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Kraus Magazine in Terms of the Political Economy of Communication: A Critical Analysis of a Year of Existence of the New Concept in the Czech Media Market
Podzimková, Linda ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
This rigorous thesis researches the Czech printed magazine Kraus which was launched in November 2011 and ended in July 2012. The magazine was unique due to its media format of so called personality magazine. Kraus magazine was the first personality magazine in the Czech republic and no such other has been released since then. The thesis tracks and analyzes the existence of the magazine in Czech media market, while following the perspective of the critical political economy of communication. In order to put the Kraus magazine into a broader context of the political economy of communication, one part of the thesis is focused on foreign personality magazines such as Dutch Linda or American O, The Oprah Magazine. The successful Dutch Linda magazine was explicitly a pattern for Kraus, being published by the same media production company Sanoma Magazines. Another part of the thesis characterizes the public media image of Jan Kraus, a well-known Czech TV host, whose name and face the first Czech personality magazine bare. Marketing strategy, influences of the media management and ownership, advertising, internationalization, concepts such as commodification and structuration and more are the main interests of critical political economy and the key areas of this study too. The thesis includes a qualitative...
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Kraus Magazine in Terms of the Political Economy of Communication: A Critical Analysis of a Year of Existence of the New Concept in the Czech Media Market
Podzimková, Linda ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis researches the Czech printed magazine Kraus which was launched in November 2011 and ended in July 2012. The magazine was unique due to its media format of so called personality magazine. Kraus magazine was the first personality magazine in the Czech republic and no such other has been released since then. The thesis tracks and analyzes the existence of the magazine in Czech media market, while following the perspective of the critical political economy of communication. In order to put the Kraus magazine into a broader context of the political economy of communication, one part of the thesis is focused on foreign personality magazines such as Dutch Linda or American O, The Oprah Magazine. The successful Dutch Linda magazine was explicitly a pattern for Kraus, being published by the same media production company Sanoma Magazines. Another part of the thesis characterizes the public media image of Jan Kraus, a well-known Czech TV host, whose name and face the first Czech personality magazine bare. Marketing strategy, influences of the media management and ownership, advertising, internationalization, concepts such as commodification and structuration and more are the main interests of critical political economy and the key areas of this study too. The thesis includes a qualitative...
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Kraus Magazine in Terms of the Political Economy of Communication: A Critical Analysis of a Year of Existence of the New Concept in the Czech Media Market
Podzimková, Linda ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
This rigorous thesis researches the Czech printed magazine Kraus which was launched in November 2011 and ended in July 2012. The magazine was unique due to its media format of so called personality magazine. Kraus magazine was the first personality magazine in the Czech republic and no such other has been released since then. The thesis tracks and analyzes the existence of the magazine in Czech media market, while following the perspective of the critical political economy of communication. In order to put the Kraus magazine into a broader context of the political economy of communication, one part of the thesis is focused on foreign personality magazines such as Dutch Linda or American O, The Oprah Magazine. The successful Dutch Linda magazine was explicitly a pattern for Kraus, being published by the same media production company Sanoma Magazines. Another part of the thesis characterizes the public media image of Jan Kraus, a well-known Czech TV host, whose name and face the first Czech personality magazine bare. Marketing strategy, influences of the media management and ownership, advertising, internationalization, concepts such as commodification and structuration and more are the main interests of critical political economy and the key areas of this study too. The thesis includes a qualitative...
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Jan Kraus as a Brand
Křešnička, Tomáš ; Závozda, Petr (advisor) ; Dolanský, Pavel (referee)
The bachelor's thesis "Jan Kraus as a Brand" discusses the issues of perceiving celebrities as brands and its use in marketing communication. First it will be discussed on the theoretical level and later applied to the example of Czech TV presenter and actor Jan Kraus. The introductory part of the paper formulates the definition of a celebrity and its role in today's society. It describes and basically synthesizes the theoretical fields that are connected with creating celebrities as marketing brands and their use in marketing communication. The findings from the introductory part are used to analyze a specific example from the Czech territory. On the example of Jan Kraus the paper concerns in the marketing fields of personal branding and celebrity endorsement when building a personal marketing brand. Analytically it describes his advertising activities as a product placement in the TV show "Show Jana Krause", the lifestyle magazine KRAUS and the advertising campaign for the mineral water brand Mattoni.
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