Drugs, elections, media.
The thesis describes the theory of agenda-setting together with the methodology of agenda-setting research, the relationship between politics and the media, and the media picture of drugs and its determinants, with the goal being to create a basis for the analysis of political agenda-setting in the media (MF DNES, Právo) in the period of the three months prior to the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in the years 1996, 1998, 2002, and 2006. The framing of drug issues in the media in relation to politics is identified in the qualitative part of the analysis. The proportions of the framing of the issue in the media and the political discourse are then analysed quantitatively. The conclusions of the thesis are that politics sets the drug agenda in the media in the pre-election periods, which was supported by the comparison of the way the media and politics frame drug issues, but not supported by the comparison of pre-election media frames and non-election periods. The qualitative study also discovered that in three of the four pre-election periods the drug issues were of great importance both to the media and in politics, as regards the legislative process in 1996 and 1998 and as regards the electoral campaign of one political party in 2006.
The picture of drugs in the European media: decline in the criminal aspects
A meta-analysis of the REITOX reports of the EU member states, Bulgaria, Romania and Norway between the years 1996 and 2005 has shown that the picture of illicit drugs in the European media significantly differs between the new member states and the EU 15 states. The hypothesis derived about the diminishing count of criminal aspects of drug issues in the contents of the media, which is typical for the EU 15 states in the 1990s and the new member states after the year 2000, was tested on articles dedicated to drug issues in the observed period in MF DNES (Czech Republic, representing the new member states) and The Times (United Kingdom, representing the EU15). The hypothesis was proved, as was its reasoning, according to which the media picture of illicit drug use develops as a result of the work of the non-governmental institutions which are active in the field. This result is in accordance with the sociology of news production presented in the paper. Obraz drog v evropských médiích: odklon od kriminálních aspektů [The picture of drugs in the European media: decline in the criminal aspects], Adiktologie, 2008, roč. 8, č. 1, Tišnov.
The Amotivational Syndrome and Cannabis Drugs
Over thirty years of research into the amotivational syndrome in cannabis users have passed with little convincing evidence and little effect. The overwhelming majority of findings about the presence of the amotivational syndrome come from clinical observations, but the findings are often used with no respect to their methodological limitations. We attempted to handle this problem through qualitative research methods when using the data collected from heavy cannabis users. Furthermore, we focus on procrastination, which may play a major role in the amotivational syndrome concept.
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