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The Understood Author: A hermeneutical exploration of audiences interpretation of the author as productive practices behind a text
Pavlíčková, Tereza ; Carpentier, Nico (advisor) ; Kuzmičová, Anežka (referee) ; Hermes, Joke (referee)
in English This project builds on the tradition of audience research that theoretically and empirically established that meaning is formed in the negotiation between the text and the reader, that the audiences are agentic, their interpretation of media is contextual and situated, and that they have the potential to resist the media. It argues that it is important to explore people's attention to different sources: who is listening, to whom, and why - and asks how people understand the notion of an author that they encounter in the interpretation of factual media texts, and how this interpretation is brought back into the interpretative act. The thesis subscribes to philosophical hermeneutics as an overarching theoretical as well as methodological framework to devise a concept of an understood author that is a result of the interpretative act, where the author imagined and anticipated by the reader (in the form of prior knowledge and prejudices) is encountered and actualised by the author inscribed into the text. I carried out 28 in-depth face-to-face interviews with Czechs born between 1948-1963 to explore participants' experiences and relationship with media and media authors. Employing hermeneutical analysis, the focus is not to capture what is an author, but how it happened to be so. The...
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Comics Rychlé šípy in Mladý hlasatel and active audience
Mamulová, Martina ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Suk, Pavel (referee)
Diploma thesis "Readers of Rychlé šípy comics and Mladý hlasatel reader's clubs as an active audience" deals with a confrontation of modern theories of the active audience and reconstruction of active fans of comics Rychlé šípy which was published in th Mladý hlasatel magazine. Theoretical part of this paper characterize this magazine for children and its time context. I focused on a development of passive and active audience concepts. There are also introduced modern approaches to active audiences like produsage, collective intelligence and transmedia storytelling which are compared in the practical part of this work with the reconstructed activity of Mladý hlasatel readers. The target is to find the common features of this moderrn approaches in their activity. I also described the audience of the Mladý hlasatel in details and its types of activity. The very last part of this thesis is dedicated to Henry Jenkins' "fandom" as it was described in his piece Textual Poachers. I was able to find there many of the similar features of Jenkins' fan and fan of Rychlé šípy, although the Jenkins' book was published in 1992 and Mladý hlasatel in the thirties of twentieth century. My conclusion is that modern theories such as produsage, collective intelligence and transmedia stotelling do fit in many ways to...
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The Approaches of Leading Czech News Media to Content Monetization
Hrivňák, Adam ; Miessler, Jan (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse and compare approaches of leading Czech online news media companies to a content monetization with a strong focus on their applications of an advertising based monetization model, which is in the both cases the main source of their online revenue. First of all, the thesis tends to describe and compare points of strategic attitude of companies to monetization in general, then it presents specifics of the advertising model in selected companies, as well as their approach to current phenomena from the environment of online publishing and online advertising. The selected companies are Seznam.cz - the largest Czech online company in terms of reach and number of visitors, the 2nd company is then Mafra which takes 2nd place in the same terms.
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Comics Rychlé šípy in Mladý hlasatel and active audience
Mamulová, Martina ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Suk, Pavel (referee)
Diploma thesis "Readers of Rychlé šípy comics and Mladý hlasatel reader's clubs as an active audience" deals with a confrontation of modern theories of the active audience and reconstruction of active fans of comics Rychlé šípy which was published in th Mladý hlasatel magazine. Theoretical part of this paper characterize this magazine for children and its time context. I focused on a development of passive and active audience concepts. There are also introduced modern approaches to active audiences like produsage, collective intelligence and transmedia storytelling which are compared in the practical part of this work with the reconstructed activity of Mladý hlasatel readers. The target is to find the common features of this moderrn approaches in their activity. I also described the audience of the Mladý hlasatel in details and its types of activity. The very last part of this thesis is dedicated to Henry Jenkins' "fandom" as it was described in his piece Textual Poachers. I was able to find there many of the similar features of Jenkins' fan and fan of Rychlé šípy, although the Jenkins' book was published in 1992 and Mladý hlasatel in the thirties of twentieth century. My conclusion is that modern theories such as produsage, collective intelligence and transmedia stotelling do fit in many ways to...
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