Critical Arts articles from January 1 2005

Critical Arts archives from January 1 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... What is the 'stuff' of media? Entertainment, information, education? Putting aside educational matters and pure entertainment (the doings of pop stars, lifestyle makeovers and gossip), the 'serious' media (newspapers, television news bulletins,...

The African National Congress, the print media and the development of mediated politics in South Africa.
January 1, 2005... Abstract Modern politics are largely mediated politics, experienced by the great majority of citizens at one remove, through their print and broadcast media of choice. Any study of democracy in contemporary conditions is therefore also a...

Which public? Whose interest? The South African media and its role during the first ten years of democracy.
January 1, 2005... Abstract A number of salient issues arose in the South African media landscape during the first ten years of its democracy. This article outlines the significant changes brought about by democratisation, such as the shift from governmental...

Democratisation, elections and the press: some notes from Spain.
January 1, 2005... Abstract Intellectuals from countries that have experienced a recent transition from dictatorship to democracy tend to stay alert to all the political shifts and signs that may indicate that the democracy is already a consolidated reality...

Mediated political cleavages: Zimbabwe's 2000 election seen through the media.
January 1, 2005... Abstract The 2000 parliamentary election was the first Zimbabwean election in which the media situation gave the opposition against President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU (PF)) a fair...

Images of negotiation: the story of an election told through print advertisements.
January 1, 2005... Abstract This study offers an account of the campaigning of the three main political parties involved in the 1994 national general election in South Africa through a close reading of their paid advertisements in the mainstream print media....

The integration of emotional and cognitive messages in election campaigns: a south African case study.
January 1, 2005... Abstract A substantial amount of political communication research in the Western world has focused on the question of whether images instead of issues are emphasised in election campaign messages. The underlying concern is that voters need...

Working for water's 'AlienBusters': material and metaphoric campaigns against 'alien invaders'.
January 1, 2005... Abstract This article analyses aspects of the 'AlienBusters' campaign against 'invasive aliens', initiated in 2000 by Working for Water in an attempt to communicate to a broad South African public the urgent national responsibility for the...

News values, ethics and violence in Kwazulu-Natal: has media coverage reformed?(South Africa)
January 1, 2005... Abstract The article examines the coverage of violent conflict between the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), commonly referred to as the Natal violence, by three newspapers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa,...

Denying racism: discursive strategies used by the South African media.
January 1, 2005... Abstract In 1999 the South African media was the subject of a South African Human Rights Commission inquiry into racism. This article explores the discursive practices deployed by mainstream newspapers in response to these accusations of...

African posters.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2005... African posters Giorgio Miescher and Dag Henrichsen Switzerland: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2004, 301pp ISBN 3-905141-82-5 (Pb) and Images of defiance: South African resistant posters of the 1980s (reprint) The Posterbook...

Safundi: South Africa and the United States Compared, the Best of Safundi, 2003-2004.(Periodical review)
January 1, 2005... Safundi: South Africa and the United States compared: The best of Safundi, 2003-2004 Christopher Saunders, Andrew Offenburger and Christopher J. Lee Safundi Publications, 228pp. ISBN-10:0-9726957-1-0 The undertaking of the online...

Putting Africa First: The Making of African Innovation Systems.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Putting Africa first: The making of African innovation systems Mammo Muchie, Peter Gammeltoft and Bengt-Ake Lundvall (Editors) 2003 Aalborg, Aalborg University Press 361 pp. ISBN 87-7307-699-6 (Pb) This book is a 'must read' for both...

Power and Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970: The Impact of Globalization and Civil Society on Media-Government Relations.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Power and press freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970: The impact of globalization and civil society on media-government relations C. P. Burrowes (2004) Africa World Press 312pp ISBN 1-59221-294-8 (Pb) In Power and press freedom in Liberia, C. P....