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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The Rise of Tactical Partnerships: Media Converging Beyond Ownership
(MEDIANZ, 2017)This qualitative research article explores New Zealand media convergence in an increasingly digital media environment. It considers media ownership convergence in the context of the Commerce Commission’s merger rulings in ... -
A Lucid Lecturess: The Voices of New Zealand’s Silent Cinema
(2016)This article attempts to record some of the faint echoes left from the days of silent cinema in New Zealand. Sound has been an integral part of cinematic experience in New Zealand since the very first exhibitions during ... -
After the Storm Comes the Sun: A Rhetorical Analysis of Melbourne Storm's Advertising Campaigns After the 2010 Salary Cap Scandal
One of the most common motifs surrounding sports, sports teams, and sports stars is “the scandal.” One typifying feature of mediated scandals is the ease with which they can be presented as, or massaged into, an unfolding ... -
The Misplaced Public of New Zealand Media: Notes Toward a Future Media Scene
(MEDIANZ, 2017)This paper interrogates what we believe is an increasingly urgent task: to think about ways of revitalising public life in New Zealand beyond traditional defenses of public broadcasting. The concept of the public in public ... -
No More Business-as-usual: Where to Now for International Trade?
(The Policy Observatory, 2017)About this report This report is part of an ongoing series on urgent contemporary policy issues in Aotearoa New Zealand. This series is action-oriented and solutions-focused, with an objective of bringing academic ... -
Google, Facebook and New Zealand News Media: The Problem of Platform Dependency
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)About the data in this report: This report utilises data from two analytics companies: SimilarWeb and BirdSong Analytics. The findings of the report are dependent on the quality and accuracy of the data offered by these ... -
2018 JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Summary This eighth JMAD New Zealand media ownership report observes a considerable shift in New Zealand media ownership. In 2018, Australian Nine Entertainment took over Stuff’s parent company Fairfax Media. The report ... -
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 ...