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Reception and rating of Czech video games in gaming magazine Level
Pepř, Tadeáš ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kasík, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis is devoted to the reception of video games developed by studios residing in the Czech republic through reviews published in the video game magazine Level since the foundation of the magazine in the 1995. Theoretical part describes basic contexts of the development of gaming journalism with the emphasis on the Czech scene, briefly explains the foundation and the history of Level and provides complete list of all reviews of Czech video games in up to now published issues. Research part examines the aspects of 10 picked individual texts, emphasizing the changes during years. Thesis aims to find out how and to what extent can reception of individual games be influenced by the fact, that they were developed in the Czech Republic, and how these aspects of reception change from the 1995 to these days. Choice of examined texts reflects the intention to study changes over the time and individual reviews are divided by approximately stable intervals.
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Vaccine hesitancy: The journalistic ethics of reporting on the benefits and risks of vaccination
Mareš, Vít ; Kasík, Pavel (advisor) ; Moravec, Václav (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Vaccine hesitancy: The journalistic ethics of reporting on the benefits and risks of vaccination" examines how journalists perceive their role in reporting on health issues, with particular regard to vaccine hesitancy. The latter became a significant social issue during the COVID-19 pandemic. The theoretical part of the thesis discusses vaccine hesitancy itself, its possible causes, and the influence that news media and the journalists can have on it. The practical part is based on quantitative research using a questionnaire survey among journalists from selected Czech online media. It seeks to identify journalists specialising in health care, and to look for how their perspectives and practices differ from those of journalists in other specializations. Due to the small research sample, the research does not provide representative results, but with the help of open-ended questions it provides insight into certain areas of journalistic work related to vaccine and vaccination reporting.
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Evoluční algoritmy pro strukturální učení neuronových sítí
Kasík, Pavel ; Neruda, Roman (advisor) ; Kudová, Petra (referee)
Designing neural networks topologies is s complicated problem when we consider general network structures. Evolutionary algorithm can provide us with interesting solutions of this problem. This work introduces an evolutionary algorithm for evolving neural networks. One of the possible algorithms for evolving neural networks is the NEAT algorithm. The goal of this work is to modify and enhance abilities of the NEAT algorithm. Improvements are focused on utilizing position of a neuron in network, improving crossover procedure and introducing solution of algorithm parallelization that preserve abilities of both NEAT and the new algorithm.
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Comparing the shift in work-life balance of editors working for online and printed media
Tomková, Klára ; Kasík, Pavel (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
Digital technologies have radically changed the whole media environment. Essential changes may be seen mainly in the evolution and development of the internet as well as in web services, that are based on the internet working and thanks to which the online journalism has formed. The online journalism has its specifics that differentiate this kind of journalistic work from the work of journalists in print media. Cardinal difference between print and online journalism, that is important for this thesis, is the fact that online journalism, in contrast with the print, is a journalism in real time. This concrete specific allows to public news in very short time intervals and what is more, they can be processed almost continuously. And that is a fundamental difference from publishing news in print media, whose polygraphic processing slows down its reaction time. It is also a reason, why I have decided to focus on a comparison of online journalists` and print media journalists` time structuring mainly with the emphasis on the overlap of their working time to their free time. This element will be researched both in ordinary mode and during extraordinary events, that are reflected much faster in online journalism than in the print
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Data journalism aimed by Datablog IHNED.cz
Hrbková, Nikola ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Kasík, Pavel (referee)
Now when information is abundant, practice of Data Journalism is quickly becoming a core technique of the 21st century newsrooms. The diploma thesis "Data Journalism aimed by Datablog IHNED.cz" is focused on introducing Data Journalism as a genre responding to the changes in the society and the technology development. The theoretical part concerns with the history of the subject, the workflow of Data Journalism in the newsrooms and the limitations; such as inappropriate business models, difficult process of collecting data or the lack of training. The main goal of the research is to map the work of the Czech data team in the IHNED.cz and compare the results with the work of teams in Australia. The research methods are combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses. The main source of information are interviews conducted with data journalists from the Czech Republic and Australia. On top of that the research gives deeper understanding of how the integration of data journalists in the newsrooms affect the way journalism can support the existence of media organizations and contribute to the public good. The last part offers predictions of the future of Data Journalism.
