Eric Louw
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Louw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Louw |
| SIGNATURE | LOUW E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0752-5654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Colonialism: Taking the Good with the Bad
Two recent books take very different positions on decolonization: one “wallows” in today’s academically fashionable “restorative justice” ideology. The other seeks to restore decolonization’s traditional meaning and facilitate self-government for formerly colonized people
Media and Society: Power, Platforms, and Participation
Non-racialism, relationality and no-relation: Recovering Biko’s Black Consciousness forgotten
This article examines the rearticulation of meanings appropriated out of historical and ideological phases of the anti-Apartheid struggle, specifically with regard to race (non-racialism) and Black Consciousness. It compares examples of democrats in contexts radically different from South Africa, deploying “South African-made” meaning into discursive and political-economic contexts for which they had not been designed. The example of Steve Biko’s…
Should South African journalists be paying more attention to policy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEric Louw Eric Louw, School of Communication and Arts, the University of Queensland, Australia, is research fellow at the University of South Africa
Broadcasting the end of apartheid: Live television and the birth of a new South Africa
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEric Louw ERIC LOUW, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Soft power, being attractive to others, and nation branding in an epoch where the Pax Americana sets the pace
Additional informationNotes on contributorsP. Eric Louw P. Eric Louw is affiliated to the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland. He is research fellow, Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa
Inundated by the Audience: Journalism, Audience Participation and the 2011 Brisbane Flood
Following the Brisbane flood in 2011, Seven's breakfast television program Sunrise launched a partnership with the Queensland government called 'Operation Bounce Back'. The initiative called on skilled tradespeople to volunteer for the rebuilding effort, and extended Sunrise's representations of audience participation. In this article, we examine Operation Bounce Back in relation to different accounts of audience participation. We look at the int…
Afropessimism: A genealogy of discourse
Afropessimism is an important issue for all Africans as well as for anyone interested in African development and socio-cultural analysis. Although there are bits and pieces and research works on Afropessimism, none has as yet brought it all together in a coherent way. When we decided to undertake this examination of Afropessimism, there is more than one perspective on this phenomenon. In fact, there seem to be at ‘Western construct’. In contradis…
Anglicising Postapartheid South Africa
The apartheid state deliberately encouraged linguistic diversity and actively built cultural infrastructures which impeded Anglicisation. With the end of apartheid has come de facto Anglicisation. So although South Africa has, since 1994, had 11 official languages, in reality, English is swamping the other 10 languages. Afrikaans has, in particular, come under tremendous pressure. Whereas before 1994 Afrikaans was one of two official languages, a…
Political power, national identity, and language: The case of Afrikaans
Afrikaans is the home language of 5.9 million people. During the 1980s, Afrikaans was the dominant state language and a widely-used lingua franca in South Africa and Namibia. But by the end of the twentieth century, English had replaced Afrikaans as the dominant state language and a decline in the use of Afrikaans was in evidence, even among native Afrikaans speakers. An examination of this language's twentieth-century journey helps illustrate th…
The `War Against Terrorism: A Public Relations Challenge for the Pentagon
This article examines the relationship between warfare and the media, arguing that both terrorists and conventional warfare planners in the Pentagon factor communications and public relations into their planning. In this regard, the article sketches out how the Pentagon developed a new genre of `public relations-ized' warfare - warfare planned, not only as a military exercise, but as a televisual media event. Similarly, it will be argued that tho…
Packing for Perth: The Growth of a Southern African Diaspora
Southern African decolonization, the civil war and post-apartheid turmoil are creating a Southern African diaspora across the Anglo world. Australia has become a popular destination within this diaspora that South Africans now refer to emigration in general as “packing for Perth.” Thus far, little work has been done on this migratory phenomenon. This article seeks to develop an overview of the birth and developments of this diaspora, with a focus…
It's the Bush: Foreign Perceptions of Australia - A Comparative Study
Cities compete to host the Olympics because it is a unique global public relations opportunity to attract tourism, foreign investment, and international respect. However, hosting an Olympics also entails risks because host cities and countries must survive intensive international media scrutiny. Whether the Sydney Olympics will redefine overseas perceptions of Australia either positively or negatively is still to be established. Our study will ad…
South Africa's Second Post-Apartheid Elections: A Reaffirmation of Racial Politics but a Loosening of Ethnic Bonds
