Communication at Work:
Showcasing Communication Scholarship:
Publication of the Annual Meeting of the Australia New Zealand Communication Association 2005
The 2005 ANZCA conference opened with a mihi (welcome) from the hosts to the scholars who had gathered from four continents for four days of academic exchange.
It was a rather special mihi, supported by the talented Christchurch guitarist Graham Waldrop. The hosts (tangata whenua), from all of Aotearoa New Zealand's universities and many of its polytechnics, welcomed the Australian ANZCA members and other visitors (manuhiri) from further afield. Each group's spokesperson addressed the conference and then their group sang a song of greeting, following a pattern inspired by the Maori protocol for welcoming visitors (the powhiri). Academics tend not to take easily to song, but on this occasion we collectively created a context where everyone was listening for something other than singing ability. From this emerged a spirit of warm collaboration and appreciation that permeated the whole conference.
We extend that same greeting again to readers of these conference proceedings, which gather together the 39 refereed papers presented at the conference in Christchurch from the 4th to 7th July 2005. We believe these proceedings are infused by some of the same spirit generated back then.
We come from diverse traditions - from business communication to media theory to sociolinguistics - but at ANZCA we have a very special opportunity to step beyond these disciplinary boundaries and broaden our understanding and appreciation of the diversity of themes and approaches that fall under the wider rubric of communication scholarship. The 2005 ANZCA conference did not disappoint. Delegates were treated to a wonderful array of stimulating and provocative papers and workshops including Janet Holmes' keynote speech on the limited repertoires available to women to perform workplace leadership. This provided one rich illustration of the ability of language to both enable and restrict social action. In the papers assembled in this publication you will find a rich seam of papers that explore other aspects of the discursive negotiation of reality. These address such interesting themes as Protestant-Catholic interaction in Northern Ireland workplaces (Owen Hargie), Viagra-ised masculine sexualities (Tiina Vares), the commodification of Polynesian culture (Emma Earl) and the interpretation of citizenship in diaspora (Chika Anyanwu). Other papers, such as Frank Sligo and Niki Culligan's exploration of the tensions in researching communities and Deborah Churchman's critique of the construction of fixed-term academic staff ask us to reflect more critically on the wider academic communicative practices in which we are complicit. In addition, there are papers on media and technology, public relations, media policy, written communication, and other areas which likewise make connections across disciplines and attest to the vitality of the Australia New Zealand Communication Association. Once again our annual conference provided quality papers on themes that ensured there was something to interest and extend everyone who attended.
We look forward to doing so again at our next ANZCA conference in Adelaide in the first week of July 2006. We would love you to join us and experience the wonderful academic fellowship and exchange that is the hallmark of ANZCA. To register see http://www.adelaide.edu.au/anzca2006/.
Downloads:
For the DEST pack of materials (required for academics wishing to claim DEST points for publications), please select either pdf or Microsoft Word format.
Publishing Details:
Co-Editors: Colleen Mills and Donald Matheson
Assistant Editor: Lynette Low
Editorial Board:
Sue Abel, Victoria University of Wellington
Chika Anyanwu, University of Adelaide
Allan Bell, AUT
Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten, University of Waikato
Margie Comrie, Massey University
Mike Consedine (No affiliation)
Anne Dunn, University of Sydney
Anna Eblen, Western Washington University
Tony Farrow, CPIT
Anders Hansen, University of Leicester
Caroline Hatcher, Queensland University of Technology
Helen Hayward, University of Canterbury
Elizabeth Henley, CPIT
Wayne Hope, AUT
|
Margaret Hughes, CPIT
Marainne Klaricich, CPIT
Shirley Leitch, University of Waikato
Steven Maras, University of Sydney
Meredith Marra, Victoria University of Wellington
Jim McGuigan, Loughborough University
Judy Motion, University of Waikato
Mohammed Musa, University of Canterbury
Penny O'Donnell, University of Technology Sydney
Su Olsson, Massey University
Sue Tait, University of Canterbury
Peter Thompson, Unitec
C. Kay Weaver, Waikato University
Ruth Zanker, CPIT
|
Date of Publication: December 6, 2005
ISBN Number: 0-473-10194-7
© Copyright for all refereed papers published in the proceedings is jointly owned by the author(s), ANZCA and the University of Canterbury. The author(s) retain rights over all future publication and revisions of their work. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher and individual authors.
