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- Title: Transformation of the South African Media.
- Author : Critical Arts
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 160 KB
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International Seminars on the Political Economy of the Southern African Media held in 1996, 2000 and 2002 marked significant moments in the trajectory of (Southern) African media scholarship. The first was "Identities, Democracy, Culture and Communication in Southern Africa", funded by Media, Culture and Society and the University of Oslo (cf. Teer-Tomaselli and Roome 1997; Hall 1997). The later seminars were hosted jointly by the Graduate Programme in Cultural and Media Studies (CCMS) of the University of Natal, Durban, the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), the National Research Foundation (NRF), and the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. The seminar, which meets every two years, brings together researchers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), together with international researchers. A number of studies first discussed at the 2002 Seminar are published in this issue of Critical Arts in revised form. At the end of the 2000 Seminar Guy Berger suggested that the outcome of the week's deliberations could well offer an opportunity for the reconstruction of South African media and cultural research methodologies. He offered this comment in response to the consternation caused by the utterly flawed research on racism in the media commissioned by the SA Human Rights Council. Cultural Studies--with a number of other approaches like discourse analysis and content analysis--had been used and abused to prove a priori beliefs about the media in the immediate post-apartheid period (c.f. MMP 1999; Braude 1999; SAHRC 2000; Berger 2001; De Beer 2000). As Berger observed: