Foreign Television Watching in Everyday Life in the Period of Socialism: South-Bohemian Experience

• Authors: Šebeš Marek

Title variants

CS

Sledování zahraničních televizí v každodenním životě v období socialismu: jihočeská zkušenost

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Before the year 1989, a part of Czechoslovak inhabitants had an opportunity to watch foreign televisions, the signal of which penetrated through the border into Czechoslovak inland. Although there are known data from public opinion survey, by means of which the then political system tried to find out how watching the foreign (especially the West-European) televisions is disseminated in the Czechoslovak society as well as the citizens’ opinions on the broadcasting, we have just a little information about how the everyday practice of that watching looked like. This study focuses on everyday experience with watching the Austrian and the German television in South Bohemia. It is based on the qualitative research among survivors who could watch the programmes in the 1960s – 1980s. In ten in-depth interviews and one group discussion we tried to find out which role the West-European television watching played in the everyday life of people, which different forms it gained, and in what social context it occurred. The research results pointed out, among other things, several typical ways of watching the West-European televisions and the importance that the respondents attributed to it.

Keywords

EN

Czechoslovakia; German television; Austrian television; everyday life; watching practices; memory research

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 308 - 319

Contributors

author

Šebeš Marek