title: (Re)contextualising audience receptions of reality TV

authors: Michelle, Carolyn

subjects: audiences

abstract: This paper seeks to recontextualise key findings from recent studies of reality TV audiences in light of insights drawn from across the wider field.  It suggests that modes of engagement and response adopted by different reality TV audiences appear broadly consistent with those identified in relation to a wide variety of genres viewed in diverse national contexts, as charted in the Composite Multi-dimensional Model of audience reception (Michelle 2007).  To further illustrate these parallels, this paper analyses online audience responses to a specific event that occurred during the 2006 reality game show, Rock Star: Supernova, applying the Composite Multi-dimensional Model as its conceptual schema. In so doing, this paper seeks to demonstrate how we might move beyond the traditional focus on specificities of genre and format to recognise and begin to theorise broader continuities in the nature of audience engagement that may persist beyond the transition to new, hybrid, and increasingly interactive media formats.

text: (Re)contextualising audience receptions of reality TV This paper seeks to recontextualise key findings from recent studies of reality TV audiences in light of insights drawn from across the wider field.  It suggests that modes of engagement and response adopted by different reality TV audiences appear broadly consistent with those identified in relation to a wide variety of genres viewed in diverse national contexts, as charted in the Composite Multi-dimensional Model of audience reception (Michelle 2007).  To further illustrate these parallels, this paper analyses online audience responses to a specific event that occurred during the 2006 reality game show, Rock Star: Supernova, applying the Composite Multi-dimensional Model as its conceptual schema. In so doing, this paper seeks to demonstrate how we might move beyond the traditional focus on specificities of genre and format to recognise and begin to theorise broader continuities in the nature of audience engagement that may persist beyond the transition to new, hybrid, and increasingly interactive media formats.

year: 2009-05

title: Macroscopic quantum phenomena

authors: Munro, William John

subjects: Quantum theory

abstract: This thesis consists of two parts. Although both are concerned with macroscopic quantum phenomena, I choose to present the two parts quite separately.  

Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena: Tests of Quantum Mechanics 

The correctness of quantum mechanics has been verified in numerous situations. A particularly strong test of quantum mechanics was suggested by Bell, who showed that the predictions of all classical theories, based as they are on the assumptions of local realism, contradict those of quantum mechanics. Later work by Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger showed that the GHZ phenomena also contradicts all classical theories. Experimental tests of Bells inequality performed to date support quantum mechanics (No experimental test of the GHZ phenomenon has yet been attempted). However, such tests have been so far restricted to microscopic systems in the sense that one particle is at a detector at a time.  
Our interest here in the first part of this thesis is in tests of quantum mechanics against local realistic theories in macroscopic or mesoscopic systems where there is a significant number of particles incident on each analyser. The states considered in the first two chapters are not simple quantum superpositions of macroscopically distinct states, but we nevertheless show how one can obtain tests of quantum mechanics in situations involving large numbers of particles. A more elementary macroscopic quantum state, and one in which the deviation from classical interpretations is striking, is the Schrodinger Cat state considered by Schrodinger in his famous "Schrodinger Cat" paradox. In Chapter Three we consider a scheme for generating such a state. 

The Quantum Brownian Motion Master Equation 

The second section of this thesis involves an examination of various aspects of the Quantum Brownian Motion Master Equation. We begin with a discussion of the recent problem occurring from the study of the quantum Brownian motion (QBM) master equation, which can occur because the QBM master equation is not of the Lindblad form. We examine two specific examples, namely the damped free particle and the two level atom. More specifically, in the case of the evolution of a free particle, we show that the equation of motion for the Wigner function (which is exactly the same as the Fokker-Planck equation for classical Brownian motion) gives unphysical results if the initial position distribution is well localised. In the case of the two level atom we show that unphysical results can also occur even in the steady state. 
The last chapter of the thesis involves using the quantum Brownian motion master equation to estimate the rate of diagonalisation of the off diagonal elements of a Fermion system. These elements contain the "quantum information" and hence knowledge of how long they exist can determine the type of model required to describe the semiconductor medium. Using a very simplistic approach we can show that there are two main time scales present and for normal parameters one of these is very small. If we neglect electron-electron scattering we can show that the the many electron system solution is simply a product of the one electron solutions.

text: Macroscopic quantum phenomena This thesis consists of two parts. Although both are concerned with macroscopic quantum phenomena, I choose to present the two parts quite separately.  

Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena: Tests of Quantum Mechanics 

The correctness of quantum mechanics has been verified in numerous situations. A particularly strong test of quantum mechanics was suggested by Bell, who showed that the predictions of all classical theories, based as they are on the assumptions of local realism, contradict those of quantum mechanics. Later work by Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger showed that the GHZ phenomena also contradicts all classical theories. Experimental tests of Bells inequality performed to date support quantum mechanics (No experimental test of the GHZ phenomenon has yet been attempted). However, such tests have been so far restricted to microscopic systems in the sense that one particle is at a detector at a time.  
Our interest here in the first part of this thesis is in tests of quantum mechanics against local realistic theories in macroscopic or mesoscopic systems where there is a significant number of particles incident on each analyser. The states considered in the first two chapters are not simple quantum superpositions of macroscopically distinct states, but we nevertheless show how one can obtain tests of quantum mechanics in situations involving large numbers of particles. A more elementary macroscopic quantum state, and one in which the deviation from classical interpretations is striking, is the Schrodinger Cat state considered by Schrodinger in his famous "Schrodinger Cat" paradox. In Chapter Three we consider a scheme for generating such a state. 

The Quantum Brownian Motion Master Equation 

The second section of this thesis involves an examination of various aspects of the Quantum Brownian Motion Master Equation. We begin with a discussion of the recent problem occurring from the study of the quantum Brownian motion (QBM) master equation, which can occur because the QBM master equation is not of the Lindblad form. We examine two specific examples, namely the damped free particle and the two level atom. More specifically, in the case of the evolution of a free particle, we show that the equation of motion for the Wigner function (which is exactly the same as the Fokker-Planck equation for classical Brownian motion) gives unphysical results if the initial position distribution is well localised. In the case of the two level atom we show that unphysical results can also occur even in the steady state. 
The last chapter of the thesis involves using the quantum Brownian motion master equation to estimate the rate of diagonalisation of the off diagonal elements of a Fermion system. These elements contain the "quantum information" and hence knowledge of how long they exist can determine the type of model required to describe the semiconductor medium. Using a very simplistic approach we can show that there are two main time scales present and for normal parameters one of these is very small. If we neglect electron-electron scattering we can show that the the many electron system solution is simply a product of the one electron solutions.

year: 1994

title: Mana whenua, mana tangata: Raukawa ake, Raukawa iho

authors: Peni, Tamati

subjects: Raukawa

abstract: Mā te whakapapa, ngā tohu whenua, ngā pae whenua, ngā mātākōrero, ngā kōrero tuku iho, ka whakatere te takenga mai o ngā ariā me ngā mātāpono o Raukawa.  Ina te matapakinga, ka tīkaro hoki i ngā āhuatanga o tuawhakarere me ngā āhuatanga o te ao hurihuri kia tūhono i ngā matapakinga he aha rānei te Raukawatanga me te pātai he aha hoki ōna pānga ki te ao whai muri ake i te taunaha i ngā take Tiriti.  Nā te whānui rawa me te kaha tīni haere o te taiwhanga nei, ka whakawhāiti te rangahau ki ngā whakamautanga o Raukawa ki ngā pae whenua tawhito, ā, ka whītikihia te aronga ki nāianei, ki te ao hurihuri.

I seek to explore the ideological grounding of Raukawa through whakapapa, land marks, boundaries, oral history, and tradition.  Through this, a simultaneous extraction of traditional and contemporary themes are used to bridge new and old ways of being and what impact this has on being Raukawa in a post-settlement setting.  Because of the vastness and changing nature of this environment, I narrow my focus to how Raukawa maintained traditional boundaries and draw on its relevance to modern Raukawa development today.

text: Mana whenua, mana tangata: Raukawa ake, Raukawa iho Mā te whakapapa, ngā tohu whenua, ngā pae whenua, ngā mātākōrero, ngā kōrero tuku iho, ka whakatere te takenga mai o ngā ariā me ngā mātāpono o Raukawa.  Ina te matapakinga, ka tīkaro hoki i ngā āhuatanga o tuawhakarere me ngā āhuatanga o te ao hurihuri kia tūhono i ngā matapakinga he aha rānei te Raukawatanga me te pātai he aha hoki ōna pānga ki te ao whai muri ake i te taunaha i ngā take Tiriti.  Nā te whānui rawa me te kaha tīni haere o te taiwhanga nei, ka whakawhāiti te rangahau ki ngā whakamautanga o Raukawa ki ngā pae whenua tawhito, ā, ka whītikihia te aronga ki nāianei, ki te ao hurihuri.

I seek to explore the ideological grounding of Raukawa through whakapapa, land marks, boundaries, oral history, and tradition.  Through this, a simultaneous extraction of traditional and contemporary themes are used to bridge new and old ways of being and what impact this has on being Raukawa in a post-settlement setting.  Because of the vastness and changing nature of this environment, I narrow my focus to how Raukawa maintained traditional boundaries and draw on its relevance to modern Raukawa development today.

year: 2013