Kupu Taea is an Auckland-based media research group, based at Te Rōpū Whāriki in Massey University. We have studied how news media represent te Tiriti and Māori issues since 2003. We analysed three representative news samples from 2004, early 2007 and 2007/8.
Results from the 2008 study are summarised in the more recent of the following academic articles; results from the earlier studies are summarised below and available in two reports. These projects were funded by the Cathy Pelly Maungarongo Trust, the JR McKenzie Foundation, the Health Research Council of NZ and the JR McKenzie Trust.
A 2005 news story claiming that Ngāti Tuwharetoa was going to exploit its rights to airspace above Lake Taupo appeared …
Read More‘Media surveillance of the natives’: A New Zealand case study – Lake Taupo air space
This talk summarised what focus groups said about how news media portrayals of Maori and the Treaty affected Maori/Pakeha relationships, …
Read MoreAudience perspectives on media construction of Maori and te Tiriti
Newspaper articles about Māori participation in sport made up less than one percent of sports stories overall in a representative …
Read MoreMāori sport and Māori in sport: Mass media representations and Pākehā discourse
Pākehā and ethnic minority media users thought that mass media news coverage was unbalanced, lacked context, was negative and often …
Read MoreReading news about Māori: responses from non-Māori media audiences
Newspaper stories about Maori business items made up less than three percent (25) of all news items in a representative …
Māori and non-Māori readers were poorly served by Suburban Newspapers coverage of the Treaty and Māori issues in their Auckland …
Psychologists are required to understand themselves as culture bearers, recognise historical, social and political influences on health, and be open …
Read MoreMass media in Aotearoa: an obstacle to cultural competence
Mainstream TV news programmes (One News, Tonight, 3 News, Nightline, Prime News) carried very few Maori news stories (2% of …
Read More“Maori news is bad news”: That’s certainly so on television
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