This paper aims to identify whether dimensions of cultural capital affect traditional and media literacy by using survey data collected in 2022 as part of the project Medijsko obrazovanje je važno ...(N=1033). Using Bourdieu's theoretical framework, three dimensions of cultural capital were operationalised as independent variables: objectified (number of books in the household), embodied (taste in TV programmes), and institutionalised (level of education) cultural capital. Traditional media literacy was operationalised as critical reading of media messages, while digital media literacy was operationalised as creating online digital content. Both of these variables were used as dependent variables in the analysis. Following principal component analysis (PCA), hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to establish whether cultural capital has explanatory power for both dimensions of media literacy. The results point to the statistically significant role of objectified cultural capital in explaining traditional media literacy, although that explanation’s statistical power remains questionable. Digital media literacy exhibited no statistically significant connection with all three cultural capital dimensions. However, additional analysis points to the relevance of digital skills as a more potent factor in explaining traditional and digital media literacy. Overall, digital capital represents a more relevant distinction factor than users’ classic cultural capital in a contemporary media environment. The implications of this data point to the conclusion that media literacy is primarily shaped through various forms of digital capital, although the role of television should not be neglected when developing future programmes in media literacy.
Glavni je cilj ovog rada ustanoviti mogu li različite dimenzije kulturnog kapitala utjecati na razinu klasične i medijske pismenosti na podatcima prikupljenim 2022. godine u sklopu projekta "Medijsko obrazovanje je važno" (N = 1033). Unutar Bourdieuova teorijskog okvira, kao nezavisne varijable operacionalizirane su tri dimenzije kulturnog kapitala: objektificirani, utjelovljeni i institucionalizirani kulturni kapital. Utjelovljeni kulturni kapital predstavljen je kroz ukus u TV programima, a objektificirani kulturni kapital kroz broj knjiga u kućanstvu, dok je institucionalizirani kulturni kapital definiran kao postignuta razina obrazovanja ispitanika. Klasična medijska pismenost operacionalizirana je kao kritičko čitanje medijskih poruka, dok je medijska pismenost u digitalnom okruženju operacionalizirana kao stvaranje online digitalnog sadržaja. Obje su te varijable korištene kao zavisne varijable u analizi. Nakon provedene faktorske analize glavnih komponenti (PCA), provedena je i hijerarhijska regresijska analiza kako bi se utvrdilo ima li kulturni kapital objašnjavajuću moć za obje dimenzije medijske pismenosti. Rezultati upućuju na statistički značajnu ulogu objektificiranog kulturnog kapitala u objašnjavanju klasične medijske pismenosti, iako ostaje upitnom statistička snaga tog objašnjenja. Medijska pismenost u digitalnom okruženju nije pokazala statistički značajnu povezanost s nijednom od triju dimenzija kulturnog kapitala. Međutim, dodatna analiza upućuje na važnost digitalnih vještina kao snažnijeg čimbenika u objašnjavanju klasične i medijske pismenosti u digitalnom okruženju. Sveukupno, digitalni kapital predstavlja relevantniji čimbenik razlikovanja od klasičnoga kulturnog kapitala korisnika u suvremenom medijskom okruženju. Ti podatci upućuju na zaključak kako se medijska pismenost primarno oblikuje kroz različite oblike digitalnog kapitala, no svejedno se uloga televizijskog sadržaja ne bi trebala isključiti iz razvoja budućih programa medijske pismenosti.
The field of cultural consumption features an abundant body of research addressing the relationship between the local and global. While this research concentrates on issues of cultural repertoires ...and socio-economic context, the investigation of values continues to be been under-researched. An extended interpretation of the concept of banal cosmopolitanism is proposed as an attempt to describe the relationship between cultural consumption and values. Based on quantitative research (N = 2650) of high-school students in major cities of Adriatic Croatia, using cluster analysis, three value types were identified: modern, transitional and traditional. Our research shows that the modern type is mainly correlated with highbrow cultural practices and stronger preference towards foreign cultural artefacts, whereas traditional type is more prone to be involved in the local culture that uses national language. The article concludes that there is a positive relation between values and preference towards global culture that can be interpreted as a form of embodied cultural capital, adding a stronger emphasis on values to the current discussion on the relationship between cosmopolitanism and culture.
