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Tinder philosophy, online dating in the 21st century
Daniliuk, Kristina ; Tremčinský, Martin (advisor) ; Grygar, Jakub (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to find out how the use of Tinder influences the process of formation and perception of romantic relationships in nowadays Prague society. By analysing users' behaviour, expectations and outcomes of using the app, I seek to understand how technological innovations affect the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, users' self-definition in the context of romance and intimacy.In the theoretical part of my thesis I look at topics such as the development of dating apps, their use and the changes they bring to modern society. The second part of the thesis is analytical. To answer the questions posed, data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The research took place in Prague from November 2023 to January 2024, and 13 interviews were conducted with Tinder users. At the end of the paper, the results of the study are summarized and linked to the information presented in the theoretical section.
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More than just an object: The development of identity and subjectivity in hyperrealistic sex dolls and robots
Duffková, Barbora ; Tremčinský, Martin (advisor) ; Balon, Jan (referee)
This thesis examines the phenomenon of hyper-realistic sex dolls and robots, perceived as modern social and emotional partners. The study focuses on how users on The Doll Forum shape and interpret the gender identity and subjectivity of these artificial companions. The main objective is to determine whether interactions between users and these entities lead to the subversion of traditional gender norms or, conversely, reinforce the heteronormative paradigm. The research employs digital ethnography methods and poststructuralist discourse analysis. Results suggest that despite some tendencies towards subversion, prevailing discourses on the TDF still strengthen conventional gender roles and norms, with a group of users attempting to challenge these norms. This work thus reveals the complex dynamics between technological advancement and social norms in the context of modern intimate and interpersonal relationships.
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Imagining Productive Labor Without Wage Labor: Discursive Analysis of Selected Non-Fiction Literature
Ježková, Karolína ; Tremčinský, Martin (advisor) ; Wirthová, Jitka (referee)
The topic of the diploma thesis is the question of creating a discourse about unskilled jobs and the people who perform them. It is examined through everyday manifestations of work ethics, which is looked for in selected non-fiction literature. The diploma thesis constructs a definition of work as a concept which needs to be approached from an economic and cultural research lens at the same time. This is then linked to the development of work in the 20th century and subsequently to post-work theory. The content of the thesis is an analysis of the antinomies of work ethics in six non-fiction books devoted to low-income and unskilled jobs. Subsequently, there is an analysis of working conditions, work narratives and social discourses on work: The diploma thesis defines specific manifestations of the theories in defined antinomies in workplaces which are addressed in the analyzed books. The definition of work as a space of politics of redistribution and politics of misrecognition is supported by conclusions based on the necessity of grasping the everydayness of work ethics as a concept that maintains the work system and its inequalities and also entails revolutionary emancipatory potential. The duality of work behavior, the necessity of connecting the politics of redistribution and recognition in...
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Cohort differences in understanding and strategies to accumulate and preserve economic capital
Janda, Matyáš ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Tremčinský, Martin (referee)
The thesis Cohort Differences in Understanding and Strategies of Economic Capital Accumulation and Preservation compares the strategies of two different generations in the context of economic capital accumulation and preservation. The theoretical part focuses on the term capital, both from a historical and a modern perspective, while describing the term from a multi-paradigm perspective, particularly from an economic and economical-sociological perspective. Furthermore, the thesis provides insights into Karl Mannheim's theory of generations. Our research has helped us to find and understand the main differences in capital accumulation and preservation strategies, such as the approach to risk or the approach to the ever-evolving financial market. The paper is also critically reviewed in the Limits of Research chapter, where we analyze what could be more effectively explored in future studies of this topic.
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Hyper-digitalization of the football environment from the point of view of the fans of the football club AC Sparta Prague
Novák, Filip ; Pergl, David (advisor) ; Tremčinský, Martin (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the influence of hyperdigitalization on the relationship between fans and AC Sparta Prague, a club participating in the highest Czech football competition. In the theoretical part of the thesis I define the concept of hyperdigitalization and the processes that come with the rapid development of digital technologies and communication tools. These include, for example, the naturalization of digital communication or the deterritorialization of the fandom. Furthermore, I discuss the methodology of my work, in which I use semi-structured in-depth interviews with Sparta fans to collect data. Among other things, the social network Twitter and the Sparta fan community operating there were used to select respondents. In the practical part, I analyse the generated data in chapters dealing with establishing a relationship with the club, consumption of digital content, traditional 'offline' fandom, the complications of digital technologies and the financial functioning of the club. The themes of the analytical chapters were developed primarily based on the categories emerging from the open coding results. Answers to the research questions and opportunities for further research are emerged in the final chapter.
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Humans, artificial intelligence and sentience
Mendelová, Michaela ; Vostal, Filip (advisor) ; Tremčinský, Martin (referee)
The thesis is based on the secondary analysis of data from the 2021 AIMS study. It is centered on the sentience, moral consideration, and social integration of artificial intelligence. My goal was to use a segmenting procedure (latent class analysis) to calculate classes or groups of respondents, based on their opinions on topics such as the inclusion of sentient AI and robots, animals, and the environment in the moral circle, granting legal rights to sentient AI, and support of the well-being of AI in the form of protection from harm or the perceived danger of AI for society. The analysis offers some results suggesting that there are 3 groups within the respondents and therefore possibly some groups in the US society. Class 1 is very contradictory, some respondents in this class are very supportive of AI, and some of them are not. Yet, overall, they tend to think that sentient technology can be dangerous. This class is generally the oldest and least frequently informed about AI. Class 2 is generally supportive of the welfare of AI, but these respondents prefer passive support. These respondents do not think that sentient AI can be dangerous for them, but they think that it can be dangerous to future people. This class is generally the youngest. Class 3 are respondents who had the biggest chance to...
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Parody of money: Techno-social imaginaries of Bitcoin and their contradictions
Tremčinský, Martin ; Grygar, Jakub (advisor) ; de Faria, Inês Domingues Figueira (referee) ; Faustino, Sandra (referee)
The dissertation thesis analyzes Bitcoin as a socio-technical phenomenon by focusing on its prevalent socio-technical imaginaries and exploring these imaginaries into their contradictory consequences. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Czech and Slovak Bitcoin communities and following Lana Swartz's and Nigel Dodd's respective theories of Bitcoin, four imaginaries are identified: commodity, relation, ideology and money. Each of these imaginaries is explored in its own chapter. Bitcoin approached as a commodity explores the process of Bitcoin mining through the lens of the Marxist labour theory of value combined with Negri's theory of the socialized worker. The chapter explores how Bitcoin mining reproduces class antagonisms between miners and investors while also creating a new mode of production based on control via labour. The second chapter focuses on Bitcoin as a relation via the theories of kinship and knowledge developed by Marilyn Strathern. The chapter explores particular analogies of Bitcoin and kinship and how these analogies serve to develop relationless persons and personless relations. The following chapter analyzes Bitcoin as an ideology while utilizing theories of immaterial labour developed by Italian autonomists. It focuses on symbolic labour carried out in order to...
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