2-4 April 2020 The South African film industry has a long history, albeit racially fractured, uneven and inconsistent. Since the introduction of Edison’s kinetoscope in 1895, the film industry and a film culture has become deeply entrenched in South African cultural, political and social life. The historical development of the South African film …
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The Journal of African Cinemas (JAC) is working with arts editor Charl Blignaut at The Conversation to increase exposure of African films in its pages. The aim is to recruit short journalistic articles for The Conversation, which can in due course be repurposed into longer reviews of films and even articles for JAC – or …
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Beschara Karam (University of South Africa); Mark Kirby-Hirst (Open Window) and Rory du Plessis (University of Pretoria) In light of the hugely successful, and critically acclaimed, film release of the film Black Panther (Coogler 2018); as well as the debates surrounding the film, this Call for Chapters is dedicating a book to this very pertinent …
Mapping the state of surveillance in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa The Media Policy and Democracy Project (MPDP) invites you to the launch of two new research reports on communications surveillance issues in Zimbabwe and Namibia. Dr Admire Mare, the author of the Namibian research report, will be in conversation with the University of Johannesburg’s …
NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY, SOUTH AFRICA FACULTY OF HUMANITIES INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA IN AFRICA (ILMA) CONFERENCE JUNE 27 – 28, 2020 NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY, MAFIKENG CAMPUS, MMABATHO, SOUTH AFRICA The advent of social media (such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube etc.) has brought about democratisation of communication as the public that hitherto had been considered to be consumers …
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Call for Papers Valenti Global Communication Summit 2020 “@frica: digital media conference” Houston, TX – February 27/28, 2020 Deadline for extended abstracts: November 22, 2019 While the economic, political, cultural and social transformations brought about by the rise of digital technologies, particularly in the media and telecommunications sectors, are visible all over the world, it …
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The Wits LINK Centre and WitsX are pleased to announce that registration is open for a free, six-week, online course on “Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Africa”. The course begins on Friday 4 October 2019. This free-of-charge MOOC (massive open online course), available on the global edX platform, aims to empower activists, students, …
As per §10 of the SACOMM Constitution, it is time to Call for Nominations for Executive Committee Members for the different Streams of SACOMM. “Interest Group Conveners” (or the Executive Committee) are, with the Presidium, responsible for the daily running of SACOMM.
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In this edition we look at what we can expect in the mid-term US Elections next week. The brutal murder of Jamal Kashoggi indicates that fundamental change in Saudi Arabia will not come soon. Following the Medium Term Budget Speech by newly appointed Finance Minister Tito Mboweni last week, a financial analyst argues that euphoria around …