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Science and the media
Kasík, Pavel ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
Science as the enterprise engaged in the knowledge-acquiring of reality has gone through a long and complex historical development. As new technologies came to rise, too did the social importance of science in various areas; it often serves as the explanatory frameworkofunderstanding the reality itself. This master's thesis explores the often complicated relationship between scientific discourse and the mass media. This means examining various historical connections and similarities, such as the common relation to the industrial revolution, and also demonstrating important disparities between science and media in relation to knowledge management, perception of authority figures and methods of reality representations. Firstly, this thesis investigates the possibility of employing various methods of media and communication studies to betterunderstand the representation of science in the media (including news values, routines, framing, agenda settingetc.) and summarizes the state of science communicationin general as well as in the Czech Republic. In the second part, the representation of science is researched through quantitative analysis of selected Czech mass media (print: MF DNES and Právo, on-line: iDNES.cz and Novinky.cz) with emphasis on the framing, the work with sources, framing and referring...
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Who are the producers and consumers of media content published on the Twitch platform
Kopecký, Martin ; Kasík, Pavel (advisor) ; Lokšík, Martin (referee)
Due to the rise of technological convergence, the production of media content is currently available to anyone with befitting means. The situation is no different in the area of streaming and video games. This diploma thesis is focusing on producers and consumers of media content streamed on the video platform Twitch. This platform enables their users, if they dispose of quality internet and sufficient hardware, to produce real time streamed media content on nearly professional level. Hundreds of millions of viewers are watching Twitch monthly and this thesis is trying to introduce the very streamers of media content on this platform, their success and failure, while monitoring their viewership.
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Psychologists in the media and their perception by audience
Schubertová, Karolína ; Kasík, Pavel (advisor) ; Vranka, Marek (referee)
aj The bachelor theses named Psychologists in the media and their perception by audience describes the popularity of the field of psychology, the publication of online and printed articles with psychological topics, commentaries of psychologists, and the audience's perceptions of these topics. Further, it describes how the reporting of psychological topics should appear to minimize the biases or report fictional information. The thesis also deals with the ways of presenting psychology, its popularization, and related pitfalls. The theoretical part introduces the scientific background of psychology, the research methods that psychology uses, possible reasons for the appearance of psychology in the media, and the complicated relationship of psychologists and journalists because those two groups have often totally different values and goals. Next, it describes the different parts that psychologists play in the media self-presentation, the presentation of their field, and the pitfalls of psychological popularization. The practical part presents the content analysis of online and printed articles on psychological topics and comments of psychologists on these topics as quoted by the journalists. Next, the practical part explores the perception of the articles with psychological topics. Using a behavioral...
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Blogs entering Czech media
Kasík, Pavel ; Šmíd, Milan (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Blogs entering Czech media" summarizes contemporary views on blogs and offers four original researches of Czech blogs. Quantitative analysis maps the newspaper and on-line articles mentioning blogs in 2002 - 2007. Thorough surveys then address issues of impact of blogs on the readers, study the readers' relation to blogs in time and compare the perception of blogs in context of other types of media.
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Fake News: Methods of assessing and verifying news by their recipients
Čajanková, Kateřina ; Kasík, Pavel (advisor) ; Poljakov, Nikita (referee)
The diploma thesis "Fake News: Methods of assessing and verifying fake news by their recipients" is focused on the ways of evaluating media content by their recipients and the factors that affect the assessment process in the context of fake news phenomenon. The purpose of the thesis is to find out how people perceive the content they read; what affects their perception; and what are the criteria that govern their assessment. The theoretical part first defines the concept of fake (false) news, among other things in connection with the overuse of the term fake news. In the next chapters, the current role of the media and the issue of credibility and trust in the media are approached. The conclusion of the theoretical part discusses the social and psychological assumptions that affect the perception and actions of recipients. The second part presents the research background of this thesis. The research is based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative inquiry. The qualitative approach is focused on the description of the processes and criteria used by the recipients in assessing and verifying the news. Data collection is therefore realized through eight semi-structured interviews, which are analysed by the open coding method. The quantitative research part is based on hypotheses about the...
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