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Discourse Analysis of Islamic Terrorist Propaganda on the Internet
Fuxa, Filip ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor)
Thesis Discourse Analysis of Islamic Terrorist Propaganda on the Internet uses the method of thematic discourse analysis to study jihadi discussion forums in the cyberspace. Since the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century the Internet has became one of the most powerful communication tools through which are jihadi terrorists able to reach thousands of Muslims worldwide. After the traditional Western media had intensively begun to filter terrorist messages shortly after 11/9/2001, jihadists found a perfect way how to draw attention of these media once more - not directly, but through the Internet communication which is widely used by traditional media as a source of their content. The first part of this thesis presents theoretical framework for the second, purely practical part. Firstly, this paper deals with propaganda as a form of communication, shows the Internet as a medium that has absorbed all other media, and analyses the terrorism spread through the Internet. The main part of this study focuses on the jihadi discourse, through which jihadists view the Islamic world as suffering under the oppression of the West to persuade passive Muslim audience to join the jihad. This paper deals not only with different types of propaganda, but also with intentions of propagandists and the means...
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Collocability of the most frequent nouns in COVID-19 forum threads - a corpus study
SVOBODA, Martin
This Bachelor's thesis deals with the collocability of the most frequent nouns used by users in COVID-19 forum threads. Online discussion forums are well-known for the diversity of opinions of its users where every user may have their own specific style of expression, sentence formation, and also vocabulary of often used words. The theoretical part mostly concentrates on the terms "phraseology" and "collocations". Regarding collocations, besides general description a closer look at individual categories and types of collocations is also provided. The ending of the theoretical part concentrates on collocability and its concept. The practical part contains the corpus research of data gathered using a script from a Reddit forum. This data is subjected to analysis and is used in the creation of a corpus with the help of #LancsBox software. Subsequently, a frequency list of nouns is created and a collocational profile for the most frequent nouns is developed. The thesis analyses which collocations most often occur among non-professionals in discussion forums on the current topic of COVID-19 and at what frequency they occur.
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The analyses of unstructured content from publicly available social media by Watson
Šverák, Martin ; Molnár, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Hawlová, Kateřina (referee)
This graduate thesis deals with the analysis of unstructured data from public social media. In particular, it deals with the analysis of data from social media of Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. This thesis is divided into two parts. The first part provides theoretical background for the second part. Therefore, the first part describes social media, structured and unstructured data and tools which are used for analysing of unstructured data. In the second part, tool Watson is used for the analysis of publicly available data. Then, methodology is designed to control the analysis process and subsequently this methodology used in the formation of the pilot application that has to verify the functionality of unstructured data by tool Watson. The results of the analysis are in the conclusion. The main benefits of this thesis are the development of a pilot application of Watson and the verification of its functionality. The pilot application cannot be equated with a complete analysis that can be done by Watson. But this pilot application may work as a demonstration of Watson's functionalities.
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