When Age Matters: Patterns of Participative and Communicative
Practices in the Czech Republic

J 2016

When Age Matters: Patterns of Participative and Communicative Practices in the Czech Republic

MACKOVÁ, Alena, Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ, Jakub MACEK and Jan ŠEREK

Basic information

Original name

When Age Matters: Patterns of Participative and Communicative Practices in the Czech Republic

Authors

MACKOVÁ, Alena (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jakub MACEK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Jan ŠEREK (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Communication Today, 2016, 1338-130X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50802 Media and socio-cultural communication

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/16:00088293

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

UT WoS

000433094400002

Keywords in English

adolescents; generations; mass media; new media; news reception; online participation; political participation

Abstract

V originále

After a long history, research on the relation between participative and communicative practices was revived in the late 1990s because of the proliferation of new media. New studies have taken into account both online and offline participation and the ability of new media to provide citizens with easier access to information and a broader repertoire of actions. In this article, which is based on a representative survey of the adult Czech population and a survey of Czech adolescents, we address participative and communicative practices as intertwined sets that are typically preferred by certain groups of citizens. As media-related and political practices usually vary due to generational and historical experience, the aim is to discover whether people with similar generational backgrounds and with similar repertoires of action manifest similar sets of commu- nication practices, i.e. similar media ensembles. Hence, we build this study on the assumption that the politi- cal- and media-related agencies are structured by historical experience as well as by biographical experience linked with life-cycle phases. Using cluster analysis, we focus on the various participative and communicative practices employed by three distinct adult generational groups and by contemporary adolescents, all of whom experienced the process of socialization in their own specific historical contexts.

Links

GA14-20582S, research and development project

Name: Psychologické aspekty občanské participace adolescentů

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Psychological aspects of adolescents´ civic development

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

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04._MACKOVA_et_al._O_CT_2-2016.pdf

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MACKOVÁ, Alena, Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ, Jakub MACEK and Jan ŠEREK. When Age Matters: Patterns of Participative and Communicative Practices in the Czech Republic. Communication Today. 2016, vol. 7, No 2, p. 46-64. ISSN 1338-130X.

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