C. Kay Weaver

{{Short description|New Zealand-based media and communication academic and academic administrator}}

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| alma_mater = University of Sterling

| thesis1_title = Representations of men's violence against women : audio-visual texts and their reception

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Celia Kay Weaver (born 1964) is a New Zealand-based media and communication academic and academic administrator.{{cite web|url=http://www.waikato.ac.nz/staff-profiles/people/ckweaver |title=C. Kay Weaver – Staff Profiles : University of Waikato |publisher=Waikato.ac.nz |accessdate=9 December 2017}} She is Dean of Te Mata Kairangi, the School of Graduate Research at the University of Waikato.

Career

Weaver was a police officer in West Midlands / Birmingham in England before embarking on a BA and PhD at the University of Stirling.{{cite web|author=Waikato Management School |url=http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/staff%20list/staffhome.asp?user=ckweaver |title=Waikato Management School – Staff Profile |publisher=Mngt.waikato.ac.nz |accessdate=9 December 2017}} Her thesis examined the reception of coverage of men's domestic violence against women, using focus groups and UK television news and dramas and Hollywood films.{{cite journal|author=Weaver, C. Kay |title=STORRE: Representations of men's violence against women : audio-visual texts and their reception |journal=Public Health |volume=126 |issue=1 |pages=3–11 |doi=10.1016/j.puhe.2011.09.014 |pmid=22137093 |date=3 February 2010 |hdl=1893/17091 }}

Selected works

  • Motion, Judy, and C. Kay Weaver. "A discourse perspective for critical public relations research: Life sciences network and the battle for truth." Journal of Public Relations Research 17, no. 1 (2005): 49–67.
  • Bardhan, Nilanjana, and C. Kay Weaver, eds. Public relations in global cultural contexts: Multi-paradigmatic perspectives. Routledge, 2011.
  • Weaver, C. Kay, Judy Motion, and Juliet Roper. "From propaganda to discourse (and back again): Truth, power, the public interest and public relations." Public relations: Critical debates and contemporary practice (2006): 7–21.
  • Richardson, Margaret, C. Kay Weaver, and Theodore E. Zorn Jr. "'Getting on': older New Zealanders' perceptions of computing." New Media & Society 7, no. 2 (2005): 219–245.
  • Weaver, C. Kay. "A Marxist primer for critical public relations scholarship." Media International Australia 160, no. 1 (2016): 43–52.

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