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The Role of the Media in Construction of Threats in Czech Coverage of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Matute, Kristýna ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Miessler, Jan (referee)
The thesis explores ways of constructing the security threat from the covid-19 epidemic in Czech print news. The analysis is based on social constructivism, according to which the media selectively selects topics, actors and certain aspects of events into the news. In theoretical terms, it further links the theory of securitization of security studies with the media concept of framing. The research aims to identify the manifestations of securitization in the Czech news coverage of covid-19 over a period of one year using quantitative content analysis. It concentrates on the presence of securitization frameworks, war metaphors, and alarming testimonies from the actors interviewed.
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Trump vs. Biden - Which side chose Czech TV's stations?
Kratochvíl, Michal ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
The US presidential election is undoubtedly the most important foreign policy event regularly covered by the Czech media. In the case of the latter, the battle for the White House became one of the main topics of autumn 2020. All three main national broadcasters - TV Nova, CT and TV Prima - joined the battle for viewers. For the first time in history, the election results were broadcast simultaneously on these three TV stations. But what was the practice in the Czech media. In the United States, it is quite standard for media houses to lean towards one of the candidates, that the coverage is pro-Democratic or pro-Republican. This thesis examined how this phenomenon manifested itself in Czech TV stations. Thus, the research questions focused on the number of reports on each candidate, their tone, and the total time devoted to the election itself and to both candidates. Based on the data collection, the thesis assessed that TV stations did not give equal space to both candidates. By far more space was given to Donald Trump at the expense of Joe Biden. Moreover, Trump was more often portrayed in a negative sense. In this respect, Czech Television was the least balanced Czech TV station, while TV Prima was the best. However, it in turn offered the least American election coverage, with TV Nova having...
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Václav Havel in Czech News Agency reports after 2011
Svobodová, Věra ; Trunečková, Ludmila (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
This diploma thesis maps the media interest in former president Václav Havel by the Czech News Agency during the 10 years following his death in December 2011. It focuses not only on the number of reports, but also compares the individual years with regard to what events influence the number of reports that mention the former president. Using full-text searches in the Czech News Agency's Infobank, metadata codes used by the agency to classify news, and quantitative content analysis with the addition of evaluative elements, the paper tracks which topics most frequently appear in the agency's text service in connection with Václav Havel, whether the president is the main actor in the news, or what the tonality of news texts is in relation to him. The theoretical part defines the basic concepts and theories related to the social and media construction of reality, media image and media logic. The contextual part introduces in rough outlines the personality of Václav Havel. The methodological part deals with the specifics of the news text service offered by Czech News Agency and presents the research methods used. The research part presents the results of the analysis. These show that the number of news items mentioning Havel does not tend to decrease over time, but responds to events in society. The...
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Implementation procedures of editors during the preparation news reports on ČT24 during a coronavirus pandemic
Kloučková, Rozálie ; Lokšík, Martin (advisor) ; Géla, František (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with changes in routines of the daily news editor in ČT24 news channel. It focuses in particular on the changes in the work of news reporters and editors in connection with the spread of a new type of coronavirus in the first half of 2020. In the first part presents a basic definition of news reporting, focusing in particular on television news. It then looks at the introduction of the new type of coronavirus and the start of the global pandemic. The methodology part is devoted to defining the aim of the thesis and the research questions. The empirical part offers the characteristics of the news station ČT24. It describes the circumstances of its creation, the program scheme and introduces the editor of the daily news. It defines his position and working practices during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. To do this, it uses the method of observation and informal interviews with nine Czech Television news staff members as part of a qualitative investigation. The analytical part presents a content analysis of selected news reports during the period under study. Finally, the author summarises and discusses her findings.
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How the Generation Z Consumes News on Social Media
Tomášková, Petra ; Macková, Veronika (advisor) ; Turková, Kateřina (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to examine how the Generation Z receives news from social media in the Czech Republic. Using a qualitative research method, focus groups find out the reasons for this group to use social media as a source of news, describe how Generation Z evaluates the news contribution and how it handles it and the information from it then. The first part of the thesis gives an insight into the knowledge of news on social media (specifically Facebook and Instagram) and explains the main features of Generation Z; especially in relation to information and technology. Subsequently, the research method of semi-structured interviews is presented, which served as a preliminary research for the main technique of researching focus groups. This method is also explained in detail in the methodological part. The study group of 24 respondents was divided into three samples according to age; 16 and 17 years, 18 and 19 years, 20 to 24 years. The results are presented as a selection of significant participants' statements across groups. Although group interviews operate more specifically with the participants' specific statements, some generalization and the resulting understanding of Generation Z behavior is possible. Among other things, it was partly possible to register differences across the groups...
