This thesis focuses on the manner how a phenomenon often called "media construction of reality" occurs in the Reality TV. This popular television genre is known for mixing reality captured on an omnipresent camera together with fiction elements in order to amuse the audience. In the theoretical part, I will focus on the concepts that are crucial for this phenomenon such as Berger's and Luckmann's social construction of reality, gatekeeping or agenda setting. Also, I will describe the history of Reality TV as a genre and also will focus on main subgenres that can be seen on television these days. In the practical part, I will use narrative analysis to identify how the media are constructing reality in television programmes. The sample for the analysis will consist of 80 episodes from 11 different TV shows of American and British production. These have already spread out of their country of origin and are familiar to Czech audience from local TV channels. My main thesis is that media construction of reality can happen from the very beginning - i.e. from rules establishing to shooting and postproduction. All these phases will be analyzed in this paper.

The thesis "The cult of youth and the old age denial on the media image of celebrities: Content analysis of the Top Star Magazine TV show" explores the ways in which the values of the cult of youth exhibit and reproduce on the media image of celebrities. The analyzed material is a TV show about celebrities called Top Star Magazín which is broadcasted by Czech TV channel Prima Family. The research is based on the content analysis of the TV show and consists of two methodologically different surveys: a simple quantitative content analysis of episodes aired in 2012 and a qualitative content analysis of two randomly selected episodes. The research part of the thesis is supported by the theoretical and methodological parts. The methodological part describes the research techniques: choice of research method, setting of research questions and defining the sample. The theoretical part introduces all the essential theories, especially the media construction of reality, and also attends to the issues of age categories and social perception of people in different periods of life. The conclusion is that the media image of celebrities in the Top Star Magazine TV show is unified and significantly affected by the values of the cult of youth. One of the main symptoms is denial and repression of any signs of the...

The diploma thesis "Media Construction of the Past: Image of the Period of Normalization in the Czech Non-fiction Television Shows after the Year 2006" looks into media construction during normalization period in television shows, which mark themselves as journalistic. The two following methods are used to analyze chosen thematic units broadcasted between the years 2007-2012: quantitative content analysis and semiotic analysis. Content analysis besides other things provides information about the frequency of occurrence of specialists in the field of social sciences, both movies and period footage as well as Slovak speaking people in non- fiction television shows such as Retro, Historie.cs, Víkend and Střepiny. Semiotic analysis notices denotative meaning of two examined units as well as opening jingle of Retro and Historie.cs shows and subsequently interprets used components. Based on this interpretation myths associated with construction of both normalization and the past are deciphered. Chapters dedicated to research are complemented by methodological part, which familiarizes with the technique of researches and explains differences between quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as the theoretical part, which brings insight into media representation, media construction, and relationship...

This thesis entitled "The Media Image of the Czech Hockey Team in the years 2010 - 2015" deals with the presentation of the Czech national ice hockey team at the World Championships in 2010, 2013 and 2015, in the Mlada fronta Dnes and the Sport daily newspapers. It focuses on the media image created during the championships with different process, results and circumstances. The theoretical part presents the concepts, methods and procedures. It focuses on the introduction of semiotics, its principles and explains the basic concepts of the semiotics and semiotic analysis work. Another area is the media construction of reality, which is important for analyzing media image. The media coverage of the sports events, myths associated with it, creating a statute of athletes' celebrities or presentation of national pride and identity in the background of sports events are the important topics of the presented theoretical starting points. In the methodological part there is presented the research project explaining the topic, objective and a sample of the research, the tasks of the research and also questions addressed in subsequent practical part. Texts from the Mlada fronta Dnes and the Sport are analyzed using the method of semiotic analysis. In connection with the basic aim of the thesis and theories...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-13T14:10:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ednaldo Edilei Franco.pdf: 1744204 bytes, checksum: 466176969105c84d33b61cc93945c66a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-30 / This investigation aims at discussing the consumption related to the ―world of ball‖ and to the media constructions from the soccer culture perspective in the national collective thought. The theme of the research is the media construction of the ―different body‖ characterized by being different from the known model of the player and the analysis is focused on the media strategies for the construction of this ―dissonant body‖ representations in the interface between communication and consumption. The analysis was restricted by the construction of Ronaldo Luíz Nazário de Lima s image in the media, considering two phases of his carrier: 1) in the beginning, when he is presented as a phenomenon and 2) in the moment right after his retirement, characterized by his physical decadence. In order to pursue these phases, the corpora include the news found in the press media from 1996 to 2011. The French Approach Discourse Analysis is the most important theoretical assumption chosen to investigate the strategies for media constructions. The studies on communication and consumption were also considered for a better comprehension of this media phenomenon in Brazilian society. / Neste trabalho discute-se o consumo relacionado ao ―mundo da bola‖ e as construções midiáticas a partir da cultura do futebol no coletivo nacional. O tema da pesquisa é a construção midiática do ―corpo diferente‖ caracterizado por estar fora do padrão para a função de jogador e a análise concentra-se nas estratégias da mídia na produção de representações desse ―corpo dissonante‖ na interface entre comunicação e consumo. Delimitamos nossa análise na construção midiática de Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, em duas fases de sua carreira: 1) no início, quando é apresentado como um fenômeno e 2) no momento que precede sua aposentadoria, caracterizado pela decadência física. Para tanto, os corpora são formados por matérias veiculadas na mídia impressa no período de 1996 a 2011. A análise do discurso de linha francesa é um dos principais embasamentos teóricos para investigarmos as estratégias de construção midiática, bem como os estudos de comunicação e consumo são fundamentais para aprofundarmos a compreensão desse fenômeno midiático na sociedade brasileira.

