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Lack of Diversity (repeat): Analysis of SABC News and Programming
Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa (2012), vii, 41 pp.
The Potential of Foreign News as International Development Communication
Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special Issue (2012), pp. 45-58
"This article investigates what the news says about inequity-driven civil wars and economic underdevelopment. Dewey argued that the lack of causal knowledge that distinguishes between symptoms and root causes would limit potential effective and transformative public action. Political scientists have
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Reporting on Children: Is the Coverage Getting Any Better?
Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa; Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2012), 27 pp.
Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa, Vol. 1
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2012), xxxvi, 395 pp.
"In this e-book we unpack the internationally-developed standards and best practise models of democratic media regulation. We look at universally-agreed norms for democratic media regulation generally, democratic broadcasting regulation and for imposing restrictions upon or otherwise regulating medi
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The Marketization of Foreign News
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-115
"Audience segmentation is generally associated with strategic communication (such as advertising and public relations), where content is manipulated to suit reader preferences. News has generally been considered truth-telling unvarnished by such concerns. This article compares how news of the same h
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Mapping Digital Media: South Africa
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 120 pp.
"Developments in digital media in South Africa are densely intertwined with political factors. The Government has sought to be the driver of digitization, but it has also caused repeated delays in digital roll-out. In addition, the Government has had contradictory interests such as promoting competi
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Raising Women’s Voices Through Radio Drama: Reflections from South Africa
Johannesburg: People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA); Community Media for Development (CMFD) (2012), 12 pp.
"This case study is being produced to share the process, techniques, and lessons learned from "Zaphamban' izindlela!" radio drama both as way to document, as well as facilitate others working on women’s issues to undertake similar initiatives. The case study demonstrates how entertaining forms of
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New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders
New York: Routledge (2012), xiv, 219 pp.
"How do students' online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influ
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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.
"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi
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Memory and Political Change
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xviii, 223 pp.
"Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions." (
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Investigating Communication, Health and Development: 10 Years of Research in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS)
Auckland Park: Jacana Media; University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) (2012), xxx, 480 pp.
"This book traces some of the key research conducted over a ten-year period by honours, MA and PhD students who have attended the CCMS Entertainment Education / communication for participatory development course from its inception in 2002, until 2011. There has been a marked shift in the paradigm gu
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Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media and Film
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
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Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 220 pp.
"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are
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Universal Principles of Media Ethics: South African and German Perspectives
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 2 (2012), 19 pp.
"This article attempts to address this field of research in comparing South African and German approaches to the topic of media ethics. Firstly, it outlines theories of universal and specific cultural ethical principles in journalism. Secondly, it shows how the conception of universal ethical princi
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Sociologies of Voice and Language: Radio Broadcasting and the Ethnic Imperative
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 209-226
"This article will argue that the conversational approach used by Munghana Lonene FM (ML FM) of mixing music and talk in Tsonga encourages the creation of a sociological natal affiliation; a form of 'we' feeling that translates into notions of ownership and belonging and empowerment. By re-establish
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Fight for Democracy: The ANC and the Media in South Africa
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2012), xiv, 250 pp.
"Glenda Daniels examines the pattern of paranoia that has crept into public discourse about the media and the ANC, and their conflictual relationship. She analyses this fraught relationship through various popular media stories, such as Manto and Mondli, Zapiro and Zuma. Her argument ist that there
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Something to be Glad About? Coverage of Children in South African and Zambian Media
Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa; Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2012), viii, 46 pp.
Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America
Deep Insights
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), viii, 148 pp.
"This publication provides readers with fresh insights into the practice of participatory educational communication. The first section explores the educational potential of community media, reaching from participatory radio campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa to school radios in Brazil. The second secti
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Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press (2012), 476 pp.
"This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as
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South African Cinema 1896-2010
Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2012), 307 pp.
