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War Photojournalism and Violence in Worldwide Photojournalism Contests
 Patzner, Dominik ; Lábová, Sandra (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
This master's thesis researches how often and how worldwide photojournalism competitions award photographs that capture phenomena such as war conflicts, violence, and their consequences. The basis of this research is a hypothesis that shots capturing described phenomena dominate some of the contest categories. The theoretical part contains fundamental information related to the topic of the research - negativity as a news value and the concept of war frame in the journalism field. Peace journalism and solutions journalism have developed to answer to the high rate of negative content in the news, as they do not focus on the negative aspects of events, which presents a different approach to journalistic work. The relation between those two approaches and photojournalism is described in more detail, so is a brief overview of worldwide contests and their influence on the photojournalism field. The research part of the thesis combines content analysis with semiotic analysis and delves into the frequency of awarding described photographs and the content of the photographs, as well as the development in awarding such pictures in time. The research also includes the analysis of several photographs that can be considered a part of peace or solutions journalism. The semiotic analysis then explores such pictures in...
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Tropes and successful photographic strategies on Instagram
 Patzner, Dominik ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Géla, František (referee)
This thesis, Tropes and Successful Photographic Strategies on Instagram, combines theoretical part with content analysis. Its aim is to confirm the proof of repetitive contents - tropes - throughout different Instagram accounts of selected photojournalists and an interpretation of the analysis outcome as photographic strategies, of which tropes are a part of. First chapter describes how the photojournalistic field changed under the emerge of social networks which brought new possibilities to working with images. Furthermore, it defines the Instagram environment and its contemporary functions, with reflection of the impact social networks had on the visual of photographs shared on those networks. Such tendency is called as instagramism. Next chapter deals with the topic of iconic photography and its current state which provides basis for the trope theory that is fundamental for the thesis because the research part is based on that theory. Methodology I chose for this research is content quantitative analysis inspired by the work of Marta Zarzcyka and Martijn Keppe. The main research question is if it is possible, that some tropes are frequent due to being a part of certain photographic strategy. The analysis focuses on the frequency of tropes in selected sample of images and results answer main...
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