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Airbnb scams: new book explores thriving criminal activity on big tech platforms
Big tech sharing economy platforms like Airbnb and Uber are marketed as trustworthy, but a new book by a South African media scholar...
Julie Reid
Sep 81 min read
Don't get caught in the Net. Click, scroll, captured: how the internet became a weapon
by Gill Gifford, Senior journalist | Sunday Times The internet was once the world’s great equaliser —an infinite library, a democratic...
Julie Reid
Sep 81 min read
The Gender Pay Gap in the South African Media Sector
This chapter examines gender pay disparity globally and in South Africa to investigate whether increased transparency on behalf of media...
Julie Reid
Feb 111 min read
Decolonising Media Ethics and Media Accountability Systems: Elevating the Value of Voice in Southern Journalism
The decolonisation of journalism teaching curricula will not take place within a vacuum. Inevitably, journalism graduates who have...
Julie Reid
Feb 111 min read
Social media: freedom of expression, and media regulation and policy
This chapter explores social media's role in freedom of expression, regulation, and policy. Social media platforms have revolutionised...
Julie Reid
Feb 112 min read
Digitising “The Big Lie”: Algorithmic Curation as an Inhibitor of Media Exposure Diversity Online
Abstract While multiple scholarly disciplines have scrutinised algorithms and their social power, this article examines algorithmic...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
Risks of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-assisted scams on online sharing-economy platforms
Abstract The prevalence of scams proliferating via online platforms has been identified as an emerging societal problem resulting in...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
Media freedom threats in South Africa today: toward a research and advocacy response
Abstract This article assesses the multiple factors which are barriers to media freedom in South Africa. These include crises of...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
Decolonizing education and research by countering the myths we live by
Countermythologization and Collective Action. This essay argues for a revision of both research and teaching practice within the fields...
Julie Reid
Feb 62 min read
Political myth-making in media policy: the case of the African National Congress versus the Press Council of South Africa
Abstract This article introduces semiotic myth theory as a methodology for the analysis of both political narratives and media policy...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
Counter mythologising “media freedom”: including the audience in media freedom discourses and a new normative position for the Global South
Abstract This article argues for a conscious counter-mythologisation of the popularly utilised term “media freedom” within media...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
The audience-centred approach to media policymaking: a critical analysis of the South African Press Freedom Commission as a participatory process of review
Abstract This article presents and makes a case for the audience-centred approach to media policymaking and research, and situates this...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
Third party complaints in the system of press regulation: inviting the reader to take part in journalistic accountability and securing press freedom
Abstract The system of self-regulation for the press was subject to contentious debates in South Africa from 2010 to 2012. The Press...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
Toward a measurement tool for the monitoring of media diversity and pluralism in South Africa: an audience centered approach
Abstract This article responds to recent debates within South African media politics regarding the diversity and transformation of the...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
The remythologisation of white collective identities in post apartheid South African history film by myth and counter myth
Abstract Since 1994 a collection of films, referred to here as post-apartheid South African history film, has thematically represented...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
Mythological representation in popular culture today
Abstract Mythologies that reside and operate within popular culture representations and the mass communications media reveal valuable...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
‘Sexualised, Silenced and Labelled Satan’ — horrific levels of online violence targeting women journalists
Political actors and partisan media outlets have been fomenting online violence against prominent Daily Maverick journalists, according...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
Addressing inequality in a post-pandemic world requires a more inclusive and representative news media
In their recently published book, Tell Our Story. Multiplying voices in the news media, Julie Reid and Dale T. McKinley explore...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
The media often conflates malicious criticism with genuine critique: why it shouldn’t.
This is an edited extract from Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in the News Media by Dale McKinley and Julie Reid. “If journalism is...
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
Media freedom in South Africa: the two-part formula for securing freedom of expression.
In October, those of us working in the media sector and related fields pause to remember the terrible events of Black Wednesday in 1977....
Julie Reid
Feb 61 min read
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