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2015, Media Engagement: International Conference (Lund University), 2015
The paper presents findings from exploratory qualitative inquiry to the engagement and participation of the selected Czech citizens and from consequent quantitative survey of the Czech population. In general we are interested in how political and civic engagement and participation are experienced by post-socialist citizens and, in particular, what is the role of new media in the participatory practices. We employ context-oriented approach avoiding media-centric logic, building upon Nico Carpentier’s and Peter Dahlgren’s notion of participation and Maria Bakardjieva’s notion of subactivism connecting political participation with everyday life. The qualitative inquiry is based on 22 semi-structured qualitative interviews where one half of the interviewees are residents of small towns and villages and the other half are residents of large cities. The politically and publicly active middle-class respondents were interviewed in April 2014 and the findings indicate that (1) the Czech respondents experience similar crisis in their attitude towards politics as their Western counterparts, (2) that we do not encounter radical, new-media-driven transformation of the citizenship and practices and (3) that the split of the sample into the inhabitants of ‘the village’ and ‘the city’ creates strong dichotomy revealing specifics of the two opposite types of social spaces. We suggest that the way the respondents employ traditional and new media in their public and civic practices is distinct in communitarian space of the village and in socially and physically dispersed space of the city. In the survey (N=1998) conducted in November 2014 we follow the findings from qualitative inquiry and we test them on the representative sample of the Czech population. I.e. we look for significant differences in relation between engagement / participation, the role of (new) media in these practices and the types of the settlements.
Medijske Studije
Participation or New Media Use First? Reconsidering the Role of New Media in Civic Practices in the Czech Republic2015 •
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 telltale 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.
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The report concludes descriptive findings of the 2014 survey in new and old media uses and civic and political engagement and participatory practices of the Czech society. The data from 1998 respondents was collected in October and December 2014 by Median; the collection employed quota sampling and computer-assisted personal interviewing. The report is published in English and Czech version.
To speak of participation today raises a series of questions on how the presence and use of new media affect modes of social participation. From a variety of theoretical, empirical and methodological perspectives, the contributions in this volume explore participation in different social realms - from everyday life, interpersonal relationships, work and leisure activities to collective and political action. This collection demonstrates that participation is a localised notion, assuming a multitude of shapes under a variety of technological, political, socio-economic, linguistic and cultural conditions.
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Since the 1990s, engagement practices have been transforming, becoming more diverse (Ion 1997; Sommier 2003; Bobineau 2010), especially with the growing use of new communication technologies (Blondeau 2007; Cardon and Granjon 2010). In the wake of these changes, discourses insisting on a loss of community and collective action have surfaced that encourage scepticism about the potential of these technologies to support political and social engagement, arguing that communication technologies were the cause of social fragmentation and of growing individualism (Putnam 2000; Bauman 2006). Recent social movements, such as the Arab Spring, the Indignados, Occupy and the ‘carrés rouges’ (red square) movement in Quebec are now casting doubt on this discourse. While many researchers have set out to examine how social movements under authoritarian regimes use social media and mobile technologies to organize, gain visibility and disseminate images of their actions around the world, the reconfiguration of collective action associated with the use of social media, and the relationship between social engagement and the use of technology in contemporary liberal democracies have been largely neglected. Technology is used in complex social, political and technological contexts that generate cultural interpretations and frameworks of practice in response to which individuals and groups stake out a space of freedom to practise resistance and appropriation (Jouët 2000; Jauréguiberry and Proulx 2011). How ICT and mobile communication uses contributed to and were embedded in the transformation of engagement practices during the