{"title":"Who Are the Arbiters of Truth? Mainstream Journalists’ Responses to Fake News during the 2017 Zimbabwe Coup","authors":"Allen Munoriyarwa, Collen Chambwera","doi":"10.1080/02500167.2020.1854805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2020.1854805","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article reports on a study that was situated at the intersection of fake news and the daily news production practices of mainstream journalists during the November 2017 “soft coup” in Zimbabwe. There is a paucity of research on journalists’ responses to fake news, during military coups, despite increasing research on the influence of fake news on traditional news production practices. Conceptualised on social organisation of news work, the study deployed qualitative interviews with purposively selected political reporters from mainstream press newsrooms in Zimbabwe, to explore how they responded to fake news during the coup. The study found that faced with an avalanche of fake news, the journalists responded by re-evaluating their news sourcing routines and engaged in collective efforts to identify sources and pressure points of fake news that interfered with their work. Yet, overt reliance on unreliable websites and social media sources to produce news still persisted. Based on this and other related findings, the authors recommend that journalists should evolve their own platforms and mechanisms to verify and challenge fake news prevalent on social media and websites. They further recommend a “triangular approach” that can, in the long term, reduce the influence of fake news.","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":"46 1","pages":"75 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02500167.2020.1854805","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48597367","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}
{"title":"The Airwaves Belong to the People: A Critical Analysis of Radio Broadcasting and Licensing in Zimbabwe","authors":"Last Alfandika, Gift Gwindingwe","doi":"10.1080/02500167.2020.1796729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2020.1796729","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article reports on a study that focused on the radio broadcasting and licensing scene in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2020. The study interrogated the sincerity of the Zimbabwean government in advancing both media pluralism and diversity. Opposition political parties and civic organisations pressured Zimbabwe into adopting a liberal approach that they hoped would widen the political and media space. The study examined how the government has taken and implemented such a liberal approach. Drawing on the competitive authoritarianism concept, the study argued that the cosmetic application of contested and undemocratic media laws that pretended to be democratising the media was indeed gagging democracy. This is called a pseudo-progressive stance. The study gathered data using qualitative interviews with three media activists, three policymakers, two media professionals, and two media scholars in Zimbabwe. In total, 10 qualitative key informant in-depth interviews were carried out. The analysis revealed a silhouette of grandiose but empty media laws that have continued to impede democracy in Zimbabwe. Therefore, the study concluded that the monopoly of media influence and concentration of broadcasting media ownership within the ruling party is dire and not conducive to the development of diverse and creative content for the nation. Thus, collaborative efforts are needed for real change to be achieved in the broadcasting media in Zimbabwe.","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"44 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02500167.2020.1796729","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48446061","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}
{"title":"M. King ADKINS (2018), Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space","authors":"Andréa Semprini","doi":"10.4000/communication.12243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/communication.12243","url":null,"abstract":"Malgre son format relativement compact (160 pages, bibliographie incluse), cet ouvrage aborde plusieurs problematiques, de maniere plus ou moins approfondie. L’ouvrage est structure en trois sections, dont la premiere et une partie de la troisieme sont consacrees a l’exposition du cadre theorique, tandis que la deuxieme section et une bonne partie de la troisieme sont occupees par la presentation de nombreuses etudes de cas de series televisuelles qui s’etalent sur un grand arc temporel, pres...","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48747988","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}
{"title":"Compromis lors d’une recherche-action à La Poste","authors":"E. Blanc","doi":"10.4000/communication.12753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/communication.12753","url":null,"abstract":"L’auteure a mene, dans le cadre de sa recherche doctorale, une demarche de recherche-action sur la prevention des risques psychosociaux au sein du Centre financier de Toulouse (Groupe La Poste), alors qu’elle etait assistante sociale au sein de cette entreprise. Elle montre comment cette recherche-action va devoir progressivement se reajuster en fonction des exigences dictees par le terrain et afin de concilier des interets parfois opposes. Ces reajustements poseront la question des tensions entre le processus d’engagement et celui de distanciation de la praticienne-chercheuse.","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46229769","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}
