Workshops: Dealing with the NZ Media

Muslim Media Watch invites you to come along and learn about the negative impact of news media on the Muslim identity and what Muslim communities can do to mitigate this.

Workshop 1 :  NEWS MEDIA AND ISLAMOPHOBIA 

•What makes news and news stories

•News norming of Islamophobic narratives and its impact       

•NZ response after the Christchurch tragedy

•Introducing the NZ Muslim community media

Workshop 2 :  OUR ROLE IN COMMUNITY HEALING

•The role of a Muslim community media outlet

•Presentation and representation

•Community issues and concerns

•Community news contents for publication (practice session)

Speaker Bio:
Khairiah A Rahman is Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication Studies and serves in AUT’s Diversity Caucus. Khairiah was Programme Leader for the Certificate of Communication Studies and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as industry practitioners. She has lectured in public relations and intercultural communication and also served on the advisory board of the Pacific Media Centre. Khairiah is the Secretary for Media Education for the Asian Congress for Media and Communication and the Assistant Editor of the Pacific Journalism Review. She has served on several editorial boards including the edited book “Exchanging Terrorism Oxygen for Media Airwaves: The age of Terroredia” (2014). She has written on media representations of Islam and Muslims, culture and identity, crisis miscommunication, and the Islamic perspectives of dialogue and persuasion. Her research on media representations of Islam and Muslims in New Zealand was cited in Radio New Zealand, Spinoff and The Pacific Media Watch. Her current research looks at tenets of Islamic Communication. Khairiah was involved in reporting to the Royal Commission Enquiry on the Christchurch Mosque Massacres and is actively serving her community as government liaison for NZ Police and the New Ministry for Ethnic Communities. She was invited by the Department of Prime Minister’s Office to speak at a media panel for the conference in Christchurch on countering terrorism and violent extremism in June 2021. Khairiah's research intersects media and self-representations of marginalised communities, issues impacting diversity and inclusion, crisis and communication paradigms in practice. She was appointed to Meta’s Aotearoa News Innovation Advisory Group in October 2021. The group is part of an initiative by Meta to provide resources, training, and expansion opportunities to local news outlets. Khairiah is currently working on several equity and social cohesion projects, while actively serving her community as government liaison.