School of Communication Studies
The School of Communication Studies is committed to innovative, critical and creative research that advances knowledge, serves the community, and develops future communication experts and skilled media practitioners. There is a dynamic interaction between communication theory and media practice across digital media, creative industries, film and television production advertising, radio, public relations, and journalism. The School is involved in research and development in areas of:
- Journalism
- Media and Communication
- Media Performance
- Multimodal Analysis
- Online, Social and Digital Media
- Asia-Pacific Media
- Political Economy of Communication
- Popular Culture
- Public Relations
- Radio
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Māori-language Newspapers 1842-1945: A Survey, With a Focus on the Expression of Oral Tikanga on the Page
This paper canvasses Māori-language print media from the first monolingual newspaper in te reo Māori (the Māori language) in 1842 to what is believed to be the last, in 1945. It sets the publications in their social contexts ... -
A Defence Democracy ‘in’ the United States : Gender and Politics in the Unincorporated Territory of Guam
(University of Malta. Islands and Small States Institute, 2020)In 2018, the island of Guåhan (Guam), an unincorporated territory of the United States (US), elected the island’s first “Maga’håga” or first woman Governor of Guam, Lourdes Leon Guerrero. Guåhan became the first state or ... -
Climate Change, Communication and Food
(International Association for Media and Communication Research, 2019)No abstract. -
Jamming Imperialism: Māori Radio and Postcolonial New Zealand
New Zealand as a nation state was born imperial with the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty established a partnership between Māori, the indigenous people, and the British Crown. The Treaty underpins all aspects of modern ... -
Book Review: Martin Hirst (2019) Navigating Social Journalism: A Handbook for Media Literacy and Citizen Journalism. London: Routledge
(International Association for Media and Communication Research, 2019)No abstract. -
“Kia Hiwa Rā!” How Māori-language Journalists Adapt Elements of Whaikōrero for Newswork
Aotearoa has a substantial Māori-language news and current affairs sector. A notable aspect of the field is the way in which journalists have imported elements of the ancient and enduring art of whaikōrero, or public ... -
Lights, Action, Naughty Bits: A Thematic Analysis of New Zealander’s Attitudes to Naked Attraction
(The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 2020)The sexualisation of culture has generated much debate in western discourse around its effect on the normalisation of nudity and sexual activity. The reality television show Naked Attraction has increased the dialogue ... -
Learn From Your Environment: A Visual Literacy Learning Model
Based on the presupposition that visual literacy skills are not usually learned unaided by osmosis, but require targeted learning support, this article explores how everyday encounters with visuals can be leveraged as ... -
Drama at Disney: A Thematic Analysis of Creative Worker Identity Negotiation and Identification in the Documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty
(International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 2020)Work in creative organizations is often completed under intense working conditions. Due to the nature of the industry sector, creative workers must manage and deal with a range of factors related to their daily activities. ... -
Key Melanesian Media Freedom Challenges: Climate Crisis, Internet Freedoms, Fake News and West Papua
(Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Melanesia, and the microstates of the Pacific generally, face the growing influence of authoritarian and secretive values in the region—projected by both China and Indonesia and with behind-the-scenes manipulation. There ... -
Chasing Dreams, Finding Nightmares: Exploring the Creative Limits of the Music Career
(M/C - Media and Culture, 2020)In the 2019 documentary Chasing Happiness, recording artist/musician Joe Jonas tells audiences that the band was “living the dream”. Similarly, in the 2012 documentary Artifact, lead singer Jared Leto remarks that at the ... -
Trust in News in New Zealand
(AUT research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD), 2020)This is the first JMAD report from the centre’s ongoing research project into the level of trust New Zealanders have in the news. It is produced in collaboration with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. With ... -
Journalists as First Responders
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Covering terrorist attacks has posed numerous challenges to mainstream media across the world. Bringing information to the public quickly remains a primary goal for news media, but the journalistic duty to tell the truth ... -
JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report 2019
(School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2019)No abstract. -
Bearing Witness 2016: A Fiji Climate Change Journalism Case Study
(Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2017)In February 2016, the Fiji Islands were devastated by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston, the strongest recorded tropical storm in the Southern Hemisphere. The category 5 storm with wind gusts reaching 300 kilometres an hour, ... -
The Insecurity Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior Affair: A Human Rights Transition From Nuclear to Climate-change Refugees
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies / University of Canterbury, 2017)State-backed terrorism as exemplified by the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the Amsterdam-registered flagship of the Greenpeace environmental movement, on 10 July 1985 in New Zealand, and the assassination of pro-independence ... -
‘Carbon Colonialism’: Pacific Environmental Risk, Media Credibility and a Deliberative Perspective
(Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, AUT University, 2014)The effects of climate change are already occurring in all continents and across the oceans, and the situation has deteriorated since the last account in 2007, warned the United Nations scientific agency charged with ... -
Diversity in Reporting? A Study of the News coverage of the 2016 New Zealand Local Body Elections
(MEDIANZ, 2017)This study offers an analysis of print news media coverage of the 2016 New Zealand Local Body elections, focusing on reportage around issues of diversity. This study builds upon a prior project by the Media Observatory ... -
Tanah Papua, Asia-Pacific News Blind Spots and Citizen Media: From the ‘Act of Free Choice’ Betrayal to a Social Media Revolution
(Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2017)For five decades Tanah Papua, or the West Papua half of the island of New Guinea on the intersection of Asia and the Pacific, has been a critical issue for the region with a majority of the Melanesian population supporting ... -
FOI Scholarship Reflects a Return to Secrecy
(Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology., 2016)When Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto launched the third summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in October 2015, protesters disputed his highly scripted account of his government’s transparency. The OGP may ...