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How to Create Self-Driven Education: The Social Web & Social Sciences, Coursera & Khan Academy 2014 Case Study
Růžička, Jakub ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Soukup, Petr (referee)
This diploma thesis is concerned with the possibilities of the social web data employment in social sciences. Its theoretical part describes the changes in education in the context of the dynamics of contemporary society within three fundamental (interrelated) dimensions of technology (the cause and/or the tool for the change), work (new models of collaboration), and economics (sustainability of free & open-source business models). The main methodological part of the thesis is focused on the issues of sampling, sample representativeness, validity & reliability assessment, ethics, and data collection of the emerging social web research in social sciences. The research part includes illustrative social web analyses and conclusions of the author's 2014 Coursera & Khan Academy on the Social Web research and provides the full research report in its attachement to compare its results to the theoretical part in order to provide a "naive" (as derived from the social web mentions and networks) answer to the fundamental question: "How to Create Self-Driven Education?" Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The use of social networks in research and development
Polívková, Jana ; Němečková, Lenka (advisor) ; Boudová, Lucie (referee)
Barchelor thesis "The use of social networks in research and development" maps and describes the most interesting and widely used global social networks. It provides an overview of specialized scientific network and commonly used social networks. This thesis focuses on social networks, which are used in research and development. Furthermore, it describes and explains terms, such as social network, social media, and web 2.0. The last part is devoted to topic "Use of social networks in research and development in academics" and presents results of this practical application.
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Social interaction of internet users described on the example of online music community
Kounovský, Josef ; Sluková, Petra Zia (advisor) ; Javůrek, Adam (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the interaction between musicians and listeners on the internet. It describes selected communication tools of web 2.0, their benefits and drawbacks. The thesis is also concerned with the issue of self-presentation on the internet and the factors affecting it. Social communication on the internet is placed in the context of today's changing music industry. The thesis illustrates innovative usage of communication tools by musicians in six short case studies. The last part summarizes collected the findings of the research and offers an explanation as to why the social communication in music community will maintain its place in the future. Keywords: social communication, computer-mediated communication, music community, communication tools of web 2.0, social web
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Using social networks to increase competitiveness
Holoubek, Vojtěch ; Molnár, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Trčka, Adam (referee)
This thesis deals with online social networking. The goal is aimed at a specific web project to demonstrate and comment on the possibility of using the elements of social networks to increase competitiveness. The text is divided into six chapters. In first is introduced the concept of project, including the objectives and reasons for choosing the theme. The next theoretical chapter describes the history and theory, followed by presentation of successful social sites. There are written the best practices for success in social networking too. The theory is followed by analytical and practical sections -- there is the real web project (hobby site aimed at sharing of user manuals and procedures) described. These chapters are a crucial part of the whole work, there are described all parts of project making, from the analysis of the environment through the required "social" functionality to examples of implementation and discussion of future forms of product promotion. The fifth chapter then presents an assessment of previous sections; achieved outputs are compared (commented) with performance targets and expectations. This part contains also the expected outlook for the future. The conclusion sums up the whole project.
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