Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Communication, Media and Society) by Title

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    • Communication or propaganda : what's the difference? 

      Tomaselli, Keyan Gray. (University of KwaZulu-Natal., 1992)
      The deterministic nature of the discipline of communications is revealed through ideological dimensions and the nature of propaganda. The myth of information neutrality is illustrated by examples, in particular two films ...

    • Cultural studies and Africa: excavating the subject-matter. 

      Shepperson, Arnold.; Tomaselli, Keyan Gray. (East African Communication Scholars Association., 2002)
      This article examines some of the issues arising from the proliferation of cultural studies as a form of national-identity research. Looking at the case of the recent rise of culture studies in South Africa, we examine ...

    • Cybernetics, semiotics and meaning in the cinema. 

      Tomaselli, Keyan Gray. (School of Communication. University of Johannesburg., 1985)
      This paper builds on Gene Youngblood's use of cybernetic theory in film analysis. It combines the cybernetic method with Peircian-derived semiotics in an attempt to derive a meta-theory of social process and film textual ...

    • Intercultural sensitivity in the integrating suburb of Westville. Durban, South Africa. 

      Peters, Noel B.; Pertchick, Kevin.; Tomaselli, Keyan Gray.; Teer-Tomaselli, Ruth Elizabeth. (1997)
      To investigate intercultural sensitivity, the Davis Russell-Peters Intercultural Sensitivity Instrument (1994) was administered to 203 participants situated within residences in the formerly white suburb of Westville ...

    • Popularising semiotics. 

      Tomaselli, Keyan Gray.; Shepperson, Arnold.; Teer-Tomaselli, Ruth Elizabeth.; Baker, Russell.; Ballot, Jane Jennifer.; Holt, Alexander Robert.; Mahaye, Zithulele.; Nursoo, Lara. (Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture., 1991)
      Semiotics, deconstructionism, structuralism and postmodernism are words which lurk on boundaries of the consciousness of most of us. But they remain shadowy presences except on the rare occasions when we need to wrestle ...

    • The rise of grassroot communication. 

      Tomaselli, Keyan Gray. (Sonolux., 1988)
      The first presentations at the Lusaka Symposium were devoted to South Africa. By challenging apartheid and repression at a local level. grassroot communication is an effective way to oppose Government policy in South ...

    • S. African Politics: mapping the constituency. 

      Louw, Paul Eric.; Tomaselli, Keyan Gray. (Program on Communication and Development Studies, Northwestern University., 1991)
      Reeling under the sanctions imposed by the community of nations and heightened internal struggles, the South African white government has begun the historic process of dismantling apartheid. The various democratic forces ...

    • Semiotics in an African context : ''science" vs "priest-craft" - "semiology" vs "semiotics". 

      Shepperson, Arnold.; Tomaselli, Keyan Gray. (IMATRA : International Semiotics Institute., 1992)
      No abstract available.

    • South-North perspectives: contesting cultural and media studies. 

      Tomaselli, Keyan Gray.; Mboti, Nyasha. (2012)
      This intervention examines conceptual trajectories arising out of a 22 year North-South research collaboration. It traces the genesis of that trajectory of (Southern) African cultural and media studies that emerged from a ...

    • Towards a procedural revolution. 

      Amato, Robert. (Contemporary Cultural Studies Unit, University of Natal., 1986)
      This is an attempt at a procedural solution to the present political and economic logjam in South Africa. The aim is to find ways to alleviate some of the difficulties faced by the major parties to the conflict and to ...