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The Russian invasion of Ukraine through the eyes of selected media outlets and theirs accounts on social media platforms
Helclová, Anna ; Géla, František (advisor) ; Lokšík, Martin (referee)
The central theme of the thesis is the coverage of the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, the liberation of the city of Buch and the first foreign trip of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by BBC News, CNN and CT24 and their social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram. The theoretical part of the thesis introduces the concepts of war and peace journalism, the transformation of social networks into a new source of information and the related information overload and the role of social networks in its formation. It also explains the circumstances of selected events for further analysis in the practical part of the thesis. In the research part, codes are defined according to which the posts of the selected media outlets are subsequently analyzed in the specified time windows on Instagram and Facebook. The posts are examined both with respect to their graphical form and their content. For video posts, the origin of the video is distinguished, as well as its content and its' most prominent features. Emphasis is placed on posts with drastic content and each media outlet's approach to such material. The analysis also takes into account the frequency of posts published by each media in selected time windows. The paper concludes with the results of the analysis of the posts and their interpretation.

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