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Community Radio Content in Print Facebook Posts: Limitations and Opportunities for Indigenous Languages Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe
With the advent of social media, traditional analogue radio has converged to audio-visual with print formats. Using the case of community radio in Zimbabwe, this article explores how radio broadcas...
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The Role of Social Media in the Communication for Development of Development Actors in South Africa Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Natasha Katunga, James Kariuki Njenga, Leo Van Audenhove
Social media and instant messaging applications have entirely revolutionised the communication landscape. They have created new avenues and opportunities for development actors to reach and engage ...
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Adversarial Political Interviewing: Worldwide Perspectives During Polarized Times Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 You Tenghua
Published in Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research (Vol. 49, No. 3-4, 2023)
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PSB Radio and the Public Sphere in South Africa: #SAfmSunrise, Radio, and Citizenship Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Tanja Bosch
This article explores public service broadcasting (PSB) radio in South Africa, focusing on SAfm. Using a mixed methods approach comprising a broadcast content analysis and social media textual anal...
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Real Men Do Good Sex: Black South African Masculinities in Men's Clinic International Adverts Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Ayanda Myeza, Nicky Falkof
This article focuses on the representations of black masculinities in television advertisements for Men's Clinic International, a popular franchise of clinics in South Africa that specialises in me...
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The Communication Repertoire of the Wits #FMF Movement Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Linah N. Masombuka
This article looks at the communication repertoire of the Wits Fees Must Fall (#FMF) movement of 2015–2016. It documents and discusses the different ways in which the students communicated during t...
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Illusions of Participation in Kenya’s Contemporary Television Broadcastscape Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 A. Terah Ambala
Discourses on active and meaningful participation and inclusion in social and cultural spaces in Kenya are not just of significant scholarly and intellectual value, they are germane in the rebuildi...
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“Narrative Enmeshment” in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Reinhardt Fourie
Rockstar Games’ 2018 Western video game, Red Dead Redemption 2, received critical acclaim upon its release. In particular, the narrative and technical aspects of the game received praise from criti...
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An Analytical Lens Resting on a Tripod: De-Westernising, Internationalising, and Decolonising International Communication Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Diliza Madikiza
This article reviews three critical analytical discourses that are wrestling with the Euro-American historic bias in international communication. The de-Westernisation discourse is perhaps one that...
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Investigating Employee Perceptions of a Communication Strategy for Higher Education Institutions in Lesotho Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Relebohile Letlatsa
A communication strategy determines a selection of potential channels of communication to disseminate information within the institution. Higher institutions of education (HEIs) in Lesotho should h...
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The Nexus Between Media Coverage and Top-of-Mind Awareness of South African Platinum Companies in News Consumers Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Martin Zhuwakinyu, Carol Lesame
Using the media agenda setting and media agenda building approaches as theoretical lenses, this qualitative study investigated whether media coverage of South African platinum mining companies resu...
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TV and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of the Television Platform Consumption Choices of Millennials in Gauteng during a Pandemic Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Aimee Viljoen-Stroebel
On 31 December 2019 the first reports of COVID-19 appeared. To control the spread of the disease, countries across the globe implemented social distancing and quarantine measures. In South Africa, ...
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Internet Shutdown and Regime-Imposed Disinformation Campaigns Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Kiran Vinod Bhatia, Mariam Elhussein, Ben Kreimer, Trevor Snapp
This article examines the circulation of a military-led disinformation campaign against civilians leading the pro-democracy movement in Sudan. We examine the political communication of military lea...
