The diploma thesis Medium in the process of change: photography from smartphones and other mobile devices in the context of professional photojournalism analyzes the use of smartphones and smartphone photography in current professional photojournalism. In the first part of the thesis, the main focus is mainly on theory. It describes the pictorial turn, current trend in vizualizing information and the retreat from text n behalf of visual information. The second part is devoted to the description of the historical approaches to photography and the ganges of the photography from analog to digital to smartphone photography. The third part of the thesis focuses on description of smartphones and tablets and it also focuses on the description on smartphone and tablet applications for editing and sparing of pictures. The fourth part analyzes the use of smartphones and smartphone photography in media by media professionals. It focuses on the use of smartphone photography by war photographers and by other professional photographers in distant countries, natural disasters or at sporting events. The last part is devoted to detailed interviews with professional photojournalists Tomáš Tesař and Milan Jaroš who have professional experiences with smartphone photography.

This diploma thesis deals with the status and development of Czechoslovak sport journalism in daily newspapers between years 1918 and 1928. It is based on studies of five period newspapers - Národní listy, Lidové noviny, Národní politika, Právo lidu and České slovo. Given the paucity of original literature, these five printed materials are the main source of the analysis. The main aim of the thesis was to determine, how often and in which manner the journalists wrote about sport in that period and if the sports news became an inseparable part of newspaper in that period. One part of the analysis focuses on the people who wrote sport articles in those newspapers, if the sport journalism was their only specialization. It is also partly considered with the status of Czech sport photojournalism, sport advertising and reporting from the Olympic Games in that time. The opening three sections of the diploma thesis are mainly theoretical. The first one outlines the genesis of Czech sport journalism from its beginnings to the year 1918, when the profession became an independent branch of newspaper business. The second one describes the situation of Czech sport between years 1918 and 1928. And the third one characterizes the media situation in the Czechoslovakia in years 1918-1928, focusing on sports...

The Master Thesis The depiction of events in Ukraine on photographs - ethical aspects of depicting conflict presents a case study focused on depiction of Ukrainian crisis in photographs during a defined period of time of 2014 in five Czech and five foreign newspapers. The first part of the thesis introduces the theoretical concepts that are the basis for the analysis. The analytical part presents the research of depiction of the Ukrainian events in news photographs in the daily newspapers using the technique of content picture analysis. The results let us compare the differences between the approach of the individual Czech and foreign newspapers to the issue of publishing graphic images of violence and its victims. Based on these findings, the thesis tries to define the contemporary trends regarding the ethical issues of photojournalism. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Magistro darbo objektas – Lietuvos fotomenininko Antano Sutkaus kūryba. Darbo tikslas – išnagrinėti A. Sutkaus kūrybą komunikacijos, antropologijos, meno, socialiniame ir pasaulinės fotografijos kontekstuose. Pagrindiniai darbo uždaviniai: pristatyti darbui aktualius, fotografijos istoriografiją ir požiūrį į ją įtakojančius mokslo ir meno kontekstus; peržvelgti vaizdavimo žanrų savybes; rasti A. Sutkaus kūrybos paraleles su Vakarų šalių fotografijos tradicija, sovietinių fotografų darbais, lietuviška fotografijos mokykla; atlikti įvairiapusę (kiekybinę ir kokybinę) A. Sutkaus darbų analizę. Naudojant bibliografinį, lyginamąjį, kiekybinės fotografijų analizės, kokybinės parodinių bei spaudos nuotraukų analizės metodus, taip pat interviu su A. Sutkum buvo prieita prie išvados, kad įvairių kontekstų įtakojamoje A. Sutkaus kūryboje dokumentiškumas ir meniškumas ne tik nesukelia tarpusavio prieštaravimų, bet ir sukuria sąveikos mechanizmą, kas suteikia privalumų fotomenininko dar sovietmečio fotoreporterio veiklai ir savitumą jo meninei fotografijai. Pastaraisiais metais ginčai dėl to, ar fotografija yra menas, laikomi neracionaliais, o jos naudojimas ir reikšmingumas įvairiose žmogaus veiklos srityse, iškelia būtinybę tirti fotografiją platesniuose kontekstuose. Be socialinio, antropologijos ir komunikacijos mokslų bei meno kontekstų, fotografijos kūrinius taip pat įtakoja skirtinga geografinė ir ideologinė aplinka. Todėl negalima ignoruoti fakto, kad A. Sutkaus kūrybai įtakos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / It is inexpedient now to talk about is photography an art, or it isn’t. It’s a result of the concordance that there are some kind of symbiosis between artistry and documentary in photography. Additionally, photography has modified the protocol with industry, with science, with advertising, with journalism, with communication, with art, with everyday life… Consequently photography can’t yet be studied as an autonomous discipline. It is more productive to look at it in its applications in other fields. For this reason it is necessary to analyze the photographs of Antanas Sutkus, the famous Lithuanian photographer, in the fields of anthropology, of social and communication sciences and of art. The other problem is that various European countries, to say nothing of whole continents (for example so called Third World), have been left on the fringes of the histories of photography. To avoid this mistake it is purposeful to look at the photographs of Antanas Sutkus also in the context of the Western countries that have their own photographic traditions. Furthermore, there are some principal filters – cultural, ideological and political – that have determined the dominant historiographic models and the photographic tradition itself. The major part of Antanas’ Sutkus’ photographs were made when Lithuania was the constituent of the Soviet Union. Consequently it is imperative to talk about Soviet ideology that carried authority on the creation of Antanas Sutkus and on the entire... [to full text]

