Pacific Media Centre / Asia Pacific Media Network

The Pacific Media Centre – Te Amokura – sought to stimulate research into contemporary Māori, Pasifika and ethnic diversity media and culture production.

The PMC, founded in 2007 at AUT University, collaborated with other Asia-Pacific media centres engaged in research and cultural production. However, it closed at the end of 2020. Its signature publications, such as the perr-reviewed journal Pacific Journalism Review, media freedom project Pacific Media Watch and current affairs website Asia Pacific Report are now published by the not-for-profit NGO Asia Pacific Media Network / Te Koakoa Inc.

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Communication, Culture and Society in Papua New Guinea

Following in the steps of an earlier volume, Media, Information and Development in Papua New Guinea, by Papoutsaki and Rooney (2006), young, emerging and established researchers associated with the Communication Arts Department at Divine Word University have come together to write about issues involving mainstream media, social concerns, development and the information gap and teaching and training the young media and communication professionals.

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Dreadlocks

Dreadlocks was originally published as the literary journal of the School of Language, Arts and Media at the University of the South Pacific (USP), by the Pacific Writing Forum (PWF). This special issue of Dreadlocks includes the proceedings of the Oceans, Islands and Skies - Oceanic Conference on Creativity and Climate Change – The Role of Writers, Artists and the Media in Environmental Challenges in the Pacific. The OIS-OCCCC was held from 13-17 September 2010 at the Laucala Campus of the University of the South Pacific in Suva.

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Pacific Journalism Review

Founded at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994, this peer-reviewed research journal explores journalism, media issues, communication and diversity in the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. It is published by the Asia Pacific Media Network and has links with the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.

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