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This collection houses research from Te Kura Toi School of Arts, Te Kura Whatu Oho Mauri School of Psychology, and Te Kura Aronui School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato.
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Item The Pepsi‐Jenner disaster: Translation and collaboration in global image markets(Journal Article, Wiley, 2022-06) Isaacs, BronwynIn April 2017, Pepsi released a video commercial featuring the American celebrity Kendall Jenner that rapidly ballooned into a pop culture moment with international import. The infamous commercial begins with a soft rock backing track and a young man playing the cello against an unspecified city skyline. The next scene is a clean-cut, multi-ethnic crowd of marching young people. Smiling and fist-pumping under their fedora hats and headscarves, the students are waving signs with slogans including ‘Join the conversation’ and ‘Peace’. As the music crescendos, the students face off in front of a silent line of police. A smiling Jenner then places a can of Pepsi in the muscled hands of a young male officer dressed in an American-style police uniform. A moment of shock. Silence. Then, inexplicably, the protesters burst forth in cheers and dancing.Item Response to Questionnaire - Focus: Taiwan(Journal Article, Foreign Policy Research Center, 2021) Rolls, Mark G.The desire of China to potentially invade Taiwan, mirroring historical actions like the annexation of Tibet, is met with significant challenges due to the unique circumstances surrounding Taiwan's status. Recent incursions into Taiwan's airspace by the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) coincide with domestic and international factors, including President Xi's political positioning and international tensions. Despite President Biden's ambiguous statements, the U.S. exhibits a firm stance in supporting Taiwan, albeit with occasional policy confusion. Japan, recognizing the strategic importance of Taiwan, strengthens ties and prepares for potential conflict. European Union support for Taiwan grows amid concerns about China's global behavior. Taiwan faces external pressure from China to limit its diplomatic ties and international engagement. Efforts by countries like India to strengthen ties with Taiwan risk provoking China and complicating existing regional tensions. Despite international challenges, Taiwan remains resilient, seeking diplomatic support and strategic partnerships to counter Chinese pressure and maintain its sovereignty.Item 'Music Video TARDIS' (presentation for Te Kura Toi Research Webinar)(Conference Contribution, University of Waikato, 2021-10-13) Perrott, Lisa'Music Video TARDIS' is an oral and audiovisual presentation, forming 50% of the Te Kura Toi Research Webinar which was presented to a public audience via Zoom on 13 October 2021. The audience included University of Waikato students and staff and members from the wider community. The event was publicised via University of Waikato and School of Arts publicity modes. This publication output was peer reviewed by Te Kura Toi Research co-ordinator Mark Houlahan. Abstract: 2. Arguing that music video is a hybrid audiovisual form that travels across mediums, genres, time and space, Lisa Perrott draws on recent theorisation of transmedia, remediation and dispersed authorship as a frame for examining the expansion of music video. By exploring the collaborative assemblage of music video directors, musicians and fans, Lisa presents examples of her research, portraying music video as a hybrid and transitory artform with porous borders. She argues that far from serving merely as light entertainment or a marketing tool, music video also functions as a kind of TARDIS – a vehicle for the representation, performativity and transit of diverse identities and complex signifiers that bleed into our daily lives.Item Response-strengthening effects of same- and different-context DRA training: The effects of two disruptors(Journal Article, Wiley, 2022-11) Layton, Karen Lorraine; Edwards, Timothy L.; Foster, T. MaryDifferential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) involves placing problem behavior under extinction and simultaneously reinforcing a desirable behavior. Recent research revealed that, as predicted by Behavioral Momentum Theory, DRA may also increase the persistence of the problem behavior. This research has also shown that a different approach to DRA, in which an alternative behavior is trained in a separate context from the target behavior, produces less persistence than the standard procedure. The research on this phenomenon, so far, assessed persistence using extinction as the disruptor. DRA, however, is often implemented under conditions in which extinction of the problem behavior is not feasible. This study evaluated persistence of problem behavior following same- and separate- context DRA training using an alternative disruptor, an additional source of reinforcement. Following a successful reproduction of a previous study of extinction as a disruptor but with domestic hens, this study produced similar findings using an additional source of reinforcement as the disruptor. These findings add to the evidence that alternative DRA arrangements may avoid the response-strengthening effects found with traditional DRA procedures. The findings also demonstrate that disruptors other than extinction can be used to investigate response persistence following DRA and other procedures.Item Supreme Court stories: Narrating violence in Suva streets and homes(Chapter in Book, Australia National University Press, 2022-09-08) Stevens, KateThis chapter looks at the establishment and limits of the colonial legal system in the early decades of colonial Suva, focusing on the cases of rape and sexual violence brought before the Supreme Court between 1875 and 1920.