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Ice hockey as a symbol of national identity: the Czech society 20 years after the Nagano triumph
Burdová, Karolína ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Wladyniak, Ludmila Maria (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the process of building national identity through sport, specifically ice hockey. The thesis focuses primarily on the aspects contributing to the reproduction of the Czech national identity. Important aspects are mainly symbols, which remind us of the individual's belonging to the nation, as well as the media, which significantly help to the mythization of sports events. One of the events that played an important role in the formation of the Czech national identity is the 1998 Nagano Olympics. The success of the Czech hockey team in this tournament made part of the history twenty years ago; there are still many legacies of this triumph nowadays. The thesis is based on a research that combined several methods. I obtained the data through participant observation of the national team matches broadcasts, I also analysed documents that referred to the legacies of Czech victory, and I carried out semi-structured interviews with ice hockey fans. The interviews suggest that the victory of the Nagano hockey players, with the contribution of the media and banal nationalism, underwent the process of mythization, and thus played a significant role in the Czech national identity building.
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Identity plug-ins: Towards post-human theory of informational privacy
Tremčinský, Martin ; Grygar, Jakub (advisor) ; Numerato, Dino (referee)
The text is concerned with informational privacy in infosphere. Infosphere according to Luciano Floridi presents a new type of techno-scientific ecology in which western societies organize themselves and operate. Privacy is conceptualized as a labor of division in the infosphere, where every (quasi)subject is mobilizing various actors in order to protect her outer boundaries and resist objectification. The labor of division in infosphere is then compared with similar types of labor in different ecologies and societies (i.e. Amazonia and Mongolia) in sake of identification of crucial agents carrying out this labor of division based on negotiations of categories such as human/non-human or self/non-self. The text distinguishes three types of actors of division according to three interconnected intruders; traders, overseers and criminals. The argument then is that through mobilization of various dividing actors depending on the type of intruder, different (quasi)subjects emerge, thus subjectivity in the infosphere is a political project co- constructed by non/human dividing actors. The last chapter than proposes general ethical directions which might be helpful in the future, when considering the problems of lack of privacy.
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Social reflexivity and education: the case of marking
Šály, Jan ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Cuker, Ivan (referee)
The Bachelor's thesis, Social Reflexivity and Education: the case of marking, is a quantitative research study that examines social reflexivity in first stage primary school teachers, specifically focusing on assessment. The main goal of the thesis is to map teachers' decision- making processes regarding changes in their practice and the extent to which they use marking, or verbal assessment, using social reflexivity theory. First, the author focuses on the changes that teachers make in their general practice. In what ways they make changes and how they think about them. Next, he reflects on the incentives that make teachers' changes happen. The author also focuses on several dimensions that enter the decision-making process of deciding the extent to which the aforementioned types of evaluation are used. The first is the progressiveness of teachers, their relationship to tradition and continuity in education. Next, their relationship to marking and verbal assessment and their perception of their individual characteristics. The author also discusses the structures that teachers perceive as limiting in reducing the use of grades in teaching. Finally, the author reflects on distance learning during the covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the use of verbal assessment and on structure.
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Sport governance and women in leadership positions
Korábová, Tereza ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Országhová, Kristína (referee)
Bachelor thesis Sport governance and women in leadership positions analyses the attitudes and thinking of Czech sports officials. Due to the multilevel structure, which is important according to foreign researchers in a given topic, the work focuses on individual knowledge and experience of women, but also on the role of sports organizations in low representation of women in their leadership and how a sport environment and wider social processes affect women's involvement in the management of sports organizations. The data collection method was semi-structured interviews with the chairpersons of sports associations, commissions and committees. The numbers of female athletes and male athletes are balanced, but the representation of women in decision-making positions is still very low. The topic of gender diversity is increasingly discussed in the sports environment, namely the International Olympic Committee, with the help of various practices, seeks to educate and make a changed within women's representation in decision-making positions, but they are not at such a high level as in the case of athletes. The work is based on the assumption that the sports environment is strongly masculine, and that women are considered inappropriate to managerial positions based on gender stereotypes. The theoretical...
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Sports celebrities in the late modern society
Šigut, Michal ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Kolomoiets, Maksym (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the topic of sports celebrities in late modern society. Specifically, it focuses on the theoretical grasp and presentation of sports celebrities, as important social figures, who are enjoying increasing public attention with the development of technology and growing media interest. The work also deals with the study of the perception of sports celebrities by young people aged 18 to 30 years. Quantitative research was carried out using an Internet questionnaire, which was then analysed. The results of the analysis provide insight into today's sports celebrities through the eyes of young respondents, explains how these celebrities are perceived and how important they are to them compared to other non-sport celebrities, whether they are life inspiration for these respondents or which aspects they think are most important for transforming athletes into a sports celebrity.
