Election Campaigns and Coverage 
- Banducci, Susan, and Jack Vowles. "Elections, Citizens, and the Media." In Proportional Representation on Trial. Jack Vowles, and others. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.
- Blumler, Jay, and Michael Gurevitch. The Crisis of Political Communication. London: Routledge, 1995.
- Blumler, Jay. "Elections, the Media and the Modern Publicity Process." In Public Communication: the New Imperatives; Future Directions for Media Research, edited by Marjorie Ferguson. London: Sage, 1990.
- Boston, Jonathan, et al., eds. Left Turn: The New Zealand General Election of 1999. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000.
- Butler, David, and Austin Ranney, eds. Electioneering: A Comparative Study of Continuity and Change. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
- Diamond, Edwin, and Stephen Bates. The Spot: The Rise of Political Advertising on Television. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984.
- Edelman, Murray J. Constructing the Political Spectacle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- Kavanagh, Dennis. Election Campaigning: The New Marketing of Politics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
- Lang, Gladys Engel and Kurt Lang. Politics and Television Re-Viewed. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1984.
- Negrine, Ralph M. "Political Communication: The Mass Media and General Elections." Politics and the Mass Media in Britain. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1994.
- Patterson, Thomas. Out of Order. New York: Knopf, 1993.
- Vowles, Jack, and others, eds. Voters Victory? New Zealand's First Election Under Proportional Representation. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998.
Media Democracy, Citizenship, Regulation
- Atkinson, Joe. "The State, The Media, and Thin Democracy." In Leap into the Dark: the Changing Role of the State in New Zealand Since 1984, edited by Andrew Sharp. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1994.
- Baker, C. Edwin. Media, Markets, and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 .
- Golding, Peter. "Political Communication and Citizenship." In Public Communication: The New Imperatives; Future Directions for Media Research, edited by Marjorie Ferguson. London: Sage, 1990.
- Keane, John. "Democracy and Media – Without Foundations." Political Studies 40, special issue (Sept. 1992): 116-129. Available online via the Library database Academic Search Premier.
- ---. The Media and Democracy. Cambridge: Polity, 1991.
- Lichtenberg, Judith, ed. Democracy and the Mass Media: A Collection of Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- Nerone, John C., ed. Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
- Norris, Pippa, ed. Politics and the Press: The News Media and Their Influences. Boulder: L. Rienner, 1997.
- ---. A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Post-Industrial Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Qualter, Terence H. Opinion Control in the Democracies. London: MacMillan, 1985.
Media and War
- Carruthers, Susan L. The Media at War: Communication and Conflict in the Twentieth Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 2000.
- Miller, David, ed. Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq. London: Pluto Press, 2004.
- Hallin, Daniel. The 'Uncensored War': The Media and Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Morrison, David E. Television and the Gulf War. London: John Libbey, 1994.
- Taylor, Philip M. War and the Media: Propaganda and Persuasion in the Gulf War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998
- Turner, Nick. "Media and War: Reflections on Vietnam." New Zealand International Review 28. 4 (July/Aug 2003). Available online via the Library database Expanded Academic.
- Zelizer, Barbie, and Stuart Allan, eds. Journalism After September 11. London: Routledge, 2002.
Media Entertainment, Sport, and Politics
- Allen, Robert C. "Making Sense of Soaps." In New Zealand Television: A Reader, edited by John Farnsworth and Ian Hutchison. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2002.
- Ang, Ien. Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination. London: Methuen, 1985.
- Brown, Mary Ellen. Soap Opera and Women's Talk: The Pleasure of Resistance. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1994.
- Farnsworth, John, and Ian Hutchison, eds. New Zealand Television: A Reader. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2002. partic part one.
- Hope, Wayne. "Whose All Blacks?" Media, Culture and Society 24 (2002). 235-253.
- McGregor, J. "The Mass Media and Sport." In Sport in New Zealand Society, edited by Chris Collins. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2000.
- Morley, David. Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure. London: Routledge, 1986.
- ---. "Broadcasting and the Construction of the National Family." In New Zealand Television: A Reader, edited by John Farnsworth and Ian Hutchison. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2002.
- Rowe, David. "The Global Love-Match: Sport and Television." In Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, edited by Toby Miller. Vol. 3. London: Routledge, 2003.
- Schlesinger, Phillip. "Media, the Political Order and National Identity." Media, Culture and Society. 13 (1991): 297-308.
Media, Maori, Multiculturalism
- Abel, Sue. "All the News You Need to Know?" In Media Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand, edited by Luke Goode and Nabeel Zuberi. Auckland: Pearson Education, 2004.
- ---. Shaping the News: Waitangi Day on Television. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1997.
- ---. "'Wild Maori' and 'Tame Maori' in Television News." New Zealand Journal of Media Studies 3, no. 2 (1996)
- Fox, D. "Honouring the Treaty: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa." In New Zealand Television: A Reader, edited by John Farnsworth and Ian Hutchison. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2002.
- Gabriel, John. Whitewash: Racialized Politics and the Media. London: Routledge, 1998. Also available as an e-book via the Library database Ebrary.
