Znaczenie poczucia podmiotowości dla aktywności społecznej w przestrzeni samorządowej

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of the sense of communication subjectivity of citizens and their actual activity in the local environment. In the article, the author's concept of communication subjectivity was tested based on the questionnaire survey conducted on a sample of 500 respondents in 2016 in the Silesia district. The aim of the study was to analyze the sense of communication subjectivity and the way it indicates the activity of citizens in the local environment. The central hypothesis of the study was as follows: the sense of subjectivity is associated with activity in the local government. The author characterizes the phenomenon of subjectivity at the local level and pays attention to the difference between the sense of general and communicative subjectivity. Then she discusses the results referring to the meaning of the sense of communication subjectivity for civic activity and draws the conclusions. Empirical findings confirm that communication activity correlates with actual activity in the local environment, especially the aspects of communication subjectivity associated with two-way communication. The study showed a low level of the sense of communication subjectivity, which indicates the reasons for the low activity of citizens in the local environment. Moreover, the results reveal that the development of self-government communication activities should lead to encouraging active participation in communication processes and building a reasonable belief in them as far as the importance and the effectiveness of these activities are concerned.