Honours at the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Media and Multimedia
- The Honours Advantage
- Employer Recognition
- A richer Experience
- Previous Honours Projects
- Project Ideas
- Supervisors and their Interests
- Enquiries about Honours
The Media & Multimedia honours strand offers you the unique opportunity to undertake a research thesis through submission of written dissertation or major project. Official Course Description and Entry Requirements.
The Honours Advantage
- Honours prepares you for jobs that demand a high level of motivation; self direction; initiative and analytical skill;
- It demonstrates to potential employers your ability to work as an independent researcher and to initiate, develop and deliver a major project;
- Honours is the recognised entry point to postgraduate research programs such as Masters and Phd and is important for scholarship eligibility.
Employer Recognition
Our graduates regularly find employment for positions in production; direction; editing; on-air; journalism; copy writing; web authoring; research; and policy development within a diverse range of media industries including print, TV, advertising, cinema, radio, and mobile telecommunications. Graduates have also found careers in media related fields such as publishing, design, education, marketing and public relations.
A Richer Experience
You will expand your knowledge of an area of study to a degree not possible within a three year program under the guidance of your academic supervisor.
Previous Honours Projects
'The cinematic field : social and economic factors influencing the position of independent cinema in Australia '
'Anime and the Global Media : how has the globalisation of the media affected the popularity and cultural identity of the Japanese pop cultural icon, anime?'
'Writing the body: a cultural inquiry into the contemporary practices of skin tattooing and body piercing'
'Gender roles, autobiography and inklings of feminism in the texts of Miles Franklin'
'The place of pop music as Postmodernist art'
'Isolation and Subjugation : The Telephone in the Slasher Film'
Project Ideas
Discuss these ideas, or your own, with the Supervisors
'Home grown' terror: the representation of Australian terror suspects in the media'.
'Is convergent journalism "better" journalism?'
'Barbie or Barbaric? The representation of female US soldiers in Iraq.'
'But Words Will Never Hurt Me: The Virtual Community Reimagined As A Lynch Mob'
'Digital Dandies: Male Effeminacy in Japanese Game Culture and Art'
'Why is Suri Cruise hiding? Paparazzi, Celebrity, Privacy'
'The citizen journalist: to what extent have blogging and other participatory technologies redefined contemporary journalistic practice?'
'Designing content for mobile platforms: how do these emerging media transform traditional narrative form?'
'Cross Media Ownership in Australia : how will proposed media regulation reforms affect Australian culture?'
Thesis by project:
'Promoting water conservation: a java based game aimed at educating the public on the necessity for water conservation'
'The Password Archive: interface design project which effectively and securely manages a user's multiple online passwords'
Supervisors and their Interests
Your supervisor will assist you with framing your research, your research method and your approach to your chosen topic. They will also work with you to help guide and manage your research project as it develops
Dr Belinda Barnet
history of digital media; convergent journalism; mobility and mobile culture; critical theory; hypertext; biotechnology; and the philosophy of technology; honours by project.
Diana Bossio
cultural theory; media studies; the practice of journalism; convergent journalism; media politics; terrorism; insecurity; relations between media and government.
Dr Mark Finn
political economy of new media industries; social and cultural aspects of computer and video games; honours by project.
Christian McCrea
game studies; game and interactive art; critical and serious games; media archeology; critical theory; Japanese popular culture; cinema studies.
Dr Esther Milne (convenor)
celebrity production and consumption; literary theory; copyright reform and the media; narratives of the Internet; email history and practice; reality tv and the culture of surveillance.
John Schwartz:
popular culture; media ownership; media ethics; public policy; globalisation and convergence.
Associate Professor Darren Tofts
literary theory; new media theory; media arts criticism, cyberculture and cultural convergence; honours by project.
Enquiries about Honours
- Dr Esther Milne
Convenor of Media and Multimedia Honours strand - email: emilne
swin.edu.au
telephone: +613 9214 8195
Late applications will be accepted subject to the availability of places. Link: Application Form (PDF format)
