NOVI MEDIJI I PRIPADNICI LAIČKIH CRKVENIH POKRETA U HRVATSKOJ
THE NEW MEDIA AND MEMBERS OF LAY ECCLESIASTICAL MOVEMENTS IN CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: A socioreligious empirical research of lay ecclesiastical movements was conducted in the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar within the religious topic Globalisation and Postmodern Religious Movements. In this article the results of the general faith in the media of social communication have been given as well as the frequency of their use (personal computer, e-mail, internet and data base), the way members of lay ecclesiastical movements in Croatia are using them with regard to their individual and socioprofessional features (gender, age, level of education and place of birth). For measuring the given relations some indicators have been used from descriptive statistics, such as frequencies and percentages, while for drawing the conclusion on the existence of a statistically significant difference in the examinees' answers, the author used the χ2 - test. The results obtained show that examinees express a very high degree of distrust generally towards all the media and a relatively low degree of frequency of use of the new media – the personal computer, internet, on-line data base and e-mail. Significant factors influencing the frequency of use of these new media are the examinees' gender and age. The level of education of the examinees is a relevant factor in determining the intensity of use of the personal computer and e-mail, and irrelevant in determining the use of the internet and data base.

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