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Online Visual Framing of Conflict Mediation in Africa Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Sali Bouba Oumarou
Abstract This study examined the online visual framing of conflict mediation in West Africa. Consequently, it widens the scope of the literature on media visual framing as well as on conflict mediation. The manifest content of 51 photographs from the online version of the leading magazine Jeune Afrique from January 2008 to November 2021 was analysed. The findings suggest that the male gender universe
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Using Social Media as a Tool for Dialogic Engagement: The Case of an NGO in South Africa Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Anna Oksiutycz, Kumbirai Felix Mwadiwa
Abstract Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) increasingly use social media to build and maintain relationships with different stakeholders; however, previous research shows that NGOs face numerous challenges in the strategic use of social media for dialogic engagement to support their mission. While the use of social media by commercial brands has been researched considerably, research on the use
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The Influence of Targeted Facebook Advertising Through Mobile Devices on South African Consumers’ Advertisement Perceptions Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Alina Wicht, Tendai Mbumbwa, Pragasen Pillay
Abstract The study investigated the role of Facebook advertising via mobile devices on South African consumers’ advertising perceptions by combining multiple perception models. The study was executed through exploratory research and content analysis of in-depth interviews. The findings suggest both negative and positive responses by South African consumers toward interruptive advertising on social
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The Media Decolonial Theory: Re-theorising and Rupturing Euro-American Canons for South African Media Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Prinola Govenden
The hegemony of Euro-American canonical approaches and theories in the study of media and communications has been epistemically criticised from both the Global North and Global South locations. In ...
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Media Discourse, Legal, and Ethical Issues Arising from the Zuma Saga and Nkandlagate Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Gilbert Motsaathebe
Allegations of corruption and rape against President Jacob Zuma constituted among the most covered stories in South Africa and beyond. Widely dubbed “the Zuma saga” by the media, the twin stories b...
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Examining the Brand Storytelling Key Considerations and Practices in B2B SMEs on Facebook Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Abyshey Nhedzi, Maritha Pritchard, Auguste Fabian
Abstract This paper investigates the use of brand storytelling on Facebook in the context of business-to-business (B2B) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based in the Namibian capital, Windhoek. Branding is often used for business-to-consumer (B2C) products, but the same applies to B2B, as both sectors face a fiercely competitive environment, felt by all SMEs. The study provides insight into
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FHM Humour: The “Heroic Couplet of Men and Stupidity” Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Stella Viljoen
Abstract FHM launched its first South African issue in 2000, thereby initiating a new readership into the culture of laddish humour. As an articulation of post-apartheid masculine interest, the magazine used humour in different ways to both push back against apartheid and reinforce its core ideologies. Laddishness, it is argued, provides a carnivalesque resistance to the dominant strains of white masculinity
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Diving into Data: Pitfalls and Promises of Data Journalism in Semi-Authoritarian Contexts Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Allen Munoriyarwa, Sarah Chiumbu
Abstract This paper calls for greater scrutiny of data journalism as a practice in the semi-authoritarian context of Zimbabwe. Based on in-depth interviews with practising journalists in Zimbabwe, this paper answers two main questions: In what ways is data journalism practised in the Zimbabwean context? To what extent are newsrooms in Zimbabwe “tooled” and capacitated for data journalism practices
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“Breaking Taboos”: Bond Notes, Humour, and Civil Resistance in Zimbabwean Cyber-Communities Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Zvinashe Mamvura, Shumirai Nyota, Hugh Mangeya
Abstract Humour can function as a protest against bad governance, and citizens often appropriate digital humour to speak back to power. The article analyses 20 satirical memes and texts shared on Facebook and WhatsApp after the government of Zimbabwe introduced bond notes in 2016. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe indicated that the bond notes would be pegged equally against the US dollar. However, the
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“Get-Rich-Quick Rituals, Remote Sex, and Herbs in Vaginal Canals”: Portrayal of Indigenous Fruits and Medicinal Herbs in Zimbabwe's The Mirror Newspaper Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Oswell Moyo, Oswelled Ureke
Abstract This article examines how The Mirror, a regional newspaper in Zimbabwe, represents issues related to indigenous knowledge, such as the use of medicinal herbs and fruits. The Mirror largely circulates in the Midlands and the Masvingo region, although it also has a presence in parts of Mashonaland East, Manicaland, and Matabeleland South. The article utilises a qualitative methodology, in which
