Jo is an Associate Professor. Her iwi are Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha. Her research examines the socio-political power of media with a primary focus on how colonial histories inform contemporary media technologies, institutions, aesthetics and practices. She has developed her research profile across three interrelated fields (Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Settler Colonial Studies) to ask new questions about the ways in which media helps shape notions of identity, nationhood and community. Recently Jo has been examining how the storytelling powers of media can enhance our research practices in ways that might have relevance to policy shifts and other forms of social action related to lands, waters, food and place. This latest research develops kaupapa Māori media and communication methods, theories and techniques.