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Good Governance in Theory and Practice
Vošahlíková, Radka ; Ochrana, František (advisor) ; Půček, Milan Jan (referee)
This master's thesis offers comprehensive perspective of good governance concept in a theoretical level as well as from a practical point of view with emphasis on the Czech Republic. The objective of the thesis is to investigate the theoretical background of the good governance concept and its basic principles, focused on dealing with the concept in the Czech Republic. The work also provides the assessment of the critical points associated with the good governance concept implementation and attempts to provide the possible solutions to eliminate these points. Thirteen research interviews were conducted with the public administration staff members and the leading experts in the field to analyze the current state of good governance in the Czech Republic. Thematic analysis was utilized for this purpose and results have shown that good governance is not broadly applied yet. Besides the apparent issues such as problems with human resources, communication, politicization of public administration, departmentalism or absence of long-term vision, the key obstacle to implementation of the good governance concept in the Czech Republic seems to be low level of cultural and social standards.
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77 millions user accounts have been stolen, should we worry? Analysis of Internet discussions relevant to the topic
Gregor, Filip ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
Diploma thesis 77 million PlayStation Network accounts stolen, does it affect us?: An analysis of Internet discussions revolving around this topic deals with the case of what so far seems to be the biggest case of user information leak on the Internet. The introduction outlines the history and development of PlayStation consoles and maps major attempts to jailbreak the last generation of the console by hackers. The following section presents PlayStation Network itself, whose users were at risk of the loss of their online identity because of the attack and chronologically describes the course of breach-related events including the subsequent theft of user data. It also focuses in detail on the case of GeoHot - a hacker whose dispute with Sony alienated fellow hacker community and initiated retaliatory activities which as a result led to loss of data. Another part of the thesis examines the issue of digital identity and its protection, gives an insight into the history of the formation of the hacker community and further explains the phenomenon of existence and perception of the term hacker in the context of the Internet. The final section is devoted to analysis of selected discussion posts under thematically relevant articles, analyzes them in terms of content relevance, information sentiment and...
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Reporting of global crisis events in Czech print media based on example of Swine Flu
Černá, Lucie ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (referee)
This Diploma thesis deals with some aspects of four chosen Czech daily newspapers referring about the outbreak and early development of events connected with one of the latest significant global crisis - the swine flu, which had broken out in 2009. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with some characteristics of crisis and basic concepts, which might be associated with their media coverage. In the practical part, it deals with the way, how the Czech dailies covered first two weeks of spreading of the disease. At the beginning, the thesis introduces a quantitative profile of the analyzed sample and shows both physical and verbal range of it. The second part is focused on the main topics, which were chosen by all daily newspapers to refer about the swine flu. Those, which did not make it to the main thematic line presented before, are also shortly mentioned in the chapter. In the third part, the thesis follows the main motives appearing in the images that accompanied the news with the chosen topic and also discovers how the disease was "objectified". Finally, language analysis discovering some specific subjective language characteristics referring to a potential personal opinion included by individual authors, or the way how the authors dealt with the coverage of the potential future development...
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Conflict resolution among competitive Ballroom dancers in the process of learning and the influence of personal relationships
Vanek, Marián ; Chrz, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šlédr, Jiří (referee) ; Lindová, Jitka (referee)
Basic element of competitive Dance Sport is the dance couple. For being succesful, it's needed to master the combination of specific dance skills, sport skills, stress resilience and skills connected to dance partnership, mainly communication skills and conflict resolution skills. Since the scientific research of conflict resolution among competitive couples is very scarce, aim of our explorative qualitative research is to understand how Latin Dance Sport couples experience conflicts and their subjective meaning of partnership in competitive dance. Experiences of dancers of various dance classes and their trainers were gathered using questionnaire (= 43) and half-structured interviews (= 13). Based on themati analysis, relevant themes were identified and described, and explanatory model further based on activity theory, game theory and theory of interdependence was proposed. Model suggests that contradiction of two different motives (competitive success vs. partner relationship) in the activity systems of competitive dance predisposes possible complex relationships between (implicit and/or explicit) aims of dancers, their type of partnership, possible expressed conflicts and their preferred styles of conflict resolution (based on the unique context of every dance couple). Relevant identified themes...
