Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2021.1895241
K. Tomaselli
Abstract This article is an extended review essay that maps recent titles written by practising journalists and journalists turned academics in South Africa. The analysis focuses on Gawie Botma’s Race Talk in the South African Media; Lizette Rabe’s A Luta Continua: A History of Media Freedom in South Africa; Glenda Daniels’ Power and Loss in South African Journalism: News in the Age of Social Media; and Anton Harber’s So, for the Record – behind the Headlines in an Era of State Capture. These studies follow earlier analyses, namely: Herman Wasserman’s Media, Geopolitics and Power: A View from the Global South; and Sean Jacobs’ Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization. An intersecting track is the journalists’ exposés, such as: Paper Tiger: Iqbal Survé and the Downfall of Independent Newspapers by Alide Dasnois and Chris Whitfield; SABC 1936–1995: Still a Key Player … or an Endangered Species? by Wynand Harmse; The SABC 8 by Foeta Krige; and Behind the Scenes at Gupta TV by Rajesh Sundaram. How each study frames history, the researcher/s’ position and their respective writing styles are discussed. The author argues that academic studies should be read in concert with works written by journalists because abstract frames of reference tend to bracket out the daily nitty-gritty struggles within newsrooms, especially within the current conjecture. In conclusion, the author suggests that whatever the alleged flaws of the “mainstream media” may be, individual journalists (and others) are the ones telling the story behind the story in the slew of books that have been published recently on state and private sector corruption.
这篇文章是一篇扩展的评论文章，描绘了最近由南非执业记者和记者转为学者撰写的标题。本文着重分析了南非媒体中的高维·博特马的种族言论;莉莎特·拉贝的《持续的道路》:南非媒体自由史格伦达·丹尼尔斯在南非新闻中的权力与失落:社交媒体时代的新闻以及安东·哈伯的《So, for the Record——在国家俘获时代的头条背后》。这些研究遵循了先前的分析，即:赫尔曼·沃瑟曼的《媒体、地缘政治和权力:来自全球南方的观点》;肖恩·雅各布斯的《后种族隔离时代的南非媒体:全球化时代的后殖民政治》。一个交叉的轨迹是记者的揭露，例如:纸老虎:伊克巴尔的调查和独立报纸的垮台，由Alide Dasnois和Chris Whitfield;SABC 1936-1995:仍然是关键角色……还是濒临灭绝的物种?威纳德·哈姆斯;Foeta Krige的SABC 8;以及Rajesh Sundaram在Gupta TV的幕后。讨论了每个研究如何构建历史，研究人员的立场和他们各自的写作风格。作者认为，学术研究应该与记者写的作品一起阅读，因为抽象的参考框架往往会忽略新闻编辑室里的日常细节斗争，尤其是在当前的猜测中。最后，作者提出，无论所谓的“主流媒体”的缺陷是什么，在最近出版的大量关于国家和私营部门腐败的书籍中，个别记者(和其他人)都是讲述故事背后的故事的人。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2021.1884578
R. Robertson, C. Meintjes
Abstract The influence of computational propaganda on democratic processes globally has necessitated the exploration of mitigation strategies for political brands. The risk associated with computational propaganda includes the spread of misleading information about a political brand over social networking sites through bots (i.e. automated software applications that are programmed to do certain tasks) and newsfeed algorithms at rapid speeds. Apart from bots being used to facilitate the spread of disinformation (i.e. misleading information spread with the intent to manipulate or deceive), human curators also play a role. Research into addressing computational propaganda in the field of political communication is limited, compelling the need to look to consumer brand experts for insight. The current study used semi-structured interviews of senior consumer brand social media practitioners and applied content analysis to develop a framework for mitigating online brand risk associated with computational propaganda for political brands. This computational propaganda brand risk mitigation framework proposes two approaches to curb the effects of computational propaganda, namely, a preventative approach and a recovery approach. Based on established theoretical and practical concepts, this mitigation framework could guide the easing of online brand risk and associated crises for political brands.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2021.1935509
We, the Editors and Publishers of Communicatio, have retracted the following article: Cyril Latzoo. 2013. “Managing and Controlling HIV/AIDS Talk among Ghanaians Living with HIV/AIDS.” Communicatio 39 (3): 319–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2013.777352 Following its publication, it was brought to our attention that this article contains significant overlap, in the form of continuous sentences throughout all sections, with the following article: Erin Donovan-Kicken, Andrew C. Tollison, and Elizabeth S. Goins. 2011. “A Grounded Theory of Control over Communication Among Individuals with Cancer.” Journal of Applied Communication Research 39 (3): 310–330. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2011.585398 The article by Donovan-Kicken, Tollison, and Goins (2011) was neither cited nor otherwise acknowledged. The author was contacted for an explanation but has not responded. We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted.”
