title: Teaching & learning guide for: Social psychology and media: Critical Consideration

authors: Hodgetts, Darrin

subjects: psychology

abstract: We wrote this paper because we felt there was a need for a more critical examination of the ways that media were considered within social psychology. The article was written to provide an overview of social psychological research on media and to propose new lines of enquiry, particularly into the social practices within which media technologies are embedded. In particular our arguments focus on the ways in which media permeate social life and relationships, and why we should give more attention to the study of media within the practices of everyday living. Media are pervasive in society today. Media are foundational to the symbolic landscape within which people make sense of the world and their place in it. Media also comprise material objects, such as televisions and computers that dominate many domestic realms, as well as more portable devices, such as mobile phones and MP3 players that people take with them when moving through everyday life. Human relations with and through media are complex and evolving, and provide a core focus for social psychology. In the living room of any modern home there are likely to be comfortable chairs, family memorabilia and a range of media technologies ranging from telephones, radios, books and magazines to a television, a DVD player, a digital recorder, iPod, and perhaps a networked computer. These devices are often mobile, and can be moved or relocated around the house, shifting from communal to more personal devices as family members seek privacy to consume their media products or react to different tastes in movie, musical or gaming content. Such practices open up a range of social psychological issues regarding human relations, identity, time and space. The presence of media devices in daily life has invoked concerns about the possible negative effects of exposure to media violence and broader issues around reduced civic participation, as well as more positively focused issues such as the use of media to build and maintain social ties.

text: Teaching & learning guide for: Social psychology and media: Critical Consideration We wrote this paper because we felt there was a need for a more critical examination of the ways that media were considered within social psychology. The article was written to provide an overview of social psychological research on media and to propose new lines of enquiry, particularly into the social practices within which media technologies are embedded. In particular our arguments focus on the ways in which media permeate social life and relationships, and why we should give more attention to the study of media within the practices of everyday living. Media are pervasive in society today. Media are foundational to the symbolic landscape within which people make sense of the world and their place in it. Media also comprise material objects, such as televisions and computers that dominate many domestic realms, as well as more portable devices, such as mobile phones and MP3 players that people take with them when moving through everyday life. Human relations with and through media are complex and evolving, and provide a core focus for social psychology. In the living room of any modern home there are likely to be comfortable chairs, family memorabilia and a range of media technologies ranging from telephones, radios, books and magazines to a television, a DVD player, a digital recorder, iPod, and perhaps a networked computer. These devices are often mobile, and can be moved or relocated around the house, shifting from communal to more personal devices as family members seek privacy to consume their media products or react to different tastes in movie, musical or gaming content. Such practices open up a range of social psychological issues regarding human relations, identity, time and space. The presence of media devices in daily life has invoked concerns about the possible negative effects of exposure to media violence and broader issues around reduced civic participation, as well as more positively focused issues such as the use of media to build and maintain social ties.

year: 2009

title: Volcanic and sedimentary geology of the basaltic Karaka Volcano, South Auckland

authors: Hansen, Madison Keddie Ivy

subjects: volcano

abstract: Intraplate monogenetic volcanic fields are a common volcanic feature of the upper western North Island. There are four geographically related fields, approximately 38 km apart which young northwards from Raglan to Auckland. The South Auckland Volcanic Field (SAVF; 1.56–0.51 Ma) is older and more degraded than the Auckland Volcanic Field (AVF; active since 250 ka) to the north. Located between the two fields and overlying the Late Pliocene to Mid-Pleistocene pumiceous fluvial deposits of the Puketoka Formation, is the newly discovered Karaka Volcano. Although residents had referred to a volcanic landform in the area, it was in 2018 that evidence for a volcano based on geomorphology, a magnetic anomaly, weathered surficial deposits and water bore data was reported.

This thesis will present the recent findings of the volcano-sedimentary geology of the Karaka volcano. Evidence is based on stratigraphic analysis of two new drill cores, a complementary resistivity survey, petrography, scanning electron microscopy and geochemical investigations. One drill core intersected an upper 6 m blanket of Hamilton Ash Formation and a lower 7 m succession of interbedded, laminated dark brown organic-rich silts, and distal tephras. The lower succession is consistent with lake sediments associated with a crater lake within the geomorphic tuff ring. The second drill core, on the central high point of the volcanic landform, intersected an upper 6 m of brown and red clay. Beneath this, is a lower 9.5 m succession of volcanic ash, coarsening downwards, to a basaltic lapilli ash deposit with a lithic-rich matrix. This represents a phreatomagmatic phase in the upper part of the volcanic sequence. The resistivity survey connects the two drill holes giving an indication of extent and layering of the geology beneath the surface. No recognised volcanoes are within 5 km of this site, so it is unlikely that this pyroclastic deposit came from a distal vent, despite its isolated location outside of the predefined margins of the South Auckland and Auckland volcanic fields. 

Basalt lapilli within the pyroclastic succession are porphyritic with a trachytic to glassy groundmass with predominant phenocrysts of olivine, augite, opaque minerals and plagioclase. Geochemical analysis was conducted on whole rock samples of basalt lapilli by X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) and on pyroxene, olivine, plagioclase and zeolites by electron probe microanalysis (EPMA). This data identified Karaka Basalt as a member of the Group B basalts of the SAVF. Lithics were fragments of the underlying sandstone and siltstone of the Waitemata Group.  The surrounding matrix comprised small basalt fragments, lithics, quartz and plagioclase.

