Abstract
New media, interactivity, virtual reality, digitalization, participation, user creation, and globalization are presently some words we often hear. They are fashionable expressions under which we can hide just about anything in connection with the changing audiovisual media.
The Media in Fluid Times attempts to put those terms into the Czech context. It concerns itself with digital transformation and its particular impacts in the Czech Republic as well as with changes in the audiovisual features of the media landscape following the rise of social networks and digital media.
It uses research performed in the Czech Republic to demonstrates the results of those changes, which have had an impact on all of Czech society. Its author, Václav Moravec, highlights the growing consumption of media, especially by children and adolescents, the phenomenon of media multitasking, which has grown dynamically since the advent of digital media, and also the regulatory paradox between the world of traditional media and the world of digital media, which up to now in the Czech Republic has not led to a convergence of regulatory authorities.