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Construction of identity through self-portrait in social media era
Čermáková, Alžběta ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with a photographic and social phenomenon of contemporary society - the selfie. The selfie is a variation of photographic self-portrait taken by mobile photocamera. The selfie is a phenomenon because it has become a part of daily life of a huge number of people and started to influence the society throughout all its spheres. It has started to influence the human existence and the way we perceive ourselves. This work tries to examine this unexplored phenomenon from all possible angles. It observes and examines the selfie from the sociological, psychological and also philosophical point of view. The thesis attempts to describe, characterize and define it by using other important terms that communicate with the selfie. The work implants the selfie to the context of social networks and tries to find out its influence on the human behaviour. The work uses qualitative and quantitative methods to provide the insight into the mind of someone who is a keen selfie photographer and by following the results find out possible motivations and consequences that the selfie could have on the human subject. The work offers wide spectrum of theories that provides different explanations of this phenomenon. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Selfies as a tool of gender identity construction
Gejdošová, Iva ; Kobová, Ĺubica (advisor) ; Pavlík, Petr (referee)
Taking selfies is a technique of self-monitoring, gaze and comparison, drawing from its regulatory force upon women. The photo-taking practice marks the surveillance of how individual gender performances fulfill the expectations of existing gender norms. The contemporary postfeminist hegemonic femininity presents woman as owning the right kind of dispositions, such as confidence or sexiness, in which case the area of the body plays a central role. In order to explore how performances of such femininity are constructed, this study uses content analysis to study the visual and textual content of Instagram posts. This master thesis analyses whether the Instagram users tagging posts #zanormalniholky (#fornormalgirls) are responsive through selfies to postfeminist femininity or rather use it as a form of resistance against the postfeminist discourse. Identity, including gender identity, is constituted through acts that purport to be its consequence. Selfies - as the results of this thesis show - have normative potential. Key words postfeminism, selfie, Instagram, social media, gender, self-portrait, self-presentation, feminism, #zanormalniholky, femininity, makeover paradigm
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Analysis of gender roles and stereotypes on social network Instagram
Sedláková, Veronika ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Hladík, Radim (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the position of women and men on the Internet social network called Instagram. The theme is first described from a theoretical point of view, explaining what web 2.0 is, what social networks are and how social networking helps with our socialization to society and our self-presentation. In this part are also explained the concepts of gender and gender stereotypes. My own research consist of three parts. The first part is a qualitative image analysis of so-called "selfie" photos of selected Instagram users, which revealed, that the women that I analyzed supported gender stereotypes in female imaginary, while analyzed men occasionally oscillated between masculinity and femininity. The second part is the analysis of the number of the likes under these "selfie" photos and the third part is the analysis of deep semi-structured interviews, which showed that women and men have much in common on Instagram. But overall, their position on this network according to my analysis is not the same.
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Construction of identity through self-portrait in social media era
Čermáková, Alžběta ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with a photographic and social phenomenon of contemporary society - the selfie. The selfie is a variation of photographic self-portrait taken by mobile photocamera. The selfie is a phenomenon because it has become a part of daily life of a huge number of people and started to influence the society throughout all its spheres. It has started to influence the human existence and the way we perceive ourselves. This work tries to examine this unexplored phenomenon from all possible angles. It observes and examines the selfie from the sociological, psychological and also philosophical point of view. The thesis attempts to describe, characterize and define it by using other important terms that communicate with the selfie. The work implants the selfie to the context of social networks and tries to find out its influence on the human behaviour. The work uses qualitative and quantitative methods to provide the insight into the mind of someone who is a keen selfie photographer and by following the results find out possible motivations and consequences that the selfie could have on the human subject. The work offers wide spectrum of theories that provides different explanations of this phenomenon. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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