In this diploma thesis I deal with the topic of blogs. My main goal was to introduce the part of blogs called mommyblogs and to define it as a separate category in the theoretical background chapter. In the practical part, I decided to use quantitative methods of data collection through a questionnaire survey. The survey was aimed at both mommy bloggers and their readers. I supplemented the questionnaires with depth interviews with selected mommy bloggers. Which helped me to obtain even more detailed data, which enriched the data obtained from both questionnaires. I found out what motivates mommy bloggers to blog, but also what their attitude is towards cooperation with companies and how they select and label collaborations. Have they ever felt exploited either by companies or by social media? The respondents also touched on the topic of ethics and responsibility - either regarding the placement of photos of children on social media or regarding products whose promotion is bound by regulations. I tried to find out the ability of the readers to recognize advertisements on blogs and social networks of mommy bloggers. And also how the advertising message of mommy bloggers affects their readers. This thesis focuses only on bloggers from the Czech Republic.

This study investigates and aims to capture a new phenomenon: “celebpreneurship”, a new form of entrepreneurship emerged through the celebrification process. Where ordinary individuals transform into celebrities, and become entrepreneurial when they reach certain amount of “well-knowness”, in order to monetize their activities. The empirical data is obtained based on a complete observational study of two exemplary cases dealing with this phenomenon; Chiara Ferragni, the fashion blogger and yTravel Blog, the travel bloggers. Celebpreneurs start to build up networks and communities online through accessible media as blogs and social networking websites, to create awareness and desire among their audience eventually. They follow the effectuation venturing principle to pursue capitals and resources and transform into stabilized causational ventures at a later stage. The commodification and contemporary fame of these individuals are fundamental in the establishments of further entrepreneurial activities. As result, the phenomenon shows the existence of entrepreneurship in different forms and areas, as the celebpreneurs are involved into various brand partnerships, endorsements, product campaigns and even in the creation of own ventures. The contribution of this study is to show how effectuation, community building and celebrification can extend, re-activate and mobilize the classical approach of entrepreneurship.  Keywords: Celebpreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Celebrification, Effectuation and Causation, Celebrity, Capitals, Online Networks, Social Media, Blogging

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This research addressed the challenges faced by women in today's society during the transition to motherhood, and explored the possible benefits of an online natural helping network of blogging peers. Given the content of the literature describing the transition to motherhood and the many hardships that pose possible obstacles for an ideal transition, this research attempted to uncover the reasons why mothers blog and what benefit, if any, they experience as a result of blogging. This study explored the following questions: Why do women blog during the transition to motherhood? What is the relationship among the seven identified variables: blogging intensity, authentic self-disclosure, perceived general social support, perceived social support from blogging, current depression, stress, and parenting competence? This dissertation employed a cross-sectional research design using a web-based survey. The data were trimmed to limit the participants to residents/citizens of the United States and mothers of preschool aged (0-5) children who lived with them four or more days per week. The data were further limited to include only those participants (N = 501) who completed the survey in its entirety. New mothers experienced benefits as a result of their authentic participation in blogging and reported key reasons that they participated including: to share their experiences with others, to preserve their memories, to interact with a like-minded audience, and to feel understood. There were significant positive correlations between authentic self-disclosure and perceived social support, and sense of parenting competency, and a negative relationship between authentic self-disclosure and maternal depression and perceived stress. Multiple regression analysis indicated that social support was the strongest predictor of current depression. Social support was also a predictor of stress and of perceived parenting competence. Additionally, social support significantly predicted authentic self-disclosure. With a growing reliance on technology and social media, social work has an obligation to identify and utilize the beneficial aspects of this medium.

The purpose of our study is to examine the bloggers‟ influence on the brand‟s image to see whether and if so in what way the blogging trend affects the brands. We also want to analyze how companies use bloggers in their marketing. This is a subject that has attracted our interest and that experience has not been touched in a higher extent. Our purpose has led us to the following research questions; Which relationships occur in collaborations between businesses and bloggers from a marketing perspective? In what way in terms of reciprocity can relations be described? To what extent can the credibility through blogs be affected in terms of how brands are presented in the blog? In this study we have used a qualitative method with an abductive nature to create a deeper understanding of our chosen subject. We have conducted an empirical study consisting of sixteen interviews with bloggers, PR agencies and companies. These are the three perspectives that have contributed to a deeper understanding of our analysis and the fulfillment of our purpose. From this study we found that popular bloggers have an influence on the brand's image, which can have both positive and negative effects. Based on our empirical study, we can see that bloggers have a strong impact on the brands as they are seen as opinion leaders who influence readers. Relationships occur mainly between companies and bloggers, but companies can collaborate with PR agencies, which act as an intermediary in the relationship between businesses and bloggers. It is important to establish and maintain good relations in order for all parties to benefit and preserve reciprocity in the relationship. We have come to the conclusion that bloggers can affect the credibility by how they choose to present the brand in their blogs.

