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The Dissolution of the Soviet Union and the year 1991 in the contemporary Czech press
Pěkná, Anna ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Groman, Martin (referee)
The bachelor thesis The Dissolution of the Soviet Union and the year 1991 in the contemporary Czech press aims to describe how the Czech daily newspapers Rude pravo, Mlada fronta Dnes and Lidove noviny reported on the events of 1991 connected with the collapse of the Soviet Union. For this purpose, it uses a qualitative content analysis of news and opinion articles published in the aforementioned newspapers in the period from 1 June to 31 December 1991. The thesis focuses on six key events of 1991: the election of Boris Yeltsin as president of the RSFSR, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the G7 summit in London, the August coup, the Belavezha Accords and the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the USSR. Based on the data collected, it describes what aspects of the chosen events the newspapers emphasized, how they portrayed the personalities associated with these events, how they used news agencies and their own foreign correspondents in doing so, and whether they differed in any way in these respects. The thesis also aims to capture part of the Czech media scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the impact of the newly acquired press freedom on their coverage of the Soviet Union.
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Reporting of Czechoslovak broadcast media on Jan Palach's suicide, death and Funeral
Kuchařová, Anna ; Groman, Martin (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
This Bachelor thesis is devoted to Czechoslovakian broadcast media after Jan Palach's self- immolation in 1969. It describes the media during 60's, especially during the important historical period of Prague Spring, The Warsaw Pact invasion, and at this time the forthcoming normalisation. Therefore, a lot of changes in the media had happened throughout this period of time. Namely, Freedom of Speech to the re-implementation of censorship which, the media tried to slow down. This approach was mainly seen when visualising Jan Palach's self-immolation to the general public. His act has become as a symbol of a freer journalist expression ever since. The practical part of this thesis is dedicated to a podcast about reporting by Czechoslovakian media about Jan Palach's death by suicide and his funeral. The podcast is based on the interview with historian Petr Blažek from the 'Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, created by the author of this Bachelor thesis and authenticated records from Czech Television and Czech Radio archives which were available from this era. The podcast tracks the content of what the Czechoslovakian media broadcasted during this time.
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Intraparty magazines of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s
Renovica, Vera ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Groman, Martin (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Intraparty magazines of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s" deals with the intraparty periodical publications, whose publishing was initiated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Their main task was the education of the party members, political and economic propaganda and campaigning. The thesis works with primary sources (the periodicals) and secondary sources, which were published on the topic during the time period discussed. The following magazines are addressed: Party Life (Život strany), Campaigner's Word (Slovo agitátora), New Thought (Nová mysl), Visual Campaigning (Názorná agitace) and Tribune (Tribuna). The thesis follows the existence of these periodicals, changes in staff, periodicity, number of copies, eventually also the name of the periodicals. The contents and the tasks of individual prints are summarized in the concept of the Means of Mass Information and Propaganda (PMIP). The periodicals are discussed in the system of propaganda publications in connection to the overall publishing activity of the Red Right (Rudé Právo), the official publishing body of the General Committee. The topic is continuously connected to the political and historical development in the 1970s and 1980s, especially in terms of the...
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Trends in Czech TV Travel Series Between the Years 2010 - 2020
Kordík, Jiří ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Groman, Martin (referee)
The Trends in Czech TV Travel Series Between the Years 2010-2020 diploma thesis outlines the typology and main trends in travel series that premiered on Czech public broadcast television channels between 2010 and 2020. The aim of this thesis is to introduce categories of Czech TV travel series and describe how the viewer is addressed. In the theoretical section, the terms such as TV travel journalism and the issue of celebritization and celebrification are defined. By introducing the concept of the Tourist Gaze, the problematic aspects of TV travel series are defined, be it the stereotypization of a displayed environment or the commercialization of its content. Following the methodology section, the thematical classification of Czech TV travel series is presented. In turn, the main part of the thesis focuses on establishing five typological categories of the travel series. After analysing several randomly selected episodes of the programmes, the thesis then sums up the most important peculiarities of Czech public broadcast production of travel series between the years 2010-2020 and identifies the most crucial development trends within the genre.
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