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Analysis of Facebook negative campaigns led by leaders of selected political parties before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2021
Mrázek, Patrik ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
1 Abstract This thesis deals with the analysis of the negative campaigns run by seven leaders of political entities before the 2021 Czech parliamentary elections. Specifically, it focuses on the content found on the Facebook accounts of Andrej Babiš, Petr Fiala, Marian Jurečka, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Ivan Bartoš, Vít Rakušan and Tomio Okamura. Attention is paid to the form and frequency of negative advertisement as it is an integral part of the pre-election period and, in the examined elections, was employed often in the campaign's strategy. In the theoretical section, negative advertising is placed into the wider scope of current trends in political communication and is tied in with political marketing tools. In relation to the unclear definition of the phenomenon, a unifying definition is introduced. Negative advertising is then further separated into subtypes, introduced in the Czech environment, and connected with concepts and theories debating the extent and perception of the use of negativity and emotion in campaigns. The quantitative analysis of content generates statistical data, explaining the method in which negative advertisement is used, its subtypes and affective components. Based on this, it evaluates the extent of negativity present in individual campaigns as well as their emotional tone....
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Internet memes as a tool of popcultural citizenship
Suchý, Marek ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Mňuková, Dominika (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on internet memes as a possible element of political communication. Memes themselves were first investigated by R. Dawkins in the late 1970s. With the rise of the Internet, the concept began to appear under the term 'Internet memes'. The history of the concept of meme, both in its classical and internet form, is included in this thesis, alongside their definitions, as with the concept of political communication, for which I offer different variants of definition. In addition, I also present the Internet homes of memes, i.e. the websites on which Internet memes have developed (and continue to develop) and on which they are disseminated. After introducing the basic categories of memes, I focus on introducing the "Pepe the Frog" meme, as a distinctly unique meme with respect to its history and "life journey", in the context of political communication. Subsequently, I offer other formats of memes, from other categories, that have been used in political communication, but their history is not as deep and significant as Pepe's. There are examples of global memes as well as memes from the Czech Republic. Apart from the internet sources, I have used the book by L. Shifman: Memes in Digital Culture and by Brian McNair: An Introduction to Political Communication and a documentary...
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Populism and persuasive propaganda in Czech party system
Kharisova, Kamilla ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to study populist statements that appear in the advertising campaigns of political parties during the pre-election period. The main idea is to examine the discourse of this phenomenon during parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic held in 2017. The aim of the work is to identify and describe the use of populist elements in nine political entities that passed the 5% clause. Our work is based on the theory of populism as a marketing strategy by Winder and Tenscher (2012). Since populism is a widespread phenomenon, we wanted to show that it permeates through every political party, whether populist or not. The diploma thesis uses content analysis of outdoor and television advertisements of political parties. This study concludes that populism is a very popular and well-functioning concept whose elements can be applied by practically any political actor. Key words: Populism, parliamentary elections, political communication, Czech Republic Title: Populism as political communication
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Analysis of political advertisements on Facebook before the parliamentary elections in 2021
Obergruber, Ondřej ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
The thesis is devoted to the analysis of Facebook advertisements, specifically political ones before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in 2021. The theoretical part of the thesis is first devoted to political communication in general and its development, from which it moves on to a description of the current age of political communication. Next, the focus is on political communication through social networks and the technical means by which politicians communicate with users. The practical part consists of a quantitative content analysis of individual ads using Facebook's Ad Library tool and SPSS software. The results of the analysis are interpreted and placed in the context of the research, while answering the research questions of the thesis.
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Communication of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic during the coronavirus pandemic on Facebook and Instagram
Preissová, Viktorie ; Jansa, Petra (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
This thesis examines the communication of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic on the social networks Facebook and Instagram during the coronavirus pandemic period from 1 March 2020 to 31 July 2021. It is based on the theory of crisis communication, political communication and political marketing communication on social networks. Using quantitative content analysis, the themes, forms, appeals and emotional frames of the analysed content are examined. The results of the analysis show that the communication of the Ministry of Health within the analysed Facebook posts was mostly devoted to the topic of sanitary and anti-epidemic measures, the implementation and relaxation of these measures and vaccination. In the case of the analysed Instagram posts, the Ministry most frequently addressed hygiene and anti-epidemic measures, the level of risk of contagion in the Czech Republic and the publication of relevant information and contacts providing relevant information. Posts without an appeal and emotional framework were the most frequently published.
