Signal Festival, its presentation and medialization

The present bachelor thesis is focused on the presentation and medialization of the light festival entitled Signal Festival. It analyzes and compares the medialization of all four editions of the festival, which were held between the years 2013 and 2016. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on methods used in media research. It also deals with the transformation of a cultural event into media event and specifically factors influencing this transformation. The practical part provides a quantitative analysis of media outputs during each of the editions of the festival, based on individual media outputs recorded in the media database Anopress. The thesis finishes with an evaluation of the efficiency of communication between the festival and media organizations