Re-constructing the dialogue of generations against the reality of prefigurative culture

Abstract

Generations of grandparents were usually a source of values and cultural patterns, they were the guides in the world to their grandchildren, intermediaries between the past and present. In modern society children began to live their own lives, the source of patterns became primarily the media. The inability to move older people in this area has blocked the possibility of transferring the experience and wisdom of previous generations. However, prefigurative culture brings with it some chances – children become teachers and leaders of older people in the world of media and modern technology. Ongoing contact with children, often through these technologies, enables the older generations to bring back the older generations with the natural role of communicating traditional values and patterns that respect the specificities of children’s functioning in the media world.