Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation
We wrap up the year congratulating our Director, Professor Mohan Dutta, for being ranked among the Top 2 Percent scientists globally published by Stanford University. In these rankings, Professor Dutta is ranked first in Aotearoa New Zealand in his discipline.
Being recognised in our own College, the Massey Business School, for our research excellence, gives us joy, says Prof. Mohan Dutta. CARE is grateful to the significant contributions made by Dr. Phoebe Elers as a postdoctoral fellow. Phoebe has led a range of culture-centered interventions and is an important contributor to the theorising of the culture-centered approach (CCA).
The 2022 MSA MBS Research Excellence Award is presented to Dr. Phoebe Elers, Prof. Mohan Dutta and Senior Lecturer Dr. Steve Elers from School of Communication Journalism and Marketing, Massey Business School for the paper: Culturally centering digital inclusion and marginality: A case study in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Link to paper- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614448211063180
CARE’s end-of-year address from Professor Mohan J Dutta, Dean’s Chair and Director of CARE via YouTube and Facebook.
Link to Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/CAREMassey/videos/891000409006859
Check out CARE’s Māra Kai Project – Potatoe planting work continuing in Feilding
Presented by Selina Metuamate.
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Join us for Professor Cherian George’s Public Talk at the Business Studies (Central) Building, Massey University, BSC B1.08 COMMS Lab. Or join us virtually via the Livestream on our social media platforms.
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/CAREMassey/videos/310113508573077
CARE YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwelom8Ac4
The norms and institutions of democracy and human rights are on the back foot around the world. They clearly need to be strengthened. This work has been disrupted and delayed not only by democracy’s opponents but also from within. There are recurring, divisive debates within liberal democracies concerning how much society should tolerate discriminatory speech. This talk searches for guideposts to navigate the contested terrain between free speech and social justice.
Cherian George is a professor of media studies at Hong Kong Baptist University’s School of Communication, and the director of its Centre for Media and Communication Research. His books include Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offence and its Threat to Democracy (2016); and Red Lines: Political Cartoons and the Struggle against Censorship (2021).
In Dr. Usman Afzali’s talk, “Long-term Effects of Far-Right Terrorism on Muslims in New Zealand,” the enduring consequences of far-right terrorism on the Muslim community in New Zealand are explored. Drawing upon a comprehensive array of scholarly papers and research from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study, the presentation investigates the complex dynamics between far-right violence, public attitudes, and the psychological well-being of Muslim minorities. It reveals how far-right terrorism can lead to national distress, affecting community cohesion and overall well-being. Public attitudes toward Muslims in New Zealand, especially following a terrorist attack, are examined, alongside the role of national identity, media influence, and the potential mitigating role of religion. Usman Afzali’s talk offers a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted impact of far-right terrorism on Muslims in New Zealand, with implications for future research and policy considerations.
Dr. Usman Afzali is the principal investigator of the Muslim Diversity Study, currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Muslim Diversity Study examines social attitudes and values of Muslims in New Zealand. Usman’s research interests encompass human flourishing, diversity in religious groups, cognitive psychology (specifically memory suppression), and contemplative neuroscience.
In the Muslim Diversity Study, he leads a team of 24 research assistants and actively collaborates with numerous partners within New Zealand. Additionally, he conducts research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and supervises graduate students at various levels (PhD, Masters, and Honours) since 2021. His teaching portfolio includes courses in statistics, research methods, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience.
Website: https://www.usmanafzali.com
Twitter: @UsmanAfzali
All attendees are invited to NCA Scholars’ Office Hours on Friday, Nov. 17, from 2 to 3:15 p.m. at the Gaylord National Harbor Convention Center.
This annual session provides seasoned scholars, junior scholars, and graduate students the opportunity to network and connect with each other in an informal and interactive atmosphere focused on mentorship. Participants can also meet the current NCA journal editors at the session.
Keeping with the convention’s theme – “Freedom” – this year’s Scholars’ Office Hours expands what it means to be a “senior” scholar in the field of Communication. Participants can expect to meet and speak with scholars who are well-published and advanced in their careers.
At the same time, the session will center scholars who advance community-engaged scholarship, activism, and other non-traditional communication work. We are thinking specifically of scholars who “free up” or open the discipline to new ways of thinking and doing communication work, thereby pushing the discipline forward in transformative ways.
We have assembled an eclectic and diverse group of scholars who cut across multiple areas of the field. To see the full list of participating senior scholars, visit NCA Convention Central.
If you are a graduate student, new tenure track faculty member or adjunct faculty member, you are especially encouraged to attend! We are particularly excited to welcome Black, Indigenous, and early career scholars of color, LGBTQI scholars, and scholars negotiating different abilities working at diverse intersections.
If you have any questions about the program, please feel free to reach out to co-planners Mohan Dutta and Rebecca de Souza. We are excited for you to join us and start networking!
Mohan Dutta, Scholars’ Office Hours Co-planner, Massey University, New Zealand
Rebecca de Souza, Scholars’ Office Hours Co-planner, San Diego State University
CARE: Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation congratulates its Director, Professor Mohan J. Dutta, Massey University for being named in the latest World’s Top 2% Scientists List (Stanford University). The excellence in the research impact at CARE is reflective of the contributions of our collective of community advisory groups, community researchers, activists-in-residence, and academic research teams working tirelessly to build strong communities as participants in organizing for social change.
We are proud of this recognition of excellence that speaks to the impact our collective scholarship makes to the theorizing of justice-based health communication processes, demonstrating the power of culture-centered community-based communication organizing for social change in transforming colonial, capitalist, patriarchal, racist and casteist structures.
Check out the Dataset- https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/data…/btchxktzyw/4
Photo by Vivien Beduya.
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Join us online and celebrate the many accomplishments featured in the CARE documentary.
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On this Gandhi Jayanti, reflecting on the ways in which Gandhi’s experiments with truth resist and challenge the communicative infrastructure of deception that forms the discursive basis of the fascist politics of Hindutva.
“As a fascist ideology, Hindutva thrives on the production and circulation of lies, continually at work to vilify India’s Muslim minorities.
This deception, communicating contradictory and conflicting messages internally and externally, actively producing misinformation, and mobilizing violence on the basis of the misinformation, lies at the crux of the organizing of hate as a technique for rule.
Deception forms the everyday habits of Hindutva, drawing from the Brahminical hierarchy that gives it its conceptual formation. Brahminism as the underlying feature of Hindutva mobilizes the practices of deception.
From the active production of disinformation in the form of conspiracy theories to practices based on lies in everyday life, the communicative infrastructure of Hindutva thrives on deception.”
This article first appeared on the culture-centered blog.