South Africa: a free media still in the making

Milton, Viola Candice; Fourie, Pieter J.

doi:10.4324/9781315726212-12

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“…Under the SABC structure, television served as a key vehicle used to not only perpetuate stereotypes about black people and their cultures, but also the ethos of apartheid, which revolves around white superiority and racial divide. News reportage and other programmes across SABC stations were ostensibly designed to further the economic, political and cultural dominance of white South Africans (Milton and Fourie, 2015). In that era, television became not only the government mouthpiece but also a potent “ideological and hegemonic tool” (Milton and Fourie, 2015: 182).…”

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“…News reportage and other programmes across SABC stations were ostensibly designed to further the economic, political and cultural dominance of white South Africans (Milton and Fourie, 2015). In that era, television became not only the government mouthpiece but also a potent “ideological and hegemonic tool” (Milton and Fourie, 2015: 182).…”

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Contradictions and Tensions Between Old and New: An Audience Perception of Indigenous Culture Representation in Soap Opera

Onyenankeya

Osunkunle

2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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There is a perception that soap operas are progressively infusing dominant social values and ideas while constructing and positioning indigenous cultures as peripheral and inconsistent with modernity. This article aims at ascertaining audience perceptions of and attitudes toward the construction and representation of indigenous cultures in Generations: The Legacy within the framework of indigeneity and audience reception theories. Using quantitative methodology, 350 questionnaires were distributed to a randomly selected sample. Findings showed the majority of the audience felt the soap represents indigenous cultures as the ‘insignificant other’ and perpetuates stereotypes about traditional indigenous groups. This process creates cultural tensions.

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Contradictions and Tensions Between Old and New: An Audience Perception of Indigenous Culture Representation in Soap Opera

Onyenankeya

Osunkunle

2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…Within its brief history national television broadcasting has needed to respond to radical political changes. Apartheid era broadcasting was heavily censored, ideological and centred on Whiteness (Milton and Fourie, 2015: 181). There were channels catering to Black viewers but only ways which would have been palatable to the racist political system of the period.…”

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Television and Black Twitter in South Africa: Our Perfect Wedding

Smit

Bosch

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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This article examines Twitter use by audiences of the popular South African television show, Our Perfect Wedding. We argue that the show’s Twitter feed provides an extension of South Africa’s ‘Black Twitter’ facilitating a space for recognition and group identity for Black South African television viewers. Such a space is significant since Black audiences have been neglected in the short history of South African television broadcasting. On Our Perfect Wedding, broadcast on a satellite television service DStv to paying subscribers, questions of class and race are salient for an audience group prized as an emerging market of Black middle-class viewers. Through qualitative analysis of a sample of tweets featuring the hashtag, #OPWMzansi ( Our Perfect Wedding South Africa), we demonstrate how Twitter is used for the performance and negotiation of class and race for the audience. The comedy of the show’s Twitter commentary is largely dependent upon judgements around class, taste and language. While the Twitter feed features creative user contributions, the #OPWMzansi network reveals that much of the communication is prompted and networked back to the official programme Twitter site, demonstrating the centrality of the traditional television broadcaster to Twitter interactions with the text.

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“…In South Africa, apartheid period newsrooms were dominated by white males (Milton and Fourie 2015). Beeld, SABC, The Witness, and the Sowetan -were that the majority of journalists were black -at 61% --and there was near gender equality with women journalists at 49%.…”

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Digitalization and journalists in the BRICS countries

Pasti

Ramaprasad²

2016

BJR

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The article explores the social profile of journalists and their well-being in the profession within the context of the digitalization of their profession. The analysis focuses on five aspects of the qualitative (in-depth interview) study of BRICS journalists carried out between 2012 and 2015 under funding from the Academy of Finland. The aspects of interest are: workplace preference (traditional or online news), education, professional age, gender, and well-being. The BRICS study sample includes 729 journalists representing both traditional (484 respondents) and online news media (245 respondents) from twenty cities, ten metropolitan and ten provincial. The comparative analysis across the five BRICS countries reveals some connections between digitalization and the journalists' profile and well-being and also specifies the political, economic and social-professional conditions in which the journalists work and live. A DIGITALIZAÇÃO E OS JORNALISTAS NOS PAÍSES DO BRICSRESUMO -Este artigo explora o perfil social dos jornalistas e bem estar na profissão no contexto da digitalização. A análise se concentra em cinco aspectos de um estudo qualitativo (entrevistas em profundidade) dos jornalistas do BRICS conduzido entre 2012 e 2015 sob financiamento da Academy of Finland. Os aspectos analisados foram: preferência em relação ao local de trabalho (veículos tradicionais ou on-line), formação, idade profissional, gênero e bem estar. A amostra do estudo sobre o BRICS incluiu 729 jornalistas representativos tanto da mídia tradicional (484 respondentes) como da on-line (245 respondentes). Eles estavam distribuídos em 20 cidades, dez de caráter metropolitano e dez provinciais. A análise comparativa nos cinco países BRICS revela algumas conexões entre a digitalização e o perfil dos jornalistas bem como o bem estar deles e as condições políticas, econômicas e sócio-profissionais específicas nas quais eles vivem e trabalham. Palavras-chave: Novas Tecnologias. Demografia do Jornalismo. Pesquisa Qualitativa Comparativa. BRICS.

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South Africa: a free media still in the making

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Contradictions and Tensions Between Old and New: An Audience Perception of Indigenous Culture Representation in Soap Opera

Contradictions and Tensions Between Old and New: An Audience Perception of Indigenous Culture Representation in Soap Opera

Television and Black Twitter in South Africa: Our Perfect Wedding

Digitalization and journalists in the BRICS countries

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