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The framing of conflicts in the middle east of czech media
Lusková, Kristína ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
The thesis "Framing of the conflict in the Middle East in Czech Daily Newspapers" explores how Czech print media report on the conflict in the Middle East through the analysis of Mladá fronta Dnes and Právo news coverage of the Second Lebanon War (2006) and the Gaza war (2008- 2009). The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the role of the media in times of war and focuses mainly on the popular even though somewhat fragmented concept of media framing, which became the basis for the analysis of the above mentioned newspapers. The research draws on the extensive literature on media framing as well as foreign research on framing of the Arab- Israeli conflict, combining quantitative and qualitative analytical tools. The aim of the quantitative part of the analysis was to obtain hitherto missing data about the framing of the conflict in the Middle East by Czech media that could be compared to similar data that are already available for foreign media. Quantitative analysis also focused on news sources and topics used while referring about the Middle East conflict. The purpose of the qualitative analysis was to gain a deeper insight into the problem and generate a list of specific frames used to interpret the conflict in the Middle East by Czech print media.
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The framing of conflicts in the middle east of czech media
Lusková, Kristína ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Trampota, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis "Framing of the conflict in the Middle East in Czech Daily Newspapers" explores how Czech print media report on the conflict in the Middle East through the analysis of Mladá fronta Dnes and Právo news coverage of the Second Lebanon War (2006) and the Gaza war (2008- 2009). The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the role of the media in times of war and focuses mainly on the popular even though somewhat fragmented concept of media framing, which became the basis for the analysis of the above mentioned newspapers. The research draws on the extensive literature on media framing as well as foreign research on framing of the Arab- Israeli conflict, combining quantitative and qualitative analytical tools. The aim of the quantitative part of the analysis was to obtain hitherto missing data about the framing of the conflict in the Middle East by Czech media that could be compared to similar data that are already available for foreign media. Quantitative analysis also focused on news sources and topics used while referring about the Middle East conflict. The purpose of the qualitative analysis was to gain a deeper insight into the problem and generate a list of specific frames used to interpret the conflict in the Middle East by Czech print media.
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Civic engagement in Romania - testing the applicability of mainstream theories on the winter protests of 2012
Macsut, Andrei-Cosmin ; Šístek, František (advisor) ; Maslowski, Nicolas (referee)
The past few years have seen the emergence of new types of civic engagement. Citizens are now more capable to organize themselves than ever before and this creates a new pattern of social mobilization that has not previously been the centre of academic focus. This work analyses the particular case of the Romanian winter protests of 2012 in an attempt to prove that current mainstream theories of resource mobilization and framing do not fully explain the emergence of unstructured movements. The results aim to pave the way for a new theory of civic engagement that fits the newly observed realities and could be generalized to explain all forms of structured or unstructured participation to collective action.
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Travel tourism magazines on the czech media market-a comparative analysis of the C.O.T.Business and National geographic
Juránková, Simona ; Dolanská, Nora (advisor) ; Wolák, Radim (referee)
Travel periodicals are one of the means, how can readers - potential tourists to learn about a specific destination, or be motivated to visit presented country. This diploma thesis describes the development and transformation of the tourism magazines that are published in the Czech Republic after 1989. The attention is focused on the title COT business (for professionals) and National Geographic (for the public). Although targeted at different audiences, both periodicals bring news and coverage from destinations, interviews with travelers, practical travel advices and thus contribute for the increase or decline of demand for various places. Selected magazines gradually gained a strong position on the Czech media market and can be thus described as prototypes in their segment. Especially in recent years in comparison with the competition selected periodicals have declined in sold costs, advertising revenues and readership. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the market overall with selected travel periodicals and also identify opportunities that should selected titles (publishers) include into marketing planning, if they want to stay "leaders" on the media market. The thesis also presents a case study that is comparing the framing methods of selected destinations in order to determine, to what...
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Facebook in czech printed media between 2006 - 2009
Bauer, Jan ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Švelch, Jaroslav (referee)
The goal of this study is to explore how Czech printed media referred about online social network Facebook from its founding till the period when number of Czech users reached approximately one million. Contend analysis is being used as a research method. Covered period is from September 2005 until end of July 2009. The study is grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory as well as in the social-constructivist view on media. Previous foreign studies with a similar topics are also presented in the theoretical part. Methodological part deals with the method of content analysis and presents research questions as well as the research sample. Analytical part presents results of the research, relates them to the theoretical standpoints and puts them into historical context. Findings show that during observed period there were changes in the way and intensity how Facebook was presented and that there could be found themes that Facebook was predominantly associated with.
