Suchergebnisse

Obálka -- Obsah -- Bulvární média a bulvarizace (úvodem) -- Bulvarizace a etika v českých médiích (Barbora Osvaldová) -- Proč je důležité rozumět bulváru (Jindřich Šídlo) -- Lidská přirozenost, bulvarizace a já (Jan Lukavec) -- Výchova lidu v Čechách (Stanislav Komárek) -- Poznámky k bulvarizaci veřejného projevu (Aleš Haman) -- Bulvár, nebo kanál? Co je čtení pro masy (Jan Jandourek) -- Trpí české deníky bulvarizací? (Milan Kruml) -- Bulvarizace a politika: kořeny skepse, důvody pro optimismus (Roman Hájek) -- Co je bulvár (Karel Hvížďala)

The fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989 brought major social, political, and cultural changes. The course and shape of the so-called structural transformation of Czech media have been reflected only superficially so far, focusing mainly on political and economic aspects of the transformation and solely on the national media. This book concentrates on changes in one particular segment of the media market: the subsystem of local and regional print media. This segment of the media landscape is arguably a significant part of the media system as it enables strong identifications at the local/regional level. The study explores the issue of the local characteristics of local and regional print media during the structural transformation

The article identifies the most important controversies related to public opinion polls on electoral preferences, explains their substance, & discusses their impact on the possibility to use information obtained in the surveys. The article further focuses on the importance of surveys for representative democracy, the impact of the publication of opinion polls' results on public opinion, the possibilities of manipulating surveys, the risks related to the growth of research production (high non-response rate & the growth of survey costs, non-transparency of the market, incorrect application of advanced data analyses), the limits to election forecasting, & issues related to the relationship between research & journalism. Opinion polls contribute to shaping the environment for political competition. The nature of their impact is determined by their quality. Serious risks are associated with the possibility for intentional manipulation, poor quality of the survey process, & misinterpretation of results. Knowledge on research, publication of contextual information together with the survey data, & free competition in the market can help reduce the risks. The possibilities for quantification in social research do not remove the obligation to ensure sound theoretical grounding & qualified judgment, which are the prerequisites for the credibility of all conclusions drawn from the data. Tables, Graphs, References. Adapted from the source document.