This Master's thesis identifies the characteristics of the Czech media in the context of the media construction of health risks - the Zika virus, focusing on the printed media. Research by T. Knířová (2011), comparing the construction of swine flu risk between the British daily newspaper The Times and the Czech daily MF Dnes, and the analysis of the avian influenza, mad cow disease and West Nile fever in The New York Times (Shih, Wijaya, Brossard, 2008) are the initial works. The thesis uses a method of quantitative content analysis extended by an interpretative text reading. The risk of viral infection is analyzed with regard to concepts of agenda-setting, framing, and issue-attention cycles.

The master'sthesiscalledThematicpreferencesoftheCzechprintedmedia seenontheexampleofthecaseofPussyRiotdeals withthe mediaphenomenon Pussy Riot, whichprovokedheightenedinterestofboththegeneralpublicand Russianand Western mediaatthebeginningof2012.The membersoftheartistic activistmovementPussyRiotperformedtheso-called"punkprayer"intheCathedral of Christthe Saviourin Moscow. Thisact, whichhadpoliticalandreligious overtones, wassubsequentlycriminalized. Thethesisoffersaninsightintothe backgroundofthecasefromtheperspectivesofhistory,inspirationandgoalsofthe movement.Italsoseekstopointouttheimportantaspectsoftheirperformanceand eventsthattookplaceafterthecase.ThethesisshowshowthePussyRiotissuehas beenaddressedbythemediaaroundtheworld,takingintoaccounttheworkofthe journalistandtheinfluencesthatmayshapehisorherwork.Italsotakesintoaccount theinfluenceoffeminism,itsdevelopmentinthemedia,anditsconnectionwiththe activismofPussyRiot.ThemainaimofthisworkistofindouthowCzechmedia haveconstructedmeaningsrelatedtoPussyRiotfromthebeginningofthecasetothe present.Todothis,aqualitativeanalysisofthreeCzechdailynewspapers Mladá frontaDNES,Hospodářskénoviny,PrávoandthreeCzechweeklyRespekt,Reflex andTýdenwasused.

The aim of this thesis is to clarify the principles of shaping the identity and image in the modern consumer society and explain the role of media in this process as well. In this thesis is used analytical comparative method. The whole work is divided into the theoretical and analytical part. The central theme of the first charter is the description of the characteristics of a modern consumer society. The second main thopic is the relationship of identity and image. In the third theoretical chapter is discussed the issue of media construction of reality. These problems are projected in the three approaches of opinion - Gilles Lipovetsky, the represenatatives of the Frakfurts School and Jean Baudrillard and finally opinion of Pierre Bourdieu. The analytical part of the thesis is concentrated on the application of the theoretical knowledge. As a specific example was selected advertising campaign Think You Can Text and Drive?, which was developed under the auspices of Oprah Winfrey, celebrity with the global reach. In the analytical part were received some essential arguments, which are summarized in the final chapter.

The master thesis focuses on the topic of the media construction "toy as a product" in the television commercials. The main reasons for choosing this topic is mapping of means of media construction of a toy in television commercials, defining semantic structures which the toy is situated in and identify concrete meanings that are usually linked to the toy in commercials. The field of investigation interest was defined in the theoretical part and was situated into a narrower connection in the context of this work. Both the role of a toy in society and its interpretation within culture, ideology and advertisement are defined. We work on the findings in the theoretical part where we identify dominant semantic frameworks which the toy is put into, based on the cultural-semiotic analysis of the contents of television commercials. We also try to discover whether the "toy as a product" in commercials is represented as a socially integrating means. Further we survey whether the television commercials represent "toy as a product" as a pro-family means and what communicative strategies the commercials mostly use for that. All these findings help us to reveal this problematic of media construction "toy as a product" and its socio-cultural dimension.

How is the role of non-profit organizations constructed in the Czech online sphere? This diploma thesis tries to answer this question based on a content analysis of articles in the six most-read online newswebsites in the Czech Republic and users' discussions connected to them in 2015-2019. The theoretical basis of the work is the media construction of reality, which the author tries to apply in practice to the topic of the non-profit sector using the method of media framing. Qualitative content analysis in the research succeeded in revealing four main frameworks by which Czech online news views non-profit organizations. The four frameworks also emerged from the analysis of user discussions under the articles. The comparison of these findings provided the author with the opportunity to find out how the discussant brings diversity to the Czech non-profit sector's media representation. The thesis's conclusion is devoted to evaluating the most critical research findings, which the author incorporated into the context of existing academic research of media representation of non-profit organizations in the news. As non-profit organizations' role in society is mostly influenced by the public image, this work provides comprehensive information on the roles that Czech online news and its readers attribute...