Contemporary Parents as the First Teachers of Media Literacy: Situation of the Czech Family

Abstract

The paper deals with the importance and the situation of education in the environment of contemporary family and is focused on the problems of media literacy. With regard to the private space of contemporary families we try to look at what happens in today's Czech households with children in the age 6 - 17. Therefore, we show the data from our quantitative survey made among the Czech families (sample 962 parents). Our results showed the relatively high level of regulation and monitoring in the Czech families. Surprisingly, the better media saturated families expressed the lower tendency to regulate their use.