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Humans, artificial intelligence and sentience
Mendelová, Michaela ; Vostal, Filip (advisor) ; Tremčinský, Martin (referee)
The thesis is based on the secondary analysis of data from the 2021 AIMS study. It is centered on the sentience, moral consideration, and social integration of artificial intelligence. My goal was to use a segmenting procedure (latent class analysis) to calculate classes or groups of respondents, based on their opinions on topics such as the inclusion of sentient AI and robots, animals, and the environment in the moral circle, granting legal rights to sentient AI, and support of the well-being of AI in the form of protection from harm or the perceived danger of AI for society. The analysis offers some results suggesting that there are 3 groups within the respondents and therefore possibly some groups in the US society. Class 1 is very contradictory, some respondents in this class are very supportive of AI, and some of them are not. Yet, overall, they tend to think that sentient technology can be dangerous. This class is generally the oldest and least frequently informed about AI. Class 2 is generally supportive of the welfare of AI, but these respondents prefer passive support. These respondents do not think that sentient AI can be dangerous for them, but they think that it can be dangerous to future people. This class is generally the youngest. Class 3 are respondents who had the biggest chance to...
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The Veřejné mínění (Public Opinion) Journal (1946-1948)
Zajíčková, Hana ; Škodová, Markéta (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
This thesis approaches the theoretical concepts of public opinion, its history and origins of public opinion research in the Czechoslovak Republic and abroad. It describes the circumstances of the creation, operation and termination of the Czechoslovak Institute for Public Opinion Research, which was established under the leadership of Josef Kopta and came under the I. Department of the Ministry of Information. More particularly provides a detailed view of The Veřejné mínění Journal, which was published between 1946 and 1948 and the publisher was the institute. Among the personalities associated with the institute and the magazine belonged Čeněk Adamec, Bohuš Pospíšil and Milan A. Tesař. The journal represented a Europe-wide unique. No other institution published a similar format of the journal, which conceived as the major topic of public opinion. It was a professional and popularization journal, which was addressed to experts and the general public. Individual subsections describe the specific content of the journal, which, inter alia, consist of professional articles of various kinds, reports on domestic and foreign researches, comments from readers and other sections. Special attention is given to information related to the field of media.
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Interpretation of Pre-election Polls in The Czech Printed Dailies
Tučková, Kateřina ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Vochocová, Lenka (referee)
The diploma thesis Interpretation of Pre-election Polls in The Czech Printed Dailies studyies the ways in which media portrays data from election polls as part of thier news service. The thesis draws from theories of media effects, the research of which indicates a possible influence of media content on the formation of public opinion or even voting behaviour. For this reason, it maz be expected that the media present data in line with certain standards. However, in the Czech Republic, there is no code of conduct that would formulate such requirements. This leads to an ongoing struggle between the research agencies who supply such data and the media who present it to the public, where each party judges the content's quality by different measures. Some of the often criticised errors include misinterpretation of data and an insufficient explanation of the research's background. This paper uses quantitative content analysis to examine 154 articles from Czech printed journals across the three pre-election periods (2010, 2013, 2017) with the aim of determining in which form the results of pre- election polls are presented, and if all necessary data are added. The final analysis looks at the data as a whole as well as examining the trendlines during the studied time period. In conclusion, it evaluates...
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Adolescent's attitudes in public opinion research, data quality and reliability
Šlégrová, Petra ; Vinopal, Jiří (advisor) ; Podaná, Zuzana (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the youngest age cathegory of respondents in public opinion polls. The main goal is to examine character and quality of information about adolescent's attitudes and opinions obtained in public opinion polls that are held by The Public Opinion Research Centre. To achieve the main goal nonattitude is examined. The thesis will be divided into theoretical and practical part. Theoretical part stands on the basis of public opinion sociology and developmental psychology and the issue of attitude measurement is introduced along with adolescents developmental theory and characteristics. Practical part reflects the information summoned in theoretical part and test them on data collected by The Public Opinion Research Centre which were obtained in continuous research within project Our society. Analysis focuses on examination of nonresponse, don't know answers and neutral attitudes. Results are compared among all age groups.
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The Veřejné mínění (Public Opinion) Journal (1946-1948)
Zajíčková, Hana ; Škodová, Markéta (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
This thesis approaches the theoretical concepts of public opinion, its history and origins of public opinion research in the Czechoslovak Republic and abroad. It describes the circumstances of the creation, operation and termination of the Czechoslovak Institute for Public Opinion Research, which was established under the leadership of Josef Kopta and came under the I. Department of the Ministry of Information. More particularly provides a detailed view of The Veřejné mínění Journal, which was published between 1946 and 1948 and the publisher was the institute. Among the personalities associated with the institute and the magazine belonged Čeněk Adamec, Bohuš Pospíšil and Milan A. Tesař. The journal represented a Europe-wide unique. No other institution published a similar format of the journal, which conceived as the major topic of public opinion. It was a professional and popularization journal, which was addressed to experts and the general public. Individual subsections describe the specific content of the journal, which, inter alia, consist of professional articles of various kinds, reports on domestic and foreign researches, comments from readers and other sections. Special attention is given to information related to the field of media.
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Election Polls in Czech Republic: Methodological Optimalizations
Prokop, Daniel ; Krejčí, Jindřich (advisor) ; Soukup, Petr (referee)
Bibliographic record PROKOP, Daniel. (2012). Election polls in the Czech Republic: Methodological Optimization. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institut of Sociological Studies. Thesis academic consultant: Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D. Abstract The thesis focuses on the election-polls and prediction of election results in the Czech Republic. Using data of research company MEDIAN s.r.o. from face-to-face (CAPI) and telephone interviewing (CATI) in election year 2010 it examines possibilities of methodological optimizations which could lead to reducing systematic bias and discrepancies of pre-election polls the election results. In particular, it discusses these methodological solutions: mix-mode data collection (combination of CATI and CAPI), data weighting focused on specific factors correlated with voting behavior, including preferences of undecided voters, prediction of the respondents' participation in elections, election-polls results time-series smoothing. Based on these analyses the thesis tries to articulate general findings which could be fruitful in discussion about Czech election-polls and their methodology in general. In the thesis, basic and advanced statistic methods (CART, exponential smoothing, etc.) are being used to achieve given research goals. Keywords: election...
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Infotainment and its expressions in the public opinion researches
Stará, Šárka ; Jungová, Eliška (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
This thesis called "Infotainment and its forms in public opinion researches" tries to answer a question whether and in what way the outcomes of public opinion researches into the Czech national daily newspapers express infotainment, a phenomenon which concern is to present the information in a entertainment form, so it effects the presented information itself and consequently such information effects a recipient. On the one hand, the thesis in a theoretical part contents explanation of the concepts of expressions public, public opinion and public opinion research, and on the other hand, it explains an expression infotainment. Furthermore, in the next chapters of this thesis, it connects both parts trying to label how infotainment can be presented in publishing of public opinion research. Moreover, it mentions the standards which should be followed. It analyses the outcomes of public opinion researches published in the daily newspaper called Hospodářské noviny and Mf Dnes in September to November 2008 on the grounds of these particular standards and also other categories, which is for example a number of published opinion researches. On the top of it, it analyses a form of their presentation or their topical issues. Besides, it shows a way of appearing infotainment in this area. In addition, this...
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