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Children's perception of old age in the context of media representations
Nikodemová, Tereza ; Háša, Marek (advisor) ; Soukup, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on children's attitudes towards old age and seniors in the context of media representations. The part of the thesis that draws out the literature defines the issues of media representations, social and media construction of reality, discusses the influence of the media on children's audiences, defines old age and the position of seniors in society, and finally outlines the way seniors are presented not only in children's media. The research part of the thesis clarifies the issue of the perception of old age by children aged 9 to 11 in the context of media representations in relation to the studies already conducted. Within the framework of its own research, it explores, through individual in-depth interviews, the child participants' perceptions of the elderly, their lives and their position in society, and the role of the media in this process. The study found that children most often characterise the elderly through external features and think of them in very stereotypical ways. They see them as a homogeneous group of people with frequent health problems, who live alone, primarily meet the needs of others, obtain a lot of knowledge and are wise. Children show considerable fear of ageing aware "othering" in their views, emphasizing the ideal of youth and reflecting on...
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Children's perception of poverty and wealth in the context of media representations
Mňuková, Dominika ; Soukup, Martin (advisor) ; Reifová, Irena (referee)
This thesis explores how children perceive extreme manifestations of social inequalities - poverty and wealth, and what role do media and media representations play in this process. Based on the literature, it is focusing on media construction of reality, media representations, and social inequalities in general, at the same time it deals with poverty and wealth in the context of perception and media representations, and it also explores the relationship between children and media. Furthermore, by analyzing the results of interviews with children the thesis directly examines how they perceive poverty and wealth and what role do media play in this process. The main finding concerning the social inequalities is that most children perceive them as legitimate and to justify them they use the method of naturalization or/and romanticization of poverty. The main finding concerning the media influence is that media affect children subconsciously and that their thoughts and attitudes to poverty and wealth correspond with media representations of the same in the media production for children.
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North Korea's media construction under Kim Jong - il and Kim Jong - un rulership
Peka, David ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
North Korea is one of the most isolated countries in the world. The media therefore play an important role in shaping the image of this country abroad. The aim of this diploma thesis was to find out how Czech online media represented the DPRK between 2010 and 2012, when the power was transferred from Kim Jong-il to Kim Jong-un. In the first part of the thesis, I qualitatively analysed 48 articles from five Czech online media: lidovky.cz, novinky.cz, iHNed.cz, respekt.cz and reflex.cz. I chose grounded theory as a research technique. However, the aim of the research was not to build the theory itself, but to conceptualize and describe the relations among the individual media representations of the DPRK. The analysis revealed that the online media reported on the DPRK mainly in connection with country's poor economic situation and with related deep inequalities between the ruling class and people. The transfer of power in North Korea was reported by Czech media in connection with Kim Jong-il's poor health. After his death, the media focused on uncertainty about the country's future. At the end of the period the media represented Kim Jong-un as the new North Korean leader, who was seeking for his own ruling style, which was based on the cult of personality.
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Media representations of actors involved in the Transgas conflict
Galová, Klára ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Miessler, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis titled Media representations of actors involved in the Transgas conflict is focused on the image of the possible demolition of the brutalist Transgas buildings in Prague in the most read Czech printed daily newspapers between years 2015 and 2019. This case raised a debate on landmark protection of buildings made during the previous communist regime. Many different subjects got involved in the case - from the general public to authorities and actors from commercial sphere. The presented research is therefore focused on construction of their identities. The aim of this study is to answer this question: "How did media constructed the image of actors of the Transgas conflict?". Research is based on discourse analysis method, which was applied to 109 articles published between 2015 and 2019 on the pages of Mladá fronta DNES, Právo, Hospodářské noviny and Lidové noviny. The main result of this method is to identify main categories of subjects and to analyse their media representations.
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The body culture phenomenon in czech special interests magazines
Strouhalová, Iva ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Macková, Veronika (referee)
Body culture represents a typical example of sociological phenomenon which has been a subject of mass commercialization for nearly several decades. At certain stage of this process, new magazines of special interest were been created with focus on a specific concept of the physical culture. Their content coverage ranged from fitness, strength training, bodybuilding, health lifestyle, to physical exercise in general. The diploma thesis "The body culture phenomenon in Czech special interests magazines" aims to survey an origin and evolution of such magazines in the Czech Republic and tries to shed light on how physical culture represented by increasing popularity of fitness activities among general public had been reflected in this segment of media production. While analyzing three Czech magazines, Svět kulturistiky, FITNESS and MUSCLE&FITNESS, the thesis examines how the mass popularization and commercialization of physical culture have affected a content structure of the magazines. The research focuses on selection of topics, target audience, use of language and graphic design. Qualitative content analysis will be used to study how the physical culture phenomenon is represented in selected magazines. The thesis also gives a brief insight into the history of bodybuilding and fitness movement in the...
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