It seems likely that the 1999 elections have set the parameters of South African politics for some decades to come unless the South African 'tradition' of ethnic voting and 'one-party dominance' can be broken. What seems likely is that South Africa will now assume the characteristics of a one-party dominant system where only one political party actually has any chance of governing, but where small opposition parties (representing 'niche' social f…
Nationalism, modernity and postmodernity: Comparing the South African and Australian experiences
South Africa and Australia emerged into the twentieth century sharing similar racist (white‐Anglo) modernist nationalist projects – one created by Lord Alfred Milner the other by Alfred Deakin. However, these two societies leave the twentieth century with what seems like fundamentally different futures. In large measure this is because South Africans and Australians have responded quite differently to the economic and cultural trends associated w…
Cape to Cairo television: In whose interests
(1996). Cape to Cairo television: In whose interests? Continuum: Vol. 9, Transitions, pp. 61-87
Rethinking cultural studies to meet the challenge of the "information age" in South Africa
Shifting patterns of political discourse in the new South Africa
Since February, 1990, a remarkable series of shifts have occurred in the discourses used by the central political players in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) and the National Party (NP). This article examines the two key political discourses of the 1980s, namely the NP's apartheid and the UDF's (ANC internal‐wing) non‐racialism. Then the shifts that have occurred since 1990 are traced. It will be argued that by the end of 1992 th…
Language and media policy: Exploring the options
FW de Klerk's 1990 announcement of reform has initiated a significant process of policy formulation and debate in SA. In both language and media fields, proposals for policy have been made. Considering the close inter-relationship between language and the media, it is somewhat strange that both the language policy and media policy debates have, up to now, developed almost autonomously. Given that the outcome of the language policy debate will hav…
Obstacles to digging out the dirt: Frustrations in researching broadcast policy in the new South Africa
Rethinking the Leftist Struggle in South Africa
(1992). Rethinking the Leftist Struggle in South Africa. Critical Arts: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-25
Langauge and National Unity in a Post-Apartheid South Africa
(1992). Langauge and National Unity in a Post-Apartheid South Africa. Critical Arts: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 52-60
Media, media education and the development of South Africa
Moves Toward the Registration of South African Journalists: An Overview from a Critical Point of View
During 1988 the South African government proposed a scheme for the registration of news agencies and journalists. Although public pressure and opposition from the Press resulted in the Government withdrawing its demand that all news agencies register by end of June, the history of calls for registration goes back to 1950. This paper offers a chronological overview of government controls on the Press and journalists from a critical perspective
State-Subsidised Theatre Following the September 1984 Vaal Uprising
The `War Against Terrorism: A Public Relations Challenge for the Pentagon
This article examines the relationship between warfare and the media, arguing that both terrorists and conventional warfare planners in the Pentagon factor communications and public relations into their planning. In this regard, the article sketches out how the Pentagon developed a new genre of `public relations-ized' warfare - warfare planned, not only as a military exercise, but as a televisual media event. Similarly, it will be argued that tho…
Packing for Perth: The Growth of a Southern African Diaspora
Southern African decolonization, the civil war and post-apartheid turmoil are creating a Southern African diaspora across the Anglo world. Australia has become a popular destination within this diaspora that South Africans now refer to emigration in general as “packing for Perth.” Thus far, little work has been done on this migratory phenomenon. This article seeks to develop an overview of the birth and developments of this diaspora, with a focus…
Anglicising Postapartheid South Africa
The apartheid state deliberately encouraged linguistic diversity and actively built cultural infrastructures which impeded Anglicisation. With the end of apartheid has come de facto Anglicisation. So although South Africa has, since 1994, had 11 official languages, in reality, English is swamping the other 10 languages. Afrikaans has, in particular, come under tremendous pressure. Whereas before 1994 Afrikaans was one of two official languages, a…
South Africa's Second Post-Apartheid Elections: A Reaffirmation of Racial Politics but a Loosening of Ethnic Bonds
It seems likely that the 1999 elections have set the parameters of South African politics for some decades to come unless the South African 'tradition' of ethnic voting and 'one-party dominance' can be broken. What seems likely is that South Africa will now assume the characteristics of a one-party dominant system where only one political party actually has any chance of governing, but where small opposition parties (representing 'niche' social f…
Afropessimism: A genealogy of discourse
Afropessimism is an important issue for all Africans as well as for anyone interested in African development and socio-cultural analysis. Although there are bits and pieces and research works on Afropessimism, none has as yet brought it all together in a coherent way. When we decided to undertake this examination of Afropessimism, there is more than one perspective on this phenomenon. In fact, there seem to be at ‘Western construct’. In contradis…
Political power, national identity, and language: The case of Afrikaans