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Exploring the Prevalence of Agenda-Setting Theory in Africa-Focused Research, 2000–2020 Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Abdullateef Mohammed, Eserinune McCarty Mojaye, Lateef Adelakun
Abstract This study adopts meta-analysis and text mining approaches to systematically explore the prevalence of agenda setting theory (AST) in Africa-focused publications indexed in high-impact databases from 2000 to 2020. It aims to evaluate the usage frequency of AST in Africa-focused studies, the dominant perspectives explored in these studies, the dominant communication medium of reference, the
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Who Should Be Identified as Internal Stakeholders? An Internal Communication Practitioner and Consultant Perspective in the South African Corporate Context Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Lucinda B. Sutton, Tanya le Roux, Lynnette M. Fourie
Abstract Healthy, mutually beneficial relationships with internal stakeholders within an organisation are crucial for its survival, for achieving long-term goals, and for ensuring value for the organisation and the stakeholders. Organisations should therefore manage internal communication strategically. However, there is no practical or academic consensus as to how to identify “internal stakeholders”
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Digital Media and Discursive Contestation: The Importance of Feminist Counterpublics Online Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Sibongile Mpofu
Abstract For feminist research, digital media now enable other ways of knowing currently lacking in mainstream research. Therefore, searching for African women's lived experiences in other sites, such as digital media spaces, requires the appropriation of methodologies that empower women. This article discusses the feminist approach of centring women as subaltern counterpublics, to show how this unearths
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Narratives of Xenophobia at a South African University Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Musa Ngobeni
Abstract Many studies have examined xenophobia in South African townships and inner cities, but few have interrogated how xenophobia manifests itself in other South African contexts, such as tertiary education environments. The study presents the results of a qualitative study undertaken to explore the perceptions and experiences of students regarding xenophobia at the University of Johannesburg Auckland
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Strategic Communication on Air Quality Improvement Plan in the Emalahleni Local Municipality Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Constance U. Nnachi, Queen M. Munyai
Abstract Air quality in the Emalahleni area was found to be non-compliant with the South African national ambient air quality standards in terms of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act (39 of 2004). This study aimed to explore the communication strategy that the Emalahleni Local Municipality (ELM) is using to raise community awareness of air quality improvement. A mixed-methods approach
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“Not Our Revolution”: A Thematic Review of Fourth Industrial Revolution Criticism Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Anneli Bowie
Abstract This article offers a thematic review of criticism directed at high-level public discourse surrounding the South African Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) agenda. While the South African adoption of the World Economic Forum's 4IR strategy for economic growth and skills development has been met with widespread enthusiasm, it has also attracted considerable criticism. This article thus seeks
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The Functions of Pornography in South Africa: A Mixed Research Study of What Remains Unsaid about Explicit Media Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Yolo S. Koba
Abstract It has been more than 32 years since Communicatio published “The Functions of Pornography in Society: A Survey of Some Alternative Intellectual Views”, a 1989 article by Stefan Sonderling that explored various ideological viewpoints and social roles of pornography. Despite the article’s suggestive title, it presents no actual survey data of porn functions by consumers. South Africa has repeatedly
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Gender Representation in Rwandan Music Videos Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Tessa Djamilla Rwubaka, Michael Prieler
Abstract This study analysed gender representations in a sample of 100 Rwandan music videos. Some of our findings were in accordance with those of previous studies focusing on other countries, including the findings that in videos men clearly outnumber women and women are sexually objectified through the use of clothing, gaze, partialising, and sexually suggestive movements. However, in contrast to
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An Exploration of the Models of Public Relations: A Study of the Financial Services Sector of Ghana Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Albert Anani-Bossman
Abstract The current study explores models of public relations (PR) that inform PR practice in Ghana. The paucity of knowledge and understanding about PR practice in Ghana means that Ghana, and Africa in general, cannot fully contribute to the development of global theory of PR practice. The research was conducted by means of a literature review of PR models and empirical verification through face-to-face-interviews
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The Heart and Mind of a Radio Station: Audience Perceptions of Radio Station Brand Personality Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Therese Roux, Tania Maree
