Power, Politics and Identity in South African media

• Introduction

• Identity in theory

  Media, youth, violence and identity in South Africa: A theoretical approach
  Abebe Zegeye

  Essentialism in a South African discussion of language and culture
  Kees van der Waal

  'National' public service broadcasting: Contradictions and dilemmas
  Ruth Teer-Tomaselli

  Field theory and tabloids
  Ian Glenn and Angie Knaggs

  Identity in post-apartheid South Africa: 'Learning to belong' through the (commercial) media
  Sonja Narunsky-Laden

• Media restructuring and identity formation after apartheid

  Finding a home in Afrikaans radio
  Johannes Froneman

  The Daily Sun and post-apartheid identity
  Nicola Jones, Yves Vanderhaegen and Dee Viney

  Online coloured identities: A virtual ethnography
  Tanja Bosch

  The mass subject in Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull
  Anthea Garman

• Expressing identities

  Crime reporting: Meaning and identity-making in the South African press
  Marguerite J. Moritz

  Afrikaner identity in a post-apartheid South Africa: the Self in terms of the Other
  Wiida Fourie

  Foreign policy, identity and the media: Contestation over Zimbabwe
  Anita Howarth

  Masculine ideals in post-apartheid South Africa: The rise of men’s glossies
  Stella Viljoen

  Tsotsis, Coconuts and Wiggers: Black masculinity and contemporary South African media
  Jane Stadler

  The media and the Zuma/Zulu culture: An Afrocentric perspective
  Simphiwe Sesanti

  He lova tata icova sesiya vela’: Black masculinity and the tyranny of authenticity in SA popular culture
  Adam Haupt

Dr Adrian Hadland is a director in the Democracy and Governance research programme at the HSRC. Before joining the HSRC, he was the Political Editor and Assistant Editor of the Cape Argus. He has worked for a number of South African and international news organisations as a political journalist and columnist.

Eric Louw is Director of Communication Programs in the School of Journalism & Communication, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His primary area of research is political communication.

Simphiwe Sesanti is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the University of Stellenbosch. He has worked as a journalist – writing for South African and international publications in the areas of politics and arts – for more than ten years.

Professor Herman Wasserman teaches Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom and is associate professor extraordinary in the Department of Journalism, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is editor of the journal Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies.

African Book Publishing Record, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, 2009

"...it [Power, Politics and Identity in South African Media] provides an indispensable guide to media and society in South Africa and will be sure to hold the readers attention throughout."
- Jonathan Zilberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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