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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
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  • Multimodal Analysis
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  • Political Economy of Communication
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    Mai Tawhiti: A Story of Research Collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand Between a Māori and a Non-Māori Practitioners
    (School of Art and Design, AUT, 2023-12-21) Mortensen Steagall, Marcos
    In recent decades, there has been an emergence of academic discourse about the Global South and Indigenous knowledge internationally, opening opportunities for practice-led research due to the rich epistemologies from Aotearoa. In New Zealand, Māori designers and artists have enriched and redefined the conceptual boundaries of how research is conducted in the academy by providing access to different ways of knowing and alternative methods for leading and presenting knowledge. Despite the exponential growth in global interest in Indigenous knowledge, there remains scant research on creative collaborations between Māori and non-Māori practitioners. Engaging in these collaborative approaches requires adherence to Māori principles to ensure a respectful process that upholds the mana (status, dignity) of participants and the research. This presentation focuses on a collaborative partnership between Māori and non-Māori practitioners that challenges conceptions of ethnicity and reflects the complexity of a globally multi-ethnic society. This presentation was articulated through the poetic photographic installation called 'Tangata Whenua,' supporting a practice-led PhD project entitled 'KO WAI AU? Who am I?'. This project explores how a Māori documentary maker from this iwi (tribe) might sensitively address the grief and injustice of a tragic historical event. In this creative partnership, the researchers collaborated to record the land still bearing the painful remnants of the colonial accounts of the 1866 execution of Toiroa’s ancestor Mokomoko. This presentation contributes to the understanding of cross-cultural and intercultural creativity. It discusses how the shared conceptualization of ideas, immersion in different creative processes, personal reflection, and development over time can foster collaboration.
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    Chinese Children’s Voices in Leisure Studies in RV Driving Family Tourism
    (School of Hospitality and Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, 2023-12-04) Dong, Ye; Schänzel, Heike; Liu, Claire
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    New Funding Models in Journalism Are Emerging, but Major Leap Forward Is Lacking
    (Cogitatio, 2024-01-23) Myllylahti, Merja; Meese, James
    This editorial introduces our thematic issue, titled Examining New Models in Journalism Funding, at a pivotal time. While news companies have attempted to build sustainable business models, we have not yet seen a major leap forward. As observed by the authors of this issue, digital reader revenue has become a prominent source of income for many publishers, but the bulk of them continue to rely on advertising and print subscriptions for money. Recently, Google and Facebook have become major funders of news and innovation in journalism. Some governments have also launched specific support programs. After providing some background context, we introduce the articles featured in the issue. We go on to argue that these articles signal a renewed interest in the business of journalism, which will help us better understand the ongoing financial crisis in the commercial news sector at a more granular level.
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    JMAD Aotearoa New Zealand Media Ownership Report 2023
    (AUT Research Centre for Journalism Media and Democracy, 2023-12-08) Baker, Sarah; Hoar, Peter; Hope, Wayne; McEwan, Rufus; Middleton, Atakohu; Te, Saing; Treadwell, Greg
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    Fight for the Wild: Emotion and Place in Conservation, Community Formation, and National Identity
    (Informa UK Limited, 2023-11-06) Craig, Geoffrey
    This study analyses the documentary series, Fight for the Wild, examining how emotional engagements with place facilitate a complex nexus of conservation practices, community formation, and feelings associated with national identity. The documentary charts the progress and challenges of the ‘Predator Free 2050’ campaign which seeks to eradicate Aotearoa New Zealand of all introduced predators and protect endangered native fauna and flora. The documentary portrays how the campaign in constituted through networks of scientists and conservation workers, community groups, and institutional and political leaders, spanning a diverse geographical spectrum from areas of wilderness to urban environments. The study argues the conservation work portrayed in the documentary, and indeed all environmental activity, derives from emotions generated by an individual’s experiential relationships with an environment. Such an argument declares that human assignations of environmental value originate from experiential engagements with an environment, and the accompanying emotional recognition of the affordances of that environment, and that cognitive, social, and representational engagements with environments follow such a process. The article’s significance derives from a demonstration of how this process of subject formation individually informs and connects the scientific processes of conservation work, local community engagement, and more broadly the invocation of a national identity.
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