Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Communication, Media and Society) by Type "Peer reviewed journal article"

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    • The 1990 reforms and the alternative media in South Africa. 

      Louw, Paul Eric.; Tomaselli, Keyan Gray. (Sonolux., 1991)
      The alternative press, which contributed so much to the struggle against apartheid in the 1980s; found itself unprepared for a new role in the freer media environment after the lifting of the State of Emergency in February ...

    • Action research, participatory communication: why governments don't listen. 

      Tomaselli, Keyan Gray. (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 1997)
      No abstract available.

    • Alter-egos: cultural and media studies. 

      Tomaselli, Keyan Gray. (Routledge, 2012)
      A periodised case study is offered of a number of engagements undertaken by the Centre for Communication, Media and Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, between 1985 and 2012, in facilitating resistance, ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...