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Instagram and its risks and positives as perceived by adolescents aged 12-15
Wagenknechtová, Anna ; Odstrčilová, Klára (advisor) ; Nainová, Victoria (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the social network Instagram and the perception of this platform by adolescents aged 12-15. Specifically, the thesis looks at the risks and positive aspects or opportunities that adolescents see on this social network. Thus, the thesis aims to answer the research question: Which risks and opportunities do adolescents aged 12-15 perceive on the social network Instagram? The theoretical part is devoted to topics related to social networks and teens. It describes the Instagram platform, its origins and evolution, users, user interface and algorithm. Furthermore, it presents the age group relevant to this research, its relationship to the Internet, possible risks and opportunities in the online environment, and finally, the theoretical part describes users' motivations for using Instagram. The practical part uses qualitative research through in-depth interviews to explore how respondents perceive Instagram, how they use it and what risks or opportunities they see on it.
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Filter bubbles and the knowledge of filter bubbles among Facebook users
Koliandr, Michal ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Nainová, Victoria (referee)
The media are an integral part of today's world, political and cultural events and are a key tool for creating worldviews. At the same time, they can also function as one of the basic building blocks for shaping the social core of a person, and thus also society and its values. It is necessary for the media to be the subject not only of ordinary conversations, articles and reports, but also the subject of study at an academic level. Facebook is one of the most dominant social networks today. At the same time, the developers themselves do not hide the fact that algorithms work on its platform, which monitor users' personal preferences and data, there are posts they spend the most time on, and based on this data, they create a personalized environment full of posts that the algorithms themselves deem appropriate. According to their own judgment, do the algorithmic practices of Facebook users lock them into information loops called Information bubbles, or do they only improve the quality of their time spent by filtering relevant or irrelevant content? The aim of this work is to answer this question, together with an insight into the world of algorithms, the social network Facebook and a comprehensive approach to the issue of Information bubbles on Facebook. At the same time, in the practical part, I...
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Portrayal of the "Megxit" case in the British media
Folvarčná, Natalie ; Soukup, Martin (advisor) ; Nainová, Victoria (referee)
The British Royal Family is a traditional institution that has a significant influence on social and political events in the United Kingdom. That is why the scandals of its members are closely monitored by the media. This Bachelor thesis describes the media image of one of the biggest scandals involving the British royal family of today in selected British online newspapers of different orientation. The term 'Megxit' has been adopted for this decision of Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan. The paper briefly defines the selected media, terms and introduces the main parties involved in the case. In the research part, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis, it discusses the manner and intensity with which the scandal was covered in the selected mainstream media in comparison with the official information provided by spokespeople of the members of the British Royal Family in the first two weeks after the first press release informing the public of the couple's decision to leave the institution. The emotional tone of published articles and adherence to the IPSO Editors' Code of Practice are also observed.
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The problem of ethnic inequality and stereotype of sexual orientation in the TV series "Friends"
Klímová, Petra ; Kruml, Milan (advisor) ; Nainová, Victoria (referee)
This Bachelor thesis addresses the issue of racial diversity and diversity of sexual orientation. It explores this issue on the television series Friends. The basic task of the work is to examine how the stereotype of a person is depicted in the series, with an emphasis on his ethnicity and sexual orientation. Literature with many different views on issues is used so that the reader has more points of view and can make up his own mind. The sub-tasks are to bring readers closer to the history and emergence of television series with an emphasis on broadcasting and production of the USA, as well as to summarize the development of the production of Friends and highlight some major events that had a big impact on its final form. The work also includes an analysis of a quantitative survey on ethnic and sexual diversity in the series Friends, for which an anonymous questionnaire survey was chosen. Finally, emphasis is placed on summarising all the findings to date and comparing them with the results of the questionnaire investigation. The conclusion also contains the author's own view on the subject under discussion, as well as on the results of the survey.
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The Analysis of Representation of Suicide and Self-Mutilation in Popular Culture in Years 1999-2019
Nainová, Victoria ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The master thesis is focusing on the representation of suicides and self-mutilation in American production movies and television in the year 1999-2019. The thesis aims to find out, how are these phenomena shown and with whom popular culture connects them. The theoretical part is dealing with social and media construction of reality, stereotype, stigmatization, and clearing the concepts and definitions of phenomena. For better understanding this part also includes a short presentation of socially deviant behavior since examined phenomena are part of it. The analysis was made based on qualitative content analysis and completed with short quantitative analysis for sociodemographic comparison with available real data. The sample contains 23 motion pictures as are films and series. Based on them and with processes of grounded theory the coding was done, typology was made and pointed out findings with whom American production connects these phenomena and how they represent them in popular culture. Those findings are important for their relations to media construction of reality as non-experts can perceive the way it is represented for their own.
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