The media play an indisputable role in human life. Thus, we come across media communication daily in today's world. Online social networks have had a significant role in such communication over the past decade. The Facebook social network presents an example of such a phenomenon, which does not have a rival in terms of its size in the Czech Republic. It has rapidly become a communication media through which millions of people around the world consume various content. In recent years, this platform has been applying and continually adjusting its algorithm to provide users with personalized content. The personalized content is provided on the basis of the algorithm which evaluates what might be appropriate or interesting for people. From this point of view, this thesis called Filter bubbles on Facebook social network is examining the existence of a so-called filter bubble phenomenon. The information bubbles present information isolation in which people lack a diversity of information which would help people to get into an opinion diversification, and therefore to have an opportunity to have a new point of view about a certain phenomenon. Through the combined qualitative method of diaries and subsequent interviews, it explores how young people consume news content on this social network and, above...

Abstract My essay focuses on the construction of identity in virtual spaces but with an emphasis on Facebook. The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the construction of identities online and the characteristics attributable to online identities. Also, I attempt to draw a comparison between the modernist and postmodernist concept of self presentation and how they operate. With my essay, I demonstrate that the modernists view of self presentation online is arguably faulty by showing that contrary to their views identities are not stable nor fixed bur are fluid and constantly changing through the availability of technologically advanced computer languages and again by outlining the availability of tools that enable users create, and/or distort their identities Also, with my essay, I explain how these identities are maintained through a process called “impression management”. I analyze identity construction through the eyes of theorists like Erving Goffman, who proposes that we actors performing our identities, Sherry Turkle, who evaluates identity construction in the age of the internet and other theorists like Judith Butler, Joanne Finkelstein, Peggy A Thoits, Annette N Markham, Zizi Papacharissi among others. Digital Artifact: creation of a website that adopts a performative nature to depict the unstable locus of identity on Facebook. In order to achieve this, I would work on HTML, Flash, Photoshop to create a constantly changing array of texts and images using actual images from selected Facebook users’ accounts and actual status updates. Keyterms: Identity, Medium/Media, Nomenclature, Hyperreality, Representation, Culture and Performance. / 0704083287

Le débat architectural du début du XXe siècle semble sous-tendu par les oppositions entre les tenants d'une tradition comme transmission historique ou régionale et ceux d'une modernité comme revendication de la tabula rasa. Mais si la modernité « intervient comme une coupure entre le passé et l'avenir […], elle assure aussi la jonction qui permet au passé de s'enrichir et à l'avenir de se souvenir » (Gasselin, 2007). Elle peut ainsi être observée dans les rapports qu'elle entretient avec la tradition, l'intérêt pour les cultures traditionnelles et vernaculaires s'amplifiant simultanément à l'émergence de la modernité architecturale. La thèse interroge les processus de fabrication qui permettent à l'architecte de construire une idée de la modernité architecturale qui se réclame de la tradition. Les enjeux de reconstruction après les guerres mondiales radicalisent les débats, conférant à la presse et aux grandes expositions internationales des rôles stratégiques de diffusion des idées. Les architectes en sont les acteurs principaux. En considérant l'architecture dans toutes ses dimensions de production (édifiée, représentée, écrite et publiée), nous formulons l'hypothèse qu'elle peut être analysée comme médium (c'est-à-dire comme support d'un message) et comme média (c'est-à-dire comme vecteur de communication). Par ailleurs, nous supposons que dans le processus de publication l'architecte fabrique simultanément un imaginaire du passé et une pensée du monde moderne. Nous identifions trois mouvements dans le processus de fabrication de cette pensée de la modernité. Dans un premier temps, nous nous intéresserons au passage de l'architecture édifiée à l'architecture représentée en interrogeant la capacité des architectes à construire des filiations historiques et/ou géographiques, notamment à partir de l'observation de l'existant. Dans un deuxième temps, nous analyserons les relations entre architecture édifiée et architecture publiée en considérant, comme Beatriz Colomina, que le média imprimé permet un « nouveau contexte de production, existant en parallèle au terrain de construction » (Colomina, 1988). Enfin, en étudiant le passage de l'architecture publiée à l'architecture racontée, nous interrogerons le rôle des espaces de publication dans les processus de mise en récit de l'architecture. Afin de conduire cette étude, nous nous appuyons sur la production de l'architecte Albert Laprade (1883-1978). Acteur sur la scène architecturale moderne, il va participer également à la reconnaissance de l'architecture traditionnelle. La diversité de sa production nous permet de constituer un corpus édifié, dessiné et écrit qui s'élabore à partir de la forme publiée de son travail : articles parus sur sa production bâtie (publiés par d'autres architectes),articles écrits par Albert Laprade (presse professionnelle ou non),ouvrages de l'architecte tels que les Albums de croquis. / In the early XXth century, the architectural debate in France seems underpinned by the opposition between the proponents of a tradition, as historical or regional transmission, and those of modernity, as a claim of tabula rasa. But if modernity “comes as a cut between past and future […]”, it also ensures the junction that allows the past to enrich itself and the future to remember” (Gasselin, 2007). Thus, tradition can be observed through its relations with tradition, as the interest in traditional or vernacular cultures amplifies simultaneously with the emergence of architectural modernity. The PHD examines the manufacturing processes that allow the architect to build an idea of architectural modernity that claims of tradition.Reconstruction issues after the World Wars radicalized the debate, giving the press and international exhibitions a strategic role of dissemination of ideas, the architects being the main players. Considering architecture in all its production aspects (built, represented, written and published), we hypothesize that it can be analysed as a medium (that is to say, a carrier of a message) and as a media (that is to say, a communication vector). Furthermore, we assume that in the process of publishing, the architect simultaneously produces an imaginary past and a thinking of the modern world.We identify three movements in the manufacturing process of the thought of modernity. First, we will look at the transition from built architecture to represented architecture by querying the architects ability to build historical and / or geographic affiliations, especially from the observation of the existing. Secondly, we analyse the relationship between built architecture and published architecture, considering, as Beatriz Colomina, that the print media enables a “new context of production, existing in parallel to the construction site” (Colomina, 1988). Finally, studying the transition of published architecture to narrated architecture, we will question the role of publication spaces in the architecture storytelling process.To conduct this study, we rely on the production of the architect Albert Laprade (1883-1978). Player on the modern architectural scene, he participated in the recognition of traditional architecture. The diversity of its production allows us to establish a corpus, built, designed and written, that develops from the published form of his work:articles about his builts (published by other architects)articles written by Albert Laprade (trade press or not)books published by the architect as his Albums de croquis.