Victoria Kerry
Doctor of Philosophy, (Linguistics)
Study Completed: 2019
College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Citation
Thesis Title
Stance, Same-Sex Marriage and Space: An Analysis of Self-Referencing on YouTube
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Despite the popularity of YouTube as an online platform, little research has been conducted on the user-generated textual responses as a form of engagement on the site. Ms Kerry's research analysed what YouTubers say about themselves in comments responding to the passing of New Zealand's law to allow same-sex couples to marry. Using Mediated Discourse Analysis, she proposed a new theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of YouTube interaction and reworked an existing model of stancetaking used in offline contexts. She argued that YouTubers' self-referencing may be used to warrant stance and users' right to enter the space, correct other YouTubers' assumptions, and serve as a tool for making sense of YouTubers' online and offline worlds.
Supervisors
Dr David Ishii
Dr Martin Paviour-Smith
Dr Anthony Fisher
Publications
Faris, V. (2014, June 18) Hegemonic Masculinity in the Linguistic Landscape of the CrossFit “Cave”. Paper presented at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Albany Campus Seminar Series, Auckland, New Zealand.
Faris, V. (2014, May 12-14) Walking the line between aggression and assertion: Political impoliteness and the journalistic field. Paper Presented at EPICS VI 6th Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, Seville, Spain.
Faris, V. (2013, December 2-4) “You've clearly never done CrossFit”: Impoliteness and Participatory Culture on YouTube. Paper presented at the 4th New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC4), Auckland, New Zealand.
Faris, V. (2012, November 28-29) “Monique says you’re dumb”: New Zealand expressions of community and vernacular creativity on YouTube. Paper presented at the 13th Language and Society Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.