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Representation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Czech media coverage
Lacina, Jiří ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Končelík, Jakub (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on the image of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Czech media, specifically on the presence of bias in news coverage. The thesis examines what, if any, elements of media bias are present in Czech media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The theoretical part of the thesis describes bias and related concepts, and then discusses the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including a closer look at Czech- Israeli and Czech-Palestinian relations. The thesis then presents selected foreign and Czech research that examines the media portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As a method, the thesis uses quantitative content analysis and analyses news articles published in the five most read online media during Israel-Palestine crisis in May 2021. The analysis focuses on the presence of contextual information about the conflict, the labelling of actions, actors and territories, and the way in which victims are reported. The results show the picture of the conflict presented by the Czech media is incomplete and distorted from different perspectives. However, the results do not show that the coverage is clearly biased in favour of (or against) the Israeli or Palestinian side.
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The Use of Twitter by the Czech News Agency and Reuters
Lacina, Jiří ; Trunečková, Ludmila (advisor) ; Moravec, Václav (referee)
This Bachelor's Thesis focuses on news agencies, organizations that collect, process and provide intelligence information on domestic and foreign events to its clients (such as media), and their relationship with social media. This work aims to find out how the Czech News Agency (ČTK), the largest wire service in the Czech Republic, uses Twitter to disseminate its news outputs published on the České noviny website. This is achieved, among others, by comparison with Reuters, one of the largest and one of the world's oldest news agencies. The thesis consists of the theoretical section that provides information on Twitter and its influence on news media and journalism, describes specifics of news agencies, as well as their functioning in digital times, and the research section, which is further divided into quantitative and qualitative. Using the R programming language, the quantitative research analyses tweets of ČTK news account in selected days in comparison to Reuters' posts from the same period and general recommendations for using Twitter. The qualitative research contains a semi-structured interview with ČTK editor-in-chief Radka Matesová Marková and ČTK spokeswoman Martina Vašíčková about the agency's relationship with social media, its use of Twitter, ČTK's journalists' approach to Twitter, etc. The...
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The changing role of Russia and China in the Kazakhstan's energy sector
Lacina, Jiří ; Cibulková, Petra (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
The following thesis deals with the changing role of Russia and China in the Kazakhstan's Energy sector. It focuses exclusively on oil and gas sector. The first part analyses the changing role of Russia as an important player in these sectors while the second part analyses China's role. The emphasis is put on Kazakhstan's diversification of export routes in relation to Russia and its interests. China is analysed as an independent player with its own interests, as a potential competitor to Russia and as a significant economic player offering Kazakhstan alternatives on its path towards the diversification of the export routes.
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