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2021.1894195
Eliza Govender
Abstract In Sub-Saharan Africa, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence rates remain disproportionately high among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), who are five to seven times more likely to contract HIV than their male peers. Following the 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) Guideline on When to Start Antiretroviral Therapy and on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV, the South African Department of Health (DoH) released the National Policy on HIV PrEP and Test and Treat (T&T) in June 2016. At the time of writing, several demonstration projects were underway to assess the feasibility of oral PrEP for AGYW in South Africa, with extensive access for sex workers and limited access for AGYW. It is within this context that the article explores the current perceptions of oral PrEP utilising the data from two previous studies conducted in three high HIV burden districts in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. Through an analysis of the current perceptions of oral PrEP, the article prioritises the cultural communication imperative to promote inclusivity and acceptability of biomedical innovations. The article argues that communication about oral PrEP is embedded in cultural discourses that must be discussed, critiqued and incorporated into a new framework for combination HIV prevention.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.33115/UDG_BIB/CP.V9I19.22532
Konstantina Zerva
The beginning of 2020 has been marked by the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economical effect at a global scale. One of the most negatively influenced sectors is tourism since in a time of limited mobility and lock downs, seems unable to continue producing and offering most of its products and services. Traditional marketing is put aside by the need of two particular types of marketing, that is, social marketing and lateral marketing, which call for the behavioral change of the consumer side, and the creative reaction of the production side, respectively. This essay tries to highlight the importance of these strategies in times of crisis
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Pub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.33115/udg_bib/cp.v9i19.22501
Mariana Monserrat Sosa Tinoco
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Pub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.33115/udg_bib/cp.v9i19.22500
Silvia Olmedo Salar, Paloma López Villafranca
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{"title":"Editorial: Social Media, the Press, and the Crisis of Disinformation in Africa","authors":"D. Moyo, Admire Mare, H. Mabweazara","doi":"10.1080/02500167.2020.1862966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02500167.2020.1862966","url":null,"abstract":"(2020). Editorial: Social Media, the Press, and the Crisis of Disinformation in Africa. Communicatio: Vol. 46, Themed Issue: Fake News, pp. 1-6.","PeriodicalId":44378,"journal":{"name":"Communicatio-South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research","volume":"46 1","pages":"1 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02500167.2020.1862966","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48831398","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}
Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2020.1854807
Hannelie Marx Knoetze
(2020). Consuming Postapartheid South Africa in the Media Age: The Popular as the Political. Communicatio: Vol. 46, Themed Issue: Fake News, pp. 132-135.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2020.1848894
Hesbon Hansen Owilla, Njoki Chege, A. Awiti, Caleb Orwa
Abstract This article reports on a study that attempted to understand news and information inequalities by mapping the distribution of broadcast media outlets, the spread of accredited journalists, and the presence of established news bureaus in the eight regions in Kenya. Further, the study sought to determine the ownership of the broadcast media in Kenya and the trends in ownership and audience reach within the context of commercial interest and public interest dialectics. The study was anchored on the theory of the political economy of the media which looks at power relations that influence the production, distribution and consumption of resources from a critical tradition. Based on the analysis of documents, audience research data, and literature on media representation and socioeconomic and political development, the study revealed that Nairobi County is the news and information hub. It has the most journalists, radio stations and news bureaus, whereas far-flung counties exist in news and information deserts. Central region residents were found to consume the least percentage of the non-local language radio stations as they prefer local language or vernacular radio stations Western, South Nyanza (Nyamira and Kisii) and North Western regions are unique in that their consumption of radio with a national target audience is fairly high when the Average Daily Radio Reach (ADRR) of the top five radio stations is considered. Ownership of the radio market is in the hands of five media organisations that share 43.70% of the ADRR. The establishment, audience reach and ownership trends of these media organisations coupled with the spread of journalists and news bureaus revealed news and information inequalities. The audience reach by broadcast media outlets, even in areas where vernacular radio stations provide a rich diet of media content, seems to be more interested in ownership for profit maximisation at the expense of public interest.
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