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Social media and its part in informing about Egyptian revolution
Švejda, Josef ; Čermák, Miloš (advisor) ; Láb, Filip (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of social media in the context of the Egyptian revolution in 2011. The aim is to offer two diverse views on the perception of the role of social media as a facilitator of political and social change in Egypt. The first part deals with the actual pro-democracy role of social media resulting from online activities of Egyptian activist community. The second part offers a view of this fact through raw data showing the involvement of social media in the Egyptian revolution 2011. Through the analysis of two global and one Czech online news site was investigated occurrence of mentions on all factors related to social media and online activism in Egypt. The results provide an idea of what space they were given in the online news in the context of revolutionary events in Egypt.
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Transformation of Prague's Old Town square in photographs of Czech daily newspaper after 1989
Švejda, Josef ; Průchová, Andrea (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
This thesis analyzes news photographs related to the Old Town Square and its task is to explore the role of a place in a city and how it determines the myths in visual messages. The theoretical part focuses on the context of semiotics and news photographs and describes the possibilities in interpreting meanings of visual communication. In relation to photographic messages, it also reflects the analytical background at the level of myth, based on the work of Roland Barthes. Theoretical part also takes in account the symbolic and historical values of the Old Town Square. The analysis itself is based on a sample of 20 randomly selected photographs present in MF Dnes and Blesk, which cover events taking place in the Old Town Square between 1993 and 2013. Using comparative semiotic analysis it focuses on the visual content of news photographs in these journals, while observing how the Old Town Square takes part in the connotative chains and resulting myths.
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