{"id":3876,"date":"2015-03-27T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2016-08-01T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:08:13","slug":"manuscript-march-if-my-thesis-were-a-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=3876","title":{"rendered":"Manuscript March: If My Thesis Were a&#8230; Viral Video!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I need a break from all the waking and writing and intellectualising that I&#8217;ve been doing all week. (Um&#8230; I read a book and wrote a half-paragraph about it. Which I&#8217;ll probably delete. But that doesn&#8217;t change the fact that it&#8217;s Friday.)<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s edition of IMTWA, we&#8217;re looking at viral videos.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, YouTube. Bastion of time-wasting, enabler of procrastination, home of the internet&#8217;s cutest animals and most offensive commenters. I will now commence to transparently connect my thesis to various YouTube viral videos, in a thinly-veiled attempt to justify our watching them during a workday. (By the way: if you can&#8217;t see videos embedded below, click the header above to view this post in full.)<\/p>\n<p>OK, starting with a classic. My thesis is <em>clearly<\/em> the Star Wars kid. It&#8217;s nerdy, it&#8217;s not fully mature yet, and it uses materials in ways they weren&#8217;t intended to be used.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HPPj6viIBmU\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or possibly, my thesis is the <em>Evolution of Dance<\/em> video. It purports to contextualise modern trends by demonstrating their precedents, but ends up pretty much entirely focused on historical content.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dMH0bHeiRNg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No. I&#8217;ve got it. My thesis is the dramatic chipmunk. It&#8217;s been looked at 43 million times, and it&#8217;s <em>still<\/em> a bit dubious.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a1Y73sPHKxw\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What am I talking about? My thesis must be <em>Charlie Bit My Finger<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dQw4w9WgXcQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nope, sorry, rickroll! Because I&#8217;m never gonna give [my research] up, never gonna let [my supervisor] down, never gonna turn around [from my computer in the forseeable future.]<\/p>\n<p>Your turn: if your thesis were a viral video, which would it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s Friday. I don&rsquo;t know about you, but I need a break from all the waking and writing and intellectualising that I&rsquo;ve been doing all week. 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