ABSTRACT
Participatory actors decreased the amount of time for family and other social interactions in order to dedicate more time to social involvement. They preferred oral communication and technology that supports social relationships, whereas non-actors leaned towards visual communication and technology with unidirectional messages. The broad concept of participation is discussed by social scientists that observe the laws and functioning of everyday life. The frequency of participation in political, social and religious activities positively influences the use of the mobile phone, attracts a more sophisticated use of its functions and shapes in a particular way attitudes and emotion towards this device. Data on level and frequency of societal participation, use of the mobile phone and socio-demographic variables were collected by means a phone survey of 7254 participants. The use of the mobile phone is functional to the increase in the number of participatory actors but the mobile phone serves to a limited extent to support their participant activities.
