Media and Communication

Summary

Media and Communication and Journalism staff have research expertise in journalism ethics, critical analysis of media power, media globalisation, media and politics, media and social change, media and representations, science and risk communication.

Current research includes the impact of internet on off-line media in New Zealand, new communication technologies and social change; representation of marginal groups in mass media; journalism studies, with a particular emphasis on discourse analysis of journalists’ writing practices; news practice; biculturalism, and media and politics.

Researchers

• Babak Bahador
• Donald Matheson
• Linda Jean Kenix
• Natalia Chaban
• Tara Ross
• Wan Chi Leung
• Zita Joyce

• Christchurch Discourse Research Group (CDRG)
• Resilience: Social Research
• Resilience: Organisational Research
• Canterbury Earthquake Twitter Data Research Group

• Understanding Place
• Youth Opinion and Opportunities for EU Public Diplomacy: Youth Narratives and Perceptions of the EU and EU-Ukraine Relations in Ukraine and the three Baltic States (E-YOUTH)
• Work Group 2 “Perceptions and Communication”, EU COST Action 'EU Foreign Policy Facing New Directions' (ENTER)
• REACTIK (cReative Economy And Culture inTernatIonal link)
• EU Foreign Policy from the ‘Outside In’ Perspective: EU external reception, perceptions and communication
• Climate Change Narratives of Entanglement: Images, Algorithms and Audiences on Social Media
• EU changing global perceptions post-Brexit referendum
• NZ Digital Diplomacy towards the EU
• Crisis, conflict and critical diplomacy: EU perceptions in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine (C3EU)
• Civil Society of the Eastern Partnership in Dialogue: Mutual Perceptions of the Eastern Partnership Countries, Russia and the EU
• Analysis of EU Perception of the EU and EU’s Policy of the EU
• External Images of the EU: International perceptions of EU energy security, sustainability and competitiveness in the times of crises (BRICS vs. EU ‘Big 3’)
• Normative Power Europe: EU External Outreach and International Identity
• COVID-19 and European Solidarity: Comparative Analysis of Narratives and Perceptions of the EU in EU Member States

• Communication, Journalism and Media Studies: Communication; Journalism; Media Studies
• Biology: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Biosecurity/Biosafety
• Philosophy: Ethics
• Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy: International Relations
• Science & Technology: Science & Technology
• Resilience: Social: People and Community; Media and Communication

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