Browsing Open Theses & Dissertations by Thesis Supervisor "Hocking, Darryl"
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A Comparative Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis of New Zealand and Chinese Social Media Posts on the Student Climate Strikes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Since 2018, student strikes for climate action have taken place around the world. The Swedish youth activist, Greta Thunberg, initiated this activism through her attempt to encourage more climate action from her government. ... -
A Comparative Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis of American and Chinese News in The Economist.
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)The political and economic developments in China and the United States are closely followed and reported on by news magazines and newspapers around the world, including The Economist, a reputable weekly newspaper with wide ... -
An Everyday Feminist: a Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of Digital Feminist News Media
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)In tandem with the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies including Twitter and Facebook, there has been a resurgence of online feminist activism. Facilitated by digital feminist news sites, such as Jezebel, Everyday Feminism, ... -
How Safe Are You? Themes, Concerns and Metaphor of Jewish Second-generation Literature in the Novel "To Life"
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)The novel To Life concerns the inheritance of psychic trauma by the child of a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust, and is part of the genre of second-generation literature. In this exegesis I will examine the genre’s frames ... -
Influences on the Ability to Recognise Fake News
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This study analysed whether certain personal background attributes, such as age, gender, highest qualification and so on, impact on the ability to recognise whether the online news is fake or real. The study contributes ... -
Instagram Likes and the Images Posted by Fashion Influencers: A Social Semiotic Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The social media site Instagram is a photo sharing application that is popular with fashion Influencers. Through the sharing of images on the application, Influencers are able to promote products, brands and services to ... -
Instagram: A Digital Marketplace for Independent Visual Artists
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Instagram is now one of the most important spaces for the sale of art, with major auction houses, art dealers and independent visual artists, using the social media site to successfully promote and sell their works. An ... -
Investigating How and When International First-Year Second Language Undergraduate Students Deal with Academic Literacies Challenges in the Early 21st Century: A Longitudinal Case Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Previous research has investigated challenges facing international second language (L2) first year undergraduate students in their attempts to adapt to the norms of academic writing at higher education (HE) institutions ... -
Isolation and Unease: An Exploration of How "Powdered Milk" Sits Within the Tradition of New Zealand Gothic Fiction
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The creative thesis Powdered Milk weaves a Gothic rural psychological story, set in Otago in southern New Zealand. It explores complex individual histories and a burgeoning relationship in an interwoven tandem narrative ... -
Language educational space design in High Fidelity
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The recent availability of fully immersive three-dimensional virtual worlds, such as High Fidelity and Project Sansar, provide important new opportunities for language education, and are capable of extending those already ... -
The Potential of Mobile-based and Pattern-oriented Concordancing for Assisting Upper-intermediate ESL Students in Their Academic Writing
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This research was an attempt to investigate whether (and how) mobile technology and a pattern-based concordancing method, Patterns in Context (PIC), could enhance ESL students’ positive experience and uptake of DDL ... -
(Re)defining the Political Opposition: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of Urban Dictionary Definitions of Political Identities
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Political polarisation is increasing in America, with politically motivated acts of terrorism and hate crimes also on the rise. At the root of these problems is the internet, in particular, the unmoderated, anonymous sites ... -
Reflections on the design and development of language educational resources in the three-dimensional virtual reality environment High Fidelity
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The emergences of freely accessible 2D virtual worlds on the web have brought new opportunities for language education, resulting in the proliferation of virtual language schools and language learning spaces. Studies ... -
Season of La Niña - a fictive memoir
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Season of La Niña is a fictive memoir about a New Zealand flamenco dancer’s encounter with the gypsy flamenco sub-culture in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalucia, Spain. The text follows her struggle to learn the art form, her ... -
Speaking the Truth Through Love: Historical Life and Faith in the Gumdigger’s Wife
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)The Gumdigger’s Wife is a work of historical fiction, set in the early twentieth century at the peak of the kauri gum industry in New Zealand. Emmalina, a letter bride from Dalmatia, and Johan, a gumdigging migrant from ... -
Swamp Gum
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This submission is divided into to two components: the thesis itself – Swamp Gum – and the exegesis. Swamp Gum is a seventy five thousand word creative work, designed to be read before the exegesis. It is a fast paced, ... -
Video Lockdown Diaries During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Genre Analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)During the Covid-19 crisis, the number of individuals producing video diaries about their lockdown experiences for social media increased dramatically. In many ways, these video lockdown diaries are similar in nature to ...