Afrikaans is the home language of 5.9 million people. During the 1980s, Afrikaans was the dominant state language and a widely-used lingua franca in South Africa and Namibia. But by the end of the twentieth century, English had replaced Afrikaans as the dominant state language and a decline in the use of Afrikaans was in evidence, even among native Afrikaans speakers. An examination of this language's twentieth-century journey helps illustrate th…
It's the Bush: Foreign Perceptions of Australia - A Comparative Study
Cities compete to host the Olympics because it is a unique global public relations opportunity to attract tourism, foreign investment, and international respect. However, hosting an Olympics also entails risks because host cities and countries must survive intensive international media scrutiny. Whether the Sydney Olympics will redefine overseas perceptions of Australia either positively or negatively is still to be established. Our study will ad…
Nationalism, modernity and postmodernity: Comparing the South African and Australian experiences
South Africa and Australia emerged into the twentieth century sharing similar racist (white‐Anglo) modernist nationalist projects – one created by Lord Alfred Milner the other by Alfred Deakin. However, these two societies leave the twentieth century with what seems like fundamentally different futures. In large measure this is because South Africans and Australians have responded quite differently to the economic and cultural trends associated w…
Non-racialism, relationality and no-relation: Recovering Biko’s Black Consciousness forgotten
This article examines the rearticulation of meanings appropriated out of historical and ideological phases of the anti-Apartheid struggle, specifically with regard to race (non-racialism) and Black Consciousness. It compares examples of democrats in contexts radically different from South Africa, deploying “South African-made” meaning into discursive and political-economic contexts for which they had not been designed. The example of Steve Biko’s…
Inundated by the Audience: Journalism, Audience Participation and the 2011 Brisbane Flood
Following the Brisbane flood in 2011, Seven's breakfast television program Sunrise launched a partnership with the Queensland government called 'Operation Bounce Back'. The initiative called on skilled tradespeople to volunteer for the rebuilding effort, and extended Sunrise's representations of audience participation. In this article, we examine Operation Bounce Back in relation to different accounts of audience participation. We look at the int…
Media, media education and the development of South Africa
The libertarian theory of the press: How appropriate in the South African context
1984). The libertarian theory of the press: How appropriate in the South African context? Communicatio: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 31-37
Habermas: A new theory of praxis through communicative action
1983). HABERMAS: A new theory of praxis through communicative action? Communicatio: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 9-14
The libertarian theory of the press: How appropriate in the South African context
1984). The libertarian theory of the press: How appropriate in the South African context? Communicatio: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 31-37
Moves Toward the Registration of South African Journalists: An Overview from a Critical Point of View
During 1988 the South African government proposed a scheme for the registration of news agencies and journalists. Although public pressure and opposition from the Press resulted in the Government withdrawing its demand that all news agencies register by end of June, the history of calls for registration goes back to 1950. This paper offers a chronological overview of government controls on the Press and journalists from a critical perspective
State-Subsidised Theatre Following the September 1984 Vaal Uprising
Media, media education and the development of South Africa
Rethinking the Leftist Struggle in South Africa
(1992). Rethinking the Leftist Struggle in South Africa. Critical Arts: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-25
Langauge and National Unity in a Post-Apartheid South Africa
(1992). Langauge and National Unity in a Post-Apartheid South Africa. Critical Arts: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 52-60
Language and media policy: Exploring the options
FW de Klerk's 1990 announcement of reform has initiated a significant process of policy formulation and debate in SA. In both language and media fields, proposals for policy have been made. Considering the close inter-relationship between language and the media, it is somewhat strange that both the language policy and media policy debates have, up to now, developed almost autonomously. Given that the outcome of the language policy debate will hav…
Obstacles to digging out the dirt: Frustrations in researching broadcast policy in the new South Africa
Shifting patterns of political discourse in the new South Africa
Since February, 1990, a remarkable series of shifts have occurred in the discourses used by the central political players in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) and the National Party (NP). This article examines the two key political discourses of the 1980s, namely the NP's apartheid and the UDF's (ANC internal‐wing) non‐racialism. Then the shifts that have occurred since 1990 are traced. It will be argued that by the end of 1992 th…
Rethinking cultural studies to meet the challenge of the "information age" in South Africa
Cape to Cairo television: In whose interests
(1996). Cape to Cairo television: In whose interests? Continuum: Vol. 9, Transitions, pp. 61-87
Nationalism, modernity and postmodernity: Comparing the South African and Australian experiences
