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Media and Citizenship: Between Marginalisation and Participation

Anthea Garman, Herman Wasserman (eds.)

Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press (2017), xi, 241 pp.

"Media and Citizenship challenges some assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like South Africa. In a post-apartheid society where an enfranchised majority is still unable to fundamentally practise their citizenship and experiences marginalisat ... more

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Broadcasting Democracy: Radio and Identity in South Africa

Tanja Bosch

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2017), vii, 176 pp.

"The media play a key role in post-apartheid South Africa and is often positioned at the centre of debates around politics, identity and culture. Media, such as radio, are often said to also play a role in deepening democracy, while simultaneously holding the power to frame political events, shape p ... more

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Mobilities, ICTs and Marginality in Africa: Comparative Perspectives

Francis Nyamnjoh, Ingrid Brudvig (eds.)

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2016), ix, 244 pp.

"The book aims to situate the cultural, social and, in some cases, transnational context of ICT appropriation and virtual connectivity so as to reposition Africans from various countries and contexts as active agents of social change. The intricacies of local ICT use and the dynamics of mobility in ... more

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Broadcasting the Pandemic: A History of HIV on South African Television

Rebecca Hodes

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2014), viii, 216 pp.

"Broadcasting the Pandemic tells the story of a South African television show, Beat It! Created during the aspirational years of the political transition in which the broadcast media were poised to democratize the airwaves, Beat It! was first screened on public television in 1999 and developed into ... more

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Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media and Film

Adam Haupt

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2012), xvi, 240 pp.

"Static: Race and Representation in Post-apartheid Music, Media and Film critically examines music, cinema, social media and the politics of change after apartheid. It cuts across academic disciplines, the creative arts and the media and poses two central questions: Is South Africa changing for the ... more

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African Languages in a Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities for Indigenous Language Computing

Don Osborn

Cape Town; Ottawa: HSRC Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), xvi, 150 pp.

"This book is the result of several years of observation, analysis, consultation and synthesis of the adaptation of ict s to local languages in Africa. The goal of the Pan Africa Localization project led by Don Osborn was to closely track the progress of ict s in African languages and clearly identi ... more

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Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion

Adam Haupt

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2008), xxiv, 264 pp.

"Stealing Empire poses the question, "What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalisation?" Using the work of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt as a point of entry, Adam Haupt delves into varied terrain to locate answers in this ground-breaking inquiry. He explores arguments abou ... more

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Power, Politics and the Identity in South African Media

Adrian Hadland, Eric Louw, Simphiwe Sesanti, Herman Wasserman (eds.)

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2008), vii, 403 pp.

"South Africa offers a rich context for the study of the interrelationship between the media and identity. The essays collected here explore the many diverse elements of this interconnection, and give fresh focus to topics that scholarship has tended to overlook, such as the pervasive impact of tabl ... more

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Advertising in the News: Paid-For Content and the South African Print Media

Adrian Hadland, Lesley Cowling, Bate Felix Tabi Tabe

Capetown: HSRC Press (2007), vi, 70 pp.

"The rise of commercialism poses many challenges to the integrity of the South African media in the post-1994 era. To maintain profitability, many publications have developed a range of strategies to attract advertising, in particular, developing the content that advertisers most desire content that ... more

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Re-Visioning Television: Policy, Strategy and Models for the Sustainable Development of Community Television in South Africa
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Adrian Hadland, Mike Aldridge, Joshua Ogada

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2006), 211 pp.

"This book, compiled by South African experts in community broadcasting with the assistance of many key figures in the sector, traces the two-decade campaign for local-level television in South Africa. It highlights the development of policy, reviews existing international models and spells out the ... more

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Zip Zip my Brain Harts

Kathleen McDougall, Leslie Swartz, Amelia Van Der Merwe

Angela Buckland (photographs)

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2006), xi, 91 pp.

"Written by researchers concerned with disability issues and supplemented with photography from the mother of a disabled child, this sensitive collaboration is a unique expression of the fullness of human experience, with all its joy, pain, and confusion. Some of the key questions addressed are What ... more

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation; HSRC Press; James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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Changing the Fourth Estate: Essays on South African Journalism

Adrian Hadland (ed.)

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2005), 247 pp.

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The People's Voice: The Development and Current State of the South African Small Media Sector
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Adrian Hadland, Karen Thorne

Cape Town: HSRC Press; Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2004), xiii, 27 pp.

Re-Visioning Television: Policy, Strategy and Models for the Sustainable Development of Community Television in South Africa Key Guides

The People's Voice: The Development and Current State of the South African Small Media Sector Deep Insights

Re-Visioning Television: Policy, Strategy and Models for the Sustainable Development of Community Television in South Africa
Key Guides

The People's Voice: The Development and Current State of the South African Small Media Sector
Deep Insights