Media Power And Hegemony In South Africa

Author : Blessed Ngwenya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000280821

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Media Power and Hegemony in South Africa by Blessed Ngwenya Pdf

This book critically explores how meanings of ‘independence’ are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, with a particular focus on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). Blessed Ngwenya questions the institutional, political economy and world systems paradigms born out of coloniality which continue to influence broadcasting and media in the global south, and instead presents a radical local understanding of freedom in the present day. The author draws on detailed empirical interviews with members of staff from across the SABC, including board members, senior management, and journalists, offering an intimate insight into how the participants themselves perceive, understand, and deal with the issues and problems they face in relation to independence. Framed by a rich analysis of the historical context, this book provides readers with the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to place the everyday experiences and needs of their subjects first, and to ultimately arrive at an accurate understanding of independence in its several senses. Contributing to growing global debates on the decolonisation of knowledge, this book is critical reading for advanced scholars and researchers of African media, culture, communication and epistemic freedom.

Author : Keyan G. Tomaselli,Ruth Teer-Tomaselli,Johan Muller
Publisher : Iacademic Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111966821

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Narrating the Crisis by Keyan G. Tomaselli,Ruth Teer-Tomaselli,Johan Muller Pdf

Author : Mandla J. Radebe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003814566

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Constructing Hegemony by Mandla J. Radebe Pdf

Post-apartheid South Africa continues to face challenges in its attempts at economic transformation from decades of apartheid and colonisation. This need for revolution has resulted in various policy initiatives, including the ongoing demands for the nationalisation of the economy. The commercial media has a central role in shaping policy debates. But this media is an ideological tool and an economic resource since it is owned and controlled by people with political and economic interests and, therefore, tends to support and promote their interests. This book provides a Marxist critique of the representation of the nationalisation of the mines debate by the South African commercial media. Radebe examines corporate control of the media to articulate the interrelations between the State, Capital and the Media and how commercial media represents, shapes and influences public policy. He concludes that beyond factors such as ownership, commercialisation and the influence of advertising on news content, the global capitalist hegemony has a more powerful effect on the commercial media in South Africa than previously thought. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

Author : Blessed Ngwenya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000280845

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Media Power and Hegemony in South Africa by Blessed Ngwenya Pdf

This book critically explores how meanings of ‘independence’ are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, with a particular focus on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). Blessed Ngwenya questions the institutional, political economy and world systems paradigms born out of coloniality which continue to influence broadcasting and media in the global south, and instead presents a radical local understanding of freedom in the present day. The author draws on detailed empirical interviews with members of staff from across the SABC, including board members, senior management, and journalists, offering an intimate insight into how the participants themselves perceive, understand, and deal with the issues and problems they face in relation to independence. Framed by a rich analysis of the historical context, this book provides readers with the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to place the everyday experiences and needs of their subjects first, and to ultimately arrive at an accurate understanding of independence in its several senses. Contributing to growing global debates on the decolonisation of knowledge, this book is critical reading for advanced scholars and researchers of African media, culture, communication and epistemic freedom.

Author : Hopeton S. Dunn,Dumisani Moyo,William O. Lesitaokana,Shanade Bianca Barnabas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030541699

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Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean by Hopeton S. Dunn,Dumisani Moyo,William O. Lesitaokana,Shanade Bianca Barnabas Pdf

This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and corporate and cultural renewal. The first section tackles research and technology with new conceptual thinking from the South. The book then looks at emerging approaches to community digital networks, online diaspora entertainment, and video gaming strategies. The volume then explores reforms in policy and professional practice, including in broadcast television, online newspapers, media philanthropy, and business news reporting. Its final section examines the role of village-based folk media, the power of popular music in political opposition, and new approaches to overcoming neo-colonial propaganda and external corporate hegemony. This book therefore engages critically with the central issues of how we communicate, produce, entertain, and build communities in 21st-century Africa and the Caribbean.

Author : Gideon van Riet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000467932

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Hegemony, Security Infrastructures and the Politics of Crime by Gideon van Riet Pdf

This book examines the politics of crime and the response to it in Potchefstroom, a small settler colonial city in South Africa. It draws on the city’s everyday practices and experiences to offer local bottom-up insights into security beyond the state. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of security beyond the state and how security workers and residents experience and perceive their own security practices, their daily interactions with other security providers which influences power dynamics between those who express fear through various platforms and those deemed potential criminals. It aids in re-conceptualising violence and security governance in South Africa with a view to analysing the processes of crime prevention and management, the changing nature of public and private spaces and how these spaces interact with state and local authorities. In a rigorous exploration of the ways to tackle the complex problem of crime, the book critiques an overreliance on security infrastructures such as social media, gated barriers, neighbourhood residents’ associations and private security companies. It also looks at how crime is treated as an individual as opposed to a societal problem. The book addresses the urgent need for collaboration across these fault lines to promote a more inclusive security in a broader fragmented social and political context. With a novel analytical approach based on the twin optics of infrastructure and post-structural hegemony, the book will be relevant to scholars and students of South African politics and critical security studies, as well as international audience interested in crime and private security.

Author : Winston Mano,Viola c. Milton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351273190

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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies by Winston Mano,Viola c. Milton Pdf

This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication. The chapters from a cross-section of scholars dissect the forces shaping the field within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement in today’s Africa. Altogether, the book foregrounds convivial epistemologies relevant for locating African media and communication in the pluriverse. This handbook is an essential read for critical media, communications, cultural studies and journalism scholars.

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000990393

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Media, Economy and Society by Christian Fuchs Pdf

This essential guide to the critical study of the media economy in society teaches students how to critically analyse the political economy of communication and the media. The book introduces a variety of methods and topics, including the political economy of communication in capitalism, the political economy of media concentration, the political economy of advertising, the political economy of global media and transnational media corporations, class relations and working conditions in the capitalist media and communication industry, the political economy of the Internet and digital media, the information society and digital capitalism, the public sphere, Public Service Media, the Public Service Internet, and the political economy of media management. This will be an ideal textbook for a variety of courses relating to media and communication, including Media Economics; Political Economy of Communication; Media, Culture, and Society; Critical Media and Communication Studies; Media Sociology; Media Management; and Media Business Studies.

Author : Kalyani Chadha,Linda Steiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000535044

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Newswork and Precarity by Kalyani Chadha,Linda Steiner Pdf

This edited collection brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss the consequences and implications of precarious labor conditions within the modern news industry. In 14 original chapters, contributors address global concerns in journalism across all platforms, based on the assumption that unstable employment conditions affect the extent to which journalists can continue to play their historically crucial role in sustaining democracies. Topics discussed include work conditions for freelancers and entrepreneurial journalists as well as the risks facing conflict reporters, precarity in media start-ups, unionization and other collective efforts, policies regulating journalistic labor around the world, and the impact of hedge fund money on newswork. Drawing on case studies and data from South America, Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, the book highlights how media outlets are forcing newsworkers to work harder for less money, and few countries are proactive in alleviating the precarity of journalists. Newswork and Precarity is a valuable addition to an important still-emerging area in journalism studies that will be of interest to both professionals and scholars of journalism, media studies, sociology, and labor history.

Author : Olusola Ogunnubi,Samuel Oyewole
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527561946

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Power Politics in Africa by Olusola Ogunnubi,Samuel Oyewole Pdf

This collection of essays examines the subject of power politics in Africa, paying special attention to the interests of African regional powers, as well as their capabilities and strategies in the international arena. It provides a theoretical bridge between concerns for militarised national interest, perpetual distrust and insecurity, struggles for power and hegemony in power politics, and the spirit of pan-African solidarity, brotherhood, consensus, cooperation and integration. It is on these bases that this volume offers rich empirical insight into leading regional powers in Africa with special attention given to Nigeria and South Africa. It serves to contribute African perspectives to the field of International Relations, particularly regarding power politics, which is important in terms of Africanising the narratives of a subject matter that is largely considered as Eurocentric in African and other non-Western societies.

Author : X. Zhang,H. Wasserman,W. Mano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137539670

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China's Media and Soft Power in Africa by X. Zhang,H. Wasserman,W. Mano Pdf

This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines and nations to examine and assess the effectiveness of China's soft power initiatives in Africa. It throws light not only on China's engagement with Africa but also on how China's increasing influence is received in the African media.

Author : Elizabeth Eldredge
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299223731

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Power in Colonial Africa by Elizabeth Eldredge Pdf

Even in its heyday European rule of Africa had limits. Whether through complacency or denial, many colonial officials ignored the signs of African dissent. Displays of opposition by Africans, too indirect to counter or quash, percolated throughout the colonial era and kept alive a spirit of sovereignty that would find full expression only decades later. In Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870–1960, Elizabeth A. Eldredge analyzes a panoply of archival and oral resources, visual signs and symbols, and public and private actions to show how power may be exercised not only by rulers but also by the ruled. The BaSotho—best known for their consolidation of a kingdom from the 1820s to 1850s through primarily peaceful means, and for bringing colonial forces to a standstill in the Gun War of 1880–1881—struggled to maintain sovereignty over their internal affairs during their years under the colonial rule of the Cape Colony (now part of South Africa) and Britain from 1868 to 1966. Eldredge explores instances of BaSotho resistance, resilience, and resourcefulness in forms of expression both verbal and non-verbal. Skillfully navigating episodes of conflict, the BaSotho matched wits with the British in diplomatic brinksmanship, negotiation, compromise, circumvention, and persuasion, revealing the capacity of a subordinate population to influence the course of events as it selectively absorbs, employs, and subverts elements of the colonial culture. “A refreshing, readable and lucid account of one in an array of compositions of power during colonialism in southern Africa.”—David Gordon, Journal of African History “Elegantly written.”—Sean Redding, Sub-Saharan Africa “Eldredge writes clearly and attractively, and her studies of the war between Lerotholi and Masupha and of the conflicts over the succession to the paramountcy are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand those crises.”—Peter Sanders, Journal of Southern African Studies

Author : Judith Martin,Thomas Nakayama,G.P. van Rheede van Oudtshoorn,Paul Schutte
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780077146078

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EBOOK: Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction by Judith Martin,Thomas Nakayama,G.P. van Rheede van Oudtshoorn,Paul Schutte Pdf

The new Southern African edition of this popular introductory textbook offers students a practical and accessible framework for developing their intercultural communication skills. It provides a global perspective on intercultural communication while allowing students to contextualise their knowledge with relevant examples, applications and perspectives. Recognising that students in Southern African come from diverse cultural, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, it provides discussion of issues and perspectives they can apply to everyday life and to broader contexts.

Author : Thuynsma, Heather
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780798305143

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Political Parties in South Africa by Thuynsma, Heather Pdf

Political parties and the party system that underpins South Africa’s democracy have the potential to build a cohesive and prosperous nation. But in the past few years the ANC’s dominance has strained the system and tested it and its institutions’ fortitude. There are deeper issues of accountability that often spurn the Constitution and there is also a clear need to foster meaningful public participation and transparency. This volume offers a different and detailed assessment of the health of South Africa’s political system. This study intends to unravel the condition of the party system in South Africa and culminates in the question: Do South African parties promote or hinder democracy in the country? The areas of the party system that are known to require continued work are the weakness of democratic structures within parties, the perceived lack of responsibility of elected parliamentarians towards voters, non-transparent private partner financing structures and a lack of attractiveness of party-political commitment, especially for women. Experts in the respective fields address all of these areas in this book.

Author : A. Hadland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137493491

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Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies by A. Hadland Pdf

The news media and the state are locked in a battle of wills in the world's emerging democratic states. It is a struggle that will determine whether or not democracy flourishes or withers in the 21st century. Using a number of case studies, including South Africa, this book evaluates what is at stake.