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- Publications
- Influence
Mobile Phones, Popular Media, and Everyday African Democracy: Transmissions and Transgressions
- H. Wasserman
- Sociology
- 29 April 2011
The effectiveness of new media technologies, including mobile phones, to facilitate political participation and create social change has long been contested. Recent events in countries such as… Expand
Learning a new language
- H. Wasserman
- Sociology
- 1 January 2009
Under apartheid, the mainstream Afrikaans media served as vehicles for the ideology of apartheid. Since democratization, they have attempted to rid themselves of this ideological baggage, and instead… Expand
Saliva of the Yellow Fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, modulates murine lymphocyte function
- H. Wasserman, S. Singh, D. E. Champagne
- Biology, Medicine
- Parasite immunology
- 1 June 2004
Saliva of many vector arthropods contains factors that inhibit haemostatic responses in their vertebrate hosts. Less is known about the effect of vector saliva on host immune responses. We… Expand
Journalism in a new democracy: The ethics of listening
- H. Wasserman
- Sociology
- 1 March 2013
Abstract This article takes as its point of departure the recent massacre of striking miners at the Lonmin mine at Marikana in North-West Province, South Africa. The shooting, in which 36 mine… Expand
Tabloid Journalism in South Africa: True Story!
- H. Wasserman
- Political Science
- 31 May 2010
Contents Acknowledgments 1. Shock! Horror! Scandal! The Tabloid Controversy and Journalism Studies in Post-Apartheid South Africa 2. Attack of the Killer Newspapers! Tabloids Arrive in South Africa… Expand
Globalized Values and Postcolonial Responses
- H. Wasserman
- Sociology
- 1 February 2006
Globalization has had a far-reaching effect on media technologies worldwide. Concomitant with this global spread of media forms, liberal views of the media’s role in a democracy have been exported to… Expand
Shifting selves : post-apartheid essays on mass media, culture and identity
- H. Wasserman, S. Jacobs
- Sociology
- 2003
The political and social changes in South Africa since the early nineties have had a profound and unexpected effect on culture and on people's identities. Mass media, art and other forms of aesthetic… Expand
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Towards an Open Ethics: Implications of New Media Platforms for Global Ethics Discourse
- S. A. Ward, H. Wasserman
- Sociology
- 26 October 2010
This article provides an international perspective on how new media technologies are shifting the parameters of debates about journalism ethics. It argues that new, mixed media help create an “open… Expand
China in South Africa: media responses to a developing relationship
- H. Wasserman
- Political Science
- 15 August 2012
The formal invitation extended to South Africa by China late in 2010 to join the BRIC formation of emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) may be seen as a confirmation of the growing… Expand