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Types of brand personification on the Czech market
Nierostková, Klára ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (advisor) ; Konrádová, Marcela (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with types of brand personification on the Czech market. The aim of the thesis is to describe different models of personification and their division based on the AMOP structure. The thesis serves to summarize the basic information on this topic and compare it with the actual advertisements that we could or still can see on the Czech market. This summary has been created in order to bring together the various theories contained in the literature, as this topic, despite its great application in practice, is not given much attention and a substantive summary of this information is basically non-existent. The knowledge contained in the theoretical part is reflected in the practical part, as some of the questions for the unstructured interviews with practitioners were designed so that the respondents respond to the content of the theoretical part with their knowledge and opinions that they have developed over years of practice and use of brand personification. The responses of the practitioners are compared to see the agreements and disagreements in their views.
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Big Social Data and the Study of Celebrity Fandom
Sedláček, Jakub ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Špaček, Ondřej (referee) ; Mikuláš, Peter (referee)
This thesis provides a novel view of celebrity fandom through the lens of big social data, while at the same time exploring the opportunities and challenges of using digital traces from social media for sociological research. The first chapter provides a sociological framing of celebrity, a short, joint history of celebrity and the media, and a discussion of the revolutionary role that social media and its platforms played in celebrity culture. Finally, it attempts to bridge theories related to celebrity's role in society with research on "lifestyle politics", "polarization", "taste cultures" and "lifestyle enclaves". The second chapter serves as an introduction into big social data and digital trace data. First as a socio-technological phenomenon, then as a research tool. It covers its historical and current availability and discusses its epistemological and practical opportunities, limits and dangers. Finally, it introduces Facebook pagelikes as a valuable source of information on lifestyle politics. Chapter three is an exploration of Facebook digital traces of 90k celebrity followers. It asks whether celebrity preferences are related to differences in various aspects of life, including politics, leisure or cultural consumption. Methodologically, it covers combining data from APIs with web scraping and...
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Viktor Cabadaj: an analysis of a movie character
Novák, Karel ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (advisor) ; Šuhajová, Klára (referee)
Viktor Cabadaj is one of the most memorable, even legendary movie characters of the Czech popular culture, who has entertained whole generations of audiences. However, no one asked yet, what is the real reason, that he attracts and fascinates people? By combining the scientific method of content analysis and Richard Dyer's theory of signs of a movie character, it was revealed in our case study, what is Viktor Cabaj's movie character like. From the research of the movie "Sněženky a machři" (Snowdrops and Aces) (1982), a massive amount of both qualitative and quantitative data was obtained, and an analysis and interpretation of this data was made. The results of this research proved, that Cabadaj is the main star of the movie, a person who fascinates people, an eternal leader, the main and funny organizer of events. His true nature is discovered by examining his relationships, his position in the social structure, his actions, his speech, speech of others, his objective correlatives, appearance, gestures, meaning of his name, audience foreknowledge, and mise-en-scene. The most important information about the object of the research seems to be his dualism. He manages to enter into the minds of his social vicinity and film spectators, by combining obvious mastery in the game of power, and apparent...
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Media Representation of Celebrities in Late-night Talk Show Format
Cerna, Arina ; Novák, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Charvát, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the media representation of celebrities, as it is designed within the framework of the adopted American television format of the late-night talk show. In the first part of the thesis, attention is focused on problems of understanding of the phenomenon of celebrities by various authors, as well as on the development of the late-night talk show itself and its characteristic features. The theoretical starting point is the theory of representation (Hall), three levels of representation (Trampota) and social construction of reality (Berger, Luckmann). The method of critical discourse analysis is chosen for the research and the four principles for the analysis are described: commoditization, infotainment, personalization, congeniality. The practical part presents an analysis of the typical representation of celebrities due to the principles mentioned above in selected talk shows which were broadcast in English and Czech languages in 2015-2016, namely American The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Czech Jan Kraus Show. Keywords: Celebrity, Late-night Talk Show, Media Representation, Personalization, Congeniality, Infotainment, Commoditization
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World of Children as Media Users
Kalivodová, Hana ; Gillernová, Ilona (advisor) ; Wolák, Radim (referee)
This dissertation consists of two parts - a theoretical and an analytical, empirical part. In the theoretical segment, there is a summary of theoretical knowledge about celebrities and their relationship to society and the public, a comparison between celebrities and real authorities, an overview of mass-communication and its influence on the socialisation of children and a series of advantages and disadvantages of the impact of mass-communication on children. The final stage of the theoretical segment characterises, from the point of view of developmental psychology, the two age groups that will be compared in the second segment. The empirical segment answers such questions as how much do children use media in their leisure time, what types of media are most popular amongst them, which celebrities do the children admire and why are these celebrities important for them in particular. The empirical segment is based on analysis of data taken from questionnaires created purposely for qualitative-quantitative research. These questionnaires were given to students in the 4th and 6th grades of an elementary school in Polepy in the Czech Republic (ages 10/11 and 12/13 respectively). The goal of this dissertation is to show the trending habits of children as mass- media users.
