Browsing Masters Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Baker, Sarah"
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Harden Up! Analysing Soft News in New Zealand’s Prime-time Television News Bulletins
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)New Zealand television news programming is an area of media research that has been widely explored in previous decades. Studies have determined that in the wake of deregulation in 1989, One Network News adopted a more ... -
“Is that sexism?”: A Thematic Analysis of the Labour Experiences of Women Working as Producers, Directors and Writers in New Zealand Television
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)During the 1980s, New Zealand’s Fourth Labour Government implemented a number of economic policy changes under the international influence of neoliberalism which resulted in major deregulation and reform to New Zealand ... -
A Real Alternative? – How Alternative News Media Coverage Compares to the Mainstream in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The public receives most of its information about important national and international events through the news media. Since the advent of the internet, mainstream news media has experienced a decline in its audience as the ... -
Through the Nether: A Critical Examination of Minecraft as a Social Construct
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Minecraft has become one of the defining video games of the 2010s, selling over 144 million copies, and receiving critical acclaim, with reviewers praising Minecraft’s open-world sandbox gameplay. This thesis is concerned ...