ICDC - the Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication
ICDC - the Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication is grounded in collaborative, trans-disciplinary research projects. The Institute is committed to engaging with contemporary cultural issues, while analysing the social, economic and political discourses and communicative practices that shape meaning around these.
In recent years, work at the Institute has focused on the key concerns of culture, discourse and communication. Scholars from various disciplines have come together on projects spanning language use, media such as the internet and television, and national identity.
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The Immediate Effect of Parental Language Choice on That of Their Children's Language in Chinese Migrant Families
(Crane Publishing Co., 2014)For the majority of migrants, family is the last redoubt of mother tongue maintenance. Understandably, there has thus been a large body of literature on the importance of parental influence on the language behaviour of ... -
New Zealanders with Disabilities and their Internet Use
(Institute of Culture and DIscourse (ICDC), AUT University, 2016)This report presents the findings from a series of interviews conducted with New Zealanders with disabilities who talked about their experiences of Internet use. For people with disabilities in New Zealand, living in the ... -
‘New Zealand passport holder’ versus ‘New Zealander’? The marginalization of ethnic minorities in the news – A New Zealand case study
(Sage, 2015)This article uses critical discourse analysis to investigate audience criticism of the news media's marginalization of ethnic minority members in New Zealand through the use of the words 'New Zealand passport holder'. ... -
Carving a niche for minority language media studies not so easy. Book Review of ‘Social Media and Minority Languages: Convergence and the Creative Industries’, edited by E. Gruffydd Jones and E Uribe-Jongbloed
(Pacific Media Centre, Creative Industries Research Institute, AUT University, 2014)Whenever a new field of research emerges a lot of shuffling and sorting of knowledge is required to establish a niche, to define its boundaries, to encourage acknowledgement of the area and to stimulate debate concerning ... -
Political discourse and the re-branding of NZ national identity
(The Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, 2014)The New Zealand Government’s construction of an all-inclusive national identity in the early 2000s was imagined in terms of “the New Zealand Way” – a term used by politicians that clearly echoed Britain’s Third Way politics ... -
‘Don’t call me European - I’ve never been to Europe!’ Identity politics in post-colonial New Zealand
(Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD), 2014)A rejection by some white majority New Zealanders of the category of ‘European’ to describe their ethnicity in the 2006 census raises questions about how national identity is perceived in a country that has become increasingly ... -
Afrikaner identity: argument, discourse, and stigma
(Institute of Culture Discourse and Communication, AUT University, 2013)The search for and the development of an Afrikaner identity are not novel manifestations. These are practices that have manifested for centuries, finding their roots in the 18th century when Dutch speaking colonists ... -
The Internet in New Zealand 2013
(Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication, AUT University, 2013)Executive Summary The fourth survey of the World Internet Project New Zealand (WIPNZ) was conducted between late July and early September 2013. For the first time, the sample in 2013 used both telephone and internet ... -
Why did you choose those readings? A case study in text selection for first year university students
(AUT University, 2010)This paper evaluates the reading and vocabulary demands in five texts used in a first-year undergraduate paper in hospitality management at a multicultural university in New Zealand. There were two research perspectives: ... -
The imagined and the real: identifying the tensions for academic identity
(Taylor and Francis, 2010)Changes within the higher education sector have had significant effects on the identity of the individual academic. As institutions transform in response to government-driven policy and funding directives, there is a ... -
The changing research context: implications for leadership
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)Within the changing tertiary environment, research activity and performance are coming under greater pressure and scrutiny. External policy and funding directives are resulting in revised institutional objectives, requiring ...