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Semiotic analysis of hashtags on Instagram
Svobodová, Kristýna ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Podzimek, Jan (referee)
This thesis aims to research hashtags on Instagram via the semiotics analysis. The research is based on Leoš Mareš's Instagram profile, which is one of the most successful accounts within the Czech environment, and uses specific types of hashtags. Therefore, it provides a quality data corpus for the research. At the beginning of the thesis the subject of semiotics is introduced, also other key terms, such as meaning, sign, semantics, pragmatics, and syntactic, denotation and connotation, and language tropes. Following there is an introduction of the new media, Instagram, and hashtags. Hashtags are described within the Twitter background, since most of the studies are focused on hashtags on Twitter. The practical part of this thesis is based on Morris's division of semiotics, which is syntactic, semantics, and pragmatics. It studies how hashtags follow and refer to each other, what is the relationship between the photograph and hashtags, and what are the assumptions for understanding the whole post. At the end of the thesis the findings are summarized, and the patterns of hashtags' occurrence are shown.
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Persuasive function and its realization in the preelection spots of political parties,that in electioms in 2010 were given to the Chamber of Deputies
Korandová, Michaela ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (referee)
Five political parties fought their way into the Parliament of the Czech Republic in the election in 2010 (they were CSSD, ODS, TOP 09, Communist Party and VV). Each had their election ad which was broadcast by television and inseparably belonged to their political campaign. An analysis of these media products is the research objective of this thesis. The aim is a semiotic analysis of individual subjects. The thesis strives for an objective description of the transfer of evidence and the construction of meaning in communication spots. The research focuses on complex communique of the clips, structure of the narratives and application of the persuasive functions. The analysis covers various semiotic systems differentiated into three areas - visual, auditory and language. Their mutual harmony, dominance and substitution are important factors in assessing the quality of a complex communique. The issue is also examined in terms of narrative of the spots, whereas the thesis contains description of both the story and the discourse level. This includes specific events and existents, types of statements and specifications for the position of the narrator. The description of the persuasive phenomena and their character is based directly on the above criteria. The paper concludes with a summary of the...
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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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From function to the device - communication mix of the advertising compaign Generali (semiotic analysis)
Pajerová, Hedvika ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (referee)
This thesis deals with the advertising campaign of Generali, which was never putted into practise. The campaign was created for insurance group Generali as an essay in school subject called 3MG321 Marketing Communications, that was teached in spring semester 2011 at the University of Economics in Prague. Campaigns authors are Jan Klusoň, Filip Mikschik, Hedvika Pajerová and Petra Pištěková. The new communication strategy proposed communication mix including TV, radio, internet, outdoor, indoor, print and direct mail. The practical part of this thesis examines the form of this campaign in that media and interprets them from a semiotic perspective. The analysis emphasis on the colours red and white and also on the character of a lion. These colours and the symbol are used by the Generali insurance company since its inception and are part of its logo also. The practical part is based on theoretical grounds, which include the interpretation of the character of the lion from biological, mythological, heraldic and dreamlike aspects. The theoretical part also describes the history of Generali logo, a lion character and use of colours in it, as well as a description of the occurrence of a lion character in the Czech media landscape demonstrated on the example of the Český lev. Without this demonstration...
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The persuative power of the yellow press: Could the Czech and Slovak yellow press has influenced the resulta of the Czech and Slovak Idol?
Šťastný, Michal ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Hronová, Tereza (referee)
Information on the marketability of the yellow press or tabloid media reveal that the yellow press is the strongest type of printed periodical media. It is therefore clear that this media have a big impact. My thesis seeks to evaluate the persuasive power of the media regarding the opinions of customers and consumers. To substantiate or refute claims that the tabloid media has persuasive power, I chose StarDance IV as a case study. Audience of this competition send their votes to support the dance couples performing during the contest stage. In a world with no yellow press, the basic television audience of this show would appreciate each performance strictly for what it is, and with their own non professionnal criterias: an esthetic and emotional judgement of people they only know through what the program choses to show of them. With yellow press, the audience is offered to judge these people according to new information that yellow press can chose to reveal and broadcast to improve or damage the popularity of individuals. The paper asks whether, when this happened, the dance couple could end the contest due to the negative coverage in the media. Interest on this media is explained by classical psychoanalysis and its concept of the conflict of three components of personality, as defined by Sigmund...
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Principles of popularization and mediacoverage of scientific knowledge on the Czech and American news servers
Samšuková, Eva ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
Rigorous thesis "Principles of popularization of scientific knowledge on the Czech and American news servers" evaluates and compares news published during three month period in scientific sections of news servers in the Czech Republic and the United States of America. The thesis follows room provided for scientific topics, the audiovisual features and theme agenda on NYTimes.com, USAToday.com, iDnes.cz and Novinky.cz. The results are accomplished through the quantitative content analysis which is supplemented by the qualitative semiotic analysis. The semiotic analysis determins compositional and narrative structures and the language features in the articles. It is very important to be concerned about the scientific journalism, as science is important in people's lives and, furthermore, it is the public who helps to support scientific efforts financially. Thus, scientists should be concerned about and aware of science communication in media.
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Signs and sign systemes in an advertising ellection camlaign
Lišková, Tereza ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Lysoňková, Lenka (referee)
Bachelor thesis titled "Signs and sign systems in an advertising campaign" focuses on the analysis of a particular political campaigns. It is an election campaign of Strana práv občanů (Party of citizen's rights) - ZEMANOVCI during the elections to the Chamber of Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2010. The thesis analyzed specific process behind the campaign entitled "30 stories of Milos Zeman," with key leader and chairman of the party well-known Czech politician Milos Zeman. Campaign also by name refers to the socialist series "30 cases of major Zeman". The work will first analyze marketing issues of the campaign and its potential success given to the end voters. Bachelor thesis also focuses on the signs and sign systems using semiotic analysis and to identify their explicit, but also a secondary meaning and the purpose for which the party wanted to use them in their campaign. The thesis further analyze an electoral program and its connection with the signs applied in the campaign. The last part includes, the comparation of the political campaing of SPOZ with the campaigns of the rival political parties.
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Visual media in the urban space
Strejcová, Anna ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
The diploma theses Visual Media in the Urban Space deals with the issue of commercial visual media in the public space and the way they are incorporated to the city centers. I am focusing on that kind of media that invade the public space with the biggest force, such as billboards, bigboards, citylights, video screens, wraps, etc. The goal of the research is to compare the placement and the quantity of the out-of-home advertisements in the center of Prague and Barcelona. The research is done from the historical, cultural and geographical point of view (I am not going to investigate the visual messages from the semiotic point of view). I have chosen these two cities because they are the economic and cultural centers of the region and they have a very long history. Since these two cities are placed in the European cultural space and there are global agencies operating on the market I suppose there will be some parallels in the placement and appearance of the visual messages. My hypothesis is that most of the advertisements will be placed in the new-built neighborhoods and the historical centers will be less "visually polluted". Another hypothesis is that the public space in Prague will be filled more with aggressive media forms than the public space in Barcelona. According to my hypothesis there is...
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