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Movement between social worlds: teh case of supporter liaison officers in football
Haman, Jakub ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Pergl, David (referee)
Professional football environment is becoming more corporate and alienate itself more and more from the fans. Because of that UEFA, under influence of fan groups, decided to incorporate new licensing regulations in 2011. The goal of those new regulations was to offer a bigger share of influence over big clubs to fans. The new position of Supporter Liaison Officer was a part of those new licensing regulations. SLOs main goal is to provide a source of communication between club and its fans. After a few years in 2017 the Czech League Football Association LFA incorporated SLO into its own licensing regulations. In this thesis we are focusing on the process of implementation SLO into Czech football and which institutions played role in it through interviews with Czech SLOs. We are using the theory of Institutional Isomorphism which allows us to focus on functioning of SLO in Czech football through its three isomorphic processes. Because the position of SLO was implemented by just four first league, we are going to focus on why it is not implemented by all as well. Thanks to the analysis of interviews and recherche of documents we were able to show which processes affect SLO and how. We identified all three of the isomorphic processes, coercive, mimetic, and normative. The thesis also allows comparison...
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Sources of trust in intelligent virtual assistants
Janouš, Jakub ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Kabele, Jiří (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the sources of trust in artificial intelligence, and how these sources are conditioned by social representations. It examines what risks the user is aware of when using artificial intelligence and how various factors affect the user's thinking. Artificial intelligence is represented in my work by intelligent virtual assistants (IVA). Based on semi-structured research interviews with their users, I have identified as the main sources of trust: neutrality, belief in the future, fulfillment of expectations and closeness. The first two sources are constant and based on social structure, while the last two sources of trust are based directly on user experience and are variable over time. It was also found that social representations have a significant impact on sources of trust. I divided all social representations into three categories - mechanicality, personification, intangibility, according to which the user's perception of artificial intelligence could be assessed and, based on that, his thinking about it. Because of this, I have proved that the trust of users is conditioned by social representations. An important part of trust is risk awareness. In my work, I have identified six main risks that users are aware of: unexpected software error, mechanical error, misuse of...
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Contemporary Professional Crisis of Czech Journalists and Is Causes
Čermáková, Anežka ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Numerato, Dino (referee)
This master's thesis is about the professional crisis of Czech journalists and the causes of the crisis. The thesis is based on the theory of Pierre Bourdieu, who defined the journalistic field, which is influenced by other fields especially the economic one and political one. The thesis is also based on journalism as a profession from an idealistic point of view. The goal of the thesis was to find out how is real journalism different from the idealistic point of view. The part of the work is also qualitative research based on interviews with eight journalists. This research showed many causes and consequences of the crises. The results are that the requirements of the profession are the same, but the conditions are different. The causes are for example financial stringency, unclear rules, quick news, social media, and ownership of the media. And the consequences are that the content of media is oriented on the reader, mistrust in media, media are based on opinion, young journalists are leaving, getting rid of responsibility, shorter news, mistakes, too much information and lower quality of news. These consequences lead to the crisis of journalism.
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Hardcore punk in Czecho-Slovakia: From self-organized political protest to political activism?
Bláha, Petr ; Císař, Ondřej (advisor) ; Numerato, Dino (referee) ; Frič, Pavol (referee)
Hardcore and Punk in Czecho-Slovakia: From Grassroots Political Protest to Political Activism? A Case Study of the North Bohemian Hardcore Punk Scene While security concerns are still predominant in Czech subcultural studies, other works have focused on politicisation or taken the anthropological perspective. At the same time, subcultures are the constituent parts of unorganised civil society. Many of their activities are oriented outside the subcultural scene, toward the public space. The present dissertation deals with the hardcore punk subculture as a part of civil society. Its goal was to identify the forms of integration in the public space that are typical of the subculture. The fieldwork was conducted primarily in the Ústí nad Labem Region in the years 2012- 2016. Participant observation and in-depth semi-structured interviews were the chosen research methods. Thematic analysis was subsequently implemented to interpret and analyse the data. The approach was selected following a wide-ranging discussion of the main concepts of subcultural theory, their specifics and characteristics in the post-socialist region. Of central importance were the "core concepts" formulated by Patrick J. Williams, who studied the straight edge subculture around the world. The core concepts could be applied in the study...
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