Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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