V.Car: BLABLA BLA Vol. 10 (2019) 20 (2019) 10 Vol. BLABLA BLA MEDIJSKE STUDIJE MEDIA STUDIES Generations, Digital Uses and Competences: Trends and Gaps in the Research Special Issue MEDIJSKE STUDIJE MEDIA STUDIES ISSN 1847-9758 (tisak) e-ISSN 1848-5030 (online) UDK 316.77 DOI 10.20901/ms Zagreb, prosinac 2019. / December 2019 MEDIJSKE STUDIJE / MEDIA STUDIES Izdavač / Publisher Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Fakultet političkih znanosti / University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science Za izdavača / Official Representative Zoran Kurelić Adresa Uredništva / Editorial Office Medijske studije / Media Studies Lepušićeva 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia e-mail: [email protected] www.mediastudies.fpzg.hr Urednički kolegij / Editorial Committee (svi su s Fakulteta političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, ako nije drukčije istaknuto / all from the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb, if not stated differently) Marijana Grbeša Zenzerović, Igor Kanižaj, Božo Skoko, Gordana Vilović Uredništvo / Editorial Board (svi su s Fakulteta političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, ako nije drukčije istaknuto / all from the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb, if not stated differently) Nebojša Blanuša, Viktorija Car, Marijana Grbeša Zenzerović, Hrvoje Jakopović (izvršni urednik / Executive Editor), Igor Kanižaj, Toni Kliškić (tehnički urednik / Tehnical Editor), Dunja Majstorović, Božo Skoko, Gordana Vilović (glavni urednik / Editor In Chief) Urednički savjet / Editorial Advisory Board Dragan Bagić, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Nico Carpentier, Charles University, Czech Republic, Arthur G. Cosby, Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, USA, Peter Dahlgren, University of Lund, Sweden, Maria Edström, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Annette Hill, University of Lund, Sweden, Renee Hobbs, Harrington School of Communication and Media, University of Rhode Island, USA, Darren Lilleker, Bournemouth University, UK, Paolo Mancini, University of Perugia, Italy, David Morley, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, Marina Mučalo, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Marta Rebolledo de la Calle, University of Navarra, Spain, Orlin Spassov, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria, Ivan Šiber, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Barbara Thomaß, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Lejla Turčilo, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dejan Verčič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Ivo Žanić, University of Zagreb, Croatia Suradnica Uredništva / Editorial Associate Tanja Grmuša Lektorica hrvatskog jezika / Croatian Language Editor Ivana Vrtič Lektor engleskog jezika / English Language Editor Saša Bjelobaba Dizajn i grafički prijelom /Design and Layout Vanda Čižmek Davor Šunk Naklada / Print Run 200 Tisak / Print TOP DAN d.o.o. SADRŽAJ CONTENTS Uvodna bilješka / Editor’s Note 1 GENERACIJE, DIGITALNA UPOTREBA I KOMPETENCIJE: TRENDOVI I NEDOSTACI U ISTRAŽIVANJIMA / GENERATIONS, DIGITAL USES AND COMPETENCES: TRENDS AND GAPS IN THE RESEARCH Daniel Calderón Gómez: Understanding Technological Socialization. A Socio-Generational Study of Young Adults’ Techno-Biographical Trajectories in the Region of Madrid / Razumijevanje tehnološke socijalizacije: sociogeneracijsko istraživanje tehnobiografskih putova mladih u madridskoj regiji 12 Sebastijan Ivasović i Ivan Burić: Neprestana povezanost i strah od propuštanja u svakodnevnim interakcijama mladih licem u lice / Constant Connection and Fear of Missing out in Youth›s Everyday Face-to-Face Interaction 31 Zanei Barcellos and Patricia Gil: Generation Z Journalists: What to Expect from Them in Times of Media Degradation? / Novinarska generacija Z: što očekivati od nje u vremenima degradacije medija? 50 Christiane Monteiro Machado and Jorge Pedro Sousa: Stereotypes of Old Age: Views on the Elderly in Brazilian Advertising / Stereotipi vezani uz stariju dob: pogled na starije u brazilskom oglašavanju 69 Rebekka Haubold: Age-Independence for Media Pedagogy / Medijska pedagogija neovisna o dimenziji dobi 89 Dina Vozab: Generational Patterns of Digital News Consumption: from Traditionalists to Millennial Minimalists / Generacijski obrasci konzumacije digitalnih vijesti: od tradicionalista do milenijskih minimalista 107 Delali Adjoa Dovie, Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo, Charles C. Mate-Kole, Helen Nana Mensah, Albert F. Agbe, Alexander Attiogbe and Gloria Dzokoto: Generational Perspective of Digital Literacy Among Ghanaians in the 21st Century: Wither Now? / Generacijska perspektiva digitalne pismenosti u Gani u 21. stoljeću: već zaostali? 