HAGYOMÁNYOS/DIGITÁLIS? A KOMMUNIKÁCIÓ GENERÁCIÓS KÜLÖNBSÉGEI VIDÉKI KÖRNYEZETBEN
TRADITIONAL OR DIGITAL? INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNICATION GAPS IN RURAL AREAS

Author(s): József Gagyi
Subject(s): Communication studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: intergenerational communication; rural areas; communication strategies;
Summary/Abstract: The recently emerging new media has partially reshaped the differences in intergenerational communication in the rural areas subject to our investigation. On the one hand, the results of our study show that the adult world still keeps up the traditional forms of communication. On the other hand, adults’ communication strategies are embedded in the past, they are built upon the rhythms imposed by rural economy, and they are conventional and grounded on the actants’ direct involvement. They have been socialized in diffuse households, and their culture is co-figurative. Young people’s communication habits are already based on the world of digital communication and the media. This type of communication partially allows mediated virtual connection and activities. It could be defined as a prefigurative form of communication and its traditions, i.e. quickly changing and fictitious, yet ritualistic actions are mostly intergenerational.

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