• Australian journalism and war: Professional discourse and the legitimation of the 2003 Iraq invasion 

      Dodson, Giles (Routledge, 2010)
      This paper presents an original study of Australian journalistic professionalism as observed during the Iraq War, 2003. Through an analysis of both in-depth interviews conducted with Australian Iraq War journalists and ...
    • Baptism of fire - how journalism students from the University Of The South Pacific covered the Speight Putsch and its aftermath 

      Cass, Philip (Routledge, 2002)
      During the violent coup staged by businessman George Speight in Fiji in May 2000, accurate information about what was happening was often restricted to a handful of Fijian websites. On some occasions the only site still ...
    • Climate change and Generation Zero : analysing the 50/50 campaign : a communication for social change approach 

      Noronha, Sandra (Unitec ePress, 2013)
      Climate change does not respect national boundaries or distinguish between big and small polluters. It is one of the truly global problems humanity faces today. In spite of this, there is reluctance to believe in the ...
    • Dilemma for Fiji media and the constitution 

      Cass, Philip (Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 1995)
      Fiji prides itself on being at the crossroads of the Pacific and yet the rest of the great ocean remains almost invisible to the Fijian press, to whom the world consists of floods in India, stock prices in Australia and O ...
    • A dozen Danish cartoons and the wrath of the Muslim world 

      Cass, Philip (Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2006)
      How do we understand the outrage in the Muslim world against the 12 cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten? And can we move on from anger and misunderstanding? Is there room for dialogue?
    • A foreign flower no more : Tongan diasporic media and the 2014 Tongan election 

      Cass, Philip (Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2016)
      The use of social media and the involvement of diasporic population in politics is a growing trend among diasporic Polynesian communities and Island politicians. Auckland-based Tongan media, which are the focus of this ...
    • Fr Francis Mihalic and Wantok niuspepa 

      Cass, Philip (Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre, 2011)
      Papua New Guinea’s Tok Pisin language newspaper Wantok, founded in 1969, is one of the publishing icons of the South Pacific. Drawing on interviews with Fr Francis Mihalic and Bishop Leo Arkfeld made in the early 1990s, a ...
    • From a Suva gossip column to Fleet Street - Hack's Progress by Phillip Knightley 

      Cass, Philip (Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy, 1999)
      To readers outside the United Kingdom, Australian-born journalist Philip Knightley will probably be best known for his books such as The First Casualty and The Secret Life of Lawrence of Arabia. In his autobiography, now ...
    • 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 ...