- Spoonley, Paul, and Walter Hirsh, eds. Between the Lines: Racism and the New Zealand Media. Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1990.
- van Dijk, T. A.. "New(s) Racism: A Discourse Analytical Approach." In Ethnic Minorities and the Media, edited by Simon Cottle. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000. 33-49.
New Media and Democracy
- Abrahamson, Jeffrey B., F. Christopher Arterton, and Gary R. Orren. The Electronic Commonwealth: The Impact of New Media Technologies on Politics. New York: Basic, 1988.
- Bennett, W. Lance and Robert M. Entman, eds. Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
- Everard, Jerry. Virtual States: the Internet and the Boundaries of the Nation State. New York: Routledge, 2000. Also available as an e-book via the Library database Ebrary.
- Ferdinand, Peter, ed. The Internet, Democracy and Democratization. London: Frank Cass, 2000.
- Loader, Brian D., ed. The Governance of Cyberspace: Politics, Technology and Global Restructuring. London: Routledge, 1997.
- McQuail, Denis, and Karen Siune, eds. Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration, and Commerce. Thousand Oaks: Sage,1998.
- Norris, Pippa. Digital Divide? Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Owen, Bruce M. The Internet Challenge to Television. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
- Sunstein, Cass R. Republic.com. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Tambini, Damian. "New Media and Democracy: The Civic Networking Movement." New Media and Society 1, no. 3 (1999): 305-320. Available online via the Library database Sage Full-Text Collections.
- Tsagarousianou, Roza, Damian Tambini, and Cathy Bryan, eds. Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities and Civic Networks. London: Routledge, 1998.
Reference books
In the initial stage of your research, you need to define your topic, and identify the terminology you will use when you are searching databases. Dictionaries and encyclopedias will help you with terminology. Articles in encyclopedias provide an overview of a topic.
- Cull, Nicholas John, David Holbrook Culbert, and David Welch. Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2003. Available as an e-book via the Library database NetLibrary Reference Center.
- Foerstel, Herbert N. Banned in the Media: A Reference Guide to Censorship in the Press, Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and the Internet. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998. Also available as an e-book via the Library database Ebrary.
- Grendler, Paul F. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York: Scribner's, 1999.
- Johnston, Donald H., ed. Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications. Amsterdam: Academic Press, 2003.
- Murray, Michael D., ed. Encyclopedia of Television News. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1999. Also available as an e-book via the Library database Ebrary.
- Quick, Amanda, ed. World Press Encyclopedia: a Survey of Press Systems Worldwide. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003.
Also available as an e-book via the Library database Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- Schement, Jorge Reina, ed. Encyclopedia of Communication and Information. New York: Macmillan Reference Center, 2002. Available as an e-book via the Library database NetLibrary Reference Center.
- Smelser, Neil J., and Paul B. Baltes, eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2001.
Also available online via the Library database ScienceDirect.
- Stearns, Peter N. Encyclopedia of European Social History From 1350 to 2000. New York: Scribner, 2001.
- Watson, Jame, and Anne Hill. Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies. 6th ed. London: Arnold, 2003.
Voyager searches
Suggested subject searches on Voyager. Click on the subject headings to display an index of subject heading terms on Voyager. From within the Voyager index, click on a subject heading to display a corresponding list of books and journals.
Databases
You need to be logged on with your Net ID and Net Password to access the following databases. See also the Political Studies and the History resources page.
Internet sites
- General
- New Zealand
- Media at War
General
New Zealand
Media at War
- Thompson, Alastair. " The Role of Media in the Second Gulf War." Address presented at St Andrew's on the Terrace, April 29, 2003.
- Miller, David. Information Dominance: The Philosophy of Total Propaganda Control. Cold Type Magazine, 2004.
- Robie, David. "The Invasion of Iraq - and How the Media War was Won or Lost: Half Truths and Media Spin; Whom do you Believe?" Paper presented at Justified War Seminar, Auckland University Continuing Education, Auckland, May 3, 2003. pdf
- Knightley, Phillip. "History or Bunkum?" British Journalism Review 14, no. 2 (2003): 7-14.
Writing skills
- Barrass, Robert. Students Must Write: A Guide to Better Writing in Coursework and Examinations. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2005.
- Oshima, Alice, and Ann Hogue. Writing Academic English. 4th ed. White Plains, N.Y.: Pearson Longman, 2006.
- Schmidt, Diane E. Writing in Political Science: A Practical Guide. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005.
- Scott, Gregory M., and Stephen M. Garrison. The Political Science Student Writer’s Manual. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006.
In your essays the footnotes and bibliography should be set out according to either the Chicago style for footnotes and bibliography (known as Chicago A), or according to the Harvard style. The Library has compiled guides to Harvard and Chicago referencing styles. The Chicago Manual of Style contains many examples for footnotes and the bibliography.
Library Information
For Library database tutorials see Library course bookings.
Strongly recommended for first year students are:
Information Commons (IC) Facilities
IT Access and Support at the University of Auckland
Library & Resources Overview - City Campus
Voyager Introduction - City Campus
Want to test your Library skills? Click here to go to an online test 'Understanding your reading list'. Follow the links on the bottom of the test page, to find out more about each type of reference.
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