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The Trump Metaphors: Comedy News Portrayal of Donald Trump During the 2016 US Presidential Election
Králová, Petra ; Císař, Ondřej (advisor) ; Blokker, Paulus Albertus (referee)
This master's thesis deals with the implications of metaphorical language, which comedy news programs used to portray Donald Trump as a candidate during the 2016 US presidential election. First, the author outlines the most important moments of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, then introduces the comedy news genre as well as three comedy news programs - The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight and Real Time - which are included in the analytical part of the thesis. The thesis continues with the theoretical and methodological chapters, in which conceptual metaphor analysis based on the works of Lakoff, Johnson and Yanow is presented. The metaphor analysis itself, performed on 73 comedy news episodes, reveals that mostly the same metaphors were used across all three programs and they overwhelmingly portray Donald Trump as non-human. As the election kept approaching, Donald Trump was increasingly portrayed as "a natural disaster," "the apocalypse" or "the Devil." The author suggests that the overall tacit objective of the metaphors used in the three comedy news programs was to dehumanize Donald Trump. Finally, the limitations of the analysis are discussed and suggestions for further research on the implications of metaphorical language are made.
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First Year of Donald Trump's Foreign Policy towards DPRK
Opatrný, Václav ; Calda, Miloš (advisor) ; Hornát, Jan (referee)
This Bachelor thesis analyses the main aspects of American foreign policy of Donald Trump's administrative in his first year towards Democratic People's Republic of Korea in context of North Korean nuclear and rocket program. During the year 2017, North Korean regime reached pivotal milestones in nuclear and rocket technologies, which laid the foundations of building large-scale arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. This technological progress meant major threat not only for East Asian allies (South Korea and Japan) but even for United States mainland. The policy of previous American administrations did not succeed with solving the North Korean nuclear threat. North Korea proved the capability of circumventing international sanctions and systematically violate agreements. As a result, Donald Trump turned American foreign policy to harder line and primarily used huge American economic and military potential for the enforcement and achievement of his political goals.
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US-Russia Relations and the Mass Media: The Representation of Vladimir Putin in the American Media
Alikina, Valeriia ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
Russian-American Relations and the Mass Media Securitization of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in the American Press by Valeriia Alikina This thesis is focused on two issues relevant to Security Studies and Political Science: relations between the Russian Federation and the United States of America, which are currently experiencing yet another decline, and problematics of political journalism. It reviews the process of securitization of Russia through speech acts in the mass media of its historical opponent, the United States. First, the thesis provides a theoretical framework, securitization theory, introducing its main principles. To prove that the process of securitization indeed occurs, the method of discourse analysis is employed. The third chapter provides background information on the relations between the Soviet Union/Russia and the United States since the end of the World War II; this information is completed by the role mass media had in their affairs. The next chapter frames the issue of propaganda, elaborating on the meaning behind this concept, the "fake news" narrative, and the idealistic idea of media objectivity. In the fifth chapter, the case study, two processes of securitization are reviewed. The first one is the American mainstream media, namely The New York Times and The...
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Visual presentation of american presidential elections 2016 in Czech online media
Janoušková, Martina ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Topinková, Martina (referee)
The thesis Visual presentation of american presidential elections 2016 in Czech online media focuses on visual presentations of Americal presidential elections in various Czech online media. The first part of the thesis introduces the basic principles of political communication, trends in political marketing and the development of the use of photographs in election campaigns. The following part of the thesis describes the characteristics of online news services with focus on processing accompanying photographs. At the end of the theoretical part, two representatives of online media iDNES.cz and Blesk.cz are shortly characterized. The applied part uses the quantitatively- qualitative content analysis accompanied by in-depth interviews with representatives of Czech media to narrowly research into photographic materials with the topic of Americal presidential elections 2016 used by the news servers. The gathered data are not only compared between the servers but also before and after the revelation of the election results. At the end of the analysis, the overall photographic coverage of the American presidential elections 2016 is compared between the news services.
