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Super League: Football partakers and their relationships within contemporary football
Anton, Vojtěch ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Vocásek, Tibor (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyses contemporary football through sociological optics, more specifically, which partakers are exhibiting and how on "global football field". Aim of this thesis is to place a ten-year-old text by Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson, Mapping the global football field: a sociological model of transnational forces within the world game in to the current context. In his paper, authors created sociological model of the key transnational, political and economic forces that are shaping contemporary football ("global football field"). Thesis was created as a response to last year's announcement of a Super League, where the 12 richest teams wanted to separate from the rest of the football world and create their own league. The aim of the thesis will be to analyse public debate about the Super League, identify key topics of the discussion, main arguments and explain them in the context of the current development of football, sport and society, through the model created by Giulianotti and Robertson. The thesis will be based on a qualitative content analysis of the media debate. The data will be collected from online media in the Czech Republic.
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Gender Equality, Biathlon and Media: An Analysis of Media Production
Gerth, Lisa ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Vochocová, Lenka (referee)
Women are significantly underrepresented in sports. This is primarily because for many centuries it was forbidden for women to participate in sports. Today, women are allowed to take part in numerous sports and in major events such as the Olympic Games. Nevertheless, a male hegemony prevails in sports, which is expressed especially in media production. Biathlon represents one of the sport disciplines in which women and men operate on an equal footing. The goal of this paper is to analyze the media production processes in biathlon, concerning the gender issues. The research was conducted with qualitative interviews with sports journalists and athletes and analyzed with grounded theory. Data analysis shows that journalists do not address the issue of gender equality in biathlon coverage. They primarily report on the sporting success of the athletes, regardless of gender. This also means that hardly any women-specific topics are addressed. The interviewed journalists are gender-blind in their work. There is rather a marginalized equality of men and women. Especially female athletes and female journalists point out that the sport of biathlon and the media production about it can further improve in terms of gender equality.
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When it's not "just" about hockey. Hockey championships in the Czech Republic through the eyes of the organizers
Veselský, Matouš ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Numerato, Dino (referee) ; Slepičková, Irena (referee)
"Sport is everywhere and we are in it." These words are the leitmotif of Jiří Černý's book Fotbal je hra. Pokus o fenomenologii fotbalu. In this text, Černý points out the significance of sports and sports games in modern culture. At present, we are witnessing an ever-growing interest in sport from the perspective of various scientific disciplines. This dissertation thesis deals with the phenomenon of mega-events, large-scale (not only) sporting events that have broad, society-wide impacts, from a sociological, qualitative perspective. In the Czech context, these are primarily sports competitions of a smaller scale than, for example, the Olympic Games, but which can nevertheless have profound social impacts. Such sports events, which took place in the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia, undoubtedly became ice-hockey world championships. This dissertation thesis describes the Ice Hockey World Championship, uncharacteristically, through semi-structured interviews with the organizers of the championship from 2004 and 2015. This study is primarily about personal motivations, emotional connections, and personal interpretation of participation in the organization of the hockey championship. This qualitative approach to mega-events brings a very specific organizational perspective. At the same time, this...
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Sports Migrants in "Central" Europe: "Rotating" Life-Histories
De Oliveira Filho, José Hildo ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Rial, Carmen (referee) ; Molnár, Gyözö (referee)
Outside of Europe's top football leagues, migrant athletes are often subjected to short-term contracts, poor housing conditions, isolation and the ever-present risk of premature career termination due to injuries. This thesis is a multi-sited ethnography on Brazilian futsal and football migrants in Israel, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Lebanon, and Austria. This thesis is mostly based on life-history interviews with migrant futsal and football athletes, as well as backstage observations of one futsal team in the Czech Republic. Life-history interviews reveal not only how athletes use symbols in their everyday life, but also how race, gender, and class are articulated in the experiences of migrant athletes. While sports migration receives considerable media attention, this work focused on lower-division footballers and futsal players to understand how anonymous sports migrants deal with the precariousness of their profession, the contingencies of living temporarily apart from their families, athletes' religiosities and plans for the future. The focus on both futsal and football is justified as professional athletes practice both of these sports in their childhood and adolescence, and, at around the age of 16, athletes specialize in one or another sport. In this sense, this thesis is an attempt to...
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Sport and Czech Society: Sources of Differences in Sports Participation
Špaček, Ondřej ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Sekot, Aleš (referee) ; Leška, Dušan (referee)
The thesis examines changes in sports participation in Czech society in last decades. Sports activities are conceptualized as a practice, routinized habit that is shared in a society's culture (Reckwitz 2002; Warde 2005). Bourdieu's (1984) also shows how different social positions generate different taste and preferences, which are simultaneously classified and base for symbolic borders between social classes. The empirical analysis focuses on sports participation during the last three decades and deeper understanding of differentiation and meanings of today's sports activity. The results clearly show profound increase in sports participation, from 25 % in 1984 to 67 % in 2009. The cohort analysis confirms that dynamics of sports practices' spread have roots in the socialization process and cohort exchange, because younger cohorts have a stable higher level of sports participation irrespective of their aging. Lasting impact of cultural capital on sports participation is particularly striking, especially in the light of the major change in society's regime in the 1989 and after. This brings attention to the question, how mechanisms of social inequalities - especially cultural capital - worked in a similar way across supposedly different social orders. Next chapter deals with patterns of participation in...
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Media representation of the Czech national identity in the historical TV show DějePIC!
Petrová, Natálie ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Klásková, Markéta (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the representation of Czech national identity in the show called DějePIC! (2017). It's a family TV cycle about Czech history. The thesis is based on the assumption, that the media participate on defining the concept. The outcome of this thesis is the analysis of the interpretations of Czech national identity in the chosen show. The analysis focuses mainly at the presentation of symbols, events, personalities and the characteristics of Czech national identity. The aim of this thesis is to answer the question how and in what relations is the Czech national identity presented in the show DějePIC!. In the first part I presented the key theoretical concepts, which are the national identity and the connected collective memory, then medial construction of reality and the forming of national identity in media. The second part of the thesis is empirical, and it consists of the analysis. Due to the nature of the analysis I'm using the qualitative methodology. After the first phase of identifying the base themes, which participate on creating the image of national identity in the show, and after the categorization, I carried out the deeper analysis. The research sample consists of all the 32 episodes of the DějePIC! Show (from September 2017 until December 2018) which are...
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