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MEDIANZ: Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand
New Land, New Opportunities, New Language: Māori Television and Migrants Learning Te Reo
2017 •
Susan Nemec
Media, Culture & Society
Decolonising public service television in Aotearoa New Zealand: telling better stories about Indigenous rurality
2022 •
Sandy Bulmer
In settler-colonial countries like Aotearoa New Zealand, television programmes about rurality are fundamentally entwined with the nation's colonial history, but how this context impacts on locally made, public service television content and production is seldom examined. Utilising data collected from interviews with programme makers and a novel bi-cultural friendship pair methodology, we examine how a high-rating mainstream programme, Country Calendar, conceptualises and delivers stories about Indigenous Māori and consider the extent to which these stories represent a decolonising of television narratives about rurality. The findings highlight the importance of incorporating Indigenous voices and values, the impact of structural limitations and staffing constraints on public service television's decolonising aspirations, and challenges reconciling settler-colonialism with the show's well-established 'rosy glow'. While rural media are often overlooked by communication scholars, our study demonstrates the
Responding to Superdiversity Whilst Upholding Te Tiriti O Waitangi: Challenges for Early Childhood Teacher Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
2021 •
Angel G Baas Chan
Exploring a Tiriti-based superdiversity paradigm within early childhood care and education in Aotearoa New Zealand
2020 •
Angel G Baas Chan
This article reports findings from a study that used a process of document analysis to examine early childhood care and education responses to increasing superdiversity in the ‘bicultural’ legislative context of Aotearoa New Zealand. The New Zealand Education Review Office has described both Indigenous Māori children and ‘children of migrants and refugees’ as ‘vulnerable’ and ‘priority learners’. This article uses the lenses of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Indigenous rights) and Steven Vertovec’s superdiversity approach to examine the implications of representations of the Indigenous Māori and the settler population in early childhood care and education in Aotearoa New Zealand. It further applies Sara Ahmed’s diversity work on a phenomenology of whiteness to scrutinise the New Zealand government’s commitments to supporting its nation’s ‘priority learners’.
Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa
Intentional use of te reo Māori in New Zealand newspapers in 2007
Belinda Borell
The study aimed to measure the intentional use of words in te reo Māori in a representative sample of newspaper news items about Māori issues.While te reo Māori was made an official language in 1987, it remains endangered and New Zealand remains one of the most monolingual countries in the world. The news items analysed were about Māori issues, and thus more likely to include Māori words. Only words with an alternative in English were counted, and the origin of articles was analysed. Forty-five percent of items included no Māori words. Only words with an alternative in English were counted, and the origin of articles was analysed. forty-five percent of items included no Māori words with an alternative in English, and the average across the sample was 2.4. More than half the Māori words counted described social culture. Use of te reo varied widely among newspapers. No regular Māori language promotion items appeared in the sample, and it provides little evidence of support for New Zea...
Diversity reportage in Aotearoa: Demographics and the rise of the ethnic media
2009 •
David Robie
For more than two decades, diversity has been a growing mantra for the New Zealand news media. Initially, the concept of biculturalism—partnership with the indigenous tangata whenua—was pre-eminent in the debate, but as the nation’s Pasifika and ethnic media have flourished and matured and demographics have rapidly changed, multiculturalism has become increasingly important and challenging. The regional media relationship in the context of contested notions such as the ‘arc of instability’ and the impact of coups and crises on journalists has become critical. Projected demographics by Statistics New Zealand indicate that the country’s Asian population will almost double by 2026. The Pasifika and Māori populations are also expected to grow by 59 and 29 per cent respectively. Māori, Pasifika and ethnic media in Aotearoa/New Zealand are also steadily expanding with implications for the media industry and journalism educators. This article examines the regional trends and how initiatives such as the Pacific Media Centre and new journalism courses with an emphasis on diversity are addressing the challenges.
Reading News about Māori: responses from non-Māori audiences
Sue Abel Abel
Te Kaharoa
Tūtira mai! Reporting a Tiriti o Waitangi settlement ceremony for public radio through a Māori lens
2022 •
Atakohu Middleton
Radio New Zealand is a Government-owned public broadcaster in Aotearoa New Zealand. Its news channel, RNZ National, has among its reporting team Māori journalists who report in English on issues of significance to Māori for a national audience that is predominantly non-Māori. This case study documents the activities of a bilingual Māori RNZ National reporter as she covers a Tiriti o Waitangi settlement between the Crown and a collective of East Coast iwi (tribes). It traces how the reporter balances tikanga, or Māori cultural norms, with journalistic demands as she produces news stories for the internet and radio and images for Twitter. The news content is presented and analysed through the lens of the Anglo-American news values in operation in Aotearoa New Zealand, demonstrating how Māori history, culture and aspiration are centred within these. This paper assumes some understanding of news values and journalistic practice and process.
Fair borders?: Migration policy in the twenty-first century
From mainstream to manaaki: Indigenising our approach to immigration
2017 •
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