David Robie
Biographic Data
| ID | 742806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Robie |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Robie |
| SIGNATURE | ROBIE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2176-8185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Media and academia
(New) Ecological Problems
Environmental damage, climate change, and increasingly intense natural disasters are serious problems faced by humanity in this millennium. More ecological damage occurs due to expensive and destructive human activities. Illegal logging, expansion of mining areas, pollution of water sources, overfishing, trade-in protected wildlife continue to happen, and the scale is even greater. Meanwhile, climate change is increasingly visible and impacting c…
Bearing Witness
A three-year Pacific climate research and storytelling documentary and journalism project has contributed to a disruption and renewal theme in Pacific Island Countries development. Focused initially on Fiji, the project has involved three pairs of postgraduate students engaging with climate crisis challenges. Responding originally to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016, the Pacific Media Centre e…
Ecological communication in Asia-Pacific
This article is of a comparative study of social adaptation in the Cyclone Winston disaster case in Fiji and rob flooding in Semarang, Indonesia. In February 2016, the largest tropical storm in the Southern Hemisphere, Cyclone Winston, struck Fiji and caused severe damage and loss of life. Meanwhile, in the last two decades flooding has become an increasingly acute disaster situation in Semarang and the northern coastal region of Java, Indonesia.…
Advocating Journalism Practice-as-research
New Zealand’s Performance-Based Research Fund regime makes no explicit provision for journalism practice-as-research, although it does not exclude it either. The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has hinted at applied research changes that may open the door to investigative journalism and other long-form modes for the next audit in 2018. As a growing global debate responds to international pressure on journalism practitioner-academics to publis…
Coups, Conflicts and Human Rights
The role of news media in the global South nations and declining credibility in some sectors of the developed world’s Fourth Estate pose challenges for the future of democracy in the Pacific region. Truth, censorship, ethics and corporate integrity are critical media issues in a region faced with coups, such as in Fiji (four in the past two decades) and attempted in Papua New Guinea (Sandline mercenary crisis in 1997), conflicts and rampant human…
Diversity Reportage in Metropolitan Oceania
Aotearoa/New Zealand has the largest Polynesian population in Oceania. Three Pacific microstates now have more than 70 per cent of their population living in New Zealand. Projected demographics by Statistics New Zealand indicate that the Pacific and indigenous Māori populations could grow by 59 and 29 per cent respectively by 2026. The Asian population will increase even more dramatically over that period, by almost doubling. Māori, Pasifika and …
Frontline reporting, ethos and perception
The Melanesian sub‐region of the South Pacific, in particular, has been branded by some political analysts as an ‘arc of instability’ because of upheavals such as coups (Fiji), ethnic conflict (Solomon Islands), paramilitary revolts (Vanuatu), and secessionist rebellion and civil war (Bougainville‐Papua New Guinea and the Southern Highlands). Simplistic notions and prejudices about the region pose challenges for journalists attempting to report w…
Community, Demagogues and the South Pacific News Media
On 19 October 1995, the Governor-General of Papua New Guinea issued the terms of reference for a Constitutional Review Committee's (CRC) Subcommittee on Media Accountability: to examine 'whether changes need to be made to ensure that, while freedom of the press is maintained, owners, editors and journalists of all elements of the media are accountable and that persons aggrieved by media abuses have reasonable redress'. The CRC held a public semin…
The South Pacific media
Two transnational media conglomerates own or control all the major circulation newspapers in the South Pacific. Through their subsidiaries Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Ltd and French media magnate Robert Hersant's group in the French territories own five of the eight dailies in the region. The most recent daily, the National, began publishing in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in mid-November 1993. It is owned by a company associated with Malaysian s…
Blood on Their Banner
Frontline reporting, ethos and perception
The Melanesian sub‐region of the South Pacific, in particular, has been branded by some political analysts as an ‘arc of instability’ because of upheavals such as coups (Fiji), ethnic conflict (Solomon Islands), paramilitary revolts (Vanuatu), and secessionist rebellion and civil war (Bougainville‐Papua New Guinea and the Southern Highlands). Simplistic notions and prejudices about the region pose challenges for journalists attempting to report w…
Coups, Conflicts and Human Rights
