SIT Library Guides: Communication: Web Resources

Research resources

Harvard Business School: Working knowledge
Access new research from the Harvard Business School faculty on a variety of business topics.

These Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge topics are particularly useful for Communication students:

Advertising: New research on advertising including strategy and tactics, digital advertising, measuring impact and advertising technology.
Communication: New research on communication including intention and meaning, communication technology and communication strategies.
Leadership: New research on business leadership including skills development, authentic leadership and creating value.
Marketing: New research on marketing including advertising, crisis communications, social media, digital marketing techniques and strategy.

Motu Research
Motu Research is an independent, public-good focused economics and policy research institute. Motu helps Kiwi decision makers grapple with complex social and environmental issues, with our world class economic and public policy research.

Government organisations

Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa
Stats NZ is New Zealand's official data agency. They collect information from people and organisations through censuses and surveys. This information is used to publish insights and data about New Zealand and support others to use the data.

Communication and the law

New Zealand Legislation
New Zealand Legislation is the authoritative source of New Zealand's acts, bills and secondary legislation.

Communication associations

Australian & New Zealand Communication Association
ANZCA is a premier academic association that brings together researchers, students, and teachers from an array of communication disciplines to promote scholarship, inform social policy, and encourage progress in the broad field of media and communications.
Institute for Public Relations
The Institute for Public Relations is dedicated to the science beneath the art of public relations. This organisation creates, curates, and promotes research and initiatives that empower professionals with actionable insights and intelligence they can put to immediate use.

These Institute for Public Relations webpages are particularly useful for Communication students:

Research Library: This research library is a database of all the public relations research conducted by the Institute for Public Relations segmented by topic area.
IPR ESG & Purpose Research Library: The IPR ESG and Purpose Research Library features the latest research and insights devoted to topics related to environment, social, and corporate governance (ESG) and purpose for public relations professionals.

International Communication Association
The International Communication Association (ICA) aims to advance the scholarly study of communication by encouraging and facilitating excellence in academic research worldwide.

Useful Websites

Advertising Standards Authority
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is dedicated to ensuring that advertising is truthful and not misleading or deceptive, and that it is socially responsible.
Figure.nz
Figure.nz provides New Zealand focused figures, graphs and data on a variety of topics.
Journalist's Toolbox
The Journalist's Toolbox provides journalists, students, professors and people in many professions with reliable resources for reporting, editing, verifying and visualising information for complex stories.
Learning resources for journalism students - BBC
Access video and written resources on different aspects of journalism including interviewing, reporting, presenting and radio.

Online magazines and journals

Communication & Society
Communication & Society is an online quarterly journal. Its main goal is to make outstanding research contributions to the field of communication from a variety of perspectives, both theoretical and empirical. It includes journalism studies, advertising, public relations, broadcast and film studies, political communication, ethics, media history, communication policy, political economy and new media, among others.
International Journal of Communication
The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review. This interdisciplinary journal, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study.
Journalism and Media
Journalism and Media is a peer-reviewed, open access journal with the highest standards of quality, available to all communication scholars. With a broad scope, it focuses on the social, economic, political and cultural dimensions of journalism and the media, with special interest in their latest developments and transformations.
Marketing Week
For more than 40 years, Marketing Week has been at the centre of marketing, documenting, championing and questioning the industry’s key people, events and brands. Marketing Week is dedicated to improving the fortunes of marketers and the status of marketing by providing independent analysis and fresh thinking on the challenges and opportunities in modern marketing.
Media and Communication
Media and Communication is an international open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields.
NZBusiness magazine
This magazine covers a range of topics of interest to New Zealand business owners and operators.
PRism
PRism is an open access peer-reviewed public relations and communication research journal. Access current and past issues.
Public Relations Journal
The Public Relations Journal is a free, web-based, open-access, quarterly academic journal presented by the Public Relations Society of America and the Institute for Public Relations. This journal is dedicated to offering the latest public relations and communication-based research.