•This paper examines the relationship between cultural capital and preferences over television shows among Croatian youth.•Bourdieu’s theoretical framework can be used in studying contemporary ...culture as distinctions continue to persist.•Domestic TV preferences are connected with parents’ preference for domestic cultural contents.•Preferences for TV content are not only genre-related since divisions also run along the lines of language.•Language is a demarcation of tastes as students that prefer foreign TV also prefer highbrow culture and foreign music.
Despite the abundance of research on television genre preferences, the role of cultural capital has so far received little attention. This research employs Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital – and related theories of cultural consumption – to argue that there is a relationship between the respondents' television preferences and embodied, objectified, and institutionalized cultural capital of their parents. Empirical data was gathered from a large survey conducted on a quota sample of third- and fourth-year high school students in six larger cities on Croatia’s Adriatic coast. In order to determine different patterns of television genre preferences, factor analysis was used, which identified two types of taste in television: domestic television spectacles and foreign fiction television. Hierarchical regression analysis was employed to establish the effects of sociodemographic variables and cultural capital of respondents and their parents. The obtained results indicate not only the role of parental cultural capital and taste but also division between global cultural cosmopolitism and cultural seclusion.
The topic of this article is the analysis of the role of the Facebook online social network as a predictor of the social capital structural dimensions of youth in Croatia. The theoretical part of the ...paper has connected specific dimensions of social capital that stem from the work of Robert D. Putnam with the insights from the research of the new media use among youth. Based on that overview,a methodological framework was constructed containing measures of structural dimensions of offline and online social capital (bonding social capital, bridging social capital, and participation in civic activities), as well as modes and intensity of online social networks use. Data was collected by an online survey in 2012on a convenience sample (N=577) using the snowball method. Data analyses included bivariate and multivariate procedures that were employed to explore the relevance of Facebook friends – together with other characteristics of online social networks use – in accounting for structural dimensions of the social capital of youth in Croatia. Results showed that the number of friends on Facebook is positively associated with online participatory practices of youth as well as with online bridging social capital. That points to two attributes of Facebook friends as an indicator of the social capital of Croatian youth. The first highlights the relationship of civic activism and Facebook as a more flexible form of social engagement compared to classical forms of institutional and organizational engagement(membership in non-governmental organizations). The other emphasizes the role of Facebook as a medium that connects individuals outside their local contextual limitations. Both of those attributes are indicative not only of how communication is being carried out in cyberspace, but also how different forms of social capital are being accumulated in the »digital« society.
Using data from a large survey (N = 2736) of high school students in six major cities of Adriatic Croatia, this paper examines the relationship between cultural consumption, values and parental ...cultural capital. In order to identify the main dimensions that structure the space of cultural practices and taste, multiple correspondence analysis was employed. We find that this space is primarily structured by a dimension differentiating between engagement and disengagement in contemporary global culture, while the second dimension describes a relation towards popular and traditional culture. By superimposing supplementary variables on this map, we show that both dimensions are strongly associated with parental cultural capital and students' value orientations. Using hierarchical cluster analysis, five specific clusters of cultural consumers were identified: Folk Univors, Neo-Traditionalists, Eclectic Consumers, Modern Omnivores and Elite Alternatives. The obtained results point not only to the intergenerational transmission of taste, but also to new forms of distinction among Croatian youth.
