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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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Seizing digital tracks for the purpose of a criminal proceeding
Mohelský, Michal ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
ABSTRACT, KEY WORDS Seizing digital tracks for the purpose of a criminal proceeding This thesis analyzes procedural institutes of law that serve to seize digital traces on the Internet to investigate cybercrime. This document also deals with a selected procedural institute of the Convention on Cybercrime, which serves to secure digital traces. Furthermore, an assessment is made as to whether the Czech legislation meets these requirements. Data retention analysis provided information on what traffic and location data are and describes the extent of their retention. The issue of identification of offenders based on seized IP addresses was explained and anonymization methods were explained. The main goal of the thesis is an extensive elaboration of some relevant procedural institutes of the Code of criminal procedure no. 141/1961 Sb., through which digital traces are seized. This data may lead to the identification of the offender, and also for conviction of guilt during criminal proceedings. The thesis elaborates institutes: a record of telecommunication traffic, monitoring digital communication, data freeze, and physical provision of devices. This work compares individual institutes with the requirements of the Convention on CyberCrime. The author of this thesis describes in detail the conditions defined by...
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Seizing digital tracks for the purpose of a criminal proceeding
Mohelský, Michal ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
ABSTRACT, KEY WORDS Seizing digital tracks for the purpose of a criminal proceeding This thesis analyzes procedural institutes of law that serve to seize digital traces on the Internet to investigate cybercrime. This document also deals with a selected procedural institute of the Convention on Cybercrime, which serves to secure digital traces. Furthermore, an assessment is made as to whether the Czech legislation meets these requirements. Data retention analysis provided information on what traffic and location data are and describes the extent of their retention. The issue of identification of offenders based on seized IP addresses was explained and anonymization methods were explained. The main goal of the thesis is an extensive elaboration of some relevant procedural institutes of the Code of criminal procedure no. 141/1961 Sb., through which digital traces are seized. This data may lead to the identification of the offender, and also for conviction of guilt during criminal proceedings. The thesis elaborates institutes: a record of telecommunication traffic, monitoring digital communication, data freeze, and physical provision of devices. This work compares individual institutes with the requirements of the Convention on CyberCrime. The author of this thesis describes in detail the conditions defined by...
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