Browsing by Author "Fleming, Dan"
Supervised by Dan Fleming
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Risky Opportunities: Developing Children’s Resilience through Digital Literacy in Thailand
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This project develops a case for defining appropriate concepts of risk and opportunity in the digital domain for children in Thailand; it explores what the consequent balance is between, regulation/policing of this domain ... -
Parsing Technology-entanglement for Thick-things: The Complication or Complexity of Media and Technologies
(University of Waikato, 2016)Can an interpretive framework untangle distributed forms of technology-enabled media? The thesis develops an interpretive framework to provide an antidote to reckless imaginations that privilege concealment and encourage ... -
Dynamics, Determinability and Configurative Audience Involvement: The TV Drama Series in the Era of Social Media
(University of Waikato, 2015)The dramatic television series, like many other mediums, has traditionally adhered to a consistent set of text variables over it’s development as a form of media. These variables are Dynamics, Determinability, Transiency, ... -
The Sincerity Game: An Exploratory Study of Erving Goffman’s Dramaturgical Framework in Relation to Interaction and Identity Construction Online
(University of Waikato, 2012)Self-construction is an intrinsically interactionist process (Leary & Tananey, 2005). The formation and maintenance of identity is socially reliant. Understanding the ways in which interaction changes is therefore vital ... -
Conspiratoria - the Internet and the Logic of Conspiracy Theory
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis is a theoretical investigation of the relationships between the logic of conspiracy theory and the Internet. It argues that the Internet can be conceptualised as a technocultural space conducive to the development ...
