Browsing Communication Studies Journal Articles by Author "48117"
Now showing items 1-15 of 15
-
Baptism of fire - how journalism students from the University Of The South Pacific covered the Speight Putsch and its aftermath
(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 ... -
Dilemma for Fiji media and the constitution
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
The Infallible Engine: Indigenous perceptions of Europeans in German New Guinea through the Missionary Press
(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 ... -
Media ownership in the Pacific: Inherited colonial commercial model but remarkably diverse
(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
(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 ... -
The never-ending story: Palestine, Israel and The West Wing
(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 ... -
Not in a pakeha court: Kastom and Pacific media
(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
(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 ... -
Tok Pisin and Tok Ples as languages of identification in Papua New Guinea
(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 ... -
'What are you waiting for, Diggers?' : the ANZAC image in Commando comics
(Authors, 2017)For generations of Australians and New Zealanders, Commando comics have provided a consistent image of their ancestors at war. The image is one of men, who are inevitably tall, bronzed, shirtless, contemptuous of authority ... -
Yu Mas Kamap Wan Nesen : the mainstream churches, Tok Pisin and national identity in Paupa New Guinea
(W. Kohlhammer GmbH, 2000)After the Second World War missions in Papua New Guinea faced new imperatives driven by the reaction of the Australian administration to United Nations' directives. These directives related to the development of education ...
