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ALTERNATIVE THEMES AND APPROACH: MEDIA ACTIVISM IN THE CZECH MILIEU
Bořuta, Petr ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
Bachelor's thesis 'Alternative themes and approach: media activism in the Czech milieu' deals with dissimilar forms of so-called media activism. The main goal of this paper is to describe activities that under comprehensive denotation 'media activism' are aimed at promoting unpopular agenda or alternative approach to social themes and problems in nontradional ways, scilicet in the context of the Czech milieu. The thesis tries to answer the question whether the Czech media activism absorbed the trends from Western Europe countries and the USA or not, prospectively if it drags behind. Another purpose of the thesis is also to discover at what certain extent is media activism influenced by new media and how media activists use them.
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Confrontation of work of photoeditors in selected Czech and American Newspapers
Zapotilová, Mariana ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
Graduation thesis entitled "Confrontation of work of photo editors in selected Czech and American periodicals" discusses the important profession of photo editors in the Czech Republic and the United States and attempts to compare it in these two different countries. In the first part I would like to briefly outline the history of photojournalism in the Czech Republic and the United States and describe the aspects which influenced it during two centuries. In the next chapter I focus on notions, since not everyone is familiar with the position and powers of newspaper photo editors, and the types of photographs the journalism operates with. Here I explain the emergence of the profession which is much younger than actual photojournalism. In the research section I want to - through the use of interviews with several professional photographers and photo editors - explain the various procedures and newsroom routines. I focus mainly on the habits and processes, that go before the capturing the photograph, and subsequent decision-making process in selecting images for the newspapers. I also briefly compare the problems of education and training in the field of visual journalism. In one of the chapters I turn to the newspaper photo captions and on the basis of illustrative examples I try to answer the question how...
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Photography, news, photojournalism, daily news, Barack Obama, Právo, Hospodářské noviny, Lidové noviny, Mladá fronta DNES, Blesk
Špitálská, Andrea ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
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Tag phenomenon on Flickr.com and its impact on interpretion extension of photography
Janda, Filip ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
I Abstract The first chapter of the thesis is devoted to the Flickr.com website and its evolution from its foundation until the present and to the posibility of its usage as a news source. The second chapter further explores the concept of folksonomy itself, it presents its definition, the basic approaches to its typology and singly it disserts on tag, on its forms and functions on the Flickr.com website. In the third chapter we will elaborate on the status of photography in its digital form, on its unstability and predisposition to be subject to language. The forth chapter puts forward the characteristics of text in the sphere of Internet, that of its nonlinearity, and it goes on about titles, captions and text as such in relation to photography. The fifth chapter then details the ability of tags to influence the perception of photography in the cyberspace and it addresses another phenomenon, that of the notes. The sixth and the last chapter presents the results of the "Flickrdream" research, whose objective was to find out to what degree are the tags in relation with photos on Flickr capable to comply with representation of such a complex phenomenon as a dream.
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The Photoblog as a new presentation platform
Javůrková, Klára ; Turek, Pavel (advisor) ; Láb, Filip (referee)
This bachelor thesis is concerned with the specific effects which have been brought by digitalization. The topic of this work is photoblogs representing the new viewing platform. This work follows both the history of digital photography and changing of photojournalistic practices. In the first part there is an exploration of advantages and disadvantages of digital photography especially reflecting the progress from analogue photography toward the digital one. The emphasis is placed on photographic fakes and questioning photography as the true medium. This bachelor thesis also contains the interview with Ami Vitale talking about the multimedia as photographic tool. The second interview with Jan Ždimera explains the process of photoediting at ČTK, which shows the differences between traditional news agency and internet blog of street journalism represented by Demotix. The final part is dedicated to comparing ZoneZero and Magnum blog. This practical part is focused on each difference between ZoneZero and Magnum blog. This paper aims to highlight the developments and changes which photography went through with a special focus on the photoblog. These changes formed the guidelines, which draws on modern photography and in conjunction with the Internet reached a mass scale. Bachelor's thesis describes the...
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Visual representation of Africa in Magazine Tyden and Rexlex
Krystýnová, Pavla ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
The diploma thesis "Visual representation of Africa in magazine Týden and Reflex " deals with visual representation of African continent. Africa does not appear in Czech printed media very often although the readers are interested in this topic. We live in the time that is intensively influenced by visual perception on human being. Photography is the medium capable of emotively showing the everyday life in Africa. This is the reason why this diploma thesis analyses the visual images (the photographs) with African themes which were printed in the magazines Týden and Reflex in 2005 and 2009. The main part of thesis is an analysis of the photographs describing the way how these magazines represent life in Africa. As a method of work I have chosen quantitative content analysis of photographs printed in magazines Týden and Reflex in 2005 and 2009. The theoretical framework of this thesis is summarized in the first three chapters. The first chapter deals with classifyig Africa . The second chapter is devoted to the photographic image in the world today and the history of depicting Africa by Czech photographers. The third chapter is focused on the representation of developing countries in the media and the issue of stereotyping. Visual analysis will try to show whether there are fixed ways of representing...
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Pop-cultural Symbols in Visual Publicism in Tenth years of the Twenty-first Century In Pictures by Teo Adamy
Dvořáková, Anna ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Láb, Filip (referee)
AbstractAbstractAbstractAbstract This thesis presents one of the first attempts to uncover and analyze the phenomenon of immediately apparent digital photomontage born and developed in the context of the Czech internet, that does not attempt to simulate a photographic reproduction of reality, but instead to regularly comment on political events of the Czech Republic. Using an analysis of photomontages of Teo Adamy (aTeo), the thesis explores their specific hybrid means of expression and the methods through which it completely fulfills the essence of pictorial commentary. Besides describing the creative basis and inspirational founts of the montage artist, it also provides an in-depth insight into the category of the so-called pseudofilm, a specific part of aTeo's internet production, that consists of photomontages feeding off the medium of film, using meaningful parallels in film stories and pop-cultural film references, or even directly inserts chosen political representatives into well-known film scenes and thus draws upon universal mythological structures activated by popular films. The Pseudofilm category is then subjected to a detailed analysis, whose output is a comprehensive description of aTeo's fictionally-realistic film-political photomontage and an understanding of specific features of its...
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