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Analysis of university pages on Facebook
Salnikov, Alexey ; Chudán, David (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Antonín (referee)
This bachelor thesis is made up from four parts. The first part describes the current state of the internet population of Czech Republic: the number of Internet users in different age categories, their education, what part of the Internet population is occupied by Facebook users. The main purpose of the second part is to show what social networking services are the most popular for Czech population. In the third part, there is a detailed instruction on two tools - Netvizz and Gephi, which are used to analyze facebook pages, groups, events and places. The last part is a practical part, it is focused on the identification of official state university pages on Facebook and the subsequent analysis of these pages by using the tools that were defined in the third part of the thesis.
Divnolidi z Brna a okolí: Construction of otherness on Facebook social network site
Matesová, Kateřina ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Hladík, Radim (referee)
This thesis aims to describe and analyze the process of construction of otherness, use of humour and taste performance on Facebook page Divnolidi z Brna a okolí. Theoretical background explores contemporary approaches to the research of social network sites (particulary on privacy and sharing; a separate chapter is devoted to Facebook social network site), sociological term of taste as the instrument for social distinction (here, the study is primarily based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu), interdisciplinary concept of otherness (in which we examine works of Mary Douglas, Stuart Hall and Marc Augé) as well as theoretical approach to humour called theory of superiority. We conducted a quantitative description of Divnolidi z Brna a okolí page and a qualitative analysis (a method often called "data-crawling") of 47 page posts. Analytical section of this study focuses on answering following questions: What types of posts can be found on the site? How are individuals captured in these posts perceived? How do the users perceive taste / otherness of the captured individuals? Where were these "weird people" (in Czech language "divnolidi") spotted and how do the users perceive these places? Furthermore, we analyze the use of humour by the page users and the way they react to the site's policy and other...

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