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The Army on the media battlefield
Klementová, Jana ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Halada, Jan (referee)
The thesis "The army on the media battlefield" examines the extent to which the Ministry of Defence and the Army of the Czech Republic are media institutions. If they take media logic and if they subject to pressure of the journalists. All this in a theoretical frame of four phases of mediatisation that is defined by Jesper Strömbäck's work in 2008. The theoretical part defines terms such as mediatisation or media logic. The thesis also focuses on the explanation of corporate communication, which is related to the Ministry of Defence and the Czech Army. In the conclusion of the theoretical part both institutions are defined and the emphasis is on their communications department. The methodological part describes the research method of semi-structured interviews, which are used to collect relevant data. It also defines the research problem and research questions. The third part of the thesis is devoted to research where data collected from nine respondents from the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Army are analyzed and categorized to relevant research questions. Respondents answered questions that addressed the communication objectives of the Army, formats and contents of the communication, new media and their work in relation to editorial routines. Respondents described what...
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Mediatization as a consequence of self-presentation on social networks: publishing norms and their influence on Instagram users
Jarošová, Sabina ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
Diploma thesis Mediatization as a consequence of self-presentation on social networks: publishing norms and their influence on Instagram users explores how Instagram and its affordances are able to change the behavior of its users, focusing on the aspect of photo sharing and related publishing norms. The aim of this work is to find out the practices which users do with photos and because of them before sharing them on Instagram, but above all it is about deeper understanding of the detected behavior and exploring whether and how such behavior interferes with users' lives. Within the theoretical part, the reader is acquainted with the development of the image, the origin of photography, its manipulations and changes in the digital era. Furthermore, the thesis presents visual social networks, the principles of Instagram operation and findings from current studies on the topic of self-presentation on social networks. In the last part, I deal specifically with Instagram photography, its types, methods of editing and sharing, based mainly on two current studies on this topic, the authors of which are Lev Manovich and Elisa Serafinelli. The second half of the thesis presents the research methodology, its design, results and final summary.
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Search console as a mean of communication exemplified on deep mediatisation
Novák, Ivan ; Klimeš, David (advisor) ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (referee)
The thesis analyses the communication process of search engines in the advertiser - customer relation. The thesis holistically proceeds to the communication analysis of search engine, first describing new media, mediatization, functioning of search engine, advertisement systems and behavior of the search engine users. The thesis describes new media as dual artifacts with a tangible and intangible part, which are constantly adaptable to society's requirements thanks to its nature - they can be easily changed and improved. This makes the new media - in the field of media science - really new. The term "mediatization" represents the ability of media to change the society's behavior. The new media makes the deep mediatization happen, i. e. distinct habitualization of changes in society caused by the new media. In the thesis, the changes are illustrated by the examples of change of mindset, communication and purchase process. The users adjust the way they communicate in the search engines for their query to be successfully decoded by both an algorithm and a provider of the searched information. Therefore the thesis focuses on specifics of users' habits during the searching process. Furthermore, the thesis expands on the position of advertisers and their option of approaching the search engine user...
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The Army on the media battlefield
Klementová, Jana ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Halada, Jan (referee)
The thesis "The army on the media battlefield" examines the extent to which the Ministry of Defence and the Army of the Czech Republic are media institutions. If they take media logic and if they subject to pressure of the journalists. All this in a theoretical frame of four phases of mediatisation that is defined by Jesper Strömbäck's work in 2008. The theoretical part defines terms such as mediatisation or media logic. The thesis also focuses on the explanation of corporate communication, which is related to the Ministry of Defence and the Czech Army. In the conclusion of the theoretical part both institutions are defined and the emphasis is on their communications department. The methodological part describes the research method of semi-structured interviews, which are used to collect relevant data. It also defines the research problem and research questions. The third part of the thesis is devoted to research where data collected from nine respondents from the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Army are analyzed and categorized to relevant research questions. Respondents answered questions that addressed the communication objectives of the Army, formats and contents of the communication, new media and their work in relation to editorial routines. Respondents described what...
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Mediatization of the Politic Sphere
Hannich, Jiří ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Trampota, Tomáš (referee)
This Diploma Thesis "Mediatization of Political Sphere" deals with the systematic influence of mass media and their logic on the functioning of the political system, process development and implementation of policy instruments and methods of political communication. First of all the theoretical part is focused on the description of the institutional importance of media in the social environment, more properly introduces images of the effects of media communications in the society, characteristics of the participation of media organizations in the economic relations so that the concept of mediatization in the frame of media studies could be defined and to specify its aspects in connection with a set of knowledge of media logic. The thesis does not omit the introduction of basic logic elements of political sphere, it also deals with its implicit settings, as well as modifications of the political structures in response to transfer a large part of the policy enforcement into the symbolic space of the media. The theoretical interpretation is followed by the research which is focused on the selected elements of mediatization in the Czech context. In the first stage the quantitative research method of content analysis is used to find out which topics and which representatives are observed by the Czech...
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