Glass compositions of tephra by EPMA provide information that has been used to produce a tentative minimum age on the crater lake and by proxy the volcano itself. Tephra TW gives a possible correlation to the Kidnappers Ignimbrite which has been dated previously at ~0.99 Ma. The age of this tephra along with belonging to the SAVF, and a covering of Kauroa and Hamilton Ashes, gives the Karaka Volcano an approximate age range of 1.56 – 0.99 Ma.

text: Volcanic and sedimentary geology of the basaltic Karaka Volcano, South Auckland Intraplate monogenetic volcanic fields are a common volcanic feature of the upper western North Island. There are four geographically related fields, approximately 38 km apart which young northwards from Raglan to Auckland. The South Auckland Volcanic Field (SAVF; 1.56–0.51 Ma) is older and more degraded than the Auckland Volcanic Field (AVF; active since 250 ka) to the north. Located between the two fields and overlying the Late Pliocene to Mid-Pleistocene pumiceous fluvial deposits of the Puketoka Formation, is the newly discovered Karaka Volcano. Although residents had referred to a volcanic landform in the area, it was in 2018 that evidence for a volcano based on geomorphology, a magnetic anomaly, weathered surficial deposits and water bore data was reported.

This thesis will present the recent findings of the volcano-sedimentary geology of the Karaka volcano. Evidence is based on stratigraphic analysis of two new drill cores, a complementary resistivity survey, petrography, scanning electron microscopy and geochemical investigations. One drill core intersected an upper 6 m blanket of Hamilton Ash Formation and a lower 7 m succession of interbedded, laminated dark brown organic-rich silts, and distal tephras. The lower succession is consistent with lake sediments associated with a crater lake within the geomorphic tuff ring. The second drill core, on the central high point of the volcanic landform, intersected an upper 6 m of brown and red clay. Beneath this, is a lower 9.5 m succession of volcanic ash, coarsening downwards, to a basaltic lapilli ash deposit with a lithic-rich matrix. This represents a phreatomagmatic phase in the upper part of the volcanic sequence. The resistivity survey connects the two drill holes giving an indication of extent and layering of the geology beneath the surface. No recognised volcanoes are within 5 km of this site, so it is unlikely that this pyroclastic deposit came from a distal vent, despite its isolated location outside of the predefined margins of the South Auckland and Auckland volcanic fields. 

Basalt lapilli within the pyroclastic succession are porphyritic with a trachytic to glassy groundmass with predominant phenocrysts of olivine, augite, opaque minerals and plagioclase. Geochemical analysis was conducted on whole rock samples of basalt lapilli by X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) and on pyroxene, olivine, plagioclase and zeolites by electron probe microanalysis (EPMA). This data identified Karaka Basalt as a member of the Group B basalts of the SAVF. Lithics were fragments of the underlying sandstone and siltstone of the Waitemata Group.  The surrounding matrix comprised small basalt fragments, lithics, quartz and plagioclase.

Glass compositions of tephra by EPMA provide information that has been used to produce a tentative minimum age on the crater lake and by proxy the volcano itself. Tephra TW gives a possible correlation to the Kidnappers Ignimbrite which has been dated previously at ~0.99 Ma. The age of this tephra along with belonging to the SAVF, and a covering of Kauroa and Hamilton Ashes, gives the Karaka Volcano an approximate age range of 1.56 – 0.99 Ma.

year: 2020

title: Māori data sovereignty and privacy

authors: Kukutai, Tahu

abstract: Privacy is a fundamental human right. One of its most important aspects is information privacy – providing individuals with control over the way in which their personal data is collected, used, disclosed and otherwise handled. Existing information privacy regulation neither recognises nor protects the collective privacy rights of Indigenous peoples. This paper explores Indigenous data
privacy, and the challenges and opportunities, in the context of Aotearoa. It has two aims: to identify gaps in existing data privacy approaches with regards to Indigenous data, and to provide a foundation for progressing alternative privacy paradigms. We argue that while personal data protection is necessary, it is insufficient to meet the needs of Māori and Aotearoa more broadly. In so doing, we draw on three areas of research: Indigenous and Māori data sovereignty; data and information privacy,
including collective privacy; and Māori and Indigenous privacy perspectives. We examine key features of the Aotearoa privacy context – including the Privacy Act 2020 (NZ) – and consider the implications of te Tiriti o Waitangi and tikanga Māori for alternative privacy approaches. Future options, including legal and extra-legal measures, are proposed.

text: Māori data sovereignty and privacy Privacy is a fundamental human right. One of its most important aspects is information privacy – providing individuals with control over the way in which their personal data is collected, used, disclosed and otherwise handled. Existing information privacy regulation neither recognises nor protects the collective privacy rights of Indigenous peoples. This paper explores Indigenous data
privacy, and the challenges and opportunities, in the context of Aotearoa. It has two aims: to identify gaps in existing data privacy approaches with regards to Indigenous data, and to provide a foundation for progressing alternative privacy paradigms. We argue that while personal data protection is necessary, it is insufficient to meet the needs of Māori and Aotearoa more broadly. In so doing, we draw on three areas of research: Indigenous and Māori data sovereignty; data and information privacy,
including collective privacy; and Māori and Indigenous privacy perspectives. We examine key features of the Aotearoa privacy context – including the Privacy Act 2020 (NZ) – and consider the implications of te Tiriti o Waitangi and tikanga Māori for alternative privacy approaches. Future options, including legal and extra-legal measures, are proposed.

year: 2023