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The Evolution of Media Portrayal of Slovaks and Slovakia in the Czech Press between 1993 and 2018
Florián, Pavel ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
This diploma thesis explores the evolution of the way Slovaks and Slovakia are portrayed in the Czech press after the 1st of January 1993. For this purpose, it aims to answer the question: 25 years after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, what has changed in the way the Czech print media perceive Slovaks and Slovakia? The way Slovaks and Slovakia are portrayed in the Czech press is always reconstructed using the methods of quantitative and qualitative content analysis, namely in selected three- month periods in the years 1993, 1998, 2004, and 2008. These periods are related to events which for Slovaks and Slovakia, following the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, are generally perceived as significant. It is essential to understand we are interested in Slovaks and Slovakia as seen by the Czech press. Based on the performed content analyses and their results respectively, the diploma thesis characterizes the ways Slovaks and Slovakia are portrayed in the Czech press in the given periods. These findings are then compared to capture the overall evolution of media portrayal of Slovaks and Slovakia in the Czech press in the course of time. The empirical evidence serves as a base for formulating conclusions and validating the research hypothesis.
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Stereotypes that Czech influencers support with their posts on the Instagram
Lesáková, Marie ; Fousek Krobová, Tereza (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
The diploma thesis aims to find out whether the selected Czech woman influencers on the selected social network, Instagram, support by posts traditional stereotypes or not. The work is divided into two main blocks - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part focuses on the characteristics of new media and the phenomenon of social networks. In the next chapters, thesis does not forget to define Instagram, which is the subject of subsequent analysis. The theoretical part includes characteristics of Instagram related terms. The diploma thesis focuses on the sociological problem of gender stereotypes and presents several cases from the history of the media, which support stereotypes between men and women. The practical part first is focused on the quantitative content analysis. The next step is focused on qualitative analysis of the posts of some of the most follow Czech influencers.
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Construction of national French identity in Children's textbooks
Ahossey, Chantal ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (advisor) ; Supa, Markéta (referee)
The research for the dissertation on "the construction of French national identity in the textbooks for children" is aimed towards a descriptive analysis of the foundations of French national identity. The research is based on the portrayal of French national identity in the history and civic education textbooks for primary and secondary schools. The theoretical part represents a notion of culture, nation and collective memory as key elements for the construction of national identity. The discourses used in textbooks are presented as a tool for the handover of cultural elements and a medium for the construction of a cultural reality. Consequently, through methods of discourse analysis, the dissertation focuses on identifying elements of discourse in the textbooks' contents that testify of French culture. On the basis of the results extracted from the research, the self-image of French nationality is then reconstructed. Subsequently, the national self-conception emerging from the textbooks is compared to the one drawn through the new year's presidential speeches between the years 2012 to 2018. The aim of this comparison is to assess whether these two models of French identity hold evident distinctions or if they are constructed on similar foundations. Keywords National identity, France, culture,...
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The Phenomenon of the "Intellectual Dark Web"
Drake, Daniel ; Miessler, Jan (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
This paper investigates the topic of the "Intellectual Dark Web" - a supposed grouping of academics, authors and other personalities, whose opinions are deemed to be controversial. Due to a lack of academic coverage, the paper pinpoints the background from which this term had arisen and tries to find out whether the group can be considered a coherent entity. The research part of the thesis is divided into two phases. In the first, the three most prominent protagonists (Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Ben Shapiro) are subjected to a Critical discourse analysis from which the five most recurrent themes emerge. These are identity, free speech, anti-left, anti-elite, and appeal to reason. Subsequently, ten content pieces for each of the authors are analysed to find out whether these five topics overlap across time and different types of media formats. The biggest overlap was detected in the anti-left rhetoric, although there seemed to be a subtle difference in what the respective men mean when they use the word "Left". Similar conclusions were made on the topic of identity and the opposition to elites. The analysis also showed that in addition to the identified common topics, each of the authors focuses on a somewhat different area, in which, due to their different ideological and, above all,...
