• How can Herman and Chomsky’s ideas function in a post-communist world? 

      Smith, Samantha (Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)
      This essay discusses the opportunity for Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model, as outlined in their book, Manufacturing Consent (1988), to be altered to remain relevant in a post-communist world. The model previously ...
    • ICTs in climate change communication in the Pacific Islands 

      Harris, U.; Papoutsaki, Evangelia; Kailahi, Sandra (University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 2016)
      Community participation is essential to effectively address communities’ needs in relation to climate change. Conventional media forms that are easily accessible in the Pacfic Islands region, including digital media, require ...
    • The Infallible Engine: Indigenous perceptions of Europeans in German New Guinea through the Missionary Press 

      Cass, Philip (Madang, Papua New Guinea : Divine Word University, 2004-, 2011)
      Newspapers provide a vital record of how a society sees itself, but in colonial history this usually means that the view of political, social and historical developments is slanted towards the colonisers who made up the ...
    • Introduction and contents for special issue of Multimodal Communication 10 (1) 

      Matelau, Tui; Pirini, J. (De Gruyter, 2021-01-27)
      In this article we introduce this special issue of Multimodal Communication. We briefly describe the founding of the Multimodal Research Centre and the journal Multimodal Communication before introducing each of the articles ...
    • Local Nazis in your area : public shaming and communal disgust in the doxing of white nationalists at Charlottesville 

      Hawkes, Rebecca (Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)
      Eagerness to ‘name and shame’ neo-Nazis after alt-right violence and intimidation at the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has revitalised the ethical debate over the practice of ‘doxing’ (dropping ...
    • Locating disaster communication in changing communicative ecologies across Pacfiic 

      Noske-Turner, Jessica; Tacchi, J.; Horst, Heather; Papoutsaki, Evangelia (Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, 2014)
      The Pacific Island region is geographically and culturally diverse, with a significant range of communication infrastructures and challenges. Access and use of mobile phones has risen exponentially over the past five years. ...
    • Media ownership in the Pacific: Inherited colonial commercial model but remarkably diverse 

      Cass, Philip (Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2004)
      This article describes the historic conditions governing newspaper and media ownership in the Pacific. It argues that historically there have been three kinds of media in the Pacific: Mission or church-owned or directed, ...
    • Mission Journalism in German New Guinea Pioneering Mass Communication 

      Cass, Philip (Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 1992)
      The role of the mainstream churches in contemporary Papua New Guinea media is well known. What is often less well appreciated is that Kristen Pres, Wantok, and The Time of Papua New Guinea did not spring fresh from the ...
    • My female body 

      Walker, Holly (Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)
      Before I learnt about my feminism, I thought I was just loud and sexually confident. In 2017 I am still loud and sexually confident, but I also have research and embodied experiences to justify this. Understand this. With ...
    • The never-ending story: Palestine, Israel and The West Wing 

      Cass, Philip (Intellect Ltd., 2007)
      This article examines the way in which the popular American television series The West Wing represents the Palestinian–Israeli conflict and the way in which Middle Eastern audiences responded to that depiction. This fictional ...
    • “New Zealand is still learning to get along with itself”: tertiary students discuss New Zealand multiculturalism. 

      Kolesova, Elena (Aoyama Gakuin University International Research Center (Tokyo, Japan), 2018)
      In the 20th century the movement and relocation of peoples has become a norm in the global world. The causes for human migration may vary from a simple desire to try a different life in a new environment, which can be ...
    • Not in a pakeha court: Kastom and Pacific media 

      Cass, Philip (Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2000)
      Laws which most concern journalists, such as libel, have been framed entirely within a western context. This hinders and often disbars ordinary people from seeking redress against the media in western-style courts. A ...
    • The Pacific mission press 

      Cass, Philip (Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 1997)
      The missions were the first to bring printing presses to the region and usually the first to establish a newspaper in the various islands. Despite their limited circulations, church newspapers are still important because ...
    • Participatory video and the Pacifica Mamas : a pilot project 

      Saifoloi, Malama; Papoutsaki, Evangelia; Williams, Marcus; Harris, Usha Sundar; Naqvi, Munawwar (Unitec ePress, 2016-08-17)
      Emerging literature highlights that in the Pacific, the use of participatory video (PV) is a new trend in research and community action. It can be employed as a tool to empower communities to have agency over their media ...
    • The past is a foreign climate : Shigeyuki Kihara meets the Anthropocene 

      Seja, Nina (ANU School of Art in Canberra, 2015-11)
      A young Samoan woman stands constrained in a voluminous black dress. The black-and-white photographs emphasize a Victorian formality and sensibility. This ancestor from the past is Shigeyuki Kihara’s Salome, a young ancient ...
    • Politics, affect and intimacy : the mediated sentencing of Metiria Turei 

      Robson, Molly (Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)
      This essay shifts current discussions of political analysis from the informative to the affective, using intimacy as a conceptual lens through which to consider matters of the public sphere and their mediated repurcussions. ...
    • Relational accountability in indigenizing visual research for participatory communication 

      Thomas, V.; Eggins, Joys; Papoutsaki, Evangelia (SAGE, 2016-01-25)
      This article argues that an indigenous approach to communication research allows us to re-think academic approaches of engaging in and evaluating participatory communication research. It takes as its case study the Komuniti ...
    • A review of the Pacific media landscape: A baseline study 

      Papoutsaki, Evangelia; Thomas, V.; Horst, H.; Tacchi, J.; Noske-Turner, J.; Eggins, Joys (2016)
      This article draws upon the Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS) State of Media and Communication Report to examine the implications of a changing media landscape for journalism practice in the Pacific region. The ...
    • Talking past each other? A comparative study of the descriptions of the Russo- Japanese War in Japanese and Russian history textbooks, ca. 1997-2010 

      Kolesova, Elena; Nishino, R. (Aoyama Gakuin University Center for International Studies, 2015)
      The school history textbook is gaining critical scholarly attention globally as a contested medium of conflicting ideologies and interests. At issue are the roles and the consequences of education and ...
    • Tok Pisin and Tok Ples as languages of identification in Papua New Guinea 

      Cass, Philip (World Association for Christian Communication, 1999)
      After the Second World War missions in Papua New Guinea faced new imperatives driven by the reaction of the Australian administration to UN directives. As a result the administration decided to use English as the sole ...