Lynette Steenveld
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynette Steenveld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynette |
| FAMILY NAME | Steenveld |
| SIGNATURE | STEENVELD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Journalism across cultures: An introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLynette SteenveldLynette Steenveld is associate professor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University. Her research interests include the politics of journalism and film as social practices. She is Chair of the Board of Grocott's Mail, South Africa's oldest independent newspaper
The School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa
Trash or popular journalism? The case of South Africa’s Daily Sun
This article examines the rise of tabloids in South Africa, using the Daily Sun as the paradigmatic example in our attempt to account for their popularity. We first locate the tabloid as a commercial response to the post-1994 creation of black working-class South Africans as citizens and a new reading public.We then problematize the ‘definition’ of tabloid journalism, pointing to it as a hybrid bundle of texts which exist along a continuum rangin…
Contextualising journalism education and training in Southern Africa
In this article it is argued that journalism education in Southern Africa must \ncontend with defining a new academic identity for itself, extricating itself from \ndependency on Western oriented models of journalism education and training, \nas this has been a perennial challenge in most of Africa
The SAHRC's enquiry into racism in the media: Problematising state-media relationships
This article examines media discourses about the South African Human Rights Commission's (SAHRC) 1999/2000 enquiry into racism in the media. The article examines these discourses in the light of the history of the relation between South Africa's ethnic presses and the apartheid state. This history explains, in part, why the two key media discourses about the SAHRC's enquiry into racism in the media focused on the threat to press freedom and the i…
Thinking about South African tabloid newspapers
A popular view of tabloids is that they pander to the lowest common denominator of public taste, they simplify complex issues, and they generally fail to provide information that citizens need in order to make informed political judgments - the latter being the raison d'etre of serious newspapers. In summary, tabloids lower the standards of public discourse (Ornerbring & Jonson, 2004:283)
Transforming the media: A cultural approach
The change from an Apartheid state to a liberal democratic one has wrought many changes at all levels of South African society: the economic, social, political, cultural. This paper explores the impacts of these changes on the South African print media industry, with a view to assessing their contribution to the development of a democratic citizenship. While acknowledging the constraining effects of economic structures of ownership, the paper loc…
The fifth estate: Media theory, watchdog of journalism
(1998). The fifth estate: Media theory, watchdog of journalism. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 100-110
The 1995 Rugby World Cup and the politics of nation-building in South Africa
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was held in South Africa just one year after the country's first democratic elections. Throughout the tournament, the importance of competition victory for the South African team — playing under the banner of `One Team, One Nation' and endorsed by President Mandela — was articulated by the team, the local media, politicians and by its supporters in terms of its centrality to the project of nation-building. This discourse …
Sport en nasiebou in Suid-Afrika: Die betekenis van die 1995 Rugby Wěreldbeker
In this article on ‘Sport and nation building in South Africa: the signification of the 1995 Rugby World Cup’, the authors state that rugby in South Africa has traditionally had a particular set of associations. South African journalist Drew Forest has pointed out that while rugby was ironically a bequest of imperial Britain, ‘the sport has always been an Afrikaner nationalist project, a form of collective self-assertion against a hostile and unc…
The 1995 Rugby World Cup and the politics of nation-building in South Africa
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was held in South Africa just one year after the country's first democratic elections. Throughout the tournament, the importance of competition victory for the South African team — playing under the banner of `One Team, One Nation' and endorsed by President Mandela — was articulated by the team, the local media, politicians and by its supporters in terms of its centrality to the project of nation-building. This discourse …
Trash or popular journalism? The case of South Africa’s Daily Sun
This article examines the rise of tabloids in South Africa, using the Daily Sun as the paradigmatic example in our attempt to account for their popularity. We first locate the tabloid as a commercial response to the post-1994 creation of black working-class South Africans as citizens and a new reading public.We then problematize the ‘definition’ of tabloid journalism, pointing to it as a hybrid bundle of texts which exist along a continuum rangin…
Transforming the media: A cultural approach
The change from an Apartheid state to a liberal democratic one has wrought many changes at all levels of South African society: the economic, social, political, cultural. This paper explores the impacts of these changes on the South African print media industry, with a view to assessing their contribution to the development of a democratic citizenship. While acknowledging the constraining effects of economic structures of ownership, the paper loc…
The School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa
Sport en nasiebou in Suid-Afrika: Die betekenis van die 1995 Rugby Wěreldbeker
In this article on ‘Sport and nation building in South Africa: the signification of the 1995 Rugby World Cup’, the authors state that rugby in South Africa has traditionally had a particular set of associations. South African journalist Drew Forest has pointed out that while rugby was ironically a bequest of imperial Britain, ‘the sport has always been an Afrikaner nationalist project, a form of collective self-assertion against a hostile and unc…
The fifth estate: Media theory, watchdog of journalism
(1998). The fifth estate: Media theory, watchdog of journalism. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 100-110
The 1995 Rugby World Cup and the politics of nation-building in South Africa
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was held in South Africa just one year after the country's first democratic elections. Throughout the tournament, the importance of competition victory for the South African team — playing under the banner of `One Team, One Nation' and endorsed by President Mandela — was articulated by the team, the local media, politicians and by its supporters in terms of its centrality to the project of nation-building. This discourse …
Transforming the media: A cultural approach
The change from an Apartheid state to a liberal democratic one has wrought many changes at all levels of South African society: the economic, social, political, cultural. This paper explores the impacts of these changes on the South African print media industry, with a view to assessing their contribution to the development of a democratic citizenship. While acknowledging the constraining effects of economic structures of ownership, the paper loc…
Thinking about South African tabloid newspapers
A popular view of tabloids is that they pander to the lowest common denominator of public taste, they simplify complex issues, and they generally fail to provide information that citizens need in order to make informed political judgments - the latter being the raison d'etre of serious newspapers. In summary, tabloids lower the standards of public discourse (Ornerbring & Jonson, 2004:283)
Contextualising journalism education and training in Southern Africa
In this article it is argued that journalism education in Southern Africa must \ncontend with defining a new academic identity for itself, extricating itself from \ndependency on Western oriented models of journalism education and training, \nas this has been a perennial challenge in most of Africa
The SAHRC's enquiry into racism in the media: Problematising state-media relationships
This article examines media discourses about the South African Human Rights Commission's (SAHRC) 1999/2000 enquiry into racism in the media. The article examines these discourses in the light of the history of the relation between South Africa's ethnic presses and the apartheid state. This history explains, in part, why the two key media discourses about the SAHRC's enquiry into racism in the media focused on the threat to press freedom and the i…
Trash or popular journalism? The case of South Africa’s Daily Sun
This article examines the rise of tabloids in South Africa, using the Daily Sun as the paradigmatic example in our attempt to account for their popularity. We first locate the tabloid as a commercial response to the post-1994 creation of black working-class South Africans as citizens and a new reading public.We then problematize the ‘definition’ of tabloid journalism, pointing to it as a hybrid bundle of texts which exist along a continuum rangin…
The School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa
Journalism across cultures: An introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLynette SteenveldLynette Steenveld is associate professor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University. Her research interests include the politics of journalism and film as social practices. She is Chair of the Board of Grocott's Mail, South Africa's oldest independent newspaper
Sociology (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Journalism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Democracy (3 works)