The thesis Prostor daily as a phenomenon of Czech photojournalism focuses on the analysis of the journalistic photographs in two dailies established after 1989 - Prostor daily and Metropolitan/Metropolitní telegraf daily. The analytical part of the thesis consists of the quantitative content analysis and the qualitative analysis of the pictures; the thesis also contains interviews with seven former members of the photographic department of Prostor daily - Radovan Boček, Karel Cudlín, Jaromír Čejka, Jan Jindra, Zdeněk Lhoták, Roman Sejkot and Tomáš Štanzel. The aim of the thesis is to define the differences between Prostor daily and the other dailies at that time, why it was 'visually extraordinary' and why it became a phenomenon of Czech photojournalism.

The paper focuses the career of photographer Stanislav Tereba, the only Czech winner of the main World Press Photo Prize. He succeeded with the photography of Miroslav Čtvrtníček, the soccer goalkeeper, played in Prague, Letna stadium. The paper deals mainly with Tereba's work in evening paper Vecerni Praha where the winning photography was paid a great attention there. As well as a lot of journalists since the 1990's Tereba have faced the problems after the Velvet Revolution when his career nearly stopped as the media went to private ownership. Tereba's career is explored in the context of the development of sports photography in the Czech Republic. Tereba's photographic style is studied by using semiotic analysis and the method of compositional interpretation there. In addition, the work consists of a case study of Tereba's success in World Press Photo. Tereba's photography is compared to the other winning photographs as well as to the competition in 1959 when he was honored with the main prize at the expense of war photographs usually awarded. Attention is also paid to the creation of Tereba's winning photography from participation in the stadium to subsequent photo editing.

The main goal of this thesis was to determine how projects Echo24 and Reporter work with journalistic photography using comparative analysis of their visual content. Both projects were found in 2014 as a reaction to a dramatical change of ownership of the Czech media. These changes also had an impact on journalistic photographers, because the new owners tend to save their costs on photography. This is also one of the reasons why I chose to analyze projects that started in 2014. To explain the broader context, in the first part of this thesis I describe the context of journalistic photography and the Czech media market development from the year 1989. In this work, I also describe other projects similar to Echo24 and Reportér. In the second part of the thesis, I use quantitative content analysis to describe the usage of the photographs in the printed version of Echo24 and Reportér. I also compare the collected data with answers from questionnaires with members of the editorial of the projects and photojournalists. In this paper, I found out that the project Echo24 represents the opposite approach towards photography than Reportér. Echo24, like other media, tends to save their cost on photography. Reportér on the other side can be defined as the protector of journalistic and photojournalistic values....

The Representation of Journalists in Videogames aims to find out how do videogame developers represent journalists in the mainstream videogames. The analysis is based on five case studies of various videogames but it also includes sequels and prequels of the selected games. The author of this thesis analyzes nine videogame journalists which can be differentiated into several categories: investigative reporters, photojournalists, paparazzis, radio and TV reporters and hosts of various television shows. Their behavior is not the only aspect this thesis analyzes because their visual appearance is also fully in the hands of the game developers. This thesis proves that the videogame journalists are sometimes depicted stereotypically but if so, it is always for a reason. Videogame developers do not always use this sort of depictions and can even accurately describe journalistic practice and behavior. Journalism is always better described if the journalist is a heroic protagonist of their videogame. If they are villains, it is often described using various negative stereotypes.

The master thesis Bedřich Kocek and Czech Press Photography is concerned with the life and work of Bedřich Kocek - Czech photojournalist who worked in the renowned journal Svět v obrazech (translated as World in Pictures) for over thirty years. The theoretical part specifies the genre of journalistic photography and its development from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries to the 1980s. Furthermore, the development of the journal Svět v obrazech serves as an example for outlining the media and political context in Czechoslovakia since the end of World War II, when the periodical was established, until the 1980s, when Bedřich Kocek left the profession of a photojournalist. An especially valuable and vital part of the thesis is a chapter about the life of Bedřich Kocek, which has not been previously researched and described in detail. That section is based on personal interviews with the photographer using the oral history method. Moreover, the thesis explores the photographic work of Bedřich Kocek through the use of compositional analysis as well as the characteristic features of his pictures, which were part of the reports produced for Svět v obrazech.

This diploma thesis describes the way by which can photojournalism operate with the audience and how it is possible to influence a view of recipients about the world around us by photography. The thesis is devided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is based on accessibility of the Czech and foreign literature and in its beginning that represents what photojournalism is and what is its role in media. A part of the opening chapter is also a discussion of ethics in the photojournalism. Furthermore, there is explanation of the process of how a recipient perceives visual communication. One of the key components of this work is a summary of how experts from the fields of photography and media see the possibility of influencing the audience with photos in the media. There are explained the concepts of the terms visual agenda setting and visual gatekeeping. The ways by which media most often manipulate a recipient are described and there is outlined also the question of objectivity in photojournalism. The end of the theoretical part is devoted to a relatively popular topic of digital photo editing in the media. The practical part of this thesis involves a qualitative research carried through in-depth interviews, which explores ways in which the photos, that are included in printed...