse and Everyday Life

Critical thinking is ranked as the second most essential skill, in the order of importance, on the 2020 needed skills list (World Economic Forum, 2016). Additional needed skills to survive the fourth industrial revolution include complex problem solving, judgment and decision-making, creativity, cognitive flexibility and negotiation. All mentioned skills have something in common with deliberation, with thinking in general or with arguing and defending a point of view. The current Essachess - Journal for Communication Studies issue is attempting to present critical thinking (CT) in its various forms, as it may appear in everyday life. Each selected paper provides an indepth analysis of CT, reviews of newly coined concepts and discourses on relevant contemporary applications of the concept.

Content: • La pensee transmediale: une etude des actions appliquees a la pensee critique dans le domaine de la litteratie transmedia • The Munchausen Effect and the post-truth era advertising messages. Critical analysis on fallacious and enthymematic advertising slogan argumentation • How critical thinking should be at the heart of digital interactions? • Educating for critical thinking in university: The criticality of critical thinking in education and everyday life