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User-generated content and its use in news media
Šesták, Martin ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to explore the increasing activity of internet users who intensively create, publish and spread their own content. The majority of this content is related to news and traditional forms of mass media organizations, which now must contend with the new means in which to disseminate information. The theoretical portion of this thesis describes the development of network media and strives for ground active user participation in media discourse and a historical context. Kinds of user-created contents will be introduced, defining their characteristics and analyzes these users who are called "prosumers" or "produsers" in the Web 2.0 era. Attention is also focused on user-generated content accessed by news websites and citizen journalism. The second part analyzes how the foremost world news media use and benefit from user-generated content. Examined media are iReport CNN, uReport Fox News and Have Your Say BBC. The text also analyzes the Czech news media, especially ČT24 news channel and main Czech news websites. The thesis closes with a comparison between Czech and world media and offers analysis of different media organizations approaches to user-generated content. Both parts of the thesis focus on web and television news service.
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Citizen photojournalism and videojournalism on Czech news websites
Vilímová, Tereza ; Hanzal, Jaromír (advisor) ; Vochocová, Lenka (referee)
The master's thesis deals with the citizen photojournalism and the citizen videojournalism in the Czech media landscape. It focuses on the frequency of the amateur photographs and videos published on the selected news web sites and also on the gatekeeping process. This master's thesis also reflects the editor's opinions on the citizen photojournalism and the citizen videojournalism. The citizen journalism is usually viewed from the perspective of the citizen journalists, but this master's thesis brings the view from the second side, from the media professionals. The thesis uses the combination of the quantitative and qualitative methods. Firstly, there was conducted the quantitative content analysis. Secondly, there were interviewed the media professionals. The conclusions of the master's thesis indicate that the citizen photojournalism and the citizen videojournalism is rarely used on the Czech web sites. The media professionals evaluate this phenomenon positively, find its contributions to the news flow but only under the certain conditions. On the other hand, they do not find the citizen photojournalism and videojournalism absolutely necessary element for the news service.
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Use of Citizen Journalism in non-government non-profit organizations
Kolková, Zuzana ; Šubrta, Václav (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Antonín (referee)
This thesis deals with a possibility of connecting citizen journalism with non-governmental non-profit organizations due to lack of public knowledge of these organizations. Firth part of the thesis explains basic terms that are fundamental for this thesis. Here is explained what is citizen journalism, its origin and connection to online journalism. The term non-governmental non-profit organization (NGO) is also clarified. Then author defines basic issues of getting NGOs into classic media and points out causes of failure, resulting in low public interest in this matter. Second part of this thesis shows how this issue is dealt with in the world and developing countries by using CJ and in the Czech republic. The thesis also mentions technologies used in advanced countries to help NGOs better exploit citizen journalism. In the last part of this thesis are outlined general recommendations concerning the possibility of using citizen journalism and suggests specific solution for a non-governmental non-profit organization.
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