Media Studies, Volume 1: Media History, Media and Society (2nd edition) Pieter J. Fourie (Ed.) Cape Town: Juta Press. 2007. Pp. 436. ISBN: 978-07021-7692-0 (paperback only): Media Studies, Volume 2: Policy, Management and Media Representation (2nd edition) Pieter J. Fourie (Ed.) Cape Town: Juta Press. 2008. Pp. 544. ISBN: 978-07021-7675-3 (paperback only)

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-256
Author(s):  
E. Louw
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Media History ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Policy Management

Communicating Through or Communicating with: Approaching Artificial Intelligence from a Communication and Media Studies Perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Natale
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Media History ◽  
Computing Technologies ◽  
Machine Communication ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Human Component ◽  
History And Theory

Abstract This review article examines two recent publications that explore the relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and communication. Discussing Human–Machine Communication (HMC) as an emerging area of inquiry within communication and media studies, two important implications of this body of work are highlighted. First, the "human" component still plays a key role in HMC, since what we call “AI” derives from the technical and material functioning of computing technologies as much as from the contribution of the humans who enter in communication with AI technologies. Second, HMC challenges the very concept of medium, because the machine is at the same time the channel as well as the producer of communication messages. A potential way to solve this challenge is to mobilize existing approaches in media history and theory that expand the concept of medium beyond its conceptualization as mere channel.

scholarly journals Violence and Trolling on Social Media

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Media History ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Insight Into

‘Trolls for Trump’, virtual rape, fake news — social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated, and also address their real-world — even life-and-death— impact? How can hatred, bullying, and dehumanization on social media platforms be addressed and countered in a post-truth world? Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol unpacks discourses, metaphors, dynamics, and framing on social media, in order to begin to answer these questions. Written for and by cultural and media studies scholars, journalists, political philosophers, digital communication professionals, activists and advocates, this book connects theoretical approaches from cultural and media studies with practical challenges and experiences ‘from the field’, providing insight into a rough media landscape.

The South African censor: No change

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Gordimer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Similar Pattern ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Nadine Gordimer ◽  
The South ◽  
Back Cover ◽  
State Security ◽  
University Of Cape Town

On 11 July 1979 Nadine Gordimer's novel Burger's Daughter was banned by the South African Directorate of Publications on the grounds – among others – that the book was a threat to state security. ( Excerpts from the censor's arguments were printed on the back cover of Index on Censorship 1/1980.) After an international outcry the Director of Publications on 1 August 1979 appealed against the decision of his own censorship committee to the Publications Appeal Board. A committee of literary experts was appointed, and a hearing on the appeal was set for 3 October. But the hearing did not take place; in early October 1979 the book was simply released for distribution. Some weeks later a similar pattern was shown in the treatment of André Brink's Afrikaans-language novel A Dry White Season. The book was banned, the censorship board – not the author – appealed against its own decision, and the book was un-banned. In the article which follows, Nadine Gordimer reflects on these events, and on the new censorship policy they herald. Her article was originally a paper presented to a University of Cape Town conference on censorship held in April 1980. It was first published in Critical Arts: A Journal for Media Studies, Vol 1, No 2, June 1980, ( available from the School of Dramatic Art, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa). The papers from the censorship conference will be published by David Philip, Capetown.

scholarly journals Media Studies and the Mainstreaming of Media History

Media History ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hampton
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Media History

scholarly journals Participant’s Roles and Cognitive Relations in Niger Delta Conflict News Discourse

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110231
Author(s):  
Chuka Fred Ononye ◽  
Olaosun Ibrahim Esan ◽  
Ahmed Yunana
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Semantic Resources ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Context Models

Media studies on Niger Delta (ND) conflict discourse have largely utilized stylistic, pragmatic, and critical discourse analytical tools in exploring media representation of news actors and ideologies in news texts but have not accommodated such issues as participants’ roles and cognitive relations in the discourse. This paper analyses the contexts of ND conflict news reporting with a view to revealing not only the participant’s role relations involved, but also the lexico-semantic resources they are characterized by. Forty newspaper reports on ND conflicts (20 from four ND-based newspapers— The Tide, New Waves, The Pointer and Pioneer, and 20 from four national newspapers— The Punch, The Guardian, Vanguard and THISDAY), published between 2003 and 2009, were sampled and subjected to discourse analysis, with insights from van Dijk’s context models and aspects of relational semantics. Four types of role were identified, viz. interactional (embracing the participants in conflict), communicative (relating to the production roles), social (involving group membership), and instrumental (dealing with the entities utilized in actualizing specific goals). The cognitive foci of these roles are associated with participants’ goals and beliefs, and these inform the participants’ position and hence role in the conflict events. Linguistically, the interactional and social roles are marked by synonymous and converse lexical items, while the communicative and instrumental roles are indexed by homonymous and antonymous lexical features. The findings corroborate the fact that there is an interaction between participant roles and cognitive relations in the ND conflict events reported in Nigerian newspapers.

