Media Communities
Author : Brigitte Hipfl, Theo Hug
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Internet
ISBN : 9783830965992
The People's Voice
Author : Adrian Hadland
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780796920591
Book Description
The study provides an overview of relevant legislation and policy in South Africa, pre- and post- 1994, as well as a review of international research that reveals global trends in small media development. It sketches the distribution of the sector in South Africa, revealing the topography of service providers and key stakeholders. The report identifies the interests that are common to small independent and community media groupings and examines ways in which the sustainability of these organisations can be promoted. Providing a range of pertinent data, analysis and information, this study will be invaluable for anyone wishing to engage effectively with the small media sector. The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) was established to direct funding and support to the small media sector in the interests of deepening South Africa's young democracy. The principal objective of this study is to assist the MDDA in its important and complex work.
Public Service Broadcasting in the Age of Globalization
Author : Indrajit Banerjee
Publisher : AMIC
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Culture and globalization
ISBN : 9814136018
Book Description
Takes a scholarly perspective aimed at creating debate about the role and function of public service broadcasting at a time that it is facing a variety of threats, from governments, and from commercialization of broadcasting. This book gives a global perspective on the state of public service broadcasting in the age of globalization.
Media and Democracy in South Africa
Author : Jane Duncan
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780796918543
Book Description
Criticism has been voiced that government and society are gradually transforming in South Africa, but not the media and that they are in fact obstructing democratisation. Is this criticism justified? Should the media in fact be obliged to play an active role in consolidating democracy, or is this role adequately filled by the objective reflection on events, protected by press freedom principles enshrined in the constitution? What do we mean when we speak of media, and does the media represent South Africa's widely different social interests?This book considers these and many other questions. Seven contributors, representing divergent interests, explore the complex interface between the media and democracy in the South Africa today. They consider the legislative and policy environments necessary for the media to play a meaningful role in building democracy, including the steps needed to develop sustainable, diverse and independent media. South Africa's reintegration into the global community is also reflected in some of the contributions, with two providing international perspectives on questions pertinent to our media today.
100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 2
Author : Sisanda Nkoala
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3031407067
Book Description
The book brings together media scholars and practitioners to deliberate on the role and influence of radio broadcasting in South Africa over the past 100 years. The publication will add to the existing body of knowledge on radio in this context by being among one of the few to consider radio broadcasting in South Africa. Essentially, the book will make a distinct contribution focusing on a critique of the medium’s role in community-building and culture making among others. While the book will provide relevant theoretical frameworks, it also aims to include the voices of media practitioners who can reflect on the importance of this medium from a more realistic perspective. Volume 2 focuses on the impact of digitization on radio in South Africa, and considers the future of radio in South Africa.
A Companion to Television
Author : Janet Wasko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 140519877X
Book Description
A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television’s current incarnation, and predict its likely future Covers technology and aesthetics, television’s relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/reference/
Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa
Author : Robert B. Horwitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139428691
Book Description
The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information agency and the print press from apartheid-aligned apparatuses to accountable democratic institutions took place via a complex political process in which civil society activism, embodying a post-social democratic ideal, largely won out over the powerful forces of formal market capitalism and older models of state control. In the cautious acceptance of the market, the civil society organizations sought to use the dynamism of the market while thwarting its inevitable inequities. Forged in the crucible of a difficult transition to democracy, communication reform in South Africa was navigated between the National Party's embrace of the market and the African National Congress leadership's default statist orientation.
Re-visioning Television
Author : Adrian Hadland
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780796921604
Book Description
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The Sociolinguistics of South African Television
Author : Kealeboga Aiseng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 3031549155
Book Description
Post-Imperial English
Author : Andrew W. Conrad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110872188
Book Description
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