South Africa and Australia emerged into the twentieth century sharing similar racist (white‐Anglo) modernist nationalist projects – one created by Lord Alfred Milner the other by Alfred Deakin. However, these two societies leave the twentieth century with what seems like fundamentally different futures. In large measure this is because South Africans and Australians have responded quite differently to the economic and cultural trends associated w…
South Africa's Second Post-Apartheid Elections: A Reaffirmation of Racial Politics but a Loosening of Ethnic Bonds
It seems likely that the 1999 elections have set the parameters of South African politics for some decades to come unless the South African 'tradition' of ethnic voting and 'one-party dominance' can be broken. What seems likely is that South Africa will now assume the characteristics of a one-party dominant system where only one political party actually has any chance of governing, but where small opposition parties (representing 'niche' social f…
Packing for Perth: The Growth of a Southern African Diaspora
Southern African decolonization, the civil war and post-apartheid turmoil are creating a Southern African diaspora across the Anglo world. Australia has become a popular destination within this diaspora that South Africans now refer to emigration in general as “packing for Perth.” Thus far, little work has been done on this migratory phenomenon. This article seeks to develop an overview of the birth and developments of this diaspora, with a focus…
It's the Bush: Foreign Perceptions of Australia - A Comparative Study
Cities compete to host the Olympics because it is a unique global public relations opportunity to attract tourism, foreign investment, and international respect. However, hosting an Olympics also entails risks because host cities and countries must survive intensive international media scrutiny. Whether the Sydney Olympics will redefine overseas perceptions of Australia either positively or negatively is still to be established. Our study will ad…
The `War Against Terrorism: A Public Relations Challenge for the Pentagon
This article examines the relationship between warfare and the media, arguing that both terrorists and conventional warfare planners in the Pentagon factor communications and public relations into their planning. In this regard, the article sketches out how the Pentagon developed a new genre of `public relations-ized' warfare - warfare planned, not only as a military exercise, but as a televisual media event. Similarly, it will be argued that tho…
Anglicising Postapartheid South Africa
The apartheid state deliberately encouraged linguistic diversity and actively built cultural infrastructures which impeded Anglicisation. With the end of apartheid has come de facto Anglicisation. So although South Africa has, since 1994, had 11 official languages, in reality, English is swamping the other 10 languages. Afrikaans has, in particular, come under tremendous pressure. Whereas before 1994 Afrikaans was one of two official languages, a…
Political power, national identity, and language: The case of Afrikaans
Afrikaans is the home language of 5.9 million people. During the 1980s, Afrikaans was the dominant state language and a widely-used lingua franca in South Africa and Namibia. But by the end of the twentieth century, English had replaced Afrikaans as the dominant state language and a decline in the use of Afrikaans was in evidence, even among native Afrikaans speakers. An examination of this language's twentieth-century journey helps illustrate th…
Afropessimism: A genealogy of discourse
Afropessimism is an important issue for all Africans as well as for anyone interested in African development and socio-cultural analysis. Although there are bits and pieces and research works on Afropessimism, none has as yet brought it all together in a coherent way. When we decided to undertake this examination of Afropessimism, there is more than one perspective on this phenomenon. In fact, there seem to be at ‘Western construct’. In contradis…
Inundated by the Audience: Journalism, Audience Participation and the 2011 Brisbane Flood
Following the Brisbane flood in 2011, Seven's breakfast television program Sunrise launched a partnership with the Queensland government called 'Operation Bounce Back'. The initiative called on skilled tradespeople to volunteer for the rebuilding effort, and extended Sunrise's representations of audience participation. In this article, we examine Operation Bounce Back in relation to different accounts of audience participation. We look at the int…
Soft power, being attractive to others, and nation branding in an epoch where the Pax Americana sets the pace
Additional informationNotes on contributorsP. Eric Louw P. Eric Louw is affiliated to the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland. He is research fellow, Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa
Should South African journalists be paying more attention to policy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEric Louw Eric Louw, School of Communication and Arts, the University of Queensland, Australia, is research fellow at the University of South Africa
Broadcasting the end of apartheid: Live television and the birth of a new South Africa
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEric Louw ERIC LOUW, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Non-racialism, relationality and no-relation: Recovering Biko’s Black Consciousness forgotten
This article examines the rearticulation of meanings appropriated out of historical and ideological phases of the anti-Apartheid struggle, specifically with regard to race (non-racialism) and Black Consciousness. It compares examples of democrats in contexts radically different from South Africa, deploying “South African-made” meaning into discursive and political-economic contexts for which they had not been designed. The example of Steve Biko’s…
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