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Discussions on News Articles on social Networks
Rozsypalová, Blanka ; Charvát, Jakub (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
The thesis focuses on discussions under news articles shared by news servers on the social network Facebook. The aim of this work is to summarize the existing understanding of the topic. Therefore, theoretical concepts connected to the topic are summarized. The thesis focuses on communication, online communication and the presence of news servers on social networks, as well as on the topic of anonymity on social networks and how anonymity can affect discussions. A chapter of the thesis focuses on the spiral of silence and its possible occurrence in discussions. Further, the thesis focuses on the freedom of speech as well as the new ways social networks are trying to fight disinformation and hate online. The empirical part focuses on how Facebook users view the use of social networks by news servers. Another part of the thesis focuses on a group of volunteers called #jsmetu. This group tries to make sure discussions are factual and are free from personal attacks and vulgarity. Three discussions are analysed - discussions #jsmetu took part in. The thesis investigates the influence #jsmetu has on discussions. Due to the topic of the thesis being a very current one, the thesis suggests more areas for further research.
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The self-regulation in online journalism focusing on main czech news server
Ciborová, Kateřina ; Čermák, Miloš (advisor) ; Javůrek, Adam (referee)
The author of this thesis focuses on the ethical codes of Czech web journals. The thesis explains the terms like ethics, morality, regulation and self-regulation. It outlines new options available in the web journalism (unlike the traditional journalism) which are frequently used. The main goals of the thesis are the ethical codes, their wording, origin, coincidence, differences, strengths and weaknesses. For the purpose of this thesis the author designed a questionnaire for chief editors of web journals in which she outlined the basic ethical problems of the web journalism. Chief editors commented on the model situation, stated their opinions and assessed their most probable behavior in given situation. The emphasis is put mainly on the correction of the untruthful information, sourcing and corresponding referencing, the use of the social networks as a source of information and publishing of the photograph capturing pain, suffering or death.
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