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Contemporary Press Coverage of Student Protests at the Tiananmen Square
Prokopová, Tereza Patricie ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Moravec, Václav (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to analyse how three newspapers, namely Rudé právo, The Guardian and The New York Times, presented the student protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. The period from 13 May 1989 to 26 June 1989 was chosen for the analysis, as it fully covers the situation preceding the massacre, the massacre of 4 June 1989 itslelf and its aftermath. In order to achieve the most accurate results, qualitative content analysis and so-called grounded theory will be used. The questions that will be answered through this thesis concern the specific aspects on which the individual newspapers placed emphasis, as well as how often the events were covered and with what temporal sequence, then which language features were used, and which reporting principles were applied within the news and journalistic texts. Based on the data collected, it was found that Rudé právo, ideologically charting communist mindset in China, held similar views to the Chinese Government, i.e. that the students attempted to overthrow the Government and the regime, and during the actual suppression of the protests, the soldiers were attacked by the students, not the other way around. The Guardian and The New York Times reported on the protests in a quite opposite way, regarding the protests as pro-democracy and the military...
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Student protests in 1968: Comparison of Czechoslovakia and West Germany
Šutová, Marijana ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Cuhra, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis is based on comparison of the student protest movement of 1968 in Czechoslovakia and West Germany. The main aim of the thesis is to compare the same and different elements of two student movements with emphasis on students' demands, the way and means of their revolts and the different ideological approaches of the two movements which led to their mutual misunderstanding. The author describes movements in both countries preceding historical events which lead to the protests. The thesis also deals with student protests in other countries in the context of events in West Germany and Czechoslovakia. It then compares the course, demands and the way of student protests in both countries. The main difference between student movements in Czechoslovakia and West Germany was the way of revolt. While Czechoslovak students chose the official way to change the establishment, the protest movement in Germany was rather anti-systemic. Students in both states also came out of different conditions while students in the CSSR protested against a material shortage, resistance in Germany was based on criticism of material surplus. In both countries, however, the same phenomenon of generational conflict occurred. Both movements responded to the international events and protest movements in other countries....
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Student protests in 1968: Comparison of Czechoslovakia and West Germany
Šutová, Marijana ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Cuhra, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis is based on comparison of the student protest movement of 1968 in Czechoslovakia and West Germany. The main aim of the thesis is to compare the same and different elements of two student movements with emphasis on students' demands, the way and means of their revolts and the different ideological approaches of the two movements which led to their mutual misunderstanding. The author describes movements in both countries preceding historical events which lead to the protests. The thesis also deals with student protests in other countries in the context of events in West Germany and Czechoslovakia. It then compares the course, demands and the way of student protests in both countries. The main difference between student movements in Czechoslovakia and West Germany was the way of revolt. While Czechoslovak students chose the official way to change the establishment, the protest movement in Germany was rather anti-systemic. Students in both states also came out of different conditions while students in the CSSR protested against a material shortage, resistance in Germany was based on criticism of material surplus. In both countries, however, the same phenomenon of generational conflict occurred. Both movements responded to the international events and protest movements in other countries....
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Crisis of the representative function of political parties in Chile
Beranová, Marie ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
Over the last year, Chile has witnessed a large number of anti-governmental protests against the cabinet of Sebastián Piňera, from which the protests of the university students reached the biggest strenght. The bachelor's thesis deals with the phenomenon of student protests in the context of contemporary Chilean party system and its political parties, which are currently undergoing a crisis of representation. The theoretical part of the thesis describes party systems and functions of political parties, especially the representative function. The first chapter of the empirical part of the thesis examines current conditions of the contemporary Chilean party system, into which the anti-governmental student protests, described in the following chapter, are set. The thesis concludes with reactions of both governmental and oposition coalitions to the student protests and to the political parties crisis. The main aim of the thesis is to answer the question why the decreasing support of the government does not lead to a rise of preferences for the oposition.
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