Magyar_Ifjusag_2012_tanulmanykotet

Summary of the volume of studiesVII. Free timeÁdám Nagy: Spaces for spending free time and leisure activitiesBased on the data collected for the Hungarian Youth 2012 survey, the “leftovertime” approach can be described as typical of Hungarian young people’sconsumption of free time. As shown also by earlier waves of the large-sampleyouth survey, young people tend to identify “free time” with being engagedin some sort of passive activity, primarily at home and mostly in amediatised environment (while this is the case only to a much lesser extentin relation to pre-organised, authentic leisure activities). Others reportedtheir daily free time to average at 3.5 hours on weekdays and 8 hours at theweekend, similarly to 2008 figures.Results relating to the lifestyle of the Hungarian youth for 2012 enforcethe assessment that the role of the electronic media is assuming an increasinglydominant role in young people’s spare time, with initially radio, thentelevision and now the Internet occupying the major part of the age group’sspare time.The increased role of leisure activities connected to the screens of digitalappliances also show that youth classification models neglecting the aspectsof digital culture in their concepts of lifestyle leisure groups are inneed of rethinking. It can be concluded from the received data that youngpeople describing themselves as “customers” of services are ever less willingto enter into contracts covertly conveying the psychological message ofmass movements: “Be my member, be part of me; in turn, I would provideyou with identity and a programme”, but rather seek engagement with leisuregroups and community organisations at individual events.According to Ádám Nagy’s argument, the description “leisure society”is less typical than the label “screen society” – a notion similar to the term“screenager” of the youth of 2012, owing to the fact that young people spenda significant amount of their lives in front of the screens of televisions, computersand mobile appliances; in total, this time is at least identical to whatis demanded at an average workplace.353