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Printed DIY media in information age: how Web 2.0 influenced culture of fanzines
Hroch, Miloš ; Turek, Pavel (advisor) ; Švelch, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis aims to explore changes in the production of music fanzines brought about by the advent of new media. Fanzines are defined as nonofficial magazines published independently in compliance with the code of DIY ethics. The theoretical part of this work focuses on the history of fanzine production as well as on concepts of alternative media, which is necessary in order to examine the current state of the aforementioned alternative media sphere. Furthermore, the theoretical part describes fans' behaviour, as they are the most prominent representatives of active audiences. This behaviour is a key to understanding the motivation behind fanzine production as well as the nature of media communication in the cyberspace, where boundaries between producers and consumers of media messages disappear. The main part of this work analyses interviews with ten figures from the Czech community of both pre-internet authors and those of post-internet era, the latter being used to internet communication. Described discursive patterns reveal the existence of two separate worlds: traditional fanzine community and online environment, coexisting in mutual awareness. Yet the former strives to guard its boundaries, protecting its products from the internet, albeit oftentimes entering the virtual space in search for...
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Phenomenon of Fanfiction - Literature on the Internet
Bradáčová, Barbora ; Klumparová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the phenomenon of fanfiction - literature on the internet. Fanfiction is specific in its link to another literary or film (etc.) creation and is also made by the fans. In theoretical part, it presents the terms fanfiction and fandom, gives short history of these two terms abroad (especially in USA) and also in our country. The next chapter is supposed to help with orientation in fanfiction, there are classified genres and types of fanfiction and more terms, that linked to fanfiction. Last theoretical part works fanfiction in literary theory. In practical part, there is one fanfiction (from Harry Potter fandom) compared to original. The aim was to find continuation of fanfiction to original and deduce if it is possible to expect any art values in fanfiction. The conclusion of this work is that fanfiction is truly part of literature and one can find texts with artistic potential.
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Audience perception to the paradoxical narrative in the series Game of Thrones
Částová, Barbora ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Hladík, Radim (referee) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The thesis "Audience reception to the paradoxical narrative in the series Game of Thrones" focuses on the research of the audience and its reactions to the unusual plot twists in the series Game of Thrones producted by HBO. The Audience and its reactions to specifically selected twists were researched through qualitative methods of deep semi-structured interview which was carried out with ten respondents. "Primary" audience, i.e. the viewers who had not read any books from the Ice and Fire saga before watching the show, was choosen as a research sample for this study. Reactions of this audience are more spontaneous and unpredictable. The primary aim of the research is to find out how viewers react to the newly defined paradoxical narrative in the Game of Thrones series and why they keep watching this series despite its unusual plot twists.
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The History and Transformation of Czech Magazines Focused on the Fantastic Genres on the Example of the Magazine Pevnost
Koláčková, Gaja ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Slanec, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis aims to introduce the history and transformation of the Czech magazines oriented on the genre Fantastika (also known as SF magazines), using the example of the magazine Pevnost, which is considered to be the flagship of the contemporary Czech fantastic arts journalism. The thesis focuses on a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the magazine Pevnost between 2011-2015, based on which it's possible to uncover more general characteristics and tendencies of contemporary Czech market of SF magazines. Theoretical basis of the thesis defines popular fantastic arts (also known as Fantastika), introduces major theoretical concepts of this term and defines its various genres. It also provides a basic definition and history of the fandom in Czechoslovak, as well as in Czech environment. Fandom is considered to be the basis for the emergence of so called fanzines - amateur or semi-professional SF magazines. On the basis of this, the thesis introduces the evolution of the Czechoslovak and Czech fanzines, as well as professional SF magazines. Practical part of the thesis analyzes the changes of the content and graphic layout of the magazine, as well as the changes of the layout of the magazine's cover during the mentioned era. The practical part of the thesis is ended with the analysis of the...
