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Absences, exclusivities and utopias: Afrikaans film as a cinema of political impotence, 1994 - 2014

Author: Broodryk, Chris Willem Date: 2016 This thesis develops a conceptual and theoretical framework within which to position contemporary Afrikaans cinema as a cinema of political impotence. Afrikaans cinema is first located within the tensions of democratic post-transitional South ... Read more
“According to social media…” Examining the influence of social media on political reporting within Zimbabwe’s mainstream media

Author: Ndou, Delta Lau Milayo Date: 2019 The Internet’s liberative qualities have been hyped by a number of Zimbabwean scholars who argue, on the basis of the existence of online alternative media that carries political content, that democratisation can be technology-led. Given that ... Read more
Border crossings : how students negotiate cultural borders during digital video production

Author: Cronje, Franci Date: 2010 This thesis explores emerging patterns of communication in student video production and the extent to which such patterns signify cultural border crossings in a South African upper income group school context. The investigation was carried ... Read more
Colour adjustment : race and representation in post-apartheid South African documentary

Author: Pichaske, Kristin Date: 2009 The goal of this dissertation is to examine the process of racial transformation within South Africa's documentary film industry and to assess how the nation's shifting identity is both influenced by and reflected in documentary film. Drawing ... Read more
Communicative freedom in a digital democracy: political and economic resistance to freedom of speech and the rise of digital activism in South Africa

Author: Brevis, Chad Date: 2022 This dissertation explores political and economic resistance to communicative freedom in South Africa. Through a mixed methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics analysis, this dissertation seeks to explore how our ... Read more
The cutting edge : deviant realisms and cinematic disruption

Author: Watson, Mary Date: 2007 This thesi explores two possibilities and relates them to each other: infusions of fantasy (or magic, the dream, the ,marvellous) which undermine realism and the use of disruption as a specific strategy for communicating disorder or elusive ... Read more
Desperately seeking depth: global and local narratives of the South African general elections on television news, 1994 - 2014

Author: Jones, Bernadine Date: 2018 Eric Louw, Jesper Stömbäck, and W. Lance Bennett call the trend in late-20th century political journalism "mediatisation", where the televisualisation of Western elections favours episodic, dramatic, fragmented, and event-driven reporting. ... Read more
Female filmakers: Towards reconstructing women's images in Nollywood films

Author: Joseph, Morountodun Date: 2018 The last five years have produced a steady increase of women in creative and technical roles in Nollywood. Against the backdrop that women have mostly been portrayed in demeaning ways in a male-dominated industry, this research explores the ... Read more
From chef to superstar : food media from World War 2 to the World Wide Web

Author: Hansen, Signe Date: 2007 This thesis examines representations of food in twenty-first century media, and argues that the media obsession with food in evidence today follows directly from U.K. and U.S. post-war industrial and economic booms, and by the associated ... Read more
Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town.

Author: Pallitt, Nicola Date: 2013 This thesis investigates children's gaming relationships with peers in out-of-school settings, and explores their interpretation of digital games as gendered media texts. As an interdisciplinary study, it combines insights from Childhood ... Read more
Heroines, victims and survivors: female minors as active agents in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts

Author: Mdege, Norita Date: 2018 This thesis analyses the representations of girls as active agents in fictional films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts. Representations of these girls are located within local and global contexts, and viewed through an ... Read more
Inequality in digital personas - e-portfolio curricula, cultural repertoires and social media

Author: Noakes, Travis Date: 2018 Digital and electronic learning portfolios (e-portfolios) are playing a growing role in supporting admission to tertiary study and employment by visual creatives. Despite the growing importance of digital portfolios, we know very little about ... Read more
Make yourself at home: networked domestic space, place and narrative in middle class South African everyday life

Author: Hiltermann, Jaqueline Elizabeth Date: 2018 Domestic space and place, as well as how we conceptualise the home, are shifting in response to changes in digital and SNS technologies, and our relationships with such technologies. The home is not only the building in which we live, but a ... Read more
Make-believe : claiming the real in contemporary fiction cinema

Author: Van der Vliet, Emma Date: 2008 This thesis examines the ways in which certain contemporary fiction cinema posits its narratives as real. Looking at a broad overview of realist movements through the history of cinema, it draws out the codes and conventions which filmmakers ... Read more
Mediated visibility, morality and children in tabloid discourse

Author: Ndlovu, Khulekani Date: 2020 Media studies has recently witnessed an upsurge in theoretical and empirical work that investigates the moral-ethical implications of the mediation of suffering. The research focus has largely been limited to representations of distant suffering ... Read more
New masculinities in a vernacular culture : a comparative analysis of two South African men's lifestyle magazines

Author: Viljoen, Estella Date: 2008 This thesis chronicles the emergence of men's lifestyle magazines within South Africa between 1997 and 2007. It aims to contextualize the emergence of these magazines within the broader South African context and position each magazine as ... Read more
Popular talk radio and everyday life in Mauritius

Author: Chenganna, Azhagan Date: 2022 This study has attempted to explore the myriad ways talk radio is tied to everyday life in Mauritius. As a point of departure, this study has considered the success of Mauritian private radio stations as a social phenomenon that deserves ... Read more
Remixing the tech: the digital media ecologies of the hip-hop artists from Grahamstown, South Africa

Author: Schoon, Alette Jeanne Date: 2017 This ethnographic study describes the digital media ecologies of hip-hop artists in the marginalised township spaces of a town in South Africa. It shows how technology appropriation here is highly contextual and linked to social context, while ... Read more
The representation and mediation of national identity in the production of post-apartheid, South African cinema

Author: Treffry-Goatley, Astrid Date: 2010 In 1994, South Africa was emancipated from apartheid, and in 1996, a new democratic Constitution was released. This charter envisioned a progressive society and placed emphasis on equality, multiculturalism, reconciliation and freedom. The ... Read more
Respectability and shame: the depiction of coloured, female murderers in the Daily Voice and Son tabloids - 2008 to 2012

Author: Samson, Sean Date: 2014 This work analyses the depiction of coloured women on trial for murder in South Africa’s Western Cape tabloids, the Daily Voice and Son. It argues that these depictions preserve conservative race, class, and gender norms. The coverage of the ... Read more

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