Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by author "Department of Media and Communications"
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“Can Daft Punk Play At My House?”
Hui, AlanPublished 2010-02-16This thesis analyses and discusses the tensions between sampling and copyright by posing the question: ‘Can Daft Punk Play At My House?'. It examines one particular case of music sampling - the Soulwax Shibuya Re-remix ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Capture - Upload - Broadcast. A case study in the gatekeeping of amateur footage
Bagshaw, ErykPublished 2013-01-01This thesis explores the transition of amateur footage across three different stages of the news making process. Through a case study of the 'Mardi Gras Police Brutality Video' this thesis tracks and analyses the development, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Daily Life: pink ghetto or feminist triumph? An analysis of the content of and responses to Fairfax’s women’s news website.
Wilcox, KatePublished 2013-01-01In the last five years a number of news companies around the world have launched women’s news websites attached to, but distinct from, the regular website for their newspapers. In February 2012 Fairfax launched Daily Life, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Disconnect Between Journalism and Governance: A Critical Analysis of The Interaction of Journalism and Governance in the Virtual World Second Life.
Boyd Jones, AnnabellePublished 2008-01-01This thesis analyses the interaction of journalism and governance in the virtual world Second Life. It examines the structure, practices and influence of journalism in Second Life and explores the nature and communicative ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
An examination of Australian news coverage of Papua New Guinea
Carter, JessicaPublished 2010-01-01This thesis examines Australian news coverage of Papua New Guinea, a country with which Australia shares geographic proximity and strong historical ties. Specifically, this study examines the coverage of PNG by The Australian ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
False Start: Quantitative representation of sportswomen in The Sydney Morning Herald in 2005, 2007 and 2011
Wade, KirstenPublished 2012-01-01Despite the increasing participation and success of women in sport in Australia, sportswomen continue to receive a significantly lower quantity of media coverage than sportsmen. This thesis will examine the impact of the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
GGWP (Good Game, Well Played): How Free Labour and Exploitation is established within videogames
Ridgeway, BenjaminPublished 2014-01-01The aim of this thesis is to explore the way in which free labour of and user – generated content are part of the current structure and business model of the e-Sports industry. Specifically the competitive industry of ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Good, The Bad and The Morally Grey: The Ethics of Journalism in Film
Law, MelindaPublished 2010-01-01This thesis examines the portrayal of journalists in feature films and treats the films as cultural artefacts, which represent many of the prevailing attitudes and public expectations of the contemporary news media. It ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
"How far will Miley go next?”: Miley Cyrus and the news in celebrity gossip magazines
Watson, LucyPublished 2014-01-01This thesis examines news values in celebrity news. News values have been thoroughly analysed with regard to “serious” news, but little has been done to see how useful existing conceptions of news values are for celebrity ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction
Brennan, Joseph Carl LindenPublished 2009-01-01This thesis uses slash fan fiction produced for the CW television series Supernatural to suggest two new slash typologies. While existing frameworks — romantopia (concerned with sex) and intimatopia (concerned with intimacy) ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
In The Public Interest? : Investigative Journalism and Fourth Estate Philosophy Within the Australian Press
Lenffer, HeidiPublished 2005-10-01The tradition of ‘investigative journalism’ has come to denote the most lauded qualities of the journalistic profession, and has an impressive history of producing social reform in Australia. However, its grounding in ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Informing a Distracted Audience: News Narratives In Breakfast Television
Copeman, EmmaPublished 2007-01-01This thesis takes its lead from Baym’s (2004) suggestion that incorporation of entertainment techniques into television news undermines its authority and credibility. To explore this question, textual analysis was conducted ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Lights, Camera, Accolade: Towards an Understanding of the Nature and Impacts of the Nobel Peace Prize
Swiatek, LukaszPublished 2010-01-01The Nobel Peace Prize is more than a medal,diploma and monetary sum. This thesis investigates the nature and international impacts of this accolade. It traces the historical evolution of the media resources that underpin ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Misconceived: Representations of "The RU486 Debate" in the Media
Daroczy, JennaPublished 2007-01-01In December 2005, a cross-party coalition of female senators presented a Bill to Parliament that changed the way Australian women could have abortions. ‘Misconceived: Representations of RU486 in the Media’ is a quantitative ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“MySpace: a place for friends?”: A Study of Friendship on MySpace
Sawyer, RhiannonPublished 2007-01-01This thesis seeks to examine the concept of friendship on MySpace. It will address the need for a comprehensive study of the daily operation of friendship on the social software site. As the site itself is relatively ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Mythic Monument and the Monumental Myth: 9/11 Through Film Posters.
Williams, KathleenPublished 2008-01-01Two films were released in 2006 that depicted the events of September 11, 2001. This thesis seeks to interrogate the interpretation of the events through the vehicle of the film poster, for United 93 and World Trade Center. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Niche Publications and Subcultural Authenticity: The case of Stealth Magazine
Blight, DavidPublished 2008-01-01Authenticity is often constructed as an absolute subcultural value. Within the field of subcultural studies, a relatively small amount of literature exists regarding the relationship between different forms of media and ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Nostalgia Games: Replaying The Past
Gonlin, MarionPublished 2017-10-01This thesis aims to analyse the function of a “nostalgia game” – games that intentionally reference to the past to broaden their appeal. The two games chosen for analysis are Yacht Club Games’ Shovel Knight (2014) and ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Play to win: How competitive modes of play have influenced cultural practice in digital games
Egliston, BenjaminPublished 2013-01-01The aim of this thesis is to explore the function of emergence and spectatorship as cultural practices within the competitive arena of Blizzard's World of Warcraft (WoW). The game and its peripheral web spaces and paratexts ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Social Cognitive Theory based examination of the behavioural change role played by Let's Move's website and social media applications
Kaiser, StephaniePublished 2011-10-01It is of key importance to find ways to combat the growing global obesity epidemic. This thesis investigates, using the basis of social cognitve theory, the behavioural change role played by the obesity prevention campaign ...Open AccessThesis, Honours
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