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Danish journalists in Central and Eastern Europe: Work, motivation and role perception
Varming, Johanna Maj ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Géla, František (referee)
Foreign correspondents act as gatekeepers to our world and their output can be influential. This study examines the motivations, work and role perceptions of Danish journalists who report on Central and Eastern Europe. For this study 10 semi-structured interviews with different types of correspondents were conducted in March 2023. Bourdieu's field theory was applied to understand the practice of journalism: how these journalists interact in the field and what they perceive as the "rules" of the game. This study shows that personal and idealistic motives drive the journalists. The journalists experience a high degree of autonomy, which according to Bourdieu equals power and is considered the ultimate endgame for journalists. This study finds that the journalists see their role as "curators" or "observers" that report as objectively as possible events in Central and Eastern Europe. Thus, they ascribe to very traditional values of journalism and role perceptions. In a prestigious field like foreign correspondence, one could assume that the struggle for power is intense. However, this study finds that even though the journalists possess very different positions in the field, they ascribe to similar ideals of journalism and do not challenge the field.
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Operads and field theory
Pulmann, Ján ; Jurčo, Branislav (advisor) ; Křižka, Libor (referee)
Operads and their variants, modular and cyclic operads, naturally describe compositions of objects of various types. We provide an accessible introduction to the theory of operads, the formalism for modular operads from [1] and modern application of modular operads to physics, due to Barannikov [2]. Through examples, we introduce Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism as a tool for cohomological integration of path integral in quantum field theories. A master equation, consistency condition for action, follows from this formalism. Solutions to master equation also describe algebras over Feynman transform of a modular operad. We explore the master equation defined in terms of modular operad and review an application to closed string field theory. [1] Martin Doubek, Branislav Jurco, and Korbinian Muenster. Modular operads and the quantum open-closed homotopy algebra. 2013. arXiv: 1308.3223 [math-AT]. [2] Serguei Barannikov. "Modular operads and Batalin-Vilkovisky geometry". In: International Mathematics Research Notices 2007 (2007), rnm075.
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