CzechTek 2005. Media, power and techno culture

CzechTek music festival was one of the most significant exposures of rave or techno culture in our country. In 2005, the police struck against ravers and forcibly ended the party. In this paper, I strive to find out how the three biggest Czech daily newspapers - MF Dnes, Právo and Blesk - dealt with this situation by using quantitative content analysis. In the first part, I inquire into theoretical basis related to techno culture and mass media. I describe the history and the milestones of CzechTek, the origin of techno and the bonding between techno culture and neotribalism. The chapter on mass media deals with Marshall McLuhan's ideas, the definition of mass media, analytical traditions, the connection between media and politics and also the standing of individual newspapers. Methodological passage is about the construction of sample and variables, and the description of content analysis method. The analysis is devided into four parts, in which I study different time periods and observe how media perceived and handled CzechTek 2005