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Close Social Ties and their Role in Virtual
Burešová, Lucie ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Mitrenga, David (referee)
This thesis deals with the functioning of virtual communities in relation to social capital of their members gained in this environment. The issue of virtual communities is embedded in a broader discussion about the form of community life in modern society and about the impact of new media on social behavior, individual identity and association. Attention is paid to linking the virval environment with the real environment through offline meetings and how this affects social ties between users and life of community. Based on the case study of specific community formed around game-literary server www.darkage.cz, thesis analyzes the influence of close social ties between users on the functioning of the community within its evolution in time.
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Role of virtual friendship and community networks in the life of adolescents
Votrubcová, Šárka ; Lorenzová, Jitka (advisor) ; Koťa, Jaroslav (referee)
The Thesis Role of Virtual Friendship and Community Networks in the Life of Adolescents is dealing with rather new phenomena of virtual friendship on the internet social network that is connected with young generation to 20 years old. The text consists of two main parts. In the introducing section the main characteristics of comunity social networks in connection to adolescents described on the basis of teorethical analyse, interpretation of literature and description of their main functions. Especially social networking site Facebook is detailed characterized, because virtual friendship is mainly connected with it. The practical part contains research on theme of online communities in the life of adolescents. A public iquirry and a questionnaire were used as research tools. Four goals and six hypothesis were defined. Two hyphothesis were verified.
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The specifics of communication in hookah community on Facebook
Kopáček, Jakub ; Závozda, Petr (advisor) ; Soukup, Martin (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of how the members of online community of hookah smokers (hookah community) communicate. The core of the thesis lies in the quantitative content analysis of the content published in three hookah community Facebook groups. The results of the analysis are complemented with insight gained through semi-structured interviews conducted with seven members of the hookah community, using qualitative analysis. The first part of the thesis outlines the new media, describes basic terminology and concepts of social networks and marketing communication, provides an introduction into the topic of online communities, and describes hookahs, the hookah community, and the commercial entities involved in the hookah industry. The second part of the thesis describes the methodology of quantitative and qualitative research, presents the obtained findings, and provides their summary utilizing the knowledge presented in the theoretical part of the thesis. The thesis aims to describe and evaluate the current state of communication within the hookah community Facebook groups and map the presence of commercial communication in the analyzed content.
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Close Social Ties and their Role in Virtual
Burešová, Lucie ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Mitrenga, David (referee)
This thesis deals with the functioning of virtual communities in relation to social capital of their members gained in this environment. The issue of virtual communities is embedded in a broader discussion about the form of community life in modern society and about the impact of new media on social behavior, individual identity and association. Attention is paid to linking the virval environment with the real environment through offline meetings and how this affects social ties between users and life of community. Based on the case study of specific community formed around game-literary server www.darkage.cz, thesis analyzes the influence of close social ties between users on the functioning of the community within its evolution in time.
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Role of virtual friendship and community networks in the life of adolescents
Votrubcová, Šárka ; Lorenzová, Jitka (advisor) ; Koťa, Jaroslav (referee)
The Thesis Role of Virtual Friendship and Community Networks in the Life of Adolescents is dealing with rather new phenomena of virtual friendship on the internet social network that is connected with young generation to 20 years old. The text consists of two main parts. In the introducing section the main characteristics of comunity social networks in connection to adolescents described on the basis of teorethical analyse, interpretation of literature and description of their main functions. Especially social networking site Facebook is detailed characterized, because virtual friendship is mainly connected with it. The practical part contains research on theme of online communities in the life of adolescents. A public iquirry and a questionnaire were used as research tools. Four goals and six hypothesis were defined. Two hyphothesis were verified.
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