Pražské předjaří perspektivou mediálních dialogických sít

The article is a contribution to the concept of media dialogical network (DN), which is applied here to historical data. The paper is based on previous research on DNs in the Czechoslovak media in the years 1948–1989, here I focus on the period immediately preceding the Prague Spring. The aim is to describe how DNs are constructed in the relevant period and the subject of the analysis are two DNs that developed in the Czechoslovak media in 1966–1967. Both of them resemble the DNs of the 1990s in some respects and contrast with, for example, the DNs of 1952, which developed during the period of centralisation of state power and in media that were subject to censorship. The socio-political situation can therefore be considered, alongside the state of development of the technologies used in journalism, as one of the factors that influence the shape of DNs.