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Trestný čin v médiích / A crime in mass media

88 Summary Thesis Crime in Media describes the most important aspects of the relation between two significant social phenomena - crime and media. It does not focus only on legal point of view but it also includes knowledge of sociology, psychology and especially media studies. At first it deals with historical development of theories on media effects. These effects can not be underestimated, but on the other hand they should not be overrated. The Thesis analyzes what form these effects can have and then documents the way how Czech media law defends people from various forms of media contents and their presumable effects. Another important topic connected to the research on media effects is the theory of media representation of certain things. The representation of crime in media is usually distorted and affects public view of the criminality in the "real world". For example it makes people believe that the most common type of crime is the one connected with violence, that criminal acts usually occur between strangers etc. The Thesis also presents so-called news values of crime news. The rest of the Thesis describes chronologically legal aspects of publication of information about the commitment of the crime and criminal procedure (pre-trial proceedings and trial). It analyzes if media can persuade someone...

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:335056
Date January 2014
CreatorsJozífek, Radek
ContributorsUrban, Michal, Kosek, Jan
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageCzech
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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