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Analysis of factors affecting communication in the ambient of new media: Case study of YouTube Beauty community
Pokorná, Tereza ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
This diploma thesis discusses the process of communication in new media environment and demonstrates it on the example of YouTube Beauty community which can be seen as an autonomous, independent space for expression and sharing of information. It introduces the specifics of communication in the environment of Beauty community and its characteristics. It discusses some theoretic concepts connected with communication in the environment of new media and also with the Beauty community, for example Web 2.0, citizen journalism, prosumption or the concept of internet as a new space of public discussion. It also discusses concept of political economy about how external especially commercial factors influence communication process and content of traditional media and connects it with influences of external commercial factors on communication in Beauty community. In qualitative research are explored factors that impact communication in this environment and also potential impact of external commercial factors on communications and its contents.
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Use of social networks in the Middle East focusing on the territory of Palestine
Drastilová, Lutfia ; Šisler, Vít (advisor) ; Šlerka, Josef (referee)
(anglicky) Thesis focuses on the topic of usage of on-line social networks in the Middle East focusing on the territory of Palestine. Work consists of several theoretical parts. The first chapter deals with the definition of the region Middle East. In the next chapter is described a new media including social media. Then followed chapter about usage of on-line social networks in the region of Middle East. Next chapter deals about on-line social networks in Palestine territories. The final chapter assesses the whole problematic. [Author's abstract].
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Critical reflection of projects and platform Ushahidi
Růžičková, Silvie ; Souček, Martin (advisor) ; Valůch, Jaroslav (referee)
This presented work deals with crowdsourcing tools for mapping and filtering of data that are created by the Ushahidi, Inc. and ways of their use. Ushahidi and SwiftRiver platforms and hosted version of Ushahidi called Crowdmap are counted among the tools for crisis mapping; however, more and more they are also used for other topics or issues. The aim of this work is to subject to a critical point of view not only the Ushahidi platform as a tool, but also a number of significant or interesting projects in which it was used. Presented is also the recommendation, how to use Ushahidi to create a successful project and the other way round what to avoid, when you work with Ushahidi. The basic building elements of Ushahidi are crowdsourcing, citizen journalism, geospatial information, and in particular the work of volunteers. This work describes the role of these building elements in Ushahidi, and subjects to critical reflection also the problematic sides, which Ushahidi is struggling with. Following is the analysis of selected sample of Ushahidi and Crowdmap deployments, which deals with the thematic, geographical and time stratification of the maps in the sample. Some significant uses of Ushahidi with humanitarian and non-humanitarian purpose of the deployment are examined in the end.
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Citizen journalism - an alternative form of civic participation in creation of on-line media content
Ročková, Daniela ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Baslarová, Iva (referee)
The key approach of this thesis is to define closer discourse and importance of civic engagement in the media from the point of view of journalistic practice. This study examines trends of citizen journalism and community media that support active citizen participation and contribute to diversity of media content. The vision of traditional journalism disruption and enforcement of news agenda focusing on public interest became the key message of alternative media. The first two chapters concentrate on the origins of public interest involvement in the history of media discourse. They also highlight the alternative journalism characteristics, its current typology and the role of citizens supporting the concept of media democratization. They also specify the character of transformation of on-line professional journalism and its relationship to user-generated content in journalistic practices. Further four chapters determine specific demonstrations of citizen engagement in public media space and its concepts - public journalism, citizen journalism and community media. These chapters refer to characteristic of these phenonenons, they evaluate their contribution to the public life, concrete performance and practical applications abroad and in the Czech Republic. They also mention the key critical...
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Šesták, Martin ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
User-generated content and its use in digital news media Abstract This thesis deals with increasing activity of Internet users who intensively create, publish and spread their own content. Huge part of this content is related to news and interferes in the traditional field of mass media organizations, which have to put up with newly established situation. The theoretical part of text describes the development of network media and strives for ground active user participation into media discourse and historical context. Therewithal, this part introduces kinds of user-created contents, defines their characteristics and analyzes these users who are called "prosumers" or "produsers" in the Web 2.0 era. The attention is also focused on user-generated content used by news websites and citizen journalism. The second part analyzes how the foremost world news media use and benefit from user-generated content. Examined media are iReport CNN, uReport Fox News, Have Your Say BBC and France 24. The text also analyzes Czech news media, especially ČT24 news channel and main Czech news websites and offers comparison with world media. Both parts of the thesis focus on web and television news service.
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Naše adresa - a new dimension of regional news in the czech republic?