{"title":"Marianne BLOCH-ROBIN (2017), Carlos Saura : paroles et musique au cinéma","authors":"Pascale Gossin","doi":"10.4000/communication.12287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/communication.12287","url":null,"abstract":"La musique represente pour Carlos Saura, realisateur et scenariste espagnol, un pilier esthetique fondamental de son œuvre. Porque te vas, melodie obsedante dans Cria Cuervos, reste a l’issue de la projection irremediable memorisee par le spectateur. « Tous mes films sont musicaux ! » affirme le cineaste (p. 9). Dans l’esprit general, lorsque l’on parle cinema, l’image l’emporte sur l’environnement sonore. Cette opinion est a relativiser chez Saura. Dans ses films, la musique rivalise avec l’...","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47652575","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}
{"title":"Mesures objectives et biais d’estime de soi","authors":"J. Pernin, J. Pernin, Flora Lallau","doi":"10.4000/communication.12781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/communication.12781","url":null,"abstract":"A l’occasion d’une recherche-action concernant la pertinence d’un eventuel changement d’appellation des produits du commerce equitable et la question du capital marque du commerce equitable, les auteurs se demandent quel est l’impact, sur le plan methodologique, des mesures objectives sur les mesures subjectives qui sont placees a la suite dans leur questionnaire. Ces mesures objectives provoquent-elles des biais par rapport aux mesures subjectives ?","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43064241","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}
{"title":"Tourya GUAAYBESS (2019), Les médias dans les pays arabes : des théories de développement contrariées aux politiques de coopération émergentes","authors":"Khaled Zamoum","doi":"10.4000/communication.12356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/communication.12356","url":null,"abstract":"A l’ere des communications numeriques et des environnements economiques et sociaux mouvants, Tourya Guaaybess presente une critique des theories occidentales touchant le developpement des medias dans les pays du Sud et arabes et les nouvelles politiques de cooperation dans les pays et societes arabes. Sa presentation de sujets et d’idees parfois complexes, aux contours difficiles a delimiter, est depouillee mais entiere. L’auteur s’en remet a des sources multiples de premiere main (les travau...","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49348573","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}
{"title":"Véronique PRINCE et Thierry GIASSON (2019), Là, tout de suite ? La gestion de crise gouvernementale à l’ère de l’instantanéité médiatique","authors":"L. Lacôte-Gabrysiak","doi":"10.4000/communication.12422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/communication.12422","url":null,"abstract":"Cet ouvrage est tire d’un travail de master en communication politique de Veronique Prince, journaliste politique a l’Assemblee nationale du Quebec. Il rend compte d’une serie d’entretiens realises aupres de communicants politiques et de fonctionnaires des services de communication publique et inclut des cas de communication de crise (instauration du projet de loi 78 sur les frais d’inscription dans les colleges et les universites en 2012, accident ferroviaire de Lac-Megantic en 2013 qui a ca...","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49611493","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}
{"title":"Michael SCHUDSON (2018), Why Journalism Still Matters","authors":"Érik Neveu","doi":"10.4000/communication.12428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/communication.12428","url":null,"abstract":"Le plus recent ouvrage de Michael Schudson sur le journalisme pourrait etre designe par le curieux nom de plat qu’on trouve dans certains romans de Balzac : un arlequin. C’est ainsi que les restaurateurs du debut du XIXe siecle designaient une assiette qui, pour pouvoir etre delicieuse, etait composee de fragments de divers plats. « Arlequin » parce que ce volume d’une petite douzaine de chapitres est pour une moitie fait de la reprise, parfois de l’actualisation, de chapitres ou articles dej...","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45553574","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}
{"title":"Olivier BELIN et Florence FERRAN (dir.) (2018), Les éphémères et l’événement","authors":"Izabeau Legendre","doi":"10.4000/communication.12268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/communication.12268","url":null,"abstract":"A partir du moment ou l’histoire ne s’est plus situee en opposition radicale avec cette vision concurrente du passe qu’est la memoire, et qu’elle s’est emparee a son tour de ses lieux et de ses objets, les ephemeres, ces petits imprimes du quotidien temoins et agents des evenements ordinaires ou extraordinaires qui le ponctuent, ont vu leur place s’accroitre dans l’etude de l’evenement (p. 14-15). S’inscrivant dans la continuite des travaux de Jean-Yves Mollier qui en signe d’ailleurs la post...","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43132366","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}