The
purpose of this research is to employ digital communication
tools (particularly online interactive video) to undertake a
particular historical investigation. This investigation concerns
the objectification and then the communication of the considerable
historical changes occurring within an inner-city Australian
community. As I will argue, these changes are in fact focussed
local manifestations of larger and more distant globalisation
processes.
How I have sought to evoke qualitative evidence for this argument
is through interviewing forty-five people who suggest a symbolically
diverse cross-section of culture within an inner-city Australian
community. I then communicate the analysis of the interviews
using innovative online search and categorisation techniques.
The analysis circulates around the ideas of the local and the
global and the people–centred speculative encounters between
the cause-and-effect of the two opposing discourses. Concisely,
this project is an attempt to historically objectify the process
known as globalisation in an inner urban community (in the developed
world) using online interactive tools.
The significant outcome of this research is the provision of
at least one example of the potential of these new tools for
independent and authoritative postgraduate research in the Humanities.
A critical examination of this model is the thrust of this exegetical-thesis
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