Vanessa Malila
Biographic Data
| ID | 4503666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Malila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Malila |
| SIGNATURE | MALILA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6961-085X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Barriers to Effective Civil Society Organisations
Amid a growing trend of shrinking space for civil society and rapid shifts in the social, economic and political landscape in the MENA region, it becomes crucial to understand how authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes control and consolidate power over the civil society sphere during transition phases. Since 2013, Egyptian civil society has been portrayed as an enemy for both the state and the people. After the 25 January 2011 revolution i…
Barriers to Effective Civil Society Organisations
Beyond Watchdog Journalism
This article offers an analysis of newspaper coverage of education in the Eastern Cape. Using content analysis of news print media as a method of investigation, the findings illustrate a gap in education journalism in South Africa between 2005 and 2016. This study is an exploration of the education landscape in the Eastern Cape across two interrelated fields—social accountability and journalism. The aim is to understand the gaps in coverage in a …
Listening to the ‘Born Frees’
In 2014 South Africa celebrated 20 years of democracy, and for many of the ‘Born Frees’ – those who came of age politically after 1996 – this was their first opportunity to vote in national elections. With democracy came the promise for South Africa's marginalised majority of voice and agency, but also the implicit promise that their democratically elected government would listen to them. In addition, the South African media have long championed …
Young citizens in South Africa
In 2014, South Africa’s democracy turned 20. Just like the young democracy is learning to find its feet, young citizens are negotiating the unknown territory of full citizenship rights while confronting a ‘totally different world than that of their parents’. Whether their parents were black and not entitled to full citizenship or whether their parents were white and therefore implicated in a system that withheld full citizenship from the majority…
Binary opposites – can South African journalists be both watchdogs and developmental journalists
This article challenges the traditional role ascribed by liberal and developmental media theory that journalists should either be watchdogs or developmental journalists but not both at the same time. As part of the South African leg of the Worlds of Journalism (WJS) project this article argues that it is indeed possible that the media can fulfil both roles. Utilizing the WJS 2014 questionnaire and based on a provincial face-to-face (n=37) and a n…
Beyond the Information Scandal
South Africa's Information Scandal brought to light the extent to which the government tried to change popular perceptions through the manipulation of the press. South Africa's ‘Propaganda War’ began in 1972, at a time when the political, economic and social landscape was volatile and unpredictable – something the apartheid government hoped to better control by spending great sums on influencing negative press coverage and portraying a positive i…
Binary opposites – can South African journalists be both watchdogs and developmental journalists
This article challenges the traditional role ascribed by liberal and developmental media theory that journalists should either be watchdogs or developmental journalists but not both at the same time. As part of the South African leg of the Worlds of Journalism (WJS) project this article argues that it is indeed possible that the media can fulfil both roles. Utilizing the WJS 2014 questionnaire and based on a provincial face-to-face (n=37) and a n…
Beyond the Information Scandal
South Africa's Information Scandal brought to light the extent to which the government tried to change popular perceptions through the manipulation of the press. South Africa's ‘Propaganda War’ began in 1972, at a time when the political, economic and social landscape was volatile and unpredictable – something the apartheid government hoped to better control by spending great sums on influencing negative press coverage and portraying a positive i…
Listening to the ‘Born Frees’
In 2014 South Africa celebrated 20 years of democracy, and for many of the ‘Born Frees’ – those who came of age politically after 1996 – this was their first opportunity to vote in national elections. With democracy came the promise for South Africa's marginalised majority of voice and agency, but also the implicit promise that their democratically elected government would listen to them. In addition, the South African media have long championed …
Young citizens in South Africa
In 2014, South Africa’s democracy turned 20. Just like the young democracy is learning to find its feet, young citizens are negotiating the unknown territory of full citizenship rights while confronting a ‘totally different world than that of their parents’. Whether their parents were black and not entitled to full citizenship or whether their parents were white and therefore implicated in a system that withheld full citizenship from the majority…
Binary opposites – can South African journalists be both watchdogs and developmental journalists
This article challenges the traditional role ascribed by liberal and developmental media theory that journalists should either be watchdogs or developmental journalists but not both at the same time. As part of the South African leg of the Worlds of Journalism (WJS) project this article argues that it is indeed possible that the media can fulfil both roles. Utilizing the WJS 2014 questionnaire and based on a provincial face-to-face (n=37) and a n…
Beyond Watchdog Journalism
This article offers an analysis of newspaper coverage of education in the Eastern Cape. Using content analysis of news print media as a method of investigation, the findings illustrate a gap in education journalism in South Africa between 2005 and 2016. This study is an exploration of the education landscape in the Eastern Cape across two interrelated fields—social accountability and journalism. The aim is to understand the gaps in coverage in a …
Barriers to Effective Civil Society Organisations
Amid a growing trend of shrinking space for civil society and rapid shifts in the social, economic and political landscape in the MENA region, it becomes crucial to understand how authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes control and consolidate power over the civil society sphere during transition phases. Since 2013, Egyptian civil society has been portrayed as an enemy for both the state and the people. After the 25 January 2011 revolution i…
Barriers to Effective Civil Society Organisations
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Case studies (2 works) · Civil rights (2 works) · Civil society (2 works) · Developing countries (2 works) · International Relations (2 works)