Focusing on Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, this article examines film and music that emerged in the region since the end of the Yugoslav Wars of Succession. We analyze how the uncertainties of the ...postwar era facilitated a dynamic field of cultural contestation in which the music and film industries simultaneously challenge and affirm normative masculine sociocultural roles. Although traditional norms have not lost their primacy in public life, we emphasize the fact that attitudes toward masculinity have, in general, become increasingly ambiguous and multivalent. While local sociological studies accurately observe that violence and intolerance constitute central traits for the majority of men in the West Balkans, our research reflects on how popular culture complicates the idea that postwar West Balkan masculinities have remained uniform, static, and defined exclusively by aggression. We thus focus on the most popular musical and cinematic productions that embody the tension inherent in the contemporary representations of West Balkan masculinity. From our examples, it becomes clear that generalized instability attending new market economies and postwar political turmoil have indeed created a context within which national gender norms have entered a state of flux.
The article starts from Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and differentiation between embodied, objectified and institutionalized cultural capital. The main goal of the article is to ...research the connection between cultural preferences of high-school students and the different forms of cultural capital of their parents. Empirical data was gathered from a survey (N = 868) carried out in 2014 among high-school students in Zadar County (Croatia). Cultural preferences of high-school students were operationalized using three dimensions of cultural consumption: high culture, traditional-popular and rock-alternative. The results of hierarchical regression analysis confirmed the parental cultural capital to be an important predictor of high-school students' cultural preferences. In particular, our results indicate that the parentally embodied cultural capital is a better predictor than the objectified and institutionalized cultural capital or economic capital. Results point to a visible distinction between two types of cultural consumption: traditional-popular and high culture consumption, which is in line with previous studies. On the other hand, the rock-alternative type of cultural consumption is positively associated with exposure to high culture in a family environment, which indicates a change in the meaning of cultural content.
This article addresses TV preferences as a marker of class divisions both as a type of embodied cultural capital and as a pattern of consumption within the local and global cultural structure in ...Croatia. Data analysis is extracted from the survey ‘Social Stratification in Croatia: Structural and Subjective Aspects’, conducted on a nationally probabilistic sample of adult Croatian citizens. Factor analysis discovered two main dimensions of television preferences: reality spectacle and foreign fiction preferences, which were recognised as indicators of localised and globalised culture preferences. Further analysis established that these factors are also structured along the class positions of the respondents. Using multiple regression analysis, data suggest the conclusion that the working class prefers TV content in the domestic language and heavy on popular entertainment programming (soap operas, talent, and reality shows). However, the dominant class repudiate ‘lowbrow’ TV content, which highlights class divisions in the cultural field. The analysis sheds light not only on how class positions structure these preferences but also on the important role of age, gender, and music taste play in the formation of television preferences.
Tema ovog rada je analiza relevantnosti teorija i perspektiva mjerenja ovisnosti o videoigrama unutar širih sociokulturnih okvira. S ciljem dodatnog razvoja postojeće metodologije korištene su ...sociološke perspektive (Crawford, 2011) razumijevanja gaminga kao zasebne kulture unutar koje postoje osnove za izgradnju društvene i profesionalne karijere. Analizom podataka prikupljenih u sklopu šireg istraživanja „Sociokulturni profil videoigrača i igračica u Hrvatskoj“, ustanovljeno je kako postoje dva temeljna podskupa ovisnosti (ovisnost usmjerena prema sebi i društvena dimenzija ovisnosti) od kojih je faktor ovisnosti usmjerene prema sebi objašnjen prediktorima samoidentifikacije s gamerskom kulturom, željom za radom u izradi videoigara i općenitim praćenjem gaming scene. Drugi faktor ovisnosti objašnjen je prvenstveno sociodemografskim varijablama (dob, zadovoljstvo životom i uključenost u obrazovni proces). Zaključna razmatranja upućuju na razumijevanje ovisnosti o videoigrama unutar širih sociokulturnih parametara karakterističnih za globalni digitalno-interaktivni kontekst kako bi se klinička ovisnost o videoigrama mogla preciznije odvojiti od kompulzivnog igranja kao procesa izgradnje društvene i profesionalne karijere. Ključne riječi: ovisnost, gameri, društvena karijera, videoigre
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