Browsing by Supervisor "Hight, Craig"
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A Collective Documentary? A case study of audio-visual UGC surrounding the Christchurch earthquakes
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis centres upon the study of the audio-visual user-generated content (UGC) relating to the series of earthquakes between September 2010 and January 2012 in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The analysis of ... -
A Village in my Hand
(University of Waikato, 2013)Since its arrival, the cell phone has been transforming culture and the ways in which we live, exist and interact with life. With minimal access to telecommunications, since 2006 it has become ubiquitous in Samoa. Using ... -
Anime: Fear and Anxiety in Texhnolyzed Worlds
(University of Waikato, 2010)This is a study of primarily post-millennial Japanese Anime texts, drawn from the science-fiction genre of the medium. The key interest of this study is the prevalence of the dystopian attitude toward technology that has ... -
Chinese Reality TV- A Case Study of GDTV’s The Great Challenge for Survival
(University of Waikato, 2011)The emergence of reality programming has a parallel development with Chinese television media at the beginning of this century. This study of Chinese “Reality TV” is based on a case study of a pioneer Chinese reality ... -
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. ... -
A necessary fiction: The ritualisation of stakeholder practices in New Zealand cinema
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis argues that stability of the concept ‘national cinema’ is located in the discursive positioning of individual films in such a way that they are connected to a national ‘common ground’, one which is ritually ... -
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 ... -
Place imaginaries: Photography and place-making at Te Awa River Ride
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Contemporary photographic practice has evolved into a field of possibilities, which includes a flux of representational modes that depict experiences, feelings and emotions. This PhD with Creative Practice Components ... -
Sites of value? Discourses of religion and spirituality in the production of a New Zealand film and television series
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This interdisciplinary study examines the nature of the discourses of religion and spirituality circulating in and around the production of a feature film, Saving Grace and a television mini-series, The Chosen, made and ... -
Street-level bureaucracy and occupational therapy practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. A genealogical critique.
(The University of Waikato, 2018)As a human science that is also part of administering and supporting bureaucracy, occupational therapy functions in multi-layered networks of power that support many different social structures. Occupational therapists’ ... -
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - A New Era of Realism?
(University of Waikato, 2015)Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy is a familiar blockbuster franchise, adapting a well-known piece of literature and designed to appeal to global audiences. This trilogy, however, is also experimental, as the premium release ... -
Voices on the margins: the role of New Zealand cinema in the construction of national and cultural identity
(The University of Waikato, 2002)This thesis is based on the proposition that the New Zealand feature film Broken English (1996, Gregor Nicholas) constitutes a ‘break’ in New Zealand cinema on the level of its subject matter. Where feature films before ...
