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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Reclaiming Slowness in Journalism: Critique, Complexity and Difference
(Taylor and Francis, 2016)This article outlines an argument for the value of slowness in journalism. It makes an initial argument that our experiences of modernity are not singular experiences of speed and geographical dislocation but increasingly ... -
Freedom of Information - A Literature Review
(Journalism Education Association of New Zealand (JEANZ), 2015)When Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto launched the third summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in October, 2015, outside the event protesters disputed the highly scripted account of his government’s transparency. ... -
Flagging Diversity: The Discursive Construction of Cultural Diversity by the Flag Consideration Panel
(Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA), 2017)The Flag Consideration Project invited New Zealanders to change the New Zealand flag, and in doing soprovided an opportunity for public discussion about what it means to belong to anation. This ... -
Ethics and Professional Orientation of Serbian Journalists
(CEON/CEES, 2017)Studies of ethical orientations of journalists, based on large-scale surveys of professional norms and values, generate data that are an important indicator of journal-ism culture. While it is true that what journalists ... -
Discussion, Dialogue, Discourse| Elegy for Mediated Dialogue: Shiva the Destroyer and Reclaiming Our First Principles
(USC Annenberg Press, 2016)The field of public relations has embraced dialogic theory as a valuable theoretical framework for almost two decades. More recently, scholars have used dialogue as a framework to study the mediated communication via the ... -
Online News Style-poking a Hornet's Nest: A Preliminary Investigation Into Online Styles in Australian and New Zealand Newspapers
(Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2013)Writing news for newspapers and websites typically demands conformity to a style that promotes clarity and ease of reading, and includes a publication’s house style, that inflexible set of rules that ensures things—from ... -
Storytelling for Our Own People: A Reflection on Working with Māori Filmmaker Barry Barclay
(Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand (MEDIANZ), 2017)Māori film director and writer Barry Barclay is recognized among international indigenous filmmakers as a foundational figure. As a philosopher and a filmmaker, he was fierce in pursuit of what he saw to be tika, that ... -
The Decline and Redefinition of New Zealand Current Affairs Television Programmes
(The International Association of Media Communication Research (IAMCR), 2017)This article explores New Zealand current affairs programmes from a critical political economy perspective. Many critics believe the current affairs television genre is in terminal decline in most Western countries. They ... -
Trump, Populism and the Merchant Imaginary
(Springer Nature Publishing AG, 2018)This article explores the social ontological basis of Trumpism as a form of populism, historically defined as government by personal rule. For many commentators, the key feature of Trump’s presidency is its fundamental ... -
Becoming Iconic
(Annenberg School, University of Southern California, 2018)Contemporary popular journalism and cultural commentary are marked by the widespread proliferation of the term “iconic” in a way that departs from its traditional, sacred meaning, albeit carrying the aura of the former ... -
Knowledge in Wonderland: a Media Ecology Perspective of the Epistemological Influence of the Wonderland of Knowledge – a Children’s Encyclopaedia From the Early 1940s
(Ingenta, 2016)This article is a media ecology perspective of the epistemological influence of The Wonderland of Knowledge – a children’s encyclopaedia from the early 1940s. It has shown how the highly mechanized production and distribution ... -
Review: A Crusade for Media Truth and Justice
(Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2018)The First Casualty: From the Front Lines of the Global War on Journalism, by Peter Greste. Sydney: Viking. 2017. 335 pages. ISBN 9780670079261. PETER GRESTE, the Australian journalist who became a thorn in the side of the ... -
Review: Indonesian Repression and Betrayal in West Papua
(Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2018)Papua Blood: A Photographer’s Eyewitness Account of West Papua Over 30 Years, by Peter Bang. Copenhagen, Denmark: Remote Frontlines, 2018. 248 pages. ISBN 978-87-430-0101-0 See No Evil: New Zealand’s Betrayal of the People ... -
Editorial: Killing the Messenger
(Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2018)The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately. Revelations in research published in this edition of Pacific Journalism ... -
Radio New Zealand and the Internet: Ten Years of Transformation
(Monash University Prato Italy, 2018)In 2007 I surveyed Radio New Zealand audience data to interrogate how its relatively new website was being used by listeners. That research found that ‘the majority of New Zealand users accessed the Radio New Zealand site ... -
Concepts in Multimodal Discourse Analysis With Examples From Video Conferencing
(de Gruyter Open, 2016)This article presents theoretical concepts and methodological tools from multimodal (inter)action analysis that allow the reader to gain new insight into the study of discourse and interaction. The data for this article ... -
The British Kept A'Coming: on the Tourist Trail of the 1863 Invasion of the Waikato
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Review: Charlie Hebdo and the free speech conflict
(Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2018)After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech, edited by Gavan Titley, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany and Aurélien Mondon. London: Zed Books. 2017. 313 pages. ISBN 9781783609383 IN OCTOBER 2016, I returned to that ...