Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by publication year
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In The Public Interest? : Investigative Journalism and Fourth Estate Philosophy Within the Australian Press
Published 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 -
Misconceived: Representations of "The RU486 Debate" in the Media
Published 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 -
Informing a Distracted Audience: News Narratives In Breakfast Television
Published 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 -
“MySpace: a place for friends?”: A Study of Friendship on MySpace
Published 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 Disconnect Between Journalism and Governance: A Critical Analysis of The Interaction of Journalism and Governance in the Virtual World Second Life.
Published 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 -
Niche Publications and Subcultural Authenticity: The case of Stealth Magazine
Published 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 -
The Mythic Monument and the Monumental Myth: 9/11 Through Film Posters.
Published 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 -
I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction
Published 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 -
Lights, Camera, Accolade: Towards an Understanding of the Nature and Impacts of the Nobel Peace Prize
Published 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 -
The Good, The Bad and The Morally Grey: The Ethics of Journalism in Film
Published 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 -
An examination of Australian news coverage of Papua New Guinea
Published 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 -
A study of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s soft power in Indonesia and China 2007 – 2010
Published 2010-01-01In 2009, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Managing Director Mark Scott put forward a contentious proposal to develop ‘a global ABC’, establishing the ABC as a leading international broadcasting presence. This thesis ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“Can Daft Punk Play At My House?”
Published 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 -
A Social Cognitive Theory based examination of the behavioural change role played by Let's Move's website and social media applications
Published 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 -
Technologies of Government
Published 2012-01-01In the last two decades, the deeply flawed ethical disposition of the press, or print media, and changes in the traditional business models of the print media have been carefully staged as policy challenges for both the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
False Start: Quantitative representation of sportswomen in The Sydney Morning Herald in 2005, 2007 and 2011
Published 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 -
Capture - Upload - Broadcast. A case study in the gatekeeping of amateur footage
Published 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.
Published 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 -
Play to win: How competitive modes of play have influenced cultural practice in digital games
Published 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 -
"How far will Miley go next?”: Miley Cyrus and the news in celebrity gossip magazines
Published 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