Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research最新文献

An Analytical Lens Resting on a Tripod: De-Westernising, Internationalising, and Decolonising International Communication 立在三脚架上的分析镜头:国际传播的去西方化、国际化和去殖民化

Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research Pub Date : 2023-11-12 DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2257009

Diliza Madikiza

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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 电视与新冠肺炎疫情：疫情期间豪登省千禧一代电视平台消费选择研究

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Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2248430

Aimee Viljoen-Stroebel

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Internet Shutdown and Regime-Imposed Disinformation Campaigns 互联网关闭和政权强加的虚假信息运动

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Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2230391

K. Bhatia, M. Elhussein, Ben Kreimer, Trevor Snapp

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The Media Decolonial Theory: Re-theorising and Rupturing Euro-American Canons for South African Media 媒体非殖民化理论:对南非媒体重新理论化和打破欧美传统

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Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research Pub Date : 2023-07-07 DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2219872

Prinola Govenden

{"title":"The Media Decolonial Theory: Re-theorising and Rupturing Euro-American Canons for South African Media","authors":"Prinola Govenden","doi":"10.1080/02500167.2023.2219872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2023.2219872","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract 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 the last two decades there has been a media studies de-Westernisation movement consisting of a self-critique by scholars based in the West, that have moved towards exogenous calls to decolonise theory. The decolonial turn has epistemically begun in many Global South countries such as South Africa where it was ushered in by the “fallist” student protests in 2015 that highlighted the need for decolonising education and knowledge. The vantage point of this article is that in order for the decolonial project to be meaningful, decolonisation is a process that must continuously develop after the fact of symbolic movements and events. This article makes the case that for the global imbalances of knowledge production in the Global North and Global South to be addressed in media studies, re-theorisation with indigenous knowledge is central to the decolonisation process. In this regard, I propose a new theory for South Africa, the media decolonial theory, and highlight colonial legacies still present in the post-apartheid media.","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46186617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Media Discourse, Legal, and Ethical Issues Arising from the Zuma Saga and Nkandlagate 媒体话语，法律和道德问题引起的祖玛传奇和恩坎德拉盖特

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Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research Pub Date : 2023-07-07 DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2204444

Gilbert Motsaathebe

{"title":"Media Discourse, Legal, and Ethical Issues Arising from the Zuma Saga and Nkandlagate","authors":"Gilbert Motsaathebe","doi":"10.1080/02500167.2023.2204444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2023.2204444","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract 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 began with allegations of corruption in the arms deal. While the corruption case still gripped the public, another damning allegation (rape) surfaced and fermented the story to levels surpassed by no other story at the time. Zuma was subsequently acquitted of the rape charge, but the charge of corruption continued relentlessly until the eve of the 2009 elections, in which he was elected as president. But just as the South African public thought the dust was settling, Zuma was hit by another damning allegation of inappropriately spending R250 million on upgrading Nkandla, his private residence. This article is three-pronged. First, it examines the key issues that accounted for the media frenzy sparked by both the Nkandla debacle and the Zuma saga. Second, it unravels critical ethical questions and legal issues implicit in the aforementioned cases. Third, because Zuma’s acquittal raised questions regarding the independence of the judiciary, the article also assesses the condition of judicial independence in South Africa. Theoretically, the article is informed by the sociology of journalism ethics and the notions of ethical leadership and judicial independence.","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46084869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Nexus Between Media Coverage and Top-of-Mind Awareness of South African Platinum Companies in News Consumers 媒体报道与南非白金公司在新闻消费者中的顶级意识之间的关系

Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2260579

Martin Zhuwakinyu, Carol Lesame

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Investigating Employee Perceptions of a Communication Strategy for Higher Education Institutions in Lesotho 调查员工对莱索托高等教育机构沟通策略的看法

Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2260580

Relebohile Letlatsa

{"title":"Investigating Employee Perceptions of a Communication Strategy for Higher Education Institutions in Lesotho","authors":"Relebohile Letlatsa","doi":"10.1080/02500167.2023.2260580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2023.2260580","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractA communication strategy determines a selection of potential channels of communication to disseminate information within the institution. Higher institutions of education (HEIs) in Lesotho should have formal communication strategies that establish the communication function to support the institution and its strategies. This article aimed to investigate employee perceptions of a communication strategy for HEIs in Lesotho. A literature review on key aspects, a questionnaire, and interviews were conducted with the employees and senior management of the four public HEIs in Lesotho. A concurrent mixed-method research design was used to better understand the research problem. Leximancer and SPSS software were used to analyse qualitative and quantitative data, respectively, to enhance the quality of analytical output. The study revealed that institutions disseminate information to employees. However, their choice of communication platforms is sometimes non-functional thus rendering communication dominated by one-way and top-down communication. HEIs should develop and implement institutional communication strategies to effectively enhance the implementation of institutional strategies.Keywords: communication platformscommunication strategycorporate culturedissemination of informationemployee relationshigher institutions of educationperceptions","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Diving into Data: Pitfalls and Promises of Data Journalism in Semi-Authoritarian Contexts 深入数据：半权威语境下数据新闻的陷阱与前景

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Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2188471

Allen Munoriyarwa, S. Chiumbu

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Online Visual Framing of Conflict Mediation in Africa 非洲冲突调解的在线视觉框架

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Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2204445

Salissou Oumarou

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The Influence of Targeted Facebook Advertising Through Mobile Devices on South African Consumers’ Advertisement Perceptions 通过移动设备投放定向Facebook广告对南非消费者广告认知的影响

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Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2216898

Alina Wicht, Tendai Mbumbwa, Pragasen Pillay

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