Abstract The focus of this research was to explore consumer brand responses to the brand personality of a South African classical music radio station, Classic 1027. This study investigated how key brand responses are influenced by brand personality. A structured electronic survey was used to collect data from a qualified online panel that reflected the demographic characteristics of typical Classic
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Giving a Dog a Bad Name: The Strategic Use of Labelling in Contemporary Nigerian Political Discourse Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Eyo Mensah, Samson Nzuanke, Theophilus Adejumo
Abstract In Nigeria, political actors, especially those in the ruling and opposition political parties, utilise labelling as a rhetorical strategy to characterise each other in negative and face-threatening ways and achieve positive self-presentation before the public. The aim of this article is to contribute to existing literature on political communication through an investigation of labelling as
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Framing the Poor during Covid-19: Townships and Informal Settlements in South African Online News Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Mandla J. Radebe
Abstract South Africa’s deep-seated social inequality problem has been exposed and exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The economic pain and joblessness are disproportionately felt by the poor living in townships and informal settlements. This study investigates online news media’s coverage of the plight of poor people living in townships and informal settlements during the pandemic. Although numerous
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“A Face Like This Is Hard to Beat”: Negotiating Lilith in the Postfeminist Media Economy Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Courtney Tink, Jenni Lauwrens
Abstract From mythology, history, and religion to contemporary popular culture, Lilith has been represented in a variety of ways. As either an avenging vampire or a seductive temptress, or a fascinating combination of both, she has been understood as both an object of a patriarchal view of women and a liberated and liberating feminist icon. The meanings that are ascribed to Lilith are thoroughly interwoven
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“A Face Like This Is Hard to Beat”: Negotiating Lilith in the Postfeminist Media Economy Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Courtney Tink, Jenni Lauwrens
Abstract From mythology, history, and religion to contemporary popular culture, Lilith has been represented in a variety of ways. As either an avenging vampire or a seductive temptress, or a fascinating combination of both, she has been understood as both an object of a patriarchal view of women and a liberated and liberating feminist icon. The meanings that are ascribed to Lilith are thoroughly interwoven
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Analysing the Strategic Role of Communication Practitioners in South African Universities Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Mutambuli James Hadji
Abstract This article explores the role of senior-level communication practitioners in strategic planning in the higher education context. To achieve this, the literature on strategic communication was reviewed to ascertain the position of communication practitioners in the organisational structure of universities and their effectiveness in achieving the mission of the university. Using purposive sampling
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Mediatised “Statist Neoliberalism” in Kenya during the Time of Covid-19: The Case of the Standard Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 David Katiambo, Fred Ochoti
Abstract The Covid-19 (acronym for the coronavirus disease of 2019) pandemic negatively affected the world economy akin to the global financial crisis of 2008, leading to the revival of the debate about neoliberal rationalities. Although many nations attempted to contain the pandemic through a public goods approach, the authors argue that these state interventions concealed neoliberalism by advancing
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The Rhetoric of Covid-19: Numbers and Stats and Maps – Oh My! Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Kyle Rath
Abstract From February 2020, media coverage surrounding the spread of Covid-19 (acronym for the coronavirus disease of 2019) accelerated to the point where it has become the most exhaustively covered pandemic in recent times. In particular, numerous information visualisations surrounding the extent of the disease were released. One reason for such acceleration may be that, in an increasingly digital
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A Deconstructionist Reading of Populist Claims Related to Covid-19: A Rhetorical Discourse Analysis Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 David Katiambo
Rhetoric at the ontological level—for instance, the way in which hegemony is structured like speech—is a tool that can be used to give meaning to narratives such as the medical populist claims that arose in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Although these populist claims ranged from explicitly trivial conspiracies to rational demands about healthcare, outside the truth–falsity binaries we can explain
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Cyber-ethics for NGOs during Covid-19: The Eight “Ethical Variables” and a Microsocial Contract Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Adelina Mbinjama
