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Context of agenda-setting in the context of Czech media studies
Nečas, Vlastimil ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Just, Petr (referee) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
This dissertation thesis follows from a wide stream of considerations of the relationship between the mass media, public and politics; in particular detail, it deals with a specific concept which attempts to grasp, model and empirically examine this relationship. The main goals of the thesis can be in short divided into two interrelated areas. The first aim is to introduce the concept of agenda setting to the Czech academic environment, with its theoretical, terminological and research frame for an analysis of relationships between the mass media content, dynamics of public opinion, and the political sphere. The second aim is to analyze how agenda setting processes are theoretically grounded and studied in the Czech social studies. The theoretical part of the thesis is structured according to two perspectives: diachronic and synchronic. In the diachronic perspective, I try to grasp the social context and historical origins of agenda-setting as a concept, its development, main trends, and developmental lines. This way, I move forward to the synchronic perspective and describe academic grounding of agenda-setting; I give a detailed analysis of the present level of the agenda-setting research and the main research areas through available classifications. The second fundamental area of the dissertation consists...
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Representation of the environment in Russian and Czech press. Content analysis of selected Czech and Russian weekly between 2007-2011
Anufrieva, Nelli ; Novák, Arnošt (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
"Representation of the environment in Russian and Czech press" This diploma thesis deals with the representation of the environment in the Russian and Czech press. For my research I chose two news weekly papers: Respekt and Argumenty a fakta issued between the years 2007-2011. Quantitative content analysis and qualitative frame analysis were used for data processing. The theoretical part describes the development of the media, their influence on society, mechanism of news construction (agenda setting, news values, objectivity, bias, access to news, work with sources), the development and state of the Czech and Russian media, concepts of nature and the development of environmental reporting. In the practical part I found out how the environment and nature are viewed and interpreted by these printed media in the content of their messages. Key words: environment; nature; media; representation; agenda-setting; content analysis; frame analysis; framing; weekly magazíne; Respekt; Argumenty a fakta
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Media representation of civil society organizations
Hartová, Tereza ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Trampota, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis introduces media representations of civil society organizations (CSOs) through quantitative content analysis of four dailies (HN, LN, MFD and Právo). The aim is to analyze and describe CSOs media representations in relation to media elements that characterize these representations, as well as through space and priority, organizations and actors that are associated with. The selected method allows the comparison of media representations for particular newspapers. The study builds on a social-constructivist paradigm, focusing on the agenda-setting theory, gatekeeping and news values. Thesis also discusses specifics of the CSOs and non-profit logic in relation to media and journalistic logic and their influence on the final CSOs media representations, including potential nonprofit dilemmas. The media representations are strongly determined by regionality and relationship with other sectors. CSOs are presented through positive and uncontroversial theme of good deeds. Regionality is together with social themes the most frequent topics associated with CSOs.
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Construction of Media Reality during Mirek Topolánek's Resignation Period
Renovica, Vera ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
The thesis Construction of Media Reality during Mirek Topolánek's Resignation Period analyses a total of 294 instances of media output published or broadcast between 20th March and 1st April 2010 and dealing with Mirek Topolanek's resignation from his positions within the ODS in the context of his statements for LUI Magazine. The interview dealt with the Jewish faith, homosexual orientation or the voters of the ČSSD. The theoretical part of the thesis elucidates themes related to the construction of reality as described by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, media routines, which can contribute to this phenomenon, and the creation of myth according to Roland Barthes. The research part of the thesis uses the propositions of Critical Discourse Analysis with an emphasis on Critical Linguistics, to isolate discourses, which were used to establish a connection between Topolánek's statements for LUI Magazine and his exit from the ODS and politics in general. A partial analysis also notices how the linguistic tools of tabloid and non-tabloid media were brought closer together. Finally, the Semiotic Analysis focuses on the caricatures of Mirek Topolánek and identifies myths which served as a basis for perceiving his image and the possibility of his further political career.