The purpose of this essay is to study how feminists portray themselves and their opinions about gender issues and other political matters in popular feminist blogs. The blogs that are studied are Lady Dahmer, Fanny Åström, Hanapee and Genusfolket. The overall essay questions are: How does the feminist bloggers present themselves? Which subjects are discussed in the feminist blogs? Which rhetorical devices does the feminist bloggers use? The theories that are used to answer the essay questions are the four spheres where there are inequality between the sexes, theories about third wave feminism, the rhetorical concepts ethos, logos and pathos and the SPADER-model for writing good argumentation. A descriptive method is used to study how the bloggers present themselves, a quantitative content analysis is used to count which subjects the bloggers write about and a qualitative rhetorical text analysis is used to study the rhetorical devices the bloggers use. The result shows that the two bloggers Lady Dahmer and Fanny Åström describe themselves with provocative words while the other blogs have more neutral descriptions. The provocative language was interpreted as a sign of the harsh debate climate that surrounds feminists. The results also shows that the bloggers write about different feminist and political subjects; Lady Dahmer writes mostly about family and relationships, Fanny Åström writes mostly about politics, Hanapee writes mostly about politics and objectifications of women and Genusfolket writes mostly about violence and sexual abuse of women. All bloggers write about racism and this can be related to the third wave feminist notion of intersectionality and antiracist activism. They also debate feminism as an ideology and meet the harsh criticism they get.  This can be related to earlier studies that show that feminists get a lot of harsh criticism in the media and on the Internet and that feminists meet this critique. The rhetorical analysis shows that the bloggers all use some rhetorical devices from the SPADER-model but none of them use statistics or expert quotes in their argumentation. Instead they use personal experience and examples to make their points. The bloggers use mostly pathos-arguments in their texts. They show ethos to different extent and it is most abundant in the analyzed text from Genusfolket.

This is a report that goes through the design process of designing and illustrating a virtual clothing shop with the theme ”Stockholm Streetstyle” for the website ”Stardoll.com”. The purpose of the report is to examine how you can manage to get as close to designing a certain style or theme as possible, and also how the process of designing a clothing line can work, The illustrations were made in Adobe Illustrator and the final result of the project was an illustrated fashion collection with 21 parts, in the total of 6 outfits, and also a background for the shop.

Submitted by Leonardo Cavalcante (leo.ocavalcante@gmail.com) on 2018-04-11T14:47:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivototal.pdf: 2318250 bytes, checksum: 92789d2d6c14f1d4deb62e9d3c0765cf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-11T14:47:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivototal.pdf: 2318250 bytes, checksum: 92789d2d6c14f1d4deb62e9d3c0765cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-26 / The field of advertising has undergone speech changes since the first records to the arrival of the Internet. In cyberculture, the advertising experienced changes in the issuer pole and ceased to be the only one to produce content and communication have new voices. The Segmentation and public saturation stimulated by the appearance of different communication devices led advertising to meet the needs of individual consumers, informed by communications technol-ogy, and went on to determine the strategies of advertisers in digital environments frequented by him. With increasing audience of fashion blogging, the collaboration, the sharing and the recommendation were redirected and blogs began to incorporate the interests of the market and consumer publications sponsored by advertising. In this sense, the discourse of fashion bloggers, not translated anymore personal experiences and integrated the goals of advertisers. This study aimed to identify how advertising appropriates the genres of fashion blogs, as bloggers have adopted the language of advertising in their publications and how this dual ownership has changed the relationship between bloggers and readers. With the support of discourse analysis method, we identified how advertising is inserted in the genres of fashion blogs, allowing bloggers adopt the language of advertising and use routinely in publications. We also analyze how this dual process interfered with social relations between bloggers and readers and how these relationships are established in the comments of the publications. Keywords: Fashion blogs. Genres. Advertising Language. Bloggers. Readers. Interactions. / O campo da publicidade sofreu transformações de discurso desde seus primeiros registros até a chegada da Internet. No âmbito da cibercultura, a publicidade experimentou mudanças no polo de emissão em que já não era a única a produzir conteúdo e a comunicação contava com novas vozes. A segmentação e a saturação das audiências estimuladas pelo aparecimento de diferentes dispositivos de comunicação levaram a publicidade a adaptar-se às necessidades do indivíduo e passaram a determinar estratégias que posicionassem os anunciantes nos ambien-tes digitais frequentados por ele. Com o aumento da audiência dos blogs de moda, as premis-sas de colaboração, compartilhamento e recomendação foram redirecionadas e esses blogs passaram a incorporar interesses de mercado e consumo a partir das publicações patrocinadas pela publicidade. Neste sentido, os discursos das blogueiras de moda, que antes traduziam experiências pessoais, passaram a integrar objetivos de divulgação dos anunciantes. O presen-te trabalho tem como objetivo identificar de que maneira a publicidade se apropria dos gêne-ros discursivos presentes nos blogs de moda, como as blogueiras adotaram a linguagem publi-citária em suas publicações e como esta dupla apropriação modificou as relações entre blo-gueiras e leitoras. Com o suporte do método de Análise do Discurso, identificamos como a publicidade se inseriu nos gêneros discursivos dos blogs de moda, permitindo que as bloguei-ras adotassem a linguagem publicitária e passassem a utilizá-la de forma rotineira nas publi-cações. Analisamos ainda como esse duplo processo interferiu nas relações sociais entre blo-gueiras e leitoras e como essas relações são estabelecidas nas conversações nos espaços para comentários.

Diploma thesis "Sex on a plate: Food porn on Czech food blogs" explores the link between food and sex. It argues that this connection is deeply rooted in our culture and nowadays it is reflected in food porn circulating on social media. The aim of this thesis is not only pointig out the connection between food and sex but also demonstrate that "porn" in food porn is well justified and not at all coincidental. The phenomenon of food porn is also set in the context of a contemporary trend of online sharing. The theoretical part explores the relationship between people and food with emphasis on the differences between eating habits of men and women. Furthermore, the thesis draws attention to the similarities between food porn and sexual pornography. In the theoretical part of this thesis, I also comment on the trend of online sharing and digital narcisism. The second half of the thesis presents the chosen methodology, its design and my analysis using grounded theory, a method of qualitative research.