carrés rouges and what it reveals about the transformations engagement practices, is the focus of the present paper. The red square movement, launched by student strikers in Quebec in spring 2012, provides a rich opportunity to study how social movements with historical roots can embrace mobile and participatory technologies, and evolve along with their communicational environment. Based on a study of mobile and participatory technology practices used by the red squares, and using an approach midway between communications, sociology and social work research, we argue that by encouraging mobilization and coordination (Millette, Millette and Proulx 2012) and citizen expression (Monnoyer-Smith 2011), the use of social media and mobile technologies contributes to the hybridization (Bennett and Segerberg 2012; Canclini 2010) of political and social engagement practices. RÉSUMÉ EN FRANÇAIS Depuis la fin des années 1990, les pratiques d'engagement se diversifient et se transforment (Ion, 1997; Sommier, 2003; Lamoureux, 2008; Bobineau, 2010), notamment en lien avec les technologies de communication (Blondeau, 2007; Cardon et Granjon, 2010 ). Or, une perspective déplorant le déclin de la vie communautaire et associative a nourri une méfiance face aux usages de ces technologies comme pratiques d’engagement social et politique, celles-ci étant considérées comme favorisant l’individualisme et la fragmentation de l’action collective (Putnam, 2000 ; Bauman, 2006). Or, de récentes mobilisations, dont les mouvements du printemps arabe (2010), des indignés (2011) et des carrés rouges au Québec (2012) remettent en cause ces discours. Depuis la fin des années 1990, les pratiques d'engagement se sont diversifiées et transformées (Ion, 1997; Sommier 2003; Bobineau 2010), notamment en lien avec les technologies de communication (Blondeau 2007; Cardon et Granjon 2010). Une perspective déplorant le déclin de la vie communautaire et associative a nourri une méfiance face aux usages de ces technologies comme pratiques d’engagement social et politique, celles-ci étant considérées comme favorisant l’individualisme et la fragmentation de l’action collective (Putnam 2000; Bauman 2006). Or, les récentes mobilisations du Printemps Arabe, du mouvement des Indignados, d’Occupy et des carrés rouges au Québec, remettent en cause de tels discours. Si plusieurs travaux se sont penchés sur les mobilisations citoyennes dans des contextes politiques autoritaires, pour décrire comment les médias sociaux ont notamment servi à rendre visible l’indignation et l’action citoyennes, peu de chercheurs ont abordé les reconfigurations de l’action collective associées aux usages des médias sociaux, de même que les relations entre engagement et usages des technologies dans le contexte des démocraties libérales contemporaines. Or, au-delà de la stricte manipulation des technologies, un usage s’inscrit dans un contexte social, politique et technologique d’où émergent des interprétations culturelles et des cadres de pratiques, face auxquels les individus et les collectifs conservent toutefois un espace de liberté pour pratiquer résistances et détournements (Jouët 2000; Jauréguiberry et Proulx 2011). Comment les usages des TIC mobiles ont-ils contribué et comment ont-ils été enchassés dans les transformations des pratiques d’engagement sociales et politiques pendant le mouvement québécois des carrés rouges québécois, et que cela révèle-t-il des transformations des pratiques d’engagement? Initié par la grève des étudiant.es du Québec en 2012, le cas des carrés rouges offre l'occasion d'observer comment des mouvements s'inscrivant en continuité avec des formes de mobilisation « historiques » peuvent intégrer les technologies mobiles et participatives et se transformer avec leur environnement communicationnel. À partir d’une description des pratiques liées aux technologies mobiles et participatives déployées dans le cadre du mouvement des carrés rouges et d’une approche à l’intersection des études en communication, de la sociologie de la communication et du travail social, nous proposons ainsi de considérer que les usages de ces technologies de communication, à travers des pratiques de mobilisation, de coordination (Millette, Millette et Proulx 2012) et d'expression citoyenne (Monnoyer-Smith 2011), contribuent à une hybridation (Bennett et Segerberg 2012; Canclini 2010) des pratiques d’engagement sociales et politiques.
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The book “Politics, Civil Society and Participation” is dedicated to the fundamental question: How do media and communications practices within European culture schange with their environment? This ...
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NEW TERMS FOR THE CLOSE OBSERVATION OF LOCAL POLITICS Marja Åkerström Contact: marja. akerstrom@ home. se There is a vision, rendered slightly simplified here, about a growing and evolving participating and/or deliberative democracy that connects to the ...
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