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How do foreign media refer about Erasmus programme taking place in Prague
Nosková, Michaela ; Švec, Štefan (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
The Master thesis is aimed to analyse research sample of chosen media from the Czech Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany and Hellenic Republic. The researched media are confronted with three models of media by Hallin and Mancini and on the results of content analysis to find some connection between these two. The main element of the research is Programme Erasmus+ and its coverage in media space of the news portals. One of the group of values is the message core, which could be negative, positive or neutral. The attention is focused on politics and study exchanges, how much are political subjects included in topics, or on which level is their influence. Into examined variable is added even connection with current topics, which is possible to track during the time and simultaneously compare the agenda settings in chosen states. The summary of results are included the secondary data, for example total visits of concrete medium in online environment. Likewise, the research is also concerned on space which is provided to main goal - study exchange abroad, in concrete medium. The research area was based on website allyoucanread.com, where are news websites from more than 200 countries. The chosen portals are: iDnes.cz, Spiegel.de, Zougla.gr.
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Media image of child sexual abuse in Czech TV news
Vopravilová, Anna ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
The bachelor's thesis is focused on media image of child sexual abuse in Czech TV news. The thesis introduces the issues of this serious social problem, presents context of social sciences, rapist, victims and consequences of sexual abuse. The media chapter introduces possible influences of news about child sexual abuse on society. Quantitative content analysis was used for the research. Three of the most popular TV stations - ČT1, Nova, Prima − were included in the research. News transcription related to child sexual abuse was monitored from the beginning of 2010 until the end of 2015 with the aid of the Newton Media SEARCH database. The time period was chosen because of actuality and sufficient sample of news. Three large cases were chosen. Cases were connected with organizations (the Scout group, the BBC television, the Catholic church). These organizations should help and protect children. The affairs were presented, in detail, the data from the news were analyzed, then interpreted and compared. The aim of the analysis was to find if society is sufficiently informed about this problem, if news about child sexual abuse can transform the society's view and if the news had some taboo or stereotypes about this problem.
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Deep Learning a Soucially Constructed Technology
Libovický, Jindřich ; Orhan, Mehmet A. (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
The presented thesis focuses on deep learning and artificial intelligence as a socially constructed technology. Unlike the traditional view which explains the emergence of the technology via the inner state of technological reality, I try to follow Bijker's theoretical framework of social construction of technology and explain the development via interests of relevant social groups (general public, technology fans, IT specialists and AI researchers) and values they attribute to the technology. For each of the groups I selected several English-language online media and analyzed their content between years 2012 and 2016. The analysis showed a shift from scientific to more technological topics in articles targeted on AI researchers and broad public. In these articles, deep learning is presented as a breakthrough technology. Articles targeted on technology fans cover the news about artificial intelligence in details, but they do not attribute any special status to the technology. Similarly to IT professionals, they consider deep learning to be a technology as any other.
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A new beginning: radio free europe/radio liberty moving to Prague
Voleská, Dita ; Končelík, Jakub (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
The presented text is concerned with the development of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in the period from the late 1980s to mid-1990s. The main aspiration of this Diploma Thesis is the introduction of these specific radio projects in a new era with new missions. RFE/RL gained great popularity during the Cold War period as they were powerful tools in the fight against communist regimes in Europe and the Soviet Union. However, with the fall of Iron Curtain, it was generally anticipated that their tasks were complete. Both Services had to fight against these general assumptions and prove that their mission had yet more functions. Thus, they focused on promoting ideas and principles of democratic and liberal societies. This type of educational broadcasting proved to be very much needed in the post-communist countries which sought to implement the norms of the Western world. This paper describes the overall, somewhat complicated story of RFE/RL, its mission and further developments in broadcasting, which were fundamentally influenced by plans for budget cuts and resulted in the relocation of RFE/RL's operations from Munich to Prague. For more thorough understanding of these issues, the paper also draws on broader historical context of RFE/RL's development from the very beginning of its operations in...
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Contemporary Czech polemic discourse on dontroversy over Milan Kundera
Orel, Ivan ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
My thesis "Contemporary Czech Polemic Discourse Shown on Controversy over Milan Kundera" deals with media debate triggered by an article published in the Respekt magazine. The article claimed that Milan Kundera reported an unknown person dwelling at a student dormitory to the police. The person was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment as a Western intelligence agent. He spent 14 years in prison. The thesis focuses on texts that were published in Czech media from 13 October 2008 to 31 October 2008. Source texts were categorized into three corpuses. Corpus A includes texts that bring information on Milan Kundera - these texts are not explicitly oriented at supporting argumentation either in favour of or against Kundera. Corpus B contains texts defending Kundera. And corpus C analyzes texts that respond critically to corpus B texts. Based on results of such analyses, discourse participants were categorized and their types were defined, assessing phenomena appearing during the discourse and properties of selected texts of the discourse contained in corpuses A, B and C that were subject to qualitative assessment.
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