Power, politics and identity in South African media
Subtitle: selected seminar papers
By: edited by Adrian Hadland ... [et al.].
Contributors: Hadland, Adrian.
Publisher: HSRC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780796922021
Subjects: Identity (Psychology) and mass media -- South Africa -- Congresses; Mass media -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- Congresses; Mass media -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Congresses; Identity (Psychology) -- South Africa -- Congresses; Group identity -- South Africa -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "Collection of essays, many of which were presented at an international conference in Stellenbosch on the same theme in July 2006..."--P. 3.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Media restructuring and identity formation after apartheid. Finding a home in Afrikaans radio / Johannes Froneman ; The rise of the Daily Sun and its contribution to the creation of 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; title: Expressing identities. Crime reporting : meaning and identitymaking 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 ; Black masculinity and the tyranny of authenticity in South African popular culture / Adam Haupt.