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Trump for President. Analysis of the media image of Donald Trump in the ČTK news
Morys, Lukáš ; Trunečková, Ludmila (advisor) ; Šmíd, Milan (referee)
This thesis titled "Trump for President. Analysis of the media image of Donald Trump in the CTK news" deals with the portrayal of Donald Trump. This thesis focuses on Trump related news release from March 18, 2015 to January 20, 2017. In March 2015, Mr Trump announced his intention to run for presidency of the United States through the Republican Party and would be taking part in the primaries. He officially became president in January 2017. The aim of the thesis, which is based on quantitative research using content analysis, is to find out how the role of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America was reflected in CTK news. The paper aims to clarify whether the media`s interest in Donald Trump had been steadily rising over the period under review in CTK and which of the thematic categories are covered in the various stages of pre-election rivalry even after the election. An aggregate of articles was used as a data resource from CTK`s infobank. It can be concluded from the results that Trump's success also depended on the fact that he was able to highlight his personality and set criterias relating to his ideologies and political experience through the help of the media.
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Social Media and their Influence on Democratic Elections
Khyzhniak, Veronika ; Žouželková Bartošová, Marie (referee) ; Froehling, Kenneth (advisor)
Technologický pokrok výrazně zlepšil způsob, jakým mohou lidé na celém světě komunikovat. Sociální sítě velmi usnadňují živou komunikaci nejen pro obyčejné lidi, ale také pro zástupce legislativní moci. Prostřednictvím sociálních médií mohou politici propagovat svou politickou kampaň a svou stranu a díky tomu rychle a ekonomicky získat podporu. Americká prezidentská volba v roce 2016 zdůraznila důležitost komunikace sociálních médií v demokratických volbách po celém světě. Cílem bakalářské práce je prozkoumat různé formy sociálních médií a vyzdvihnout jejich vliv na demokratické volby. Projekt se zabývá vlivem Twitteru a Facebooku na volby v USA v roce 2016 a popisuje způsob, jakým je kandidáti používali během prezidentského klání. Klíčová
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Integration of Hispanic Americans in the USA
Žáčková, Lucie ; Doležal, Tomáš (advisor) ; Němec, Jan (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to evaluate the integration of Hispanic Americans into the integration dimensions as economics, cultural and political and to describe the barriers that inhibit integration into society. Part of the thesis is an evaluation of the political participation of Hispanic Americans in the US during the election period in 2016.
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Foreign policy statements of American presidential candidates
Malická, Kateřina ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Eichler, Jan (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to analyze the extent in which candidates discussed foreign policy during the presidential campaign in 2016 and their positions to certain foreign policy issues. The primary research questions are: In what extent did the candidates discuss foreign policy issues on their official websites? On which foreign policy issues did the candidates agree and disagree on? What was the consistency of their opinions throughout the campaign? The content of this thesis is created mostly by using a content analysis and the method used in the last chapter is a comparison of different objects under the same conditions. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter presents the traditions and basic features of American foreign policy and explains the role of its main actors. The second chapter explains specific features of the American election system and describes the election process and the results and analyzes the time devoted to foreign policy during presidential debates. The third part examines the space that the candidates devoted to foreign policy issues on their official websites. The last part analyzes and compares particular stances of the candidates on selected foreign policy issues.
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An Analysis of Candidate Branding in 2016 Presidential Campaingn in the USA
Marxtová, Kateřina ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Vranka, Marek (referee)
American political campaigns, as well as the political marketing tools used in their course, are used as a benchmark for campaigns here in Europe. The reason for that is their complexity and their usage of various touch points when communicating with the electorate, while at the same time maintaining a unified message. In Autumn 2016, the presidential election will take place in the USA - these specific elections will then be a subject of this thesis. The aim of this thesis is to analyze presidential candidates and their communication during their final run for office from the perspective of candidate branding. The other phenomenon to be taken into account will be the celebrification of politicians. This paper should offer a detailed perspective on the brands of both of the candidates and their evolution throughout the campaign. The thesis will focus on the period from the end of the primaries to the day of the election on 8th November 2016.
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Primary Elections in USA in 2016
Kočanová, Karolína ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Vaníčková, Anna (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on presidential primary election in USA in 2016. Aim of this thesis is to find out, how candidates of Democratic party and Republican party were doing in early primaries and analyze their progress. This thesis is dealing with history of nomination process and delegates election methods on party conventions, where a candidate for president is selected. Thesis also deals with comparison of candidates programs in individual parties. In last part candidate results of both parties in early primaries are evaluated. Furthermore, progress of primaries after Super Tuesday till 26th April is summarized.
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