Pokapū Rangahau Whakawhitiwhiti

Misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes, and online scams are a global multibillion-dollar problem—and rising. Next to staggering economic costs, the societal toll is massive. Cybersecurity technologies go only so far in preventing online harm. How can we widely improve information literacy and safeguard our communities against malicious online content?

The media and creative industries are changing rapidly. Emerging disruptive technologies, mature audiences, raised expectations, and sustainability pressures rewrite media products, creative processes, and entire media landscapes. How do creative media professionals respond and adapt?

Digital is not at all new. Still, journalists are struggling. How has 'digital' disrupted and reshaped newsmaking, news reporting, audiences, and the relationships between media constituents?

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We not only learn different skills and knowledge, but we also learn differently. How do we inform the new pedagogies and literacies for 21st-century communication professionals?​​

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Audiences have never been passive receivers of messages. How audiences actively interpret and make sense of media texts is a critical part of the communication process. More precisely, audiences are comprised of a multitude of individual participants, and responses to messages may be as varied and nuanced as the people for whom they are meant.​​​​​​​​

In an ever-networked world, human relationships are essential for aligning visions, sharing goals, and improving the ways we interact and communicate. How do professional communicators build and maintain positive relationships within their stakeholder networks?

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Journalism and communication research by and for indigenous and minority communities.

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Technological acceleration, disrupted industries, shifting job roles, global inequalities, political volatility, social uncertainty, environmental stresses, and climate change all contribute to an escalating sense of opportunity and despair. How do communicators make sense when nothing makes sense?​

Communicators often advise on future events, scenarios, and ways of doing and living. How do communicators 'know' and articulate these futures?

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Research done and dusted—what then? How do researchers share knowledge? How can they make research outcomes relevant and accessible to the communities they seek to serve?​

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