School of Communication Studies - Te Kura Whakapāho
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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Immersive Photography: A Review of the Contextual Knowledge of a PhD Practice-Led Research Project
(Revista GEMInIS, 2022)Despite its 35 years of academic presence, practice-led research is still in the process of building its status regarding definitions and its discourse. One of the fundamentals of this type of research is that practice-led ... -
Thinking, Photographing: A Place-based Approach in Practice-led Research
(Revista GEMInIS, 2022)The article introduces photography practice as a practice-led research methodology, highlighting photographic conventions and methods as key research approaches. To illustrate these ideas I will foreground examples of my ... -
Going to the Clay: Exploring Conflicts and Values of the Soil in Valparaíso
(Revista GEMInIS, 2022)This proposition presents a design and artistic research focused on the soil and aimed at generating active and poetic forms of reflection around the fragile interdependence of human and non-human lives in an increasingly ... -
Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand 2022
(The AUT research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD), 2022)About this report This is the third report about trust in news in Aotearoa New Zealand produced by the AUT research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD). The study behind the report is in collaboration with ... -
Freedom of Information. What Were They Thinking?
(Schools of Art & Design, Communication Studies, and Business, AUT, 2020)“The right to know is the right to live.” Aruna Roy (1946— ), Indian social activist Ongoing dissatisfaction among information requesters, including journalists, has discredited the early and partially heroic narratives ... -
Game of Thrones as a Gothic Horror in Quality Television
(Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Scientia Publishing House, 2021)Quality television at its heart is designed to reward sustained viewing and involvement on the part of the audience. It has distinctive visual styles, serial characters and storylines and a filmic quality, all of which is ... -
Demon in a Dress: An Exploration of How Television Programming Conceptualises Female Public Relations Practitioners As Monsters
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In Media We Trust? A Comparative Analysis of News Trust in New Zealand and Other Western Media Markets
In the age of misinformation, trust and trustworthiness – core values of journalism – have become more important as news companies reeling from the pandemic seek emergency funding for their operations from the public and ... -
Age and Environmental Citizenship: A Case Study of Media Coverage of the 2019 Local Body Elections in New Zealand
(MDPI, 2021)Environmental issues in the coverage of the elections are usually framed in relation to voters’ attitudes towards the specific problems, for instance, water quality or land use. The environment is not given standing in ... -
Sound and Vision in the Opening Titles of Māori-language Television News: A Multimodal Analysis of Cultural Hybridity
Māori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand. British settlers arrived in the 19th century with their tradition of the newspaper, and this led to a thriving Māori-language press. Today, news in te reo Māori, the ... -
Diversity, Inclusivity, and the News: Coverage of the 2014 New Zealand General Election
(MEDIANZ, 2015)Upon winning his third term as Prime Minister, John Key announced that he would lead a government for “all New Zealanders.” This study takes this statement of inclusivity as its point of departure for an analysis of ... -
JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership 2020
(AUT Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD), 2020)No abstract. -
Upgrading The L Word: Generation Q
The L Word: Generation Q is the reboot of The L Word, a long running series about a group of lesbians and bisexuals in Los Angeles in the early 2000s. Both programmes are unique in their positioning of lesbian characters ... -
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 ...