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Design and development of ecological insulation material based on natural raw materials
Šťastná, Lucie ; Slávik, Richard (referee) ; Zach, Jiří (advisor)
The bachelor thesis deals with the development of a new insulating material based on natural raw materials. In theoretical part, there is an overview of available types of loose fill insulation along with describtion of selected natural raw resources and their possible use as thermal and acoustic insulation for the area of ecological woodwork building. The practical part deals with the verification of key characteristics of manufactured samples of insulator. The goal of the bachelor thesis is to optimally modify loose fill insulation based on recycled paper with woodchips from roots to achieve better acoustic properties of recycled paper.
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Media Literacy as Perceived by Key Agents of the Media Education of Adults
Šťastná, Lucie ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Pavličíková, Helena (referee) ; Vrabec, Norbert (referee)
The topic of the dissertation is media literacy as perceived by key agents of the media education of adults. Media literacy is a term that can be viewed differently and whose content changes over time. For this reason, the term is introduced in its entirety. While the views of politicians and theorists can be derived from published legislation and scientific literature, the views of people most engaged in the development of adult media literacy in practice are not known. Therefore, the dissertation focuses on how the individual agents of adult media education (organizers, participants and officials) perceive the concept of media literacy, whether they share a common perspective on media literacy and whether it is possible to characterize representatives of individual concepts. The prelude to this phase of the research was a qualitative content analysis, which provided a typology of opportunities for adult media education in the Czech Republic. This was then used to select the most diverse sample of educational events and informants for the main phase of the qualitative research. Semi- structured in-depth interviews were conducted with informants. As a result of the data analysis, seven dimensions of media literacy were identified, the various combinations of which formed different concepts of media...
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Design and development of ecological insulation material based on natural raw materials
Šťastná, Lucie ; Slávik, Richard (referee) ; Zach, Jiří (advisor)
The bachelor thesis deals with the development of a new insulating material based on natural raw materials. In theoretical part, there is an overview of available types of loose fill insulation along with describtion of selected natural raw resources and their possible use as thermal and acoustic insulation for the area of ecological woodwork building. The practical part deals with the verification of key characteristics of manufactured samples of insulator. The goal of the bachelor thesis is to optimally modify loose fill insulation based on recycled paper with woodchips from roots to achieve better acoustic properties of recycled paper.
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Media educationin the family
Cigánková, Klára ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Šťastná, Lucie (referee)
The master thesis "Media education in the family" discusses media education strategies of parents, or, in other words, parental mediation. This discussion is important because the family, in addition to the school system, is largely responsible for influencing the media literacy of children. The theoretical section of this thesis sums up how this topic was processed in foreign and Czech studies, and describes the main characteristics of parental mediation. Media education strategies of parents are also assessed in connection with the socialization of the child, and with the education and communication styles in family. Frequently, studies describe three types of parental mediation, which are: active mediation, restrictive mediation and social co-viewing. Although these types of mediation were defined mostly in connection with the viewing of television programs, it is possible to transfer these types, with small changes, on to other media, including the internet. The practical part of this thesis contains a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with parents who have children between the ages of 12 and 15. The goal of this analysis was to find out what parents think of the relationship between children and media, which strategies of parental mediation they are using, and which conditions and...
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The television series Wifina in the context of media literacy and education through media
Novotná, Helena ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Šťastná, Lucie (referee)
This diploma thesis is an addition to the discussion on media literacy development, which also deals with the effectiveness of children's education via a television program. The work offers a brief content overview of public broadcasting television channel ČT:D, focusing on shows that enlighten the viewers about facts from various fields (which are thus regarded educational). The television program Wifina is described in detail and is the center of later research. The first part of this document defines the factors that affect reception of information from television broadcast. The thesis introduces different variations of key media literacy concepts, including the specific way they are handled in the Czech setting. The objective of this work is to determine, whether the show Wifina enhances development of media literacy through its content, and whether this content helps to broaden general knowledge and education of the viewers. Based on content analysis of the program and subsequent qualitative comparative analysis of two groups of children - viewers and non-viewers - the author ascertains, whether Wifina educates its viewers about media-related subjects, as well as other areas. Evaluation of the research offers not only specific cases of broadcast (non-)affected viewers, but also a debate on...
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The User's Habits of Media Usage by Children from the Children's Houses
Benešová, Lucie ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Šťastná, Lucie (referee)
The work concerns with media enviroment and life style of children from the children's homes. The empirical part is based on theoretical part and it explores their media habits, media access, media owning and parent mediation. This work compares a sample of 48 children from children's homes and a sample of 62 children who live in a family. Quantitative research is supplemented with qualitative research in a form of semistructured interviews with tutors in six children's homes and with mass discusion with children in one of them. The main aim of the work is to approach which role do media play in every day life of the children from the children home's. Comparative research answers the main question: Are media habits of the children from the children's homes different from the habits of the children from families and which strategy of the parental mediation is supreme and how the mediation differs from the mediation in the families.
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Opposition "homo - animal" in language. Contribution to the Czech linguistic picture of the world
Šťastná, Lucie ; Vaňková, Irena (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to contribute to the research of the Czech language picture of the world. It is based on fundamental theoretical and methodological resources of cognitive and cultural linguistics and focuses on the opposition of "man - animal", or "human - animal", in the Czech language, aiming to illustrate the way in which zooappellatives (animal names) relate to the reality of the human world. The most extensive part of the thesis is based mainly on an analysis of Czech dictionary material (etymological, reference, synonym and phraseological dictionaries), as well as comparing the scientific (biological) classification of animals to the categorization in natural language. In regard to the category ANIMAL, the thesis establishes four basic domains constituting the category's conceptual model (framework): "the place where the animal lives", "physical traits", "the animal's behaviour" and "relation to man". The thesis also includes questionnaire-based research that focuses on analysing the way in which speakers of the Czech language understand the category ANIMAL, and attempts to determine whether they regard some animals as more protypical than others.
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Media literacy and media education as a theme of classified research
Pauzarová, Kateřina ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Šťastná, Lucie (referee)
This thesis aims to explore important research projects conducted in the field of media education and media literacy during approximately the first decade of 21st century in Europe. It deals with research studies covering three areas: research as a tool of consensus, research of media education at schools and research about children and young people and their access to new technologies. The thesis looks into initiatives and legislative measures by the European Union in the area of media literacy development, informs about progress in the field of research projects dealing with media education and presents also the EU Kids Online project. Further it compares 2 research studies conducted in Great Britain in 2010 and introduces the British regulator OFCOM and its research production on the subject of media literacy of children and adults. Based on the presented findings a research study for Czech Republic is proposed on the topic of parental mediation in the internet environment.
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Media education and digital literacy of blind high school students
Fraiová, Anna ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Šťastná, Lucie (referee)
The paper addresses issues of media education in blind high-school students, especially in the topical context of digital media. The theoretical part devotes to problems of education of visually impaired persons. Next, concern the subsumption of media education as a cross- sectional subject into Czech primary and high-schools education. This part is also concerned with specific digital media and extensive opportunities of its utilization for visually impaired persons. In the experimental part of the paper, discrete components of digital literacy of sightless high-school students are analysed. The method of focused (semi-structured) interviews was selected. Interviews were executed with ten visually impaired high-school students and subsequently analysed with the help of qualitative content analysis. The aim of the paper is to give a notice on dependence of blind people to digital media and its specifics and, in this conjunction, emphasise the importance of media education.
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