Sisanda Nkoala
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4900276 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sisanda Nkoala |
| PRENOMES | Sisanda |
| SOBRENOME | Nkoala |
| ASSINATURA | NKOALA S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3863-7392 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
AI Hype Through an African Lens
News media play a crucial role in shaping a public understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and influencing how society interacts with this technology, often contributing to AI hype. This is particularly significant in Africa, where unique socioeconomic dynamics and historical relationships with technology shape news discourse on AI. However, there is limited understanding of how African news media contribute to AI hype. To address this, thi…
Baloi, clever blacks and magogo
This study examines online violence against South African female journalists on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), focusing on language as a tool for mob censorship. The study analyses 600 posts directed at selected female journalists targeted because of their gender and their reporting on high-profile individuals and events. Through qualitative content analysis, the study reveals how name-calling and chastisement are used to belittl…
African Journalists’ and Academics’ Perspectives on Knowledge Exchange
This study explores the perceptions of academics and practitioners regarding the impact of journalism studies research and education on journalistic practice in Africa. Drawing on social constructivism theory, the study advances a journalist–academic knowledge exchange (JAKE) framework to assess the extent and perceived relevance of engagements between journalism studies academics and practitioners. Data were collected using in-depth semi-structu…
The Sociotechnical Dynamics of Virtual Work-Integrated Learning in Journalism Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study explores how sociotechnical factors in a virtual work-integrated learning (WIL) environment influenced the development of practical journalism skills and professional socialisation of journalism students at a selected South African university during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a university of technology as a case study, the data for this study were collected using focus group discussions with final-year journalism students and semi-st…
How radio influences indigenous language podcasts in South Africa
Even though radio continues to be the most dominant media platform for black South Africans, the rise in indigenous language podcasts marks a significant milestone in the South African media landscape for speakers of these languages who have previously been afforded limited agency in the sector. The place of podcasts in South Africa must be understood from the rich 100 years of radio in a context where oral media serves as a central platform for …
African Journalism Education Reimagined Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic
Multilingual students’ linguistic repertoires as a resource
This mixed-methods case study develops a monolingual-multilingual continuum that depicts how multilingual students draw on their linguistic repertoire as a resource when undertaking assessments in journalism education. Guided