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"Who doesn't jump is not from Brdy": Sociological Study about Phenomenon of Sport Fandom in Příbram Region
Černohous, Tomáš ; Šanderová, Jadwiga (advisor) ; Vrbíková, Lucie (referee)
This study focuses on the importance of fandom for sport supporters. The aim of this thesis is to study those groups of fans that were neglected by academic studies. It consists analyses of semi-structured interviews that were conducted with fans (precisely members of supporters' clubs) of volleyball and football clubs from city of Příbram. Outcomes identified positive social dimension of fandom. Consequently, theoretical model of ideal types of football spectators created by Richard Giulianotti is applied to volleyball supporters. Although this model is particularly successful at identifying some types of spectators, some respondents shows characteristics of both traditional and consumer fans.
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Slash Factor: Characteristics and Varieties of Slash Fan Fiction
Cupalová, Lucie ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Farrell, Mark Robert (referee)
Lucie Cupalová - Master's Thesis The Slash Factor: Characteristics and Varieties of Slash Fan Fiction Abstract The aim of the thesis is to discuss specific characteristics of slash fan fiction, both as a subgenre of fan fiction and as a literary and social phenomenon. These characteristics are summarised as the "slash factor" of "slash texts". The beginning of the theoretical part focuses on the history and development of (slash) fan fiction, its various definitions and its role as a specific genre in literature. It summarises the basic premises and principles of fan fiction and explains them on slash fan fiction in particular. Sedgwick's homosocial - homosexual continuum in society is discussed, as well as its understanding and application on same-sex interactions, and several reasons for the reading and writing of slash fan fiction and its appeal are suggested. The main part of the thesis analyses actual slash fan fiction in three different fandoms: Harry Potter, Sherlock (Holmes), and Nightrunners. Each of them offers a different set of characters and slash tropes. Similarities and differences are sought in the stories written in different fandoms. Moreover, the Nightrunner series is analysed as an example of professionally published "slash text" which already features a gay couple as the main...
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Powerful push of patients: display physically disabled heroes in TV series game of thrones and its audience through the lens of disability studies
Kondratová, Irina ; Baslarová, Iva (advisor) ; Reifová, Irena (referee)
This thesis discusses the ways of how physically handicapped fans of Game of Thrones, a television series, identify with characters like or dislike and answers the questions how physically handicapped fans choose who they favour and who they don't, how they identify with them and how is their interpretation linked to their own experience of being handicapped and how their social reality influences how they perceive the media reality. The research reveals orthodoxies of power of the dominating ideology of being fit, against which "the ill" and "powerless", define themselves, albeit subconsciously; it describes the difficulties, connected with their handicap, which they project into the series, behaviour strategies resulting from this phenomenon and how the world around interferes; and, last but not least, it confirms sociological premises of deepening empathy on the basis of different dimensions of one's own identities and experience. The qualitative research of audience is based on semi- structured interviews and deploys the interpretative approach, while the results are coded using the method of anchored theory. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Fanfiction and Intertextuality
Abbasová, Veronika ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
Summary: The aim of this thesis was to classify the intertextual relationship entered by fan fictions. A fan fiction is a modern literary form, which developed mainly in the second half of the 20th century and has been experiencing real boom since the beginning of the Internet era. Intertextuality is a basic condition for the existence of fan fictions, as these are derivatives of other texts (usually certain popular culture products). Fan fiction is created in fandom as a product of fan activity. These texts are unauthorized, they don't bring profit to their creators and can have a subversive character. Besides the basic intertextual relation to canon, fan fictions enter into a variety of other intertextual relationships. Among these are relationships to the cultural canon similar to those formed by traditional literature. Fan fiction borrows motives and plotlines from fairytales, myths, the Bible, poetry and songs, fiction and movies. On the other hand, fan fiction also enters into such intertextual relationships that are specific for this literary genre. These are so-called crossovers - mixing of several fictional worlds, and relationships to other works of fan fiction - parodies, continuing other authors' stories, replies to so-called challenges and prompts (ideas for stories).
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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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