Participation or New Media Use First? Reconsidering the Role of
New Media in Civic Practices in the Czech Republic

J 2015

Participation or New Media Use First? Reconsidering the Role of New Media in Civic Practices in the Czech Republic

MACEK, Jakub, Alena MACKOVÁ and Johana KOTIŠOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Participation or New Media Use First? Reconsidering the Role of New Media in Civic Practices in the Czech Republic

Authors

MACEK, Jakub (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Alena MACKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Johana KOTIŠOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Medijske Studije, 2015, 1847-9758

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

Country of publisher

Croatia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Full paper

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/15:00080830

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

UT WoS

000359782800007

Keywords in English

civic practices; diffused audience; new media; traditional media; Czech Republic

Abstract

V originále

The article discusses qualitative research on the mundane civic practices of some Czechs, with a specific focus on the role of new media. It works with a context-oriented approach in order to avoid media-centrism. Our research is focussed on the ways in which civic practices are structured by immediate and wider social and political contexts and how they are experienced by post-socialist citizens from villages and large cities. The role of new media and the place of civic practices in everyday life is analysed with respect to these contexts. The research based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with 22 politically and publicly active citizens indicates that Czechs experience a similar crisis in relation to institutional politics as their counterparts in long established democracies and it reveals tell-tale differences between the social spaces of villages and cities both in participatory practices and in civic uses of new media. However, the study does not indicate a radical, new media-driven transformation of citizenship, rather it suggests subtle shifts in practices and a pragmatic mixing of face-to-face communication and traditional media (print, public address systems, noticeboards) with new communication technologies.

Links

EE2.3.20.0184, research and development project

Name: Vytvoření interdisciplinárního týmu v oblasti výzkumu internetu a nových médií

GP13-15684P, research and development project

Name: Nová a stará média v každodenním životě: mediální publika v čase proměny mediálních praxí

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, New and old media in everyday life: media audiences at the time of transforming media uses

MUNI/A/0903/2013, interní kód MU

Name: Proměna veřejné a politické participace v kontextu měnících se mediálních technologií a praxí

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

MUNI/A/1342/2014, interní kód MU

Name: Aktuální problémy politologického výzkumu

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

MACEK, Jakub, Alena MACKOVÁ and Johana KOTIŠOVÁ. Participation or New Media Use First? Reconsidering the Role of New Media in Civic Practices in the Czech Republic. Medijske Studije. 2015, vol. 6, No 11, p. 68-83. ISSN 1847-9758.

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MACEK, Jakub, Alena MACKOVÁ and Johana KOTIŠOVÁ. Participation or New Media Use First? Reconsidering the Role of New Media in Civic Practices in the Czech Republic. \textit{Medijske Studije}. 2015, vol.~6, No~11, p.~68-83. ISSN~1847-9758.

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