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Presentation of domestic violence in media during the period after the death of Simona Monyová
Doušová, Kateřina ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Reifová, Irena (referee)
Thesis is devoted to the media representation of domestic violence. Text is thematically divided into theoretical and practical parts. In the theoretical, the first chapter is devoted to the introduction to domestic violence issue, both in terms of socio-psychological and legal, and there is also mentioned the issue of media violence representation of violence and in particular the representation of violence against women. In the practical part of the thesis, the results of research are presented. The research method is quantitative content analysis. The analysis is focused on the period before and after the murder of writer Simona Monyová (the whole year 2011). Thesis analyzes whether and how the Simona Monyová case has affected the representation of domestic violence in selected media - Mlada fronta Dnes, Lidove noviny, Hospodarske noviny, Pravo, regional Dailies, television Nova, Czech TV and TV Prima. The aim is not only to observe and describe changes in the representation of domestic violence after the murder, but also describe how the media frames the issue of domestic violence - focus on media sources, news values, routines and how does it affect the represent the topic to public. Thesis is based on several international studies, with which our research results are compared. One of the main...
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Media reflection of the president Václav Klaus' political agenda
Picková, Zuzana ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Trampota, Tomáš (referee)
Presidents are said to exert their influence mainly through addressing the public and public speaking. Setting the media agenda is considered as one of the presidents' main strategic powers. Although the contemporary Czech president Václav Klaus enjoys substantial media attention, it is not granted that the media report on everything he says and emphasises. This research focuses on the interaction between presidential speeches at important occasions, represented by the 1 January, 28 October, and 17 November address, and the media represented by three nation-wide dailies Mladá fronta DNES, Právo and Blesk. The time span of the research is 2007 to 2011. The analysis seeks to examine how often were the presidential speeches reported by the media, and which particular topics from them generated press coverage. The results show that the media were mostly attracted by the 1 January address, while the 17 November speech received least attention. It has also emerged that the media reporters have been choosing selectively which topics from the speeches to cover. The scope of the space dedicated to each of the topics by the president in his speeches has not been reflected by the journalists. Therefore, significant differences in the topical priorities between the presidential and media agenda were...
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The process of framing media content on the example of domestic violence
Homolková, Dana ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Škodová, Markéta (referee)
The aim of the thesis was to find out how domestic violence was framed in the Czech printed media. The analysis was based on the findings of Robert Entman, who defined framing as selection and emphasising of certain attributes in the media (Entman, 1993). The work brought about a theoretical introduction into the concept of framing which became a part of the media studies in the last twenty years and which currently deals with all phases of media text origination and interpretation. The framing method was applied on a chosen topic of domestic violence, in connection with the new law on protection of abused people, which came into effect on January 1, 2007. Five weeklies (Blesk pro ženy, Instinkt, Květy, Reflex, Respekt) were selected for analysis and the monitored period of one calendar year from January 1, 2007, to January 1, 2008, was set. In the practical part, a qualitative analysis was carried out, determining the frames and research hypotheses for further interpretation of framing of given topic. Subsequent quantitative analysis studied the methods of article framing by individual magazines and eventual differences in the approach to this topic from the viewpoint of prevailing stereotypes associated with domestic violence. Attention was also paid to the question whether the magazines provided...
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Changing of a media coverage of the Iraq war in the Czech press in the period 2003-2008
Sabolová, Veronika ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
Diploma thesis "Changing of a Media Coverage of the Iraq War ("Second Gulf War") in a Czech press in the Period 2003-2008" deals with news media position and their activities during the Second Gulf War. The goal of the thesis is to explain the media power during the public opinion influencing. This is the reason why the theoretical part of the thesis deals with a propaganda, agenda-setting function of the mass media and media framing. The Iraq war was the reaction to the September 11th 2001 events and president Bush claimed the war against global terrorism. This is the reason why the thesis deals with sociology of terrorism and connection of terrorism and the news media. Influencing of a public opinion deals with an extensive propaganda campaign of the USA and the UK politics in connection with an agenda-setting function of the mass media by political and media agendas. The goal of the analytical part of the thesis is to find media framing in Czech daily newspapers called Mladá fronta Dnes and Lidové noviny. Quantitative and qualitative research combination is focused on the Second Gulf War changing of media coverage during the six year period started by the allied invasion to the Iraq and ending by George Bush leaving a presidency.
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