Abstract Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action and discourse ethics as a theoretical basis merges several factors that have an impact on the use of digital media by internet users. This article provides a qualitative narrative analysis of a study of five South African-based based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on their experiences with digital media and cyber-ethics during the Covid-19
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Nigerian Afrobeats, the Irony of Belonging and Here–Elsewhere Dialectics Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Emmanuel Adeniyi
Abstract This article reports on a study that examined the reflective experiences of a few Nigerian Afrobeats artistes on irregular migration and identified overlapping contradictory impulses in the Nigerian migration discourse (NMD). Ten song texts of eight of these Afrobeats artistes were purposively deconstructed to evince the conception of irregular migration as a discursive formation and musical
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Discursive Communities, Protest, Xenophobia, and Looting in South Africa: A Social Network Analysis Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe
Abstract The article informs on a study that employed a digital ethnographic approach to analyse a network of human relationships and connections based on the physical and social phenomena of political protest and xenophobia, accompanied by looting and the destruction of property in South Africa. It examines how social media have been used to fuel violence, protest, xenophobic attacks, and the looting
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Public Relations Management in Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study of Ghana Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Albert Anani-Bossman
Abstract This article reports on a study that examined the nature of public relations (PR) management in Ghanaian higher education institutions (HEIs), specifically public and private universities. The study aimed to determine the degree to which PR practitioners in Ghanaian HEIs practise excellent PR. The study adopted a qualitative approach in gathering data from 14 PR practitioners purposively sampled
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Independent Online and News24 Framing of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma: A Case Study of the African National Congress 54th National Conference Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Tigere P. Muringa, Donal McCracken
Abstract The media plays a crucial role in shaping public opinion concerning political leaders by either selecting or negating what to report. Extensive research has shown that apart from informing the public about issues of interest, the media is a socio-political institution responsible for framing events and issues to influence the audience engagement with news. This article reports on a study that
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Name-Calling as a Communicative Tool in South African Political Discourse Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Lutendo Nendauni, Masindi Sadiki, Mafemani Baloyi
Abstract This article reports on a study which emanated from an extended study that explored how name-calling serves as a communicative strategy in political discourse. As an extension, and with a distinct focus on selected political cartoons entrenched in the South African press, the current article details name-calling as a communicative tool in South African political discourse. The study adopted
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Stereotyping and Essentialism: The Representation of Indigenous African Cultures in the Soap Opera Generations: The Legacy Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Oluwayemisi Onyenankeya, Kevin Onyenankeya, Oluyinka Osunkunle
Abstract The representation of indigenous African cultures in hegemonic soap operas remains a contentious issue. Critics and cultural activists have challenged the portrayal of African cultures from the prism of prescribed images and frames of reference. This article reports on a study that sought to ascertain how a contemporary South African soap opera, Generations: The Legacy, portrays indigenous
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Exclusion of South African Rural Communities from Digital Communication Podia: A Regulatory Conundrum Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Boikaego D. Seadira, William E. Heuva
Abstract This article reports on a study that examined how SA Connect (i.e., the South African broadband policy that was approved in 2013) has sought to integrate rural South Africans into the digital communication podia. The study drew from a major recent study focusing on selected themes as captured in SA Connect. Furthermore, it interrogated the current configurations of the South African telecommunications
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Audience Expectations of Advertising during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from an Approach–Avoidance Theory Study in Ghana Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Abena A. Yeboah-Banin
Abstract Covid-19 (an acronym for the coronavirus disease of 2019) has revised how businesses the world over act, including how they engage their targets. As audiences battle the barrage of Covid-19 information already fighting for their attention, the boundaries of the already complex task of catching and retaining their attention is being re-defined. A cursory observation would show that, during
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Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in News Media, by Julie Reid and Dale T. McKinley Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Richard Tusiime
(2021). Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in News Media, by Julie Reid and Dale T. McKinley. Communicatio: Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 119-121.
