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Roudel: Ethnographic insight into the experience of the players of Dungeons and Dragons
Marešová, Tereza ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Beseda, Jan (referee)
Roudel: Ethnographic insight into the experience of the players of Dungeons and Dragons Vedoucí práce: PhDr. Marek Halbich, Ph.D. Bc. Tereza Marešová 2022 Abstract In this project, I try my hand at ethnography of the game Dungeons and Dragons through the experience of one specific group of players in a long-term game campaign which through game elements builds sociality between players. I deal with issues of binarity of everyday life and game experience through the theory of the Magic Circle, the virtual pre-cybernetic nature of this game and community and its influence on building relationships, game structure, rules and ways of interacting with them, reasons why players return to this game repeatedly and possible problematic consequences. I also look at my experience with this very ethnography- friendly game, which supports my conclusions. The research is conducted in a closed group of Czech players holding through two campaigns between 2019 and 2022, with additional interviews from other volunteers from the ranks of Czech Dungeons and Dragons players. Keywords: Dungeons and Dragons, virtual world, pre-cybernetic, Magic circle, Active Aesthetic experience, Social ties, campaign
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Refugee Music as the Concept of the Performation of Imigration
Skopec, Jan ; Beseda, Jan (advisor) ; Samek, Tomáš (referee)
Keywords music, immigration, asylum seekers in Czech republic, theatre, audience, medial mening, performance, xenofoby, globalization, postmodernism, cultural antropology, cultural and medial studies, semiotics Summary The aim of this thesis is describe and analyse a music, which cohere with refugees and the other forms of immigration in Czech republic. Concretely is about the music, which originate from Archa Theatre. This theatre is few years attending to the theme of immigration and refugees. The aim of this thesis is analyse the concept of "refugee music" created by Archa Theatre. In this music performance cooperate the asylum seekers and the czech and foreign professional artists altogether. I want to describe for what reason this music concept was created, how this artistically cooperation is proceeding, which meaning the particular musicians consider in this concept and which meaning of this music should be adress to audience. Simultaneously this music is set in the context of the complex artistic production with immigration themes of Archa Theatre. The another intention of this thesis is to show, which meanings of this music and the relative artistic production find the audience. I analyse in which way the audience is influenced with this production and also if is possible in this way to form the...
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All in One Sack: A Media Anthropology of the Roma.
Beseda, Jan ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Jakoubek, Marek (referee)
All in one sack: a media anthropology of the Roma This dissertation brings a new view to Czech media sciences on the subject of ethnic minority. The purposes of this work is to demonstrate: how the Roma perceive representations of themselves in printed media, how they are perceived, and how the image of the Roma is constructed in print media. From an anthropologist's standpoint, the topic of this research paper is being analyzed from an emic point of view, meaning from the participant's perspective. The disciplinary framework falls under the umbrella of cultural studies and media anthropology. The dissertation concerns itself mainly with the self-definition of the Roma: a Rom being someone who defines her/himself as a Rom. The work examines data taken from eleven in-person interviews with Romani participants and ten interviews with persons from the ethnic majority. The main theme of these interviews is the subject's response to nine articles sourced from Czech and Roma newspapers. Additional analysis is focused on a discourse of Roma magazines. The dissertation is crowned by analysis of observation of the life of Roma redaction. The work shows how the Romani people's perceptions of themselves stem from the everyday. The Roma feel that they have a mostly negative public image, especially in the...
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Media Activities of People with Disabilty: Anthropological view
Vejvoda, Martin ; Beseda, Jan (advisor) ; Pinc, Zdeněk (referee)
This diploma thesis in the field of media anthropology observes the reception and production of media messages from the viewpoint of people who move with the assistance of electrical or mechanical wheelchair. One of the main concepts discussed is the identity ambivalence or else the discrepancy between social and individual aspect of the disabled people's identity. Disabled people perceive themselves as fully-fledged members of society. However, they must often face the opposite attitude on the part of the majority. This is apparent also in the mass media which depict disabled people according to the members of this category in a stereotypical way. The media image of disabled people has according to them mainly two forms: on one hand, they are depicted as dependent persons; on the other hand, they are applauded for achievements they themselves see as trivial. It is possible to grasp the production of media stereotypes with respect to the concept of the journalistic field developed by Pierre Bourdieu. It features hurriedness, dependence on the market, plebiscite and in consequence symbolic violence. From this viewpoint the commercial media strive to satisfy everyone. Hence journalists select themes which occupy space where something else should be told. The disabled people's organizations are aware of this...
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The Influence of On-line Identity from the World of Damokles on Everydayness
Beseda, Jan ; Nešpor, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Janeček, Petr (referee) ; Bužeková, Tatiana (referee)
The Influence of On-line Identity from the World of Damokles on Everydayness Abstract The doctoral thesis focuses on on-line world Damokles and its users. It investigates how their on-line identity influences their everyday off-line life. It also focuses on the way the social ties and networks are created among its users and how on-line community is constructed. I especially focus on the mutual impact of on-line and off-line activities of Damokles users. I based the research on qualitative methodology, especially engaged observation of members of Damokles community in the on-line realm as well as during their off-line activities; informal, semi-structured dialogues with the members of the community; and analysis and interpretation of texts from the world Damokles and about the world Damokles. I classify my work under the new anthropological sub- discipline, cyberanthropology, which studied humans and changes of human existence in the context of modern computer information and communication technologies (Soukup 2009, 138). I also deal with the specifics of this anthropological sub- discipline and issues connected with research in the on-line realm. Key words: cyberanthropology, on-line worlds, everydayness, on- line community, ethnography, time, identity
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