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Mobile Phones, Popular Media, and Everyday African Democracy: Transmissions and Transgressions
- H. Wasserman
- Political Science
- 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…
Learning a new language
- H. Wasserman
- Psychology
- 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…
Tabloid Journalism in South Africa: True Story!
- H. Wasserman
- Psychology
- 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…
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…
An Exploratory Study of “Fake News” and Media Trust in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa
- H. Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales
- BusinessAfrican Journalism Studies
- 2 January 2019
ABSTRACT In recent years, concerns about the perceived increase in the amount of “fake news” have become prevalent in discussions about media and politics, particularly in the United States and…
Towards an Open Ethics: Implications of New Media Platforms for Global Ethics Discourse
- Stephen Ward, H. Wasserman
- Political Science
- 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…
Global journalism: Theory and practice
- H. Wasserman
- Sociology
- 2 September 2014
Globalized Values and Postcolonial Responses
- H. Wasserman
- Political Science
- 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…
Shifting selves : post-apartheid essays on mass media, culture and identity
- H. Wasserman, S. Jacobs
- Art
- 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…
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…
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