Potměšilová, Nikola ; Osvaldová, Barbora (advisor) ; Slanec, Jaroslav (referee)
"Naše adresa - a new dimension for regional news in the Czech Republic?" is the title of my thesis and it has two main parts. Naše adresa was a project of the PPF Media group with a huge vision. It was supposed to be a printed regional newsapaper linked to a hyperlocal news web. The project started on June 1, 2009 and it worked in seven regions - Olomoucko, Bílinsko, Teplicko, Ústecko, Holešovsko, Kroměřížsko and Bystřicko. Firstly, I concentrated on explaining the PPF Media structure (PPF Media being a subsidiary of the PPF financial group), mentioning also the people involved in publishing Naše adresa. Next I tried to define hyperlocal journalism - by giving its definition, significance, benefits and also disadvantages. I also assessed the contribution and danger of civil journalism because both hyperlocal journalism and civil journalism were a very important part of Naše adresa. The second part of the work is devoted to the comparison of Naše adresa (special version for Kroměřížsko) and Týdeník Kroměřížska (regional paper with a long tradition). I identified the differences, strategies and concepts of the content of both media. In the end I summarized all the information presented throughout the text and I tried to show why the Naše adresa project was unsuccessful, because after fifteen months it was...
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Citizen photojournalism - amateurs as photoreporters
Votavová, Barbora ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
The bachelor thesis Citizen Photojournalism - Amateurs as Photoreporters deals with increasing citizen participation in creating visual media content which has seen big growth over the last decade thanks to development of communications and information technology. The thesis is divided into three separate parts. The first part focuses on theoretical definition of citizen journalism and photojournalism phenomena. It shows how big impact the new technologies have on journalism amateurisation and also remarks on relationship between amateurs interfering with media and professionals. Second part of the bachelor thesis describes social networks and internet services that contributed to expansion of visual journalism by enabling photo sharing and publishing. Some examples of these include Flickr, Twitter or photography agency Demotix. Third part looks into concrete examples of amateur photos making their way into media as a full-fledged news material - for example London 2005 terrorist attacks or Arab Spring in 2011. All three parts emphasise print and electronic media.
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Ethics problems of civic journalism (definition, case studies)
Firbacherová, Pavla ; Moravec, Václav (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
The goal of the thesis is to map the citizen journalism of blogs on Czech Internet. It deals with following the codified rules for bloggers of online media Respekt.cz, Aktuálně.cz Idnes.cz, Lidovky.cz and Ihned.cz. It describes the points that are violated most frequently. It presents sample case studies of breaking the ethical codex by the author and analyses it. The definition of the ethical framework and of the citizen journalism with the development of new media and their transformation are crucial for the thesis. New media are put in the historical context, new platforms of the civil journalism used in the Czech Republic are introduced and the potential risks are pointed out. The key part of the thesis compares the codes of conduct mentioned above media. Based on interviews with the administrators, it provides the conception and the characteristics of the researched blogs. The codices are compared with the requirements for professional journalists.
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User-generated content and its use in news media
Šesták, Martin ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to explore the increasing activity of internet users who intensively create, publish and spread their own content. The majority of this content is related to news and traditional forms of mass media organizations, which now must contend with the new means in which to disseminate information. The theoretical portion of this thesis describes the development of network media and strives for ground active user participation in media discourse and a historical context. Kinds of user-created contents will be introduced, defining their characteristics and analyzes these users who are called "prosumers" or "produsers" in the Web 2.0 era. Attention is also focused on user-generated content accessed by news websites and citizen journalism. The second part analyzes how the foremost world news media use and benefit from user-generated content. Examined media are iReport CNN, uReport Fox News and Have Your Say BBC. The text also analyzes the Czech news media, especially ČT24 news channel and main Czech news websites. The thesis closes with a comparison between Czech and world media and offers analysis of different media organizations approaches to user-generated content. Both parts of the thesis focus on web and television news service.
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Use of Citizen Journalism in non-government non-profit organizations
Kolková, Zuzana ; Šubrta, Václav (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Antonín (referee)
This thesis deals with a possibility of connecting citizen journalism with non-governmental non-profit organizations due to lack of public knowledge of these organizations. Firth part of the thesis explains basic terms that are fundamental for this thesis. Here is explained what is citizen journalism, its origin and connection to online journalism. The term non-governmental non-profit organization (NGO) is also clarified. Then author defines basic issues of getting NGOs into classic media and points out causes of failure, resulting in low public interest in this matter. Second part of this thesis shows how this issue is dealt with in the world and developing countries by using CJ and in the Czech republic. The thesis also mentions technologies used in advanced countries to help NGOs better exploit citizen journalism. In the last part of this thesis are outlined general recommendations concerning the possibility of using citizen journalism and suggests specific solution for a non-governmental non-profit organization.
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