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The Protest Paradigm: Framing of Black Lives Matter movement and Agenda-setting in Czech Media
Vogl, Marek ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Končelík, Jakub (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the framing of the Black Lives Matter movement and related protests in the Czech news media. The aim of this work is to reveal the way in which the Czech media informed about the Black Lives Matter movement with the help of quantitative content framing analysis. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the theory of social and media construction of reality by Berger and Luckmann, which plays the role of an overarching theory. It also deals with the agenda-setting theory, which it expands with the concept of framing. The agenda-setting theory describes the ability of the mass media to influence the significance of topics in the eyes of the public. The theoretical part also describes a brief history of the Black Lives Matter movement and the events that led to its emergence. Furthermore, the relationship of the mass media to racism is introduced and the concept of the protest paradigm is introduced. The work then describes the previous findings of the protest paradigm, which are then used in the analytical part. The methodological part then presents the research goal, questions and hypotheses, defines the sample set and the research method used, including the characteristics of individual variables. The analytical part of the thesis presents the results of the...
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The (un) success of the change in the organizational and legal form of Czech hospitals
Angelovská, Olga ; Potůček, Martin (advisor) ; Dlouhý, Martin (referee) ; Hnilicová, Helena (referee)
In the last thirty years, since the transformation period, several attempts have been made to change Czech hospitals' organizational, legal form. The thesis targets two such efforts after 2000. Only one was successful both in the agenda-setting and decision-making process and led to the enactment of a new organizational form. The main aim of the thesis is to identify contextual factors of success or failure of efforts to change the organizational and legal form of hospitals. The thesis is based on the Multiple Stream Framework to explain how different streams (policy, politics and problem stream) couple and open a policy window that allows a policy change. It works with the modified framework, which broadens the concept by including agenda-setting and decision-making and offers two coupling processes. Comparing two cases of the policy process led to the identification of the factors causing closing the window before the agenda was set.
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The issue of antisemitism in selected Czech media
Pražák, Kryštof ; Miessler, Jan (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the analysis of the topic of antisemitism in articles published between 2019 and 2020 on five chosen Czech news websites iDNES.cz, Aktuálně.cz, Seznam Zprávy, iROZHLAS.cz and ČT24. The aim of the thesis is to describe media imagine of the topic of antisemitism and how the selected media inform about antisemitism, by using quantitative and qualitative analysis. Theoretical part of the thesis is mainly focused on the definiton of the concepts, well known from the media and communication studies such as agenda-setting, framing, gatekeeping, news values or the history of propaganda. This part of the thesis also focuses on the topic of antisemitism itself, it's history, definition and modern usage of this term. Methodological part is mainly focused on brief description of the five chosen news websites, their history and ownership structure, followed by defining the selected methods of analysis that are used in this bachelor thesis. The result of the analysis was that both public service media and private media reflected the topic of antisemitism most often in the form of a news article. Foreign events predominate in all monitored media and surprisingly, no significant differences were found between public and private media in the types of sources they used.
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Media image of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championship in Liberec: the analysis of the regional newspaper "Liberecký deník"
Tajčmanová, Anna ; Trampota, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
The aim of the bachelor essay "Media image of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championship in Liberec; the analysis of the regional newspaper "Liberecký deník", is to uncover the WSC 2009 image created by the journal. The primary examined question is whether the journal represents holding the WSC 2009 as beneficial to Liberec and the region. There has been analysed all the articles publicated during the key time periods in the WSC 2009 preparation that dealt with the WSC 2009 theme, events and people connected to this subject. Attention has been given especially to the space the journal provided to this subject, its development in time, also the articles' location, representation of the individual themes, and participants and the order of their importance, and furthermore the rating appearing in the articles. Also the information on the actors' privacy has been watched, whether the journal popularized the theme or not. In the first part of the essay are defined the media conceptions connected to the studied subject - the construction of the social reality, agenda setting, gatekeeping, and the news values.
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