The role of news media in the global South nations and declining credibility in some sectors of the developed world’s Fourth Estate pose challenges for the future of democracy in the Pacific region. Truth, censorship, ethics and corporate integrity are critical media issues in a region faced with coups, such as in Fiji (four in the past two decades) and attempted in Papua New Guinea (Sandline mercenary crisis in 1997), conflicts and rampant human…
Advocating Journalism Practice-as-research
New Zealand’s Performance-Based Research Fund regime makes no explicit provision for journalism practice-as-research, although it does not exclude it either. The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has hinted at applied research changes that may open the door to investigative journalism and other long-form modes for the next audit in 2018. As a growing global debate responds to international pressure on journalism practitioner-academics to publis…
Blood on Their Banner
The South Pacific media
Two transnational media conglomerates own or control all the major circulation newspapers in the South Pacific. Through their subsidiaries Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Ltd and French media magnate Robert Hersant's group in the French territories own five of the eight dailies in the region. The most recent daily, the National, began publishing in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in mid-November 1993. It is owned by a company associated with Malaysian s…
Community, Demagogues and the South Pacific News Media
On 19 October 1995, the Governor-General of Papua New Guinea issued the terms of reference for a Constitutional Review Committee's (CRC) Subcommittee on Media Accountability: to examine 'whether changes need to be made to ensure that, while freedom of the press is maintained, owners, editors and journalists of all elements of the media are accountable and that persons aggrieved by media abuses have reasonable redress'. The CRC held a public semin…
Frontline reporting, ethos and perception
The Melanesian sub‐region of the South Pacific, in particular, has been branded by some political analysts as an ‘arc of instability’ because of upheavals such as coups (Fiji), ethnic conflict (Solomon Islands), paramilitary revolts (Vanuatu), and secessionist rebellion and civil war (Bougainville‐Papua New Guinea and the Southern Highlands). Simplistic notions and prejudices about the region pose challenges for journalists attempting to report w…
Diversity Reportage in Metropolitan Oceania
Aotearoa/New Zealand has the largest Polynesian population in Oceania. Three Pacific microstates now have more than 70 per cent of their population living in New Zealand. Projected demographics by Statistics New Zealand indicate that the Pacific and indigenous Māori populations could grow by 59 and 29 per cent respectively by 2026. The Asian population will increase even more dramatically over that period, by almost doubling. Māori, Pasifika and …
Coups, Conflicts and Human Rights
The role of news media in the global South nations and declining credibility in some sectors of the developed world’s Fourth Estate pose challenges for the future of democracy in the Pacific region. Truth, censorship, ethics and corporate integrity are critical media issues in a region faced with coups, such as in Fiji (four in the past two decades) and attempted in Papua New Guinea (Sandline mercenary crisis in 1997), conflicts and rampant human…
Advocating Journalism Practice-as-research
New Zealand’s Performance-Based Research Fund regime makes no explicit provision for journalism practice-as-research, although it does not exclude it either. The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has hinted at applied research changes that may open the door to investigative journalism and other long-form modes for the next audit in 2018. As a growing global debate responds to international pressure on journalism practitioner-academics to publis…
Ecological communication in Asia-Pacific
This article is of a comparative study of social adaptation in the Cyclone Winston disaster case in Fiji and rob flooding in Semarang, Indonesia. In February 2016, the largest tropical storm in the Southern Hemisphere, Cyclone Winston, struck Fiji and caused severe damage and loss of life. Meanwhile, in the last two decades flooding has become an increasingly acute disaster situation in Semarang and the northern coastal region of Java, Indonesia.…
Bearing Witness
A three-year Pacific climate research and storytelling documentary and journalism project has contributed to a disruption and renewal theme in Pacific Island Countries development. Focused initially on Fiji, the project has involved three pairs of postgraduate students engaging with climate crisis challenges. Responding originally to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016, the Pacific Media Centre e…
(New) Ecological Problems
Environmental damage, climate change, and increasingly intense natural disasters are serious problems faced by humanity in this millennium. More ecological damage occurs due to expensive and destructive human activities. Illegal logging, expansion of mining areas, pollution of water sources, overfishing, trade-in protected wildlife continue to happen, and the scale is even greater. Meanwhile, climate change is increasingly visible and impacting c…
Media and academia
Political science (11 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (4 works) · History (4 works) · Journalism (4 works) · Law (4 works)