Civilia 2020, 11(2):4-23 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2020.006
This summarizing study examines how contemporary young people use news and news media and how is this news consumption related to the level of their civic engagement. While the findings of many studies suggest that today's youth are not interested in current affairs news at all, others show a more complicated picture: young people have not lost interest in current affairs, but they differ in their access to information and in the way they move in the media environment. The study discusses the reasons for this media behavior and the implication for civic engagement of the young generation.
Civilia 2020, 11(2):24-74 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2020.007
The aim of the paper is to analyse the migration discourse of the Czech party Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) in the run-up to the 2019 European Parliamentary elections. The pre-election rhetoric of the SPD party, a "xenophobically toned entity" according to the Czech Ministry of Interior, which won two MEPs in the 2019 elections, was analysed in two ways. First, it was devoted to the argumentation strategies of SPD leaders in TV debates, with a special focus on misleading argumentation. Second, it focused on how the topic of migration was discussed and visualized on the Facebook profile of the SPD chairman Tomio Okamura. It concludes that during...
Civilia 2020, 11(2):75-91 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2020.008
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs acts at the central level as a ministry managing social policy, social work. In our case, it is work with people in housing need, prevention of loss of housing, social services (dormitories, shelters, halfway houses) and social housing benefits (housing allowance, housing supplement and emergency immediate assistance). The role of partial social aspects in the social housing system is not only supportive, but is absolutely crucial for its functioning. In particular, social work, but also social services, are an essential part of social housing, especially for people in housing need. The priority steps are to...
Civilia 2020, 11(2):92-101 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2020.009
Using digital media for political participation of youth is a highly current topic, see FridaysForFuture. Numerous studies abroad explore the ways how political participation can be enhanced by media literacy (McDougall, 2014; Riel, 2012). Research in this field in the Czech Republic is, however, very limited. The paper presents the findings of the research among media literacy teachers at vocational high schools. Its goal is to describe the possibilities of the application of the citizenship model of media education (Hobbs, 2010) at these schools.
Civilia 2020, 11(2):102-119 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2020.010
This study analyses the idea of the media objectivity according to the Czech public. It describes various forms of unobjectivity, and the idea of how the objectivity should be fulfilled. An important part of this study is the idea of how the media and journalists operate in connection with the objectivity, of the content of the relevant laws and of the role of the media in the society - all according to the public. The conclusion relates the topic to the media literacy, because the knowledge of the most frequent misunderstandings and shortcomings in the image of objectivity according to the public offers a space for its elimination. The study uses...
Civilia 2020, 11(2):120-135 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2020.011
The article deals with the historical development of citizenship in Western democracies since the American and Great French Revolutions, its evolutionary extension by a civic, political, social and cultural component. The text follows another key factor in the phenomenon of citizenship, which was the birth of modern centralized states on the national and cultural principle, as the primary and necessary conditions for the emergence of functional democratic regimes. The study examines the correlation between social rights and the current crisis of the European welfare state, where mandatory expenditures related to the provision of social policies continue...
Civilia 2020, 11(2):136-147 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2020.012
The present study focuses on the activities of university students between 1948 and 1952 in the context of the development of the Czechoslovak Youth Union at Palacký University in Olomouc. The topic of university students in the second half of the twentieth century has been studied in detail in contemporary historical research, especially in connection with the years 1948, 1968 and 1989 as the turning points of the Czechoslovak history. However, the gap between these milestones offers the focus areas that have not been researched yet. In this paper, we focus on extracurricular activities of students of Palacký University under the patronage of the...
Civilia 2020, 11(2):148-161 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2020.013
The text reflects on issues related to the formation of national consciousness and national identity with a focus on the Central Europe area in the 19th and early 20th century. In this respect, special attention is paid to the region of Moravia, one of the integral parts of the Czech lands, which at this time were politically integrated into the broader framework of the multinational Habsburg monarchy. The possibilities of using the topic in the curriculum of history and citizenship education in primary and secondary schools are outlined in the conclusion.
Civilia 2020, 11(2):162-164
