Media Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand

Media Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand 2, edited by Luke Goode and Nabeel Zuberi, is designed for undergraduate students in Media Studies, but also offers insights for people working in the media industries and anyone interested in media and communication in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This book:

• introduces readers to the international field of Media Studies from the perspectives of Aotearoa New Zealand;
• anchors the major issues, concepts and approaches in Media Studies in the New Zealand mediascape;
• demonstrates that Media Studies is an evolving field of research that makes an important contribution to political, economic, social and cultural debate;
• explains key concepts and methodologies with chapters devoted to media production, textual analysis, media audiences and users, media technologies, and media in everyday life;
• focuses on specific media in chapters on print and journalism, film and cinema, radio, television, video/computer games, and the web;
• highlights connections between and across media with chapters on the worlds of advertising, news, sport and music.

This text is a successor volume to Media Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2004), with new chapters written by scholars from universities throughout New Zealand.