Jaromír Volek – Communication Today

Homogenous, or Heterogenous? A Comparative Analysis of Three Czech Journalists Generations

Jaromír Volek — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:21:29 +0000

ABSTRACT:
The goal of this article is to explore the degree of homogeneity among three generations of Czech journalists working (or intending to work) in the Czech media. We have defined three generations as follows: pretransitive, transitive and post-transitive. Using a secondary analysis of data from two independent studies, which focused on describing professional attitudes of Czech journalists and journalism students, we are trying to ascertain the existence of the so-called “generational effect”. Quantitative analysis including cluster analysis indicates no major attitudinal differences between all compared generations, in spite of radical socio-political and media system changes after 1989. In general, the comparison of the selected attributes shows striking homogeneity in all three journalistic generations that especially share their professional and political values. The key to a weak differentiation between the generations in question is their distinctive similarity in their acceptance of liberal right-wing ideology and high socio-economic capital, which interconnects all hypothetically constructed professional groups. There are also some partial differences, especially the low level acceptance of the predominance of market logic by the youngest post-transitional generation in the news media.

KEY WORDS:
comparative research, journalistic generations, generation effect, professional role, values

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Walter Benjamin a nová média

Jaromír Volek — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:06:22 +0000

The article deals with reading of Walter Benjamin’s works focused on new media. The article puts specific emphasis on the notions of ‘aura’ and ‘flaneur,’ two well-known themes in Benjamin´s scholarship. The article argues for the inseparability of old and new, modern and postmodern theory of media and illustrates their close connections in Benjamin’s texts. The author presents a sceptical view of the idea that the advent of digital new media is connected by necessity to a major historical break. He concludes that Benjamin’s theory of new media is highly useful for describing and understanding the current new media communication and subjectivity.

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Walter Benjamin And New Media

Jaromír Volek — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:05:23 +0000

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Three Professional Dilemmas Of Czech Newspaper Editors: Twenty Years After Collapse of Old Media System

Jaromír Volek — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:52:25 +0000

Czech newspaper editors feel a strong inner professional conﬂict concerning following professional dilemma: to be a moral agent focused on serious problems of society or a craftsman who has generally given up on higher standards of journalistic work and tries to conform to popular standard of general audience. The presented paper is based upon the research project – “Czech newspaper editors” which was undertaken between June-August 2007. The main objective of this study was to show how Czech newspaper editors changed their editorial strategy after the collapse of the former media system in the 1990s and to what extent they have adapted to the pressure of economic rationalization and the commercialization of the media sector. The second objective was to describe criteria that editors instinctively use to evaluate what readers want to consume.

Three professional dilemmas of czech newspaper editors: twenty years after collapse of old media system

Jaromír Volek — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:30:18 +0000

Czech newspaper editors feel a strong inner professional confl ict concerning following professional dilemma: to be a moral agent focused on serious problems of society or a craftsman who has generally given up on higher standards of journalistic work and tries to conform to popular standard of general audience. The presented paper is based upon the research project – “Czech newspaper editors” which was undertaken between June-August 2007. The main objective of this study was to show how Czech newspaper editors changed their editorial strategy after the collapse of the former media system in the 1990s and to what extent they have adapted to the pressure of economic rationalization and the commercialization of the media sector. The second objective was to describe criteria that editors instinctively use to evaluate what readers want to consume.

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Three professional dilemmas of czech newspaper editors: twenty years after collapse of old media system

Jaromír Volek — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:25:48 +0000

Czech newspaper editors feel a strong inner professional confl ict concerning following professional dilemma: to be a moral agent focused on serious problems of society or a craftsman who has generally given up on higher standards of journalistic work and tries to conform to popular standard of general audience. The presented paper is based upon the research project – “Czech newspaper editors” which was undertaken between June-August 2007. The main objective of this study was to show how Czech newspaper editors changed their editorial strategy after the collapse of the former media system in the 1990s and to what extent they have adapted to the pressure of economic rationalization and the commercialization of the media sector. The second objective was to describe
criteria that editors instinctively use to evaluate what readers want to consume.

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