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Comparative analysis of the social media communication of Czech political leaders (chairpersons) of selected political parties during campaign before the parliamentary elections in 2021
Kopřiva, Jan ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (advisor) ; Karel, Kryštof (referee)
This thesis analyses the communication of leaders of political parties in the Czech Republic on social media in relation to the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2021. The aim of the thesis was to find out how political leaders communicate on selected social media in the pre-election, election and post-election period. The chosen research method is quantitative content analysis. Three time periods were selected for the purpose of the analysis - the week before the election, the week of the election and the week after the election. The research included leaders whose electoral potential according to the Kantar model was above the threshold for winning a mandate according to the Act on Elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic. Seven candidates met this criterion. The analysis studies posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in terms of, for example, frequency, communicated topics or interactions. The analysis of individual profiles and the subsequent comparison of the results showed significant differences in the frequency, length and focus of the posts of each leader. For six of the seven leaders analysed, positive presentation of the programme and political views prevailed over criticism of other politicians or political entities. Only a small...
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Populism as a discursive strategy: an analysis of the communication of selected populist actors in the Czech political arena
Křovák, Jan ; Charvát, Jakub (advisor) ; Just, Petr (referee)
This paper analyses the concept of populism as a discursive strategy. Therefore, it uses the view of populist discourse as discussed by Ernesto Laclau and other authors in their works. The author analyses the communication practices of four selected Czech political actors on social networks (Facebook and Twitter) in the period before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in October 2021. For the analysis, the author chose representatives who are commonly labelled as populists, i.e. former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, far-right populists, i.e. Tomio Okamura, and then two politicians representing mainstream parties - Markéta Pekarová Adamová from TOP 09 and Vít Rakušan from STAN. In the theoretical part, the author describes in depth the phenomenon of populism on the basis of expert literature, and in a comprehensive way points out the relationship between populism, social networks, media and political communication. In the practical part, the author conducted a so-called critical discursive analysis of posts of the politicians on the above-mentioned social media and then compared their dominant communication practices. The author then places the data and results of the research in context of the populist narrative described in the theoretical part of the thesis.
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State of emergency in the Czech Republic as an oportunity for political communication
Srbová, Barbora ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (referee)
The thesis focuses on the political communication and media-related aspects of the first two waves of the coronavirus pandemic in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic overcame the spring wave of the pandemic in 2020 almost exemplarily, despite low preparedness and lack of protective equipment. This changed completely with the arrival of the second wave, when Czechia found itself among the worst affected countries. The aim of this paper is to explore one of the possible causes of this development. The thesis builds on the assumption that 1) political communication and media messages directed at citizens can - especially in times of crisis when news messages and politicians receive increased attention - have a perceptible impact on citizens' behaviour, their decision-making and their interpretation of unfolding events, and 2) that inconsistency of information, as well as inconsistency in its interpretation and framing, can have a negative impact on citizens' trust in the state and in the measures taken. Building on these assumptions, the paper uses a content analysis to examine how the COVID-19 disease pandemic was framed by the government and the media during the first and second waves of the pandemic, and tests the hypothesis that the degree of divergence between government and media framing of...
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The White House Presents: The Media Image of Barack Obama
Seidlová, Kristýna ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Zezulková, Markéta (referee)
The diploma thesis The White House Presents: The Media Image of Barack Obama examines the media presentation of the President of the United States, Barack Obama, through the official media channel of the White House. Five video recordings of President Obama's speeches are analyzed with a focus on linguistic, visual and auditory sign systems with the use of the qualitative semiotic content analysis. Before the analysis itself, an explanation of theoretical terms related mostly to the representation of reality is provided. On these grounds the analysis is then approached as a description of different means of achieving media construction of reality, to which both the President himself and the White House Office of Communications contribute. This Office is in charge of the content of the above-mentioned channel. To broaden the context, general information about the functioning of the President's media communication is included. The aim of this thesis is an interpretation of the communication tools presented by the White House media channel and the analysis of their symbolic meaning in order to explicate the process of a specific media image of the President coming into existence. The approach to the analyzed content from the perspective of intercultural communication is also of importance. It must be...
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