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Involuntary celibacy in a natural habitat: incel forums, identity and race
Báča, Václav ; Collins, Jonathan (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
Primarily active in online spaces, involuntary celibates (incels) are mostly male individuals who experience frustration through their perceived inability to establish romantic or sexual relationship. In recent years incels received increased public attention because of acts of mass violence, perpetrated by self-identified incels. The thesis uses Robert Kozinet's methodology of online netnography to examine the intersection of involuntary celibate identity and race. Utilising Van Veelen's Integrative Model of Social Identification, the project focuses on the construction of incel identity among the largest incel forum - incels.is. Providing an inductive analysis of the race-related content collected directly from the forum, based in the principles of Charmanaz's Constructivist Grounded Theory, the study investigates the construction of incel identities, uncovering the nuances behind both individual and collective incel experiences. Concluding the findings of the analysis, the thesis contends that race is the central feature through and around which incel identity is constructed among non-white incels. Simultaneously, it argues that for different subgroups of incels, the central feature differs, largely depending on individual context and background. Furthermore, the thesis puts forward the concept...
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Mobile Application for Searching for Interesting Events and Destinations in Brno
Misař, Ondřej ; Hrubý, Martin (referee) ; Dyk, Tomáš (advisor)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to create a mobile application that allows user to use a chatbot to search for interesting places and events in Brno. The application is developed on Android operating system using Kotlin language. It offers the user the possibility of communicating with the chatbot using hint buttons. It is implemented using the Rasa framework. The application offers the possibility to browse all events or places and view their detailed information. The user also has the possibility to view all items on the map. The data is stored on the server in a database where it is managed by the backend. It takes care of storing, processing and filtering the data. It is placed on the server together with the chatbot.
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"MAKE THEM PAY YOU WHAT THEY WOULD PAY A WHITE MAN": intersectional feminist analysis of the book The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Smolíková, Eva ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
In this diploma thesis I analyze the book The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo from intersectional feminist point of view. The author of this book is Taylor Jenkins Reid, 1st edition came out in 2017 and became popular thanks to not only social media. In the first part of my thesis I focus on overview of theory and methodology, which I work with later, such as intersectionality, gender, race, sexuality. In this context I am interested in theorizing the concepts of male gaze, female gaze and toxic and healthy masculinity. I also focus on literature and feminism and the portrayal of femininity in literature. In the analytical part of my diploma thesis, I analyze characters chronologically using the original structure of the book. My interest in analysis is in the construction of gender, race and sexuality. I focus on how the author constructs sexual and gender identity in concrete historical as well as social context and how are relationships of the main heroine constructed in this context. Key words: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, stereotypes, gender, race, sexuality, power, resistant reading
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Critical and reader response to the diversity in young adult literature
Hetešová, Anna ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Maňák, Vratislav (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the critical and reader response to sexual and racial diversity in young adult (YA) literature. First of all, It tries to define the terms YA literature, diversity and review. It describes the specifics of this literary category and its readers, together with a description of the dystopia and fantasy genres. It also focuses on the diverse representation of race and sexuality in adolescent literature. Subsequently, it analyzes the diversity of the books Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Six Crows by Leigh Bardugh, including their Czech and foreign media coverage. The publications are first described in terms of plot, then the characters and their environment are examined from the point of diversity, and finally reader and critical comments on the topic of representation of selected diversities are taken into account. In this thesis the Czech media scene is represented by the readers website databazeknih.cz, the literary magazines Pevnost and XB-1, as well as the website iDNES.cz. The reader website Goodreads and the literary sections of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and KIRKUS magazines represent the foreign reviews. Last but not least, the media coverage of the given books is compared. The aim of the thesis is to find out how significant is the response...
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