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Body image in the eyes of influencers of Instagram who experienced eating disorder
Vobořilová, Tereza ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Soukup, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis titled: ,,Concept of one's body in influencers with experience with an eating disorder on Instagram'' is about influencers who present themselves on social networking site Instagram and have experienced an eating disorder. The aim of the work is to find out how influencers, who have been through an eating disorder, are perceived and whether the eating disorder translates into how they present themselves on the social networking site Instagram. For this, 6 influencers meeting the above criteria were approached. For a deeper insight into the topic, an image analysis of the profiles of individual influencers has been chosen, following semi-structured interviews with each of them. After data collection, the data was analyzed using thematic analysis. The thesis aims to find out if influencers have had a change after going through an eating disorder and whether the content they share on their profiles has changed. To do this, topics such as the emergence of an eating disorder, content shared during eating disorders, but also changing the content and perception of one's body today have been explored.
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Covert advertising on social media
Sýkorová, Kristýna ; Hejlová, Denisa (advisor) ; Houdek, Petr (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to present hidden advertising on social media, its possibilities of dissemination across platforms and its definition in czech legal framework. The first part of the bachelor thesis will consist of the introduction of advertising overall (but mainly digital advertising) and the different types of advertising presented on social media shared through influencers' channels. Advertising, especially the covert form, will be defined in terms of national and European Union law. Influencing will be further presented on the basis of its nature and content, but also on the basis of the obligations of influencers that arise in the dissemination of sponsored content. In the second part, I am going to analyse the awareness of hidden advertising from the perspective of social network users. It will examine their theoretical knowledge of advertising and collaborations, as well as their ability to recognize such advertising in practice. Finally, I will reflect on the current legislation and compare it with the results of the analysis and present the possibilities of regulating this area in terms of its importance, relevance and need.
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(Un)safe social media as perceived by children
Šolcová, Tereza ; Háša, Marek (advisor) ; Vochocová, Lenka (referee)
This thesis is devoted to the safety of children on social networks from the perspective of their own experiences and their perception. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis, it tries to provide the lived experience of these participants with an emphasis on the sensitivity of the topic. The results were used using semi-structured interviews with 7 participants aged 13 from Lutín Primary School. The individual interviews were recorded and subsequently interpreted according to the individual procedures of the chosen methods of analysis.
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The influence of social media on the eating disorder recovery
Drobílková, Eva ; Hrešanová, Ema (advisor) ; Procházková, Barbora (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the relationship between the eating disorder treatment process and the influence of fitness influencers on social media. Specifically, it uses qualitative methods to research the motivations for membership in an online fitness community of individuals with a history of these disorders, along with the benefits of the content shared there. The thesis is divided into three main parts, of which the first part defines the discussed concepts in the context of the research and presents the current state of knowledge within the topic. Eating disorders are linked to social media and broken down in the context of different treatment options, followed by an introduction to the phenomenon of creating online communities within the field of digital health, which also frames the research. The second, methodological part of the thesis is devoted to the conduct of the digital ethnographic research, the definition of the objectives and research questions, the description of the chosen methods and their ethics. The results of the analysis of data obtained through participant observation of the selected social media content and semi-structured interviews are presented within the third part of the thesis. Here, the research findings are divided into two thematic units based on the...
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The influence of social media on the development of children aged 13 to 15
Tsyhannyk, Oleksandra ; Ježková, Tereza (advisor) ; Koblovský, Petr (referee)
Social media has grown exponentially in the last few decades, and is continuing to develop, making its way into every aspect of our everyday lives. This bachelor's thesis dives into the problematic of how children aged 13-15 are influenced by social media, and how it impacts their development. It first explores the history of social media, and then moves onto presenting the current state of social media and the most popular platforms. After introducing the topic from the general perspective, the thesis delves deeper into the issue of young teenagers and social media, the processes, and effects of it. The second part of this work includes practical research on the topic, the evaluation of its results and following discussion.
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Social media activism: an analysis of how climate activists use Instagram and encourage green behaviour among their followers.
Márkus, Maja Olívia ; Neag, Annamária (advisor) ; Shavit, Anna (referee)
Climate crisis is arguably one of the most pressing issues of our societies currently. As social media has become an important part of our everyday lives and is a tool with the capacity to influence the opinion and behaviour of people, this master thesis wants to explore how climate activists portray themselves on the visual social media platform Instagram and encourage offline green action among their followers. The research is based on the qualitative content analysis of 12 semi-structured interviews with young climate activists who use Instagram and the analysis of their posts. The thesis uses Goffman's presentation of self in an online context, internet activism, the personalisation of politics, social media influencers and climate communication as its theoretical framework. Results showed that climate activists not only use social media strategies of influencers on Instagram (often unwillingly), but also heavily rely on the personification of their messages and sharing aspects of their personal lives to establish connections with their followers. Climate activists interviewed qualified as micro-influencers, which allowed them to form deep relationships with their audience because of the small follower base and gave them the possibility to assess the extent of their impact on their audience's...
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The Channel of Influence? YouTube Advertising and the Hipster Phenomenon
Horáková, Zuzana ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee)
This research seeks to address the topic of the influence of the YouTube advertising on society as seen by the members of hipster subculture. This work aims to explore the attitude of hipsters towards the YouTube thanks to an analysis of the interviews and also with the help of a theoretical framework of core concepts such as subculture, hipster, lifestyle or advertising practices. The reason I address hipster attitudes is the fact, that hipster phenomenon has become widespread nowadays. Moreover, those individuals are associated with skeptical stance towards the mainstream trends. Therefore, I have decided to confront the ostensibly distrustful view of hipsters towards YouTube as a representative of modern mainstream and then analyze self-proclaimed attitudes of hipsters as such.
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Mamabloggers and fans raction on their cooperation with companies
Baltaretu, Iva ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Švelch, Jaroslav (referee)
In this diploma thesis I deal with the topic of blogs. My main goal was to introduce the part of blogs called mommyblogs and to define it as a separate category in the theoretical background chapter. In the practical part, I decided to use quantitative methods of data collection through a questionnaire survey. The survey was aimed at both mommy bloggers and their readers. I supplemented the questionnaires with depth interviews with selected mommy bloggers. Which helped me to obtain even more detailed data, which enriched the data obtained from both questionnaires. I found out what motivates mommy bloggers to blog, but also what their attitude is towards cooperation with companies and how they select and label collaborations. Have they ever felt exploited either by companies or by social media? The respondents also touched on the topic of ethics and responsibility - either regarding the placement of photos of children on social media or regarding products whose promotion is bound by regulations. I tried to find out the ability of the readers to recognize advertisements on blogs and social networks of mommy bloggers. And also how the advertising message of mommy bloggers affects their readers. This thesis focuses only on bloggers from the Czech Republic.
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Advertising Targeting Children on Social Media and its Reflextion by this Target Group
Mimochodková, Ráchel ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (advisor) ; Zavadilová, Tereza (referee)
The bachelor's thesis focuses on commercials targeting children on social media networks, which is often criticized and often discussed due to its ethical side, since children target group is the most sensitive one. The first part of the thesis focuses on commercials targeting children group and how it is regulated by law including examples from abroad and psychological profile of children. Practical part of the thesis focuses on the social network called Instagram and commercials published by influencers. In this context we experience discussions mostly considering transparency of the influencers and the necessity of labelling advertisement posts. The goal of the thesis is to shed a light on approach of children towards influencer commercials and find out under what circumstances can children identify a commercial.
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