Diploma thesis Elderly people in TV advertising focuses on advertising representation of the old age in Czech Republic and Lithuania. Since the old age is considered as a social construct, a theoretical part tries to describe the specifics of the theory of social constructivism in general, and then on the example of the old age. The next section of this paper outlines, based on a literature and a number of already published researches, character of the media and advertising representations of old age. The following section takes into account the advertising perspective from a different angle when describing current trends and approaches in marketing communications targeting the elderly or showing elderly people. In the practical part of this thesis, I describe the main characteristics of qualitative research together with research method, which is the semiotic analysis. The research sample includes selected TV advertisements from Czech and Lithuanian campaigns in which actors of older age appear. The analytical part aims to reveal the nature of advertising representations of old age, and attributes with which elderly people are associated. The conclusion presents research findings and framing tendencies of advertising representation of old age, and consequently the partial interpretation of each...

The present dissertation investigates the role of television advertising in shaping the cultural values of the Italian society in the circular process of mirroring pre-existing societal values yet inducing new ones, thus contributing to its evolution. It questions its role within the society, its relationship with families, women and youngsters, the kind of language used in communicating, between 1957-1977, the age of Carosello programme. A corpus of two thousand five hundred television adverts was viewed and filed, of which a hundred were selected according to the more frequent themes, their cultural and semiotic relevance, and twenty-two analysed by a semiotic approach, together with some more considered alongside. Chapter One deals with methodology, an overview of the main concepts and tools of applied semiotics and the socio-semiotic perspective adopted. Chapter Two, then, contextualizes television advertising into its broader socio-cultural milieu and the history of television. The following three chapters analyze the selected adverts according to five main recurring themes: Chapter Three, the first steps of TV advertising, its auto-referentiality and its language; Chapter Four, the family and its inner relationships, the couple and the institution of marriage; Chapter Five women‘s emancipation, the new generation of youngsters and new myths. Commercials are analysed by shots and sequences from a narrative and visual perspective in search of their deep underlying generative values. The approach is a holistic one, adapting itself to the prevailing characteristics of every occurrence, although the peculiar nature of the ads of the period entails a prevailing narratological model. All findings are then connected together to identify the main semantic areas indicating cultural values present in the Italian society of the period. The end findings consist of a set of interesting cultural values identified. At first a self-assertiveness of advertising as a way to popularity; then its preferred mode of communication through verbal language rather than pictures; a representation of families according to either the patriarchal or the consumerist model; a fundamental disbelief in marriage and a sexist attitude to women‘s representation; finally, a mistrust in the values of the new generations. All of these eventually pointing to the main semantic area of tradition, an index to the fundamental conservative yet contradictory role of the Carosello adverting which, while contributing to preserve traditional values, it also tended to replace them with its only main consumerist value. At a higher level, on a socio-semiotic perspective it is the role of that semiosphere which, while drawing from society it also contributes in shaping it.

This thesis deals with advertising and its specifics characteristic for contemporary media environment. Research is realized on the example of five visual adverts which are parts of Absolut vodka advertising campaign. Absolut London, Absolut Brussels, Absolut Barcelona, Absolut Bangkok and Absolut Prague were chosen and conquered in the semiotics and visual analysis. The main part of the thesis is focused on character of adverts. The attention is also drawn to Mukařovský's aesthetics, Peirce's icon-index-symbol, Barthes's denotation, conotation, myth or theory of photography. There are mentioned not only qualities of imaging of objects but also its anchoring in the media environment. The results of the analysis are connected with processes of globalization. The principles of Ulrich Beck are applied to visual adverts of Absolut vodka. The main question is if and how the globalization influences the adverts and their visual form. It is shown at the example of internet and television media. One part of thesis is also devoted to phenomenon of glocalization and its influence on advertising.

ABSTRAKT-aj The aim of thesis is semiotic analysis of chosen audio-visual commercials of children's products. The thesis will contain introduction, ending, theoretic part and empiric part. I introduce semiotics and its classification like subject of science in theoretic part, explain concept of sign, semiosis and conception of sign by three representative of semiotics-Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles S. Peirce and Roland Barthes. Next I will focus on commercial. I will describe commercial discours, communication and marketing mix and classification of commercials. I'll introduce television as medium of commercial and come to the psychology of commercial where I will apply of methods gaining attention of consumers. Next I will apply children's consumer, children's marketing, children's and television commercial, how perception of television commercial influences children of different age, how to eliminate influence of commerical to children and in the end regulation of commercial. In empiric part I will do semiotic analysis of chosen audio-visual commercials of children's products. I introduce method of research and I will make efforts to confirm hypothesis, that commercials use as method gaining attention of children's primarily emotions, but when it is commercial of children 's product aim at adults...

The Social Campaign "chodicilide.cz" of the Foundation Sirius is trying to change the public's access to persons with disabilities. After the previous monitoring, workshops, technical texts they made a creative and media solutions campaign. The campaign is based primarily on humor and provocation. The Campaign created a parallel world where is flying like the natural properties and walking representing persons with disabilities. The thesis will deal with semiotic analysis of media campaigns addressing its second wave toward the target group. The thesis analyzes ways of communication used in the campaign in terms of efficiency to the public. The theoretical part presents the semiotics, the issue of social advertising and the concept of handicap in a context of Czech Republic. The analytical part focuses on the semiotic analysis of media solutions of the second wave of the campaign, specifically the logo of campaign, selected billboards and television spots.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:15:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 COS - Vania Penafieri de Farias.pdf: 2816699 bytes, checksum: a780f3ea32249d65847a11182e427a6f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-20 / The study is about the examination of the semiotics building of the animal aspect and the superdimension of the time and the space, in the automobile messages on the printed advertising pieces. How the advertinsing is intrinsically related to cultural habits and behaviour tendencies, through the study of better understanding of the signal relations which are formed by cultural interferences. The research has considered the hypotheses of the landscapes created on the advertising pieces take the privilage, from one side, the individuality as a generator concept of the unity of the automobile, on the other hand, the plurality with the idea of achieveness of exhibition. The other hypothesis is about the idea of spacial escape idea versus the simbolic run away of the urban daily life. The paper was structered in a way to make possible: identification of the present diversities in the corpus, thought about the automobile representations in the post-modern society and dialogical possibilities, base don Mikhail Bakhtin concept, among many structures existing on the advertising pieces / O estudo está voltado ao exame da construção semiótica de conceitos de animização e de superdimensionamento do tempo e do espaço, nas mensagens de automóveis de peças publicitárias impressas. Como a forma de atuação da publicidade está intrinsecamente relacionada a hábitos culturais e a tendências comportamentais, propõe-se por meio do estudo melhor entendimento das relações sígnicas que se formam a partir de interferências culturais. A pesquisa partiu das hipóteses de que os cenários criados nas peças publicitárias privilegiam, de um lado, a individualidade como conceito gerador de unicidade do automóvel, e de outro, a pluralidade, com a idéia de conquista, de exibição. A outra hipótese diz respeito à idéia de fuga espacial versus fuga simbólica da vida cotidiana urbana. A dissertação foi estruturada de forma a possibilitar: identificação das diversidades presentes no corpus, reflexão acerca das representações do automóvel na sociedade contemporânea e possibilidades dialógicas, a partir do conceito de Mikhail Bakhtin, entre os diversos enunciados presentes nas peças publicitárias