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Ethical Codes in the present Czech media system
Horáčková, Anna ; Osvaldová, Barbora (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
Master's Thesis focuses on current position of ethics in the Czech media. The main subject is the code of ethics (or code of conduct). The first part of the thesis offers a theoretical background of the topic. I am pursuing the terminology referred to the media ethics topic. Together with scholarly resources I provide definitions of terms such as ethics, morality and code of ethics in media. Summary of relevant Czech codes of conduct is essential for this thesis. First, I present the codes in a brief list and table, more detailed analysis follows. The focus is on differences and specification of each of them. After that I present an analysis of ethical rules valid in foreign countries - European states and the United States in particular. Theoretical part is followed by practical part of the thesis. It is based on interviews with experts which are semi- anonymous and semi-structured. I interview eight employees of Czech media after formulating several hypotheses. I chose experts who have been working in media for many years - mainly chief editors or top managers in press, TV, radio or online media. One of the most important chapters is the confirmation or refutation of the stated hypotheses. Based on the conclusion of the interviews, I create a universal code of ethics that might be applicable on...
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Reflexion of Yugoslavian politics and Yugoslavian everydayness in Czech periodical press in the early years following the Second World War
Vojnovič, Daniel ; Pelikán, Jan (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
The author will perform an analysis of news, comments, documentaries and other articles in which the selected Czech printed media reported about the events in Yugoslavia during the years 1945-1948. He will observe not only the news regarding political events or economic development in the country, but also the articles reflecting the everyday life in Yugoslavia (cultural events, national relationships, religion, tourism etc.). The analysis will be chronologically bounded by May 1945 (liberation of Czechoslovakia) and June 1948 (publication of so called first resolution of Inform Bureau). Heuristic base of the thesis will be chosen in a such a way, so it covers political stratification of the Czech public sector during that period. The author will be therefore analyzing relevant articles from the periodicals that were being published either by KSC (Czechoslovakian communist party) or its closed partners (Rude Pravo, Kulturni Politika). He will also investigate articles from the daily journal Svobodne Slovo, which was being published by the Czechoslovakian Social Party as well as part of the Lidova Demokracie journal; the news outlet of Czechoslovak People's Party. Analysis will also be performed on news broadcasts, commentaries and reportages published in independent daily journals and magazines,...
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The image of women in the First Republic era according to women'smagazines of that time
Krechlerová, Alžběta ; Zábrodská, Kristina (advisor) ; Skalecká, Veronika (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with women's magazines in the era of the First Republic and examines how these magazines have seen their readers. The theoretical part brings information about the context of the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic, the economic and social situation and the position of women in the society of Czechoslovakia. It also focuses on the structure of the press and specific periodicals that were published during the First Republic. It also deals with the political and independent press, women's magazines and the status of female journalists. Practical part of the thesis brings quantitative research. In this part, there are summarized research questions, methodology, research samples and the results of the quantitative content analysis. It includes, in particular, a description of the contents of magazines and the occurrence of female themes in individual selected papers, which were intended for bourgeois, workers and religious women living in the countryside.
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Selected samizdat magazines 1980-1987
Kučerová, Monika ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The subject of the thesis "Selected samizdat magazines 1980 - 1987 (X Desítka (Ten)/Violit and Jednou nohou (One Foot)/Revolver Revue)" is to give a picture of how these magazines were created and how they functioned in the context of the time. The first part of the thesis gives a general description of historical events, especially the period surrounding Gustáv Husák's rise to become the head of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the start of normalisation. This change brought about issues such as political cleansing and trials and the development of opposition. The second chapter is devoted to the phenomenon of Charter 77, its origins, the response to it by the party and state apparatus and what it meant to be a Charter 77 member in everyday life. The concept of samizdat is briefly defined in chapter three. The fourth and fifth chapters deal with the magazines themselves. In the sixth chapter they are compared mainly in terms of production and distribution.