scholarly journals Ageing, old age and media: Critical appraisal of knowledge practices in academic research

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Sara Mosberg Iversen ◽  
Monika Wilinska
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
The Media

This interpretative literature review discusses research published between 2000 and 2015 that focuses on the media representation of older adults. The key objective is to offer a critical discussion on the knowledge and assumptions underlying such studies. Specifically, the review examines how old age and media, respectively, are conceptualised in the research and the consequence this has for further research in the fields of ageing and media studies. The main finding from this review is that a large part of the research appears to say nothing about what old age and media are, as it either entirely fails to discuss what is meant by these terms or relies on common sense notions. The review concludes that research on older age and media suffers from a lack of dialogue over disciplinary borders and that this issue needs to be remedied. Likewise, for research to move on, it is imperative to take a more reflexive stance on the topics in order to avoid simplistic notions of both ageing and media.

When Postcolonial Studies Interrupts Media Studies†

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-322
Author(s):  
Raka Shome
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Media History ◽  
The North ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Object ◽  
The North Atlantic

AbstractThis article utilizes a postcolonial theoretical framework to challenge and unsettle the ways in which media has been historicized in media studies where the time of the North Atlantic West is taken to be an unspoken normative assumption through which we chart media’s development. Further, this article attempts to move us to the Global South by calling attention to media objects and the mediated lives that function through those objects, that have not received any place in media history. Nor are they recognized as a media object. The basic questions that this article raises are: (a) what happens to our understanding of media’s development when we complicate the temporality (North Atlantic Western) through which we narrate the history of media, and (b) What happens to our understanding of what media is when 24/7 electrification is not taken as a norm in our recognition of a media or technology object. What other media objects and mediated lives might then become visible?

Bring yourself back online, Old Bill: Westworld’s media histories, or six degrees of separation from Shakespeare

2021 ◽  
pp. 018476782110094
Author(s):  
Stephen O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media History ◽  
Deep Web ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Digital Cultures ◽  
Six Degrees Of Separation

This article explores the polysemous intertextuality of Westworld, an example of ‘complex television’, and focuses particularly on its Shakespearean coordinates. In this futuristic show about sentient androids who quote Shakespeare is a deep web of connections to other Shakespeare adaptations in film, digital cultures, and popular music. Through the perspectives of fan studies and media studies, the article argues that what unfolds out of the show’s discourses and those of its fans, who engage with it through digital platforms and technologies, is a micro media history of Shakespeare. In turn, the show advances an understanding of Shakespeare as posthuman.

scholarly journals Comunicación Social e “Historia Oral”: por un método integrador para la Historia de la Prensa

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Rubén Cabal Tejada
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media History ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Comprehensive Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Resumen: La Historia de la Prensa, enmarcada en una historia de la Comunicación Social más amplia, ha pivotado entre las propuestas teóricas y metodológicas de la historiografía y las propias de la comunicología, llegando incluso a plantearse una ruptura disciplinar entre estas dos perspectivas. En este texto se pretende aportar una reflexión sobre la posibilidad de encuentro entre ambas posturas a partir de un me todo común, basado en los presupuestos defendidos desde la Historia Oral. Más allá de otras consideraciones se propone a partir de una reflexión acotada a una práctica concreta, valorando cuestiones como el hándicap del a posteriori o la influencia de la (auto)representación del entrevistador sobre las fuentes orales, la pertinencia de asumir una metodología integradora en este campo.Palabras clave: Metodología, Historia Oral, Historia de la Prensa, Periodismo.Abstract: The History of the Written Press, or more broadly Media History, has been influenced by theoretical and methodological approaches both from Media Studies and History. But there are some voices that do not consider this positively and call for alternatives. In this paper, we propose a shared methodology based on Oral History. Issues such as the influence of the present or the role of the interviewer regarding oral sources are taken up so as to explore a more comprehensive method for this field.Key words: Methodology, Oral History, Media History, Journalism.

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