Title: New Media, Interactive Audiences, and the Virtual. Next Generation Narratives Short title: Interactivity and Virtual Reality Guest Editors Keyan G Tomaselli: keyant@uj.ac.za University of Johannesburg Dr Keyan G Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor, Humanities Dean’s Office, University of Johannesburg, a Laureate Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, and a member of the Academy of Science of …
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Indigenous Language for Development and Social Change Communication in the Global South Since the 1970s, the active role and involvement of marginalised citizens in development and social change programmes at local, national, and in some instances, international levels, has sparked much interests from scholars around the globe (cf. Waisbord, 2008). At the heart of this …
Highway Africa at Rhodes University’s School of Journalism and Media Studies invites you to attend a free webinar entitled ‘Thinking globally, acting locally: sustaining South African journalism in a post covid world’. The Webinar will take place on Thursday 18 March 2021, from 14:00 to 15:30, South Africa Standard Time (SAST). A report of the same name — …
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The Minutes of the first Virutal AGM which was held in 2020 has now been published for feedback and comment during the next AGM during the upcoming conference.
In September 2021, were he alive, Freire would have been 100 years old. The Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University, under the Directorship of Prof Thomas Tufte, is hosting virtual centennial events to celebrate Paulo Freire with reflections around his ‘ontological call’. Already over 1000 people have registered, though relatively few are …
18 February – 2021 / Online Registration link below. Big Tech‘s claims: from social media to crypto An artist who has spent more than a decade unpacking the rhetoric and claims of Big Tech’s core voices, Simon Denny will present key cultural, political and aesthetic principles gathered from his research to date. What were the …
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Dear SACOMM Community, SACOMM’s Executive Committee (ExCo) would like to wish you all the best for the new year. The year will be challenging, but the Association is committed to keeping our community of scholars in touch and engaged. More on our planned activities for the year, soon. I write to you today to share …
The University of the Free State (UFS) invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice. Candidates interested in pursuing an academic or professional career in higher education, with special research interest in institutional change and institutional culture within higher education, are especially encouraged to …
The event below may be of interest to students and researchers who are interested in webscraping and digital ethnography methods, with a focus on Africa. For information about the speakers, and to register for these events, please see the Foundation’s website. On February 15th, 16th and 25th the Wenner-Gren Foundation is sponsoring a series of webinars entitled, New Tools …
This new issue contains the following articles: Articles African Cultural Studies: An Overview Handel Kashope Wright & Yao Xiao Pages: 1-31 | DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1758738 Critiquing Print Media Transformation and Black Empowerment in South Africa: A Critical Race Theory Approach Prinola Govenden & Sarah Chiumbu Pages: 32-46 | DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1722719 “There is no ‘us …