Power, Politics and Identity in South African media (2008)

South Africa offers a rich context for the study of the interrelationship between the media and identity. The essays collected here explore the many diverse elements of this interconnection, and give fresh focus to topics that scholarship has tended to overlook, such as the pervasive impact of tabloid newspapers. Interrogating contemporary theory, the authors shed new light on how identities are constructed through the media, and provide case studies that illustrate the complex process of identity renegotiation taking place currently in post-apartheid South Africa. The contributors include established scholars as well as many new voices. Collectively, they represent some of South Africa’s finest media analysts pooling skills to grapple with one of the country’s most vexing issues: who are we?

For teachers, students and anyone else interested in questions of media, race, power and gender, as well as the manner in which new identities are created and old ones mutate, much of interest will be found within the contributions to this important collection.

Editors Adrian Hadland, Eric Louw, Simphiwe Sesanti, Herman Wasserman
Publisher Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2008
ISBN 07969-2202-0, 978-07969-2202-1
Pages 416

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Hadland, Aldridge, Ogada (eds): Re-Visioning Television. Policy, Strategy and Models for the Sustainable Development of Community Television in South Africa (2007)

The introduction of a quality, accessible local television network represents the final piece in post-apartheid South Africa’s media jigsaw. With legislation and policy now in place, the fitting of the last piece is imminent. The race is now on to develop models and fine-tune systems that will make the most powerfully democratic tier of broadcast media sustainable, empowering and development friendly.

Free media and/or community media is anathema to repressive governments around the world. In South Africa, by contrast, community television is expected to play an important role in job creation and skills development as well as contribute to the strengthening of civil society, the promotion of participative governance and the expression of the country’s rich linguistic and cultural heritage.

This book, compiled by South African experts in community broadcasting with the assistance of many key figures in the sector, traces the two-decade campaign for local-level television in South Africa. It highlights the development of policy, reviews existing international models and spells out the technical, financial and managerial challenges that face this nascent sector.

Policy-makers, community television station managers and staff, development analysts and funders, media academics and students, press officers, organisations wishing to access local TV together with anyone interested in community media in the developing world generally, and community television specifically, will find this book important reading.

Editors Adrian Hadland, Mike Aldridge, Joshua Ogada
Publisher Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2007
ISBN 0-7969-2160-1, 978-07969-2160-4
232 pages

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Zehar, 53-57 (2004-2006) [English/Spanish/Basque]

“Zehar is a magazine of art and contemporary culture. Zehar uses a transitory denomination (through) to define its purpose as a receptive intermediary between the artistic community and society at large.The magazine’s aim is to maintain a critical reflective spirit, inspired by the conviction of the need for consolidated stable bases, which enrich the context and a plural environment. Zehar is four monthly. In order to encourage the variety of ideas, we devote each issue to one theme and invite a guest editor to work on it.

The section titled Shorts presents reviews about exhibitions, events, books and films. The paper version has two editions, Basque/Spanish and English/Spanish, but the electronic edition is trilingual. Zehar is published by Arteleku, a public art centre under the auspices of the Culture Department of the Regional Government of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.”

Perspectives on Listening
Zehar 53, 2004

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Decoys and Disruptions
Zehar 55, 2005

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Archive Fever
Zehar 56, 2005

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Transition
Zehar 57, November 2006

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