Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
“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