Revell, Elizabeth S.(Master of International Communication, 2012)
In answering the main research question about the manifestation of race in everyday communication interactions in New Zealand, the author found that in public contexts in New Zealand, race as a topic is taboo and racists ...
Cass, Philip(Australian Media Traditions Conference, 2003)
Very little has been written about the history of the Pacific press itself or of its role in reflecting and reporting opinion in the Islands. As with any historical source, no newspaper can be studied outside its political ...
Cass, Philip(Democracy in the Pacific Conference, 2012)
This paper examines the role of the press in Anglophone Melanesia (Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuau and Fiji) in developing a political consciousness among its readers in the period before independence. The ...
Cass, Philip(Journalism Education Association Conference, 2006)
In the past 12 months, the media has reported on two major religious stories; the furore over the Danish cartoons and Pope Benedict XVI's speech at Regensburg. Both were instances of what were relatively small incidents ...