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Hyper-digitalization of the football environment from the point of view of the fans of the football club AC Sparta Prague
Novák, Filip ; Pergl, David (advisor) ; Tremčinský, Martin (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the influence of hyperdigitalization on the relationship between fans and AC Sparta Prague, a club participating in the highest Czech football competition. In the theoretical part of the thesis I define the concept of hyperdigitalization and the processes that come with the rapid development of digital technologies and communication tools. These include, for example, the naturalization of digital communication or the deterritorialization of the fandom. Furthermore, I discuss the methodology of my work, in which I use semi-structured in-depth interviews with Sparta fans to collect data. Among other things, the social network Twitter and the Sparta fan community operating there were used to select respondents. In the practical part, I analyse the generated data in chapters dealing with establishing a relationship with the club, consumption of digital content, traditional 'offline' fandom, the complications of digital technologies and the financial functioning of the club. The themes of the analytical chapters were developed primarily based on the categories emerging from the open coding results. Answers to the research questions and opportunities for further research are emerged in the final chapter.
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Avengers and their Fandom Perception
ŠURANSKÁ, Barbora
The Bachelor thesis on the topic Fandom Perception of Avengers have been focused especially at the final product of a specific fandom, in the form of shared fan art on social media. The first part is focused on the theoretical side of fan. I pay attention to its history and gradual progression. I'm trying to introduce the fan studies that have a tradition at universities of the United States of America and slowly making their way here in the field of media, television and cultural studies. In the next two chapters, I define the categories of fandom and types of fans and non-fans, about expend level of the activity. Then, based on typical fan activities by marked academics, I wrote down several practices. At the end of the theoretical part I discuss the three most important works wrote by Henry Jenkins, Matt Hills and Paul Booth, on which are build fan studies and are often quoted. In the second part, I will take a closer look at two works focused on the hypersexuality of female comic books characters from The Hawkeye Inititative website and a "race" man, Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin, Afroamerican author. I will analyze a video about physics milestones Marvel Universe filmed by the University of Minnesota physicist Jim Kakalios, who uses some scenes to explain various facts in his lectures. After that I will look at the main headline scenes that led to the end of the four phases of the Infinity Saga, popular conspiracy theories of forums such as Reddit, and at the finish add a few examples from Czech fan work on YouTube and shared art on Facebook, etc.
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The media coverage of Peter Sagan in the Czech and Slovak media during the Tour de France
Petrášová, Alžběta ; Trunečka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Macková, Veronika (referee)
The bachelor thesis Media image of Peter Sagan in Czech and Slovak media during the Tour de France deals with the coverage of Slovak cyclist Peter Sagan on the internet news servers Sme.sk and iDnes.cz. Peter Sagan is historically one of the most successful cyclists and has achieved great victories of his career at the Tour de France. The theoretical part of the thesis summarizes the development of sports journalism, outlines the phenomenon of fanhood, building national identity through sport and presents basic information about Peter Sagan and the Tour de France. Using quantitative content analysis, the practical part examines Sagan's media image during the 2017 edition, from which he was expelled after stage 4 under controversial circumstances, and 2019, during which he won one stage and won a record seventh green jersey for the winner of the points competition. The research examines Sagan's media coverage in selected media, whether it differs from each other and wheter it changes under the influence of events. The practical part is complemented by interviews with journalists from selected media.
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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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Contemporary Fandom Subculture - Active Culture Consumption
VANÍČKOVÁ, Simona
This bachelor thesis focuses on the topic of fans, specifically fan communities surrounding cultural works of fiction. In the first part it maps out the progress of media studies in the 20th century and the research of audiences and their consumption of media messages. It summarizes that the question of media message reception had previously been viewed as a question of a uniform mass of people under the total control of the media industry; afterwards research proved diversity in the audience that resulted in a variety of media message perceptions. From this general approach it moves in the second part to examine a specific group within an audience, the fans. It outlines the gradual shifts in the way the academic world has viewed the fan world through the comparison of various works on this topic and it informs about the general characteristics of fan communities at various points in time. It concludes that while working with the subject of fan communities it is relevant to incorporate topics such as resistance against the cultural industry, the community aspect of being a fan, the activity and passivity of being a fan, and their representation in academia and in media messages themselves.
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Television fanship and the phenomenon of game. History-sociological study of television fanship
Veselský, Matouš ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Vávra, Martin (referee)
The goal of the diploma thesis is to describe basic characteristics of mediate fanship, which we interprate as a specific form of game. In theoretical part we discuss typologies of fans, concept of flow and antropological and philosophical interpretations of game. We also present some aspects of modernity. Diploma thesis uses qualitative research and it combines three methods: archival research, observation and interviews. The aim of archival research done in the archive of the Czech television si to describe transformation of televison fanship in time. We discuss that this phenomenon is not a matter of the last twenty years and that it has its own history. Observations and interviews brings us to nowadays. We combine perspective of an observer with the data taken from interviews. Ten interviews were made during the research.
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Manifestations and rate of patriotism and fanfare in daily newspapers on the example of the czech and the slovak national hockey team
Moravec, Vít ; Macková, Veronika (advisor) ; Trunečka, Ondřej (referee)
The thesis examines whether Czech and Slovak printed national daily newspapers reveal expressions of patriotism and fanfare in ice-hockey news reports. Sports matches between two nations, which once formed one state, have all the requisites for being more special and prestigious than regular matchups. For this reason, these two events have been selected as suitable for analysis: the final match in the 2000 World Championship between the Czech Republic and Slovakia (5:3) and the 2012 semifinal between the same opponents (1:3). The theoretical part introduces concepts of nation, nationalism, national identity, national symbols, myths, stereotypisation and fanfare. In the empirical part, a discourse analysis is performed for their examination and application on a research sample, which consists of texts from the time of the given matches between the Czech and Slovak national teams. As an assistant method, a quantitative content analysis has been chosen to provide answers to questions concerning the number and location of articles in each country's newspapers. The results of the analysis proved that Czech and Slovak printed daily newspapers frequently reveal expressions of patriotism and fanfare in the period under review, distinctively using the first person of the plural "we" or a tendency...
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Relationship of a fan, celebrity and fan community in a world of e-sports
Vlačiha, Tomáš ; Pospíšilová, Marie (advisor) ; Tesařová, Šárka (referee)
This thesis is about world of e-sports, which has become in few last years important theme in the field of sociology. The main goal of this thesis is to research relationships, which are created within online communities: relationship between a fan and e-celebrity and relationship within online communities. Results were accomplished by quality research and semi-structured interview with e-sports fans. With these interviews is then descripted evolution of fan relationship which was divided into three phases. The phases are: 1) Gamer relationship with close community of his friends, 2) Relationship between fan and e-celebrity, 3) Relationship between fan and a big community of fans. These phases explain how gamer becomes an e-sport fan.
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