The Lithium Case in Public Media Space

The bachelor's thesis maps the lithium case before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament in 2017. The thesis analyzes the statements of individual political actors in the media space, finds out what events brought the case to the media and how individual politicians reacted to it. The theoretical part deals with the concepts of agenda setting, which then illustrates how political leaders received a case through media outlets to the public and spin doctoring, which works further in the theoretical part in setting the various statements of politicians in context. In the practical part, the method of content analysis in the methodology of the defined media space in the period from the origin of the case to the first day of the election is performed. A total of nineteen categories were created to create the dataset and coding scheme, representing the most common statements. Thanks to the analysis of a total of 270 media outlets, research questions were subsequently answered, which asked who, how and when most often politicians commented on the case in the media. One of the chapters also deals with the development of the whole case and policy around mining in the Czech Republic after the elections. Subsequently, the work also documents the research of Median, how much the case...