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Ferdinand Peroutka's Cultural Publicism in Přítomnost
Miklica, Tomáš ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
The diploma thesis Cultural journalism of Ferdinand Peroutka in Přítomnost (1924 - 1939) deals with culture articles Ferdinand Peroutka has written as the editor-in-chief of a cultural-political magazine Přítomnost during the years between the World Wars. The thesis is therefore mainly focused on his literary criticism but texts concerning theatre or film are included as well. Crucial part of the thesis is based on a critical qualitative analysis of a chosen sample of texts published in the culture section of Přítomnost between 1924 and 1939 - with the emphasis on Peroutka's requirements towards art, his polemics with other authors or his subject choice and reception. Form and content of the texts are analysed too. Additionally, the thesis provides an introduction to Ferdinand Peroutka as a member of Czechoslovak Republic's elite, specifically as a journalist and a culture critic. In order to offer full context a description of Přítomnost magazine is included and completed by a brief summary of Czechoslovak culture journalism between the World Wars with examples of other important periodicals and their contributors. The thesis opens with introducing different approaches to criticism as a genre.
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Recent history of the Czech sports journalism from the perspective of former members of the Sports Journalists' Association
Rybář, Pavel ; Vaňous, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
The heart of this thesis consists of life stories narrated by former as well as current sports journalists and it focuses on sports journalism as a profession in political and social contexts. The first part gives an example of theories which deconstruct the myth of sport as an apolitical phenomenon. The second part reconstructs the history of public appearances of sport by examining attitudes, values and desires of interviewees. Using the snowball sampling technique -- recruitment of future subjects from among their acquaintances -- the researcher processes memories of eight interviewees whose information is classified into four main topics. Those include answers to under what conditions interviewees made a decision on their occupation, which sports they were concerned with, what reputation those sports had, what constraints they faced in their job, and what other unexpected roles their profession implies. As a whole, this text describe sports journalism as sine qua non for an outset of the tendency which began to grow during the 1950s in Czechoslovakia -- the attraction extending beyond the leisure activity and the top level sport gaining in popularity.
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The theme of popular music in regional newspapers of contemporary Karlovy Vary region in the period 1957-1967
Šmíd, Radek ; Houda, Přemysl (advisor) ; Diestler, Radek (referee)
The dissertation Topic of popular music in the local press of contemporary Karlovy Vary region in the period 1957 - 1967 attempts to capture the process of official views presented in the regional press between the years 1957 - 1967 in the territory of today's Karlovy Vary Region on various genres of modern music, represented by mainstream dance music which later evolved into popular music. Articles, reviews and critiques relevant to modern music published in newspapers in area of Karlovy Vary and specialist publications dedicated to particular cultural issues in the region was used for the research. Furthermore, it was primarily jazz and rock music in Czechoslovakia known as big beat (bigbít). The introduction deals with the theoretical and methodological issues appropriate to the topic and their possible use. The next part deals with the social and cultural context in Czechoslovakia at that time, the influence of ideology on culture and simultaneously on releasing in art and society during the 1960s. An overview of contextualization within postwar (World War II) official press, the situation regarding modern music in Karlovy Vary regional press in the period 1948 - 1956 and also archival documents that are related to the topic of work are mentioned in the second part. The third part deals with...
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Bias of Czech media: the image of Radovan Krejčíř and his activities in the contemporary press
Němeček, Jan ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
Bachelor thesis Bias of Czech media: the image of Radovan Krejčíř and his activities in the contemporary press analyzes how chosen media informed about events during the escape of Radovan Krejčíř from the Czech Republic in 2005. The quantitative analysis aims to reveal potential journalism methods and working procedures, that could cause, at the end, bias on public. Theoretical part of these thesis focuses on defining the term bias and specifies defined terms, which this study contains. Theoretical concepts kinds of bias are introduced and monitored press is defined. Practical part of this study draws information form monitored periodicals in defined time table and emphasizes on following comparation of analyzed data. The main aim of this study is to find out, how media worked with information and confirm or refute potential bias.
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