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Sports celebrities in the late modern society
Šigut, Michal ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Kolomoiets, Maksym (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the topic of sports celebrities in late modern society. Specifically, it focuses on the theoretical grasp and presentation of sports celebrities, as important social figures, who are enjoying increasing public attention with the development of technology and growing media interest. The work also deals with the study of the perception of sports celebrities by young people aged 18 to 30 years. Quantitative research was carried out using an Internet questionnaire, which was then analysed. The results of the analysis provide insight into today's sports celebrities through the eyes of young respondents, explains how these celebrities are perceived and how important they are to them compared to other non-sport celebrities, whether they are life inspiration for these respondents or which aspects they think are most important for transforming athletes into a sports celebrity.
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Celebritization of czech youtubers and bloggers as part of marketing of czech food companies
Soukupová, Patricie ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Miessler, Jan (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is "Celebritization of Czech Youtubers and bloggers as a part of marketing of Czech food companies" and tries to define four research questions (one main question and three secondary questions) using qualitative research. The introductory part of this work provides an explanation of why it differs from the original thesis, in which it is explained that the name Youtuber or blogger is summarized by the unified term micro-celebrity. The thesis focus on research of only one social network - Instagram, because of the complexity of this platform and its great popularity among young people. In any case, adolescents are not the only age group that it is focused on, the research also focuses on the cross-section of age groups. The theoretical and practical part of the thesis focuses on ways of interaction between micro-celebrity - followers - product (or company, which is by micro-celebrities promoted). Individual ways of interaction are described separately, for example how the company establishes cooperation with micro-celebrity. The practical part of the work contains description of the main monitored product Coca-Cola, research questions and the course of qualitative research, which includes a graph representation. Several research methods were needed to complete the research -...
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The media image of chosen czech hockey players from the beginning to the end of their careers in NHL in czech daily newspapers
Rampa, Robert ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Macková, Veronika (referee)
This thesis deals with analysis of the media image of five Czech hockey players Patrik Elias, Martin Havlat, Milan Hejduk, Jiri Hudler and Tomas Kaberle during their active career (1996 - 2017) in National Hockey League (NHL). The qualitative method analyzes texts from six Czech newspapers (Blesk, Hospodarske noviny, Lidove noviny, Mlada fronta DNES, Pravo and Sport). Thesis analyzes every twentieth article about Patrik Elias whose headline contained his surname. For the remaining hockey players the thesis analyzes every tenth article due to fewer texts. The thesis use for analysis the theory of news values, specifically the categorization of Alastair Hetherington and works with concepts of heroism, fallen heroes and celebritization. The results of the analysis describe the development of the media image of Czech hockey players, how the Czech dailies worked with events that contained given news values, how and what media image they formed. It also compares individual media images and the approach of the newspapers themselves. In conclusion, it also offers a new categorization of news values solely for the sport media area.
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The Using of Celebrity Endorsement in the ZOOT magazine Interviews
Drachovská, Zuzana ; Miessler, Jan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This master thesis is focusing on celebrity endorsement used for product, brand or company promotion. The chosen example is compared with similar competitive ones and demonstrates critical view on celebrity endorsement as a phenomenon and also celebrities. The Grounded theory using repeated reading and coding is chosen as an analysis method for this thesis. This method is used in empirical part of the paper, applied on the interviews from every issue of the magazine ZOOT published and its results are interpreted and evaluated afterwards. The main aim of this thesis is to confirm or disprove the statement that magazine ZOOT uses communication strategy that differentiate it from its competition.
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