Browsing by Author "Yeatman, Bevin"
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Policy and practice: funding and strategies for short film in New Zealand 1994-1998
(The University of Waikato, 1998)This research foregrounds funding influences on the strategies of short film practice in New Zealand. It seeks to connect the processes of policy and practice and the relationships of institutions and individuals as they ... -
Still seeking the audience
(Aberystwyth University, 2011)The changing capacities to connect generated through contemporary media have implications for an understanding of the idea of ‘audience’. This paper begins a new search for an understanding of the contemporary audience and ... -
Who laughs? A moment of laughter in Shortbus
(Department of Information and Media Science, Aarhus University, 2008)In his essay On Laughter, first published in France in 1900, Henri Bergson suggested that “our laughter is always the laughter of the group” (2003:5). With this observation in mind, I have to ask: who laughs when we watch ...
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The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement
(University of Waikato, 2016)Do it Yourself (DiY) is a participatory culture which exemplifies a particular ethos in its approach to technology and materials. Rather than engage with ‘complete’ technologies, such as a technology supplied as ready-to-go ... -
Diffracting Through Media: An exploration of the performative and a diffractive reading of media texts
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis explores the development of the notion of performativity. This exploration is used to develop and apply a diffractive methodology to media texts in order to assess the usefulness of the diffractive method in ... -
Meaningful Witnessing in the United States, India & New Zealand: The Possibility Space for Digital Video Within Human Rights, Protest Movements and Activist Practices
(University of Waikato, 2015)This dissertation examines the emergence of digital video practices rooted in human rights, social justice issues and protest movements through a number of select case studies in the United States, India and New Zealand. ... -
Feedback-Based Gameplay Metrics and Gameplay Performance Segmentation: An audio-visual approach for assessing player experience.
(University of Waikato, 2014)Gameplay metrics is a method and approach that is growing in popularity amongst the game studies research community for its capacity to assess players’ engagement with game systems. Yet, little has been done, to date, to ... -
Exploring Representations of Interactive Space
(University of Waikato, 2013)Space has been conceived in many different ways by as many different disciplines. Lefebvre and Harvey suggest conceptions of space as approaches to understanding human interactions within our world. These same conceptions ...
