Alternative futures oriented to contemporary global problems solutions and risk management are related to citizens´ability to learn how to become global (cosmopolitan) citizens. Important conditions for that should be analyzed within the processes and conditions shaped by globalization of media and communication. This learning has not been institutionalize so far (as in the education), and it is a result of rather indirect social interaciton. Individuals are embedded into complex network of the global information flows and, at the same time, they are members of their national and local communities. Cosmopolitan individual is a virtual member of a global community. Social analysis with ethical reflection should study with more attention global media as one of the key globalizing actors shaping the public space of communication with the power to farm and deform cosmopolitan participation. and Oleg Suša.
The paper focuses on the era after the democratic revolution of 1989, analysing the political agents' expectations about the nature of the future economic system. Describing the case of Czech-American economist Jaroslav Vanek and others, it shows that the contemporary debates included ambitious projects, which aimed at making Czechoslovakia a pioneer of new social orders, usually inspired by the ideas of so-called economic democracy. In conclusion, the paper compares these concepts with the actual development of the East European countries in the following decades, as it has been described in the conteporary researches.