Recommended Reading 
Books in the Short Loan Collection and online readings are in the Course Materials list.
These are useful introductions to New Zealand media ownership:
- Ellis, Gavin. 2010. 'Who Owns the Media?' in New Zealand Government & Politics, Raymond Miller, ed. Auckland: Oxford University Press, pp. 399-412. Library copies
- Rosenberg, Bill. 2008. News Media Ownership in New Zealand. Christchurch: Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa.
Reference Books
Reference books are an excellent place to start your research. You should then go on to read more in-depth journal articles and books.
- Downing, John D. H., ed. 2004. The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Library copies
- Jones, Steve, ed. 2003. Encyclopedia of New Media: An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
- Quick, Amanda C. 2003. World Press Encyclopedia: A Survey of Press Systems Worldwide. Detroit: Gale. Library copies (See volume 2, pp.657-665 for New Zealand.)
- Ritzer, George, ed. 2007. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden: Blackwell. Library copies
- Smelser, Neil J., and Paul B. Baltes, eds. 2001. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science. Library copies
- Scott, John, and Gordon Marshall, eds. 2005. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. 3rd ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Library copies
Library Catalogue
There are several shelves of books on broadcasting (call number 384.5) and journalism (070.4) both in the NZ & Pacific Collection on Level G in the Library, and in the general collection on Level 1.
A few examples:
- Farnsworth, John, and Ian Hutchison, eds. 2001. New Zealand Television: A Reader. Palmerston North : Dunmore Press. Library copies
- Hamilton, James. 2004. All the News that’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Library copies
- Norris, Paul, and John Farnsworth. 1997. Keeping It Ours: Issues of Television Broadcasting in New Zealand: Papers from the New Zealand Broadcasting School Seminar Christchurch 1997. Christchurch: Christchurch Polytechnic. Library copies
Keywords and phrases for searching:
Herman and Chomsky, as keywords as well as authors
"manufacturing consent"
"propaganda model"
"five filters"
media, newspaper/s, television, broadcast/er/ers/ing
owner/s/ship
foreign, international, multinational
case stud/ies/y
Databases & Articles
To find more information on a topic, a good place to start is a database that indexes journals and books. More databases are listed on the Sociology resource pages.
- Sociological Abstracts An index with abstracts from almost 2000 social science journals.
- SAGE Full Text Journal Collections including Media Studies and Sociology.
- Social Theory An extensive range of influential writings representing important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day. Included in the more than 150,000 pages of searchable content are seminal works by such theorists as Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jürgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.
- Paley Center Seminars A collection of videos and transcriptions of interviews and panel discussions recorded at the Paley Center for Media in New York and Los Angeles, 1998-2008. The seminars feature leading names in media discussing the creative process, contemporary issues in production, and issues such as the impact of the media on contemporary society. Topics covered range from presidential advertising campaigns to reality shows.
- FindNZarticles An index with abstracts from journals, magazines and newspapers published in New Zealand.
- Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre A full-text collection or Australian, New Zealand and overseas magazines and newspapers.
- Google Scholar Use the Library's database link to get access to the e-journals.
Newspapers
Recent copies of the New Zealand Herald, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Times, and The Australian are in the Library on Level 1 (near the main computer area).
There are links to lots of local and international newspapers on this webpage.
Other databases and links to newspaper websites are listed here.
Referencing and Plagiarism
The Chicago Manual of Style Online
Honesty and integrity are valued in all academic activities at The University of Auckland. This website provides information about the key principles and practices underlying academic honesty, and advice and resources: Academic Honesty and Plagiarism.
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