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“You Don't Mess With Black Twitter!”: An Ubuntu Approach to Understanding “Militant” Twitter Discourse Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Motsamai Molefe, Mthobeli Ngcongo
Abstract The democratisation and proliferation of social media has seen the emergence of a distinct virtual community of Twitter users known as Black Twitter. This burgeoning community is characterised by discourses on cultural issues that are critical to the black community, such as race relations and identity politics in general. Black Twitter has often been criticised for its unashamed bashing of
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The Women of SunLand: Narratives of Non-Compliant Women in the Daily Sun Tabloid Newspaper, South Africa Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Priscilla Boshoff
Abstract Post-apartheid, patriarchal gender relations and the violence they generate continue to contradict the promise of the Bill of Rights contained in Chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, which guarantees women a range of rights. How these contradictions are represented within popular media has implications for the achievement of gender justice, for they offer ways
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Projection and Reception of Film: A Reciprocal Ethics Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Tanja Sakota, Francis Faller
Abstract Filmmakers begin their work with an empty screen in the same way that artists approach a blank canvas. The implied intention is to create a work that will evoke emotion, thought and reflection. As both film and art have developed, so have the ways in which the screen or canvas is populated. As technology has developed so have methods of transferring the intention. Likewise, there have been
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Exploring Kalanga Language Representation in Zimbabwean Broadcast Media Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Nomzamo Dube, Janina Wozniak
Abstract Kalanga is the third most spoken language in Zimbabwe, a country with 18 spoken languages. The language was previously marginalised but it was officially recognised in the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 20) Act, 2013. This article reports on an interdisciplinary study that juxtaposed language and media studies, particularly exploring the representation of Kalanga in Zimbabwean broadcast
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Impression Management Strategies Used When Tweeting: An Analysis of Performance and Market Capitalisation Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Zakiyyah Varachia, Naledi Nkhi
Abstract The use of social media provides management with a tool that can be used to manipulate users’ perceptions of a company. This article reports on a study that aimed to assess if performance and market capitalisation influence the impression management strategies employed by South African companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) when tweeting earnings-related information. This
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Gatekeeping, Gatewatching and the Art of Crowdsourcing in African Media Systems: A Case of Zambian Newsrooms Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Gregory Gondwe
Abstract This article reports on a study that contributes to the literature on gatekeeping, gatewatching and crowdsourcing in African contexts. It does so by significantly expanding the scope, and theoretically incorporating the value of information and message content, through which the study revealed how citizen journalists only participate in the already existing media agenda. Citizen journalists
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Cula Mzansi: Towards Strategic Transformation of Operatic Culture in Post-Apartheid South Africa Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Mzwanele Jackson Nomcweya, Owen Seda, Ndwamato George Mugovhani
Abstract This article outlines a critical analysis of two of a series of three operas that were produced by Gauteng Opera, South Africa, and presented at the Soweto Theatre in 2016 under the generic title of Cula Mzansi (which means “Sing South Africa”). The three operas were Bongani Ndodana-Breen's Hani, Peter Klatzow's Words from a Broken String, and Martin Watt's Tronkvoël, with the first two being
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University Crises in Africa: A Situational Crisis Communication Theory Case Study of Daystar University, Kenya Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Benjamin Muindi, Caroline Kiarie
Abstract While disruption of learning has become a common, almost a permanent feature, of universities in Africa, crisis response strategies in these organisations remain understudied. This article reports on a case study which focused on Daystar University (DU) in Kenya that was plunged into a crisis leading to its closure when students boycotted lectures to protest poor infrastructure and fee increment
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“My Birth Control Makes Me Emotionally Psycho”: Online Female Narratives about Contraceptives Communicatio (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Karabo Sitto, Elizabeth Lubinga
Abstract Digital communication tools have become increasingly pivotal to facilitating the engagement and management of difficult health-related conversations. Peer conversations about individual women's experiences relating to the side effects of contraceptive use are not often held outside of medical contexts. To provoke conversations about birth control, on 9 January 2018, the Sexual and Reproductive