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The way CNN Prima News is perceived as a new news channel by the Czech audience
Eliášová, Tereza ; Jirků, Jan (advisor) ; Šimková, Karolína (referee)
This thesis focuses on the viewer reception of the CNN Prima NEWS news station. The aim of the research is to gain insight into the viewing patterns and routines that are repeated when watching this station. The theoretical part of the thesis defines the main studies on the topic with reference to experts and then introduces the CNN Prima NEWS station along with the viewership data. The next part of the thesis then discusses the methodology that was used for data collection and analysis in this research. The results of the thesis are obtained by using not only the viewership data but also a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews with a selected sample of respondents who watch the station. This research was conducted with the respondents in the spring of 2022. The data collected during the research is then analysed and categorized to make the thesis as close to its objective as possible. Several findings have emerged that provide a better understanding of how Czech viewers perceive CNN Prima NEWS. The thesis also includes appendices with the results of the questionnaire survey and transcripts of semi-structured interviews.
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Covid news of on-line media during the first strifke of an epidemic in the Czech Republic
Zajíc, František ; Moravec, Václav (advisor) ; Trunečka, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis focus to research how selected online media informed about the first wave of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the Czech Republic. Specifically, this thesis focus on the signs of media panic (hysteria) in the news pieces of selected media, their frequency, proportion and manner of use. The media's content was analyzed by content analysis and some of this content was then analysed by discursive analysis. The research showed that the coverage of the spread of coronavirus dominated the media space. All selected media used elements of media panic in their news pieces, which could have effect society. The research further showed that in the use of these elements, there was not a hypothetical difference between the tabloid media and the self-declared serious media.
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The motivation of participatory journalists in czech TV news programme
Šedivá, Tereza ; Moravec, Václav (advisor) ; Trunečka, Ondřej (referee)
The following Master's thesis is focused on participatory journalism. Participatory journalism has become an interesting and important part of media production since the invention of Web 2.0. In recent years, the concept of listeners and viewers creating professional news has been used by radio, television and online media all over the world, including Czech television and its ČT24 news programme. Czech TV launched a project called iReportér in 2015. People can send photos or videos of what is happening around them through a mobile application or a website. These materials, checked by editors, may be later used in a broadcast, on the website or on Czech TV social media profiles. The theoretical part of the thesis will explain main concepts necessary for understanding how participatory journalism works. For example, what is convergence, who are the produsers, what is Web 1.0., 2.0. and 3.0. It will describe what the advantages of participatory journalism are and how it is different from citizen journalism. One section will focus on ethics and another on examples of participatory journalism projects abroad and in the Czech Republic. In the practical part, the author will present applied research methods. After that, the author will evaluate data from the questionnaire survey and from in-depth...
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Disinformation narratives in the Czech cyberspace in regarding the vaccination against Covid-19
Hospodárová, Klára ; Moravec, Václav (advisor) ; Miessler, Jan (referee)
The bachelor's thesis "Disinformation narratives in the Czech cyberspace in regarding the vaccination against COVID-19" in the context of the phenomenon of misleading, false or pseudo news deals with the way of the news media informing in the Czech environment combined with interpretation of not only these messages by non-professional social network users. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether there is a real correlation between professional and nonprofessional content in the same relevant period. In the theoretical part, emphasis is placed on a sufficient and, above all, comprehensible definition of terms related to the issue of information disorders, including the ordering of individual terms. In the first part of the work, facts are based on relevant sources of internal and foreign literature. In the second part of the work, I present the research background, including hypotheses and research questions. The whole thesis is based on a qualitative research method, which focuses on the analysis of articles produced by professional journalism in contrast to the posts available on the social network Facebook, whose authors are users from the general public, i.e., nonprofessional users. The results are summarized in the conclusion, which evaluates the course and knowledge gained in the...
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