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Big tech sharing economy platforms like Airbnb and Uber are marketed as trustworthy, but a new book by a South African media scholar...

by Gill Gifford, Senior journalist | Sunday Times The internet was once the world’s great equaliser —an infinite library, a democratic...

This chapter examines gender pay disparity globally and in South Africa to investigate whether increased transparency on behalf of media...

The decolonisation of journalism teaching curricula will not take place within a vacuum. Inevitably, journalism graduates who have...

This chapter explores social media's role in freedom of expression, regulation, and policy. Social media platforms have revolutionised...

Abstract   While multiple scholarly disciplines have scrutinised algorithms and their social  power, this article examines algorithmic...

Abstract   The prevalence of scams proliferating via online platforms has been identified as an emerging societal problem resulting in...

Abstract   This article assesses the multiple factors which are barriers to media freedom in South Africa. These include crises of...

Countermythologization and Collective Action. This essay argues for a revision of both research and teaching practice within the fields...

Abstract   This article introduces semiotic myth theory as a methodology for the analysis of both political narratives and media policy...

Abstract   This article argues for a conscious counter-mythologisation of the popularly utilised term “media freedom” within media...

Abstract   This article presents and makes a case for the audience-centred approach to media policymaking and research, and situates this...

Abstract   The system of self-regulation for the press was subject to contentious debates in South Africa from 2010 to 2012. The Press...

Abstract   This article responds to recent debates within South African media politics regarding the diversity and transformation of the...

Abstract   Since 1994 a collection of films, referred to here as post-apartheid South African history film, has thematically represented...

Abstract   Mythologies that reside and operate within popular culture representations and the mass communications media reveal valuable...

Political actors and partisan media outlets have been fomenting online violence against prominent Daily Maverick journalists, according...

In their recently published book, Tell Our Story. Multiplying voices in the news media, Julie Reid and Dale T. McKinley explore...

This is an edited extract from Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in the News Media by Dale McKinley and Julie Reid.   “If journalism is...

In October, those of us working in the media sector and related fields pause to remember the terrible events of Black Wednesday in 1977....