Nightmare in Queensland
The Australian Labour Party (ALP) cannot govern the country without a good result in Queensland. With this cardinal rule in mind, I clicked onto the internet at 6 a.m. last Sunday NZ time. After...
View ArticleRethinking Brexit: A review of Costas Lapavitsas’ The Left Case Against the...
As the overnight UK Supreme Court rules that the actions of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was “unlawful void and of no effect”, Dr Wayne Hope re-examines the case to leave...
View ArticleRugby, capitalism and intellectual property: a structural analysis of the All...
In the 2003 rugby World Cup when Australia defeated the All Blacks, losing coach John Mitchell was pilloried and humiliated. Local fans and journalists belittled his coaching ability and laughed at his...
View ArticleNEW ZEALAND MEDIA OWNERSHIP 2019 – AUT research center for Journalism, Media...
Summary The New Zealand media is facing the biggest changes since the first publication of theJMAD New Zealand media ownership report in 2011. In 2019, major New Zealand media organisations were put...
View ArticleProfessor Wayne Hope – Our Public Media Crisis
As co-director of the Journalism Media and Democracy (JMAD) Research Center, I can announce the publication of our 2019 New Zealand Media Ownership Report. Since 2011, these reports have been written...
View ArticleApocalypse 2020
As I look ahead to the future, visibility is poor. The haze of Australian bush fires and the blather of climate denying political leaders precludes the very possibility of visionary outlooks among...
View ArticleMUST READ: Virality and Globalisation: The case of Covid-19
In our mass mediated, digitally connected world the meaning of certain words becomes blurred. Metaphors and reality are hard to tell apart. When researchers in my field employ the term ‘media...
View ArticleMatthew Hooton’s Selectivity
A good communicator and propagandist uses the pretence of reasoned argument to obscure their ulterior motives and manipulative persuasion techniques. A critic of propaganda shows how these techniques...
View ArticleCrisis, Disintegration and Hope: Where to for New Zealand’s News Media?
How many media analysts predicted this course of events? Twenty two months after Australian television network Nine Entertainment absorbs Fairfax Media, the New Zealand arm, Stuff, is purchased by its...
View ArticleMUST READ: The Great Displacement
Brenton Tarrant’s trial, including the searing testimonies of survivors, families and friends, received superficial coverage in the mainstream media. Described as a “terrorist”, the ideological...
View ArticleMUST READ: Debate without substance
Anyone expecting a clash of philosophy and policy ideas between Jacinda Adern and Judith Collins on television last evening was bound to be disappointed. The government’s COVID management results were...
View ArticleElection aftermath: an ideological analysis
The dust has cleared. New Zealand’s electoral map and parliamentary chamber have changed decisively. Labour Red prevails and is able to legislate without impediment. Is this a victory for the Left? Is...
View ArticleA Pivotal Moment
JMAD’s 2020 NZ Media Ownership report is doubly significant. First, it completes a decade of research into a changing mediascape. Each annual report, available online, is a valuable resource for...
View ArticleIn an age of digital disinformation, dropping level 1 media studies in NZ...
Primary and secondary school teachers engage with students who are constantly on devices — consuming, sharing and jointly creating texts, photos, videos and memes. Across social media, hate speech,...
View Article10 Conclusions from the Delta Outbreak (so far)
Delta has finally made its way to Aotearoa New Zealand to seek out locations of interest. As of now, case numbers are growing, and a lack of certainty abounds. However, uncertainty is not absolute,...
View ArticleCovid diary
You won`t quite believe this. A woman I know in a small Coromandel town was rung by a community person -`how are you doing in lockdown,are you ok?` The caller then proceeded to quote from the book of...
View ArticleCovid & time
Oscar Wilde once remarked that ‘punctuality is the thief of time’. In his day the growing prevalence of commercial accounting, factory labour, bureaucratic routine and detailed transport schedules...
View ArticleAnti- Vaxxers: A User’s Guide
Consider the following interlinked propositions. Rising vaccination rates will reduce the growth of Covid-19 patient numbers. Most of these will be unvaccinated, as is the case already. Individuals...
View ArticleMedia Ownership in Aotearoa New Zealand 2021
I co-direct, with Merja Myllylahti, the Journalism Media and Democracy (JMAD) research centre at the School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology. For 11 years, we have published...
View ArticleTrusting the News?
The emergence of Breitbart News, Donald Trump and the alt-right media ecology inspired a cornucopia of conspiracist websites and streaming services. Their content flows across social media platforms...
View ArticleClash of Civilities – review of Dr Cornell West & Douglas Murray
On Friday evening August 17 at Auckland`s Aotea Centre Cornell West and Douglas Murray faced off. The organisers, Think Inc, promoted the event as a `fight` between `big brain trouble makers` who...
View ArticleREVENGE OF THE ELITES: An analysis of the Wentworth Sydney by-election result
It was a slaughter in the end. The Wentworth Sydney by-election was expected to be a close race between Dave Sharma (Liberals) and Kerryn Phelps (independent). Malcolm Turnbull’s ejection as Prime...
View ArticleNZ Media Ownership 2018
Welcome to the 2018 New Zealand Media Ownership report published by the Journalism, Media and Democracy Research Centre (JMAD). Since 2011, these reports have been compiled by Merja Myllylahti. In...
View ArticleForcefields of hate
Sorry, I`m not up to a full analytical assessment of the Mosque shootings in Christchurch. I`m still processing the pain and anguish felt by families of the killed and wounded. Still, I have some...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Media at the Crossroads
For more than a decade, AUT’s Journalism Media & Democracy (JMAD) has published annual reports on Media Ownership in Aotearoa New Zealand. In late 2022, the basic sectoral pattern of national...
View ArticleBehind the Floods: Capitalism, carbon and climate change
After last Friday’s deluge, Auckland was awash—streets were rivers, gullies were lakes, cars were flotsam, houses were colanders as banks subsided and highways collapsed. Last Saturday morning, Kim...
View ArticlePolycrisis, Polls and the Election Cycle
Everything seems to be going wrong, everywhere all at once—COVID-19, Ukraine, bank failures, inflation, extreme weather events. Crisis afflicts the geopolitical system, global financial system, global...
View ArticleLabour’s John Key Budget
Imagine a 2023 budget prepared by John Key. National are in government but recent poll results are disturbingly close. With an election looming, the Labour-Green bloc almost have the numbers. Combined...
View ArticleBlackRock, Fossil Fuel Capitalism and Global Warming
BlackRock is what global capitalism looks like—over US$8.5 trillion in assets under management plus offices and clients in over 100 countries. Through specialist software, BlackRock indexes and tracks...
View ArticleMedia Ownership in Aotearoa New Zealand 2023
At a time when the media as such is the subject of controversy, here are some verifiable facts and informed analysis. This year’s Journalism Media & Democracy (JMAD) media ownership report finds...
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