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The Phenomenon of Binge-Watching from the Perspective of Uses and Gratifications Theory
Dyachkova, Elina ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (advisor) ; Vranka, Marek (referee)
This bachelor's thesis aims to analyze binge-watching with the help of uses and gratifications theory and discover what motivates people to binge-watch. The literature review provides the necessary theoretical background for analyzing binge-watching behavior. It presents the definitions of streaming services and binge-watching as well as the theoretical basis of uses and gratifications theory. Then, this thesis introduces the existing research on uses and gratifications of TV and new media consumption, which have both proven to be relevant in the previous binge-watching studies. After that, this thesis discusses different approaches researchers have taken to analyze the uses and gratifications of binge-watching. In the empirical analysis, the thesis poses two research questions regarding the technological and psychological drivers of binge- watching. The thesis attempts to answer those questions by doing a thematic analysis of in-depth interviews where respondents share what features or psychological needs motivate them to binge-watch.
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Proposal to Improve Business Project Management Processes
Klapková, Anna ; Antoš, Michal (referee) ; Juřica, Pavel (advisor)
This bachelor thesis focuses on project management in a company of choice. Its aim is to create suggestions for improvement of the processes used by project managers of the chosen company. The analysis deals with managers' open answers to a survey. These answers are processed through a Thematic analysis and Pareto analysis. The results of these analyses identify possible drawbacks and rooms for improvement in areas discussed in the survey. The result of the thesis should be the suggestions leading to the improvement of the processes used by project managers.
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Between Defence and Offence: An Analysis Of The US "Cyber Strategic Culture"
Persoglia, Davide ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Karásek, Tomáš (referee)
The present thesis deals with the US strategic approach and posture to cybersecurity from a national point of view. On such a topic much has been written already, nonetheless the present work finds a degree of originality by tackling such object of analysis shifting the focus to a ideational perspective. By drawing insights from the meta-theory of Constructivism and the rich research tradition on strategic culture, the present thesis aims at understanding what kind of norms seem to be informing/mirroring what has been labelled the US "cyber strategic culture", and if it is possible to speak of a "shift", or at least track an evolution regarding them, in a historical timeframe that runs from the early 2000s up to the present days. To pursue the stated research agenda, a methodology grounded in discourse and thematic analysis is utilised, with an analytical framework centred around two opposite "thematic normative categories" (themes) called "defensiveness" and "offensiveness", each characterised by a "story" made up by three sub-themes, delineating specific strategic behaviours. A set of official strategies, all tackling cybersecurity and published during the mentioned timeframe by both the White House and the military, form the primary sources to which such methodology is applied, with particular...
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Global Terrorism and New Media: The Case Study of the Islamic State
Fialová, Tereza ; Lehmannová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Žáková, Gabriela (referee)
The diploma thesis Global Terrorism and New Media: The Case Study of the Islamic State examines the use of modern means of communication and technologies by global terrorists on the case of the terrorist organization Islamic State. The main hypothesis of this study is the claim that the Islamic State is using a very sophisticated communication strategy that, in combination with new technologies, allows its global scope. Through its propaganda methods, it tries not only to manipulate the audience and attract potential followers, but also demoralize and intimidate its enemies. The combination of two qualitative research methods, the case study and thematic analysis, enabled a more detailed examination of the Islamic State communication strategy and its propaganda messages in a selected data sample.
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General education in questions of TV competitions
Domnosil, Michal ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Chudoba, David (referee)
The theme of the bachelor thesis is, based on the analysis of questions that are put to entrants of the selected TV contest, to uncover the authors' idea of general education in the Czech Republic. The data for the content analysis were obtained from the TV show Míň je víc (originally Pointless) broadcasted by the Czech Television in 2015. The concept of thematic categories, in which the questions are placed, is based on the current Framework Educational Programmes for elementary and secondary schools; however, the structure is changed for the purpose of this thesis.
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