127 PRIKAZI KNJIGA / BOOK REVIEWS Manfred Spitzer, Digitalna demencija: kako mi i naša djeca silazimo s uma – Željana Ivanuš 154 Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth – Mehmet Fatih Çömlekçi 155 Mario Hibert, Digitalni odrast i postdigitalna dobra: kritičko bibliotekarstvo, disruptivni mediji i taktičko obrazovanje – Karlo Kanajet 157 Gordana Lesinger, Odnosi s medijima i medijske agende – Tanja Grmuša 159 Ivan Tomić, Zoran Tomić, Davor Pavić, Tomislav Madžar i Damir Primorac, Strateško upravljanje sportskom komunikacijom – Tanja Grmuša 161 Betteke van Ruler and Frank Körver, The Communications Strategy Handbook: Toolkit for Creating a Winning Strategy – Darren Ingram 163 INFORMACIJE / INFORMATION 165 UVODNA BILJEšKA EDITORS’ NOTE 1-9 . (20) . 10 GENERATIonS, DIGITAL USES . AND COMPETEncES: TrENDS AND GAPS 2019 IN THE RESEArch MEDIA STUDIES STUDIES MEDIA Special Issue Editors Maria José Brites :: Lusófona University, CICANT, Portugal :: [email protected] Inês Amaral :: University of Coimbra, Portugal :: [email protected] Antonija Čuvalo :: University of Zagreb, Croatia :: [email protected] MEDIJSKE STUDIJE STUDIJE MEDIJSKE 1 UVODNA BILJEšKA EDITORS’ NOTE Historically, media were mostly considered as a means of reinforcement of the generational gap, commonly in a family context. However, the intergenerational gap has been diminishing over time (Bolin and Skogerbø, 2013), and the digital era is contributing to bridge the generational divide. Antonija Čuvalo and Zrinjka Peruško (2017) discern media repertoires shared among the youngest (the so-called digital generation or digital natives), and the older generation of digital immigrants. In this sense, there is a need to work closely on life course perspectives as a possible explanation of the weakening or perpetuating of the generational gap (Amaral and Daniel, 2018). The context of digital literacy has reinforced activities by civil society and schools, and can shed some light on the discussion of this need (Brites, 2017). Furthermore, a generational perspective in family and school environments can empower this discussion. In this special issue, we aim to discuss some of the above-mentioned considerations. We ponder the view that that the field is currently driven by three trends and also by some persistent gaps that need to be addressed. 1-9 . The first trend is related to isolations and media generations. The concept of (20) . 10 ‘generation’ seems promising for an explanation of economic, social, political and cultural . changes. Although original Karl Mannheim’s social theory of generations from the late 2019 1920s was concerned with the political dimension as the most relevant for explaining different generational identities, today’s media affordances, forms and uses could be more important even for the way young people relate to politics (Corsten, 1999; Edmunds and Turner, 2005). MEDIA STUDIES STUDIES MEDIA The rapid development and spread of media and communication technologies that have been occurring since the 1980s – and especially from the first decade of 21st century due to the rise of social media - have aroused interest for generational differences in media use among media and communication scholars. The focus has been on the role of youth MEDIJSKE STUDIJE STUDIJE MEDIJSKE 2 in domestication, shaping and construction of digital media and on the effects of the ‘new media’ on the young people’s culture(s) and minds (Palfrey and Gasser, 2008; Prensky, 2001; Tapscott, 1998). The main narrative has referred to the unique ‘global digital generation’ (Aroldi and Colombo, 2013; Edmunds and Turner, 2005) born with the proliferation of the Internet and mobile media. Piermarco Aroldi and Fausto Colombo (2013, see also Bennet et al., 2008) criticize monolithic, historically and geographically decontextualized dominant narrative, pointing to the complexities of the definition of generations and the role of “inter-generational interaction in shaping of collective identities” (2013: 175). The dominant narrative on ’digital generation’” (Internet generation, digital natives, Generation Y, Millennials) usually deals with the pure fact that a certain cohort was born together with the rise of digital and mobile media as a sufficient condition for disruptive, unique and unambiguous generational effects of these technologies B( olton et al., 2013). Such a linear narrative often neglects (i) diverse geographies with their histories, different media landscapes and the way in which these differences constitute specific cultural identities (Edmunds and Turner, 2005); (ii) different socio-economic positions; (iii) intergenerational continuities and practices (of previous generations) which make possible and are integrated in new ones; (iv) generation and also intergenerational dynamics as UVODNA BILJEšKA EDITORS’ NOTE an active force in shaping media and communication technologies. Furthermore, Göran Bolin and Oscar Westlund (2009) point out that technology