https://mediaperipheries.otago.ac.nz/mediaperipheries/issue/feed Media Peripheries - Situated in Aotearoa, Regional in Focus, Global in Scope 2024-02-15T07:38:55+13:00 The Editors mediaperipheries.journal@otago.ac.nz Open Journal Systems <p><em>Media Peripheries</em> is a new journal of media and communication studies based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Established in 2022, <em>Media Peripheries</em> continues the legacy of MEDIANZ (which in turn was formerly known as <em>The New Zealand Journal of Media Studies</em>). <em>Media Peripheries</em> aims to be a forum of academic debates that are regional in focus and global in scope and is particularly interested in research that focuses on the peripheries of the global media system both in geographical and cultural terms. The journal conceives the broad notion of periphery as referring to both the specific location of Aotearoa as situated at the margins of the Global North, as well as topics and voices that are under-researched within media and communication studies.</p> https://mediaperipheries.otago.ac.nz/mediaperipheries/article/view/229 Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in The New World, Mishuana Goeman, University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Reviewed by M. Sellers Johnson 2024-02-15T07:38:55+13:00 M. Sellers Johnson msellers1923@gmail.com <p>n/a</p> 2024-04-26T00:00:00+12:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Media Peripheries - Situated in Aotearoa, Regional in Focus, Global in Scope https://mediaperipheries.otago.ac.nz/mediaperipheries/article/view/226 The NZFC’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2023-02-10T12:10:41+13:00 Tom Boniface-Webb tom.boniface-webb@outlook.com <p>In 2022 the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) published its first fully comprehensive diversity and inclusion strategy, <em>He Ara Whakaurunga Kanorau</em>. The ambitious strategy aspired to draw together the existing framework of individually focused diversity funds, including those for Māori and women filmmakers, with an overarching set of policy intentions that aimed to position filmmakers from underrepresented groups at the forefront of the agency’s funding strategy. This article looks at how the NZFC aims to normalise its work in the diversity space through the creation of targeted funding strategies, and how the agency’s idealism, most notable in the breadth of the Diversity and Inclusion strategy and its sometimes nebulous content, can clash with the work of individual filmmakers, many of whom produce films that do not assimilate with the artificial framework. However, institutional intervention in the film industry undoubtedly plays a significant part in creating a vibrant national cinema for Aotearoa New Zealand that gives voice to many filmmakers who might have otherwise not been heard.</p> 2023-05-15T00:00:00+12:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Media Peripheries - Situated in Aotearoa, Regional in Focus, Global in Scope https://mediaperipheries.otago.ac.nz/mediaperipheries/article/view/228 Exploring Age-Related Patterns in Internet Access: Insights from a Secondary Analysis of New Zealand Survey Data 2023-09-14T21:53:55+12:00 Edgar Pacheco edgar.pacheco@vuw.ac.nz <p>For over two decades Internet access has been a topic of research and debate. Up-to-date evidence about key predictors such as age is important considering not only the complexities of access to the online medium but also the ever-changing nature of the Internet. This paper attempts to provide a stocktake of current trends in Internet access in New Zealand and their association with age. It relies on secondary analysis of data from a larger online panel survey of 1,001 adult users. Chi-square test of Independence and Cramer’s V were used for analysis. A key finding uncovers an emerging gap in the quality of Internet access. While fibre is the predominant type of broadband connection at home, older adults are significantly less likely to have it, and more likely to adopt wireless broadband. Also, a large majority across all age groups have a positive view of the Internet. This was higher among older adults who, interestingly, were slightly more likely to say that their concern about the security of their personal details online has increased in the last year. The implications of the results are discussed and some directions for future research are proposed.</p> 2014-02-14T00:00:00+13:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Media Peripheries - Situated in Aotearoa, Regional in Focus, Global in Scope https://mediaperipheries.otago.ac.nz/mediaperipheries/article/view/221 Christine Jeff’s Rain (2001) as an Allegory of Settlement 2022-09-07T16:34:02+12:00 Laurence Simmons l.simmons@auckland.ac.nz <p>This article proposes a new reading of Christine Jeffs’ 2001 film <em>Rain</em> as an allegory of settlement. To do so it uses Stephen Turner’s essay ‘Settlement as Forgetting’ and makes reference to the work of Lorenzo Veracini and Patrick Wolfe in settlement studies. It takes Turner’s claim that settlement requires a forgetting in order to patch over the trauma of dislocation from the mother country and explores how structures of nostalgia, fetishism and trauma construct an image of a failed and broken nation; a settler society seeking to forget its own history, afflicted with the trauma of its primal separation from Britain, and under the surface expressing anxiety about the indigenous presence that prevents settler claim over the land and (settler) cultural identity. Jeffs’ film, it is proposed, critiques the fantasmatic elements of settlement, in and through which settlers untiringly strive to envisage themselves as whole, and which sanctions the narrative of that striving to appear to be continuous.</p> 2023-02-09T00:00:00+13:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Media Peripheries - Situated in Aotearoa, Regional in Focus, Global in Scope