The Civics and Media Project Workshop One: What is happening with civics and news media in New Zealand?
New Zealand ranks highly when compared internationally in terms of governmental transparency, media freedom and civic engagement. However, our media landscape is in a state of flux and our voter turnout is in decline, and the impacts of these changes on our nation’s culture must be monitored. Business, civil society and government must have the tools...
Introducing The Civics and Media Project
New Zealand’s civil society, businesses and branches of government all need to be armed with the appropriate tools to respond to the complex and changing needs of the media landscape in the future. The Civics and Media Project consists of three workshops and accompanying discussion papers, which will examine whether citizens and communities have the...
Royal Society’s ‘Future of NZ Science’ Issue Published
Today a special issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, which considers the place of science in New Zealand’s future, was published. Among the list of prestigious Kiwis who contributed to this issue is Wendy McGuinness, whose article ‘The future of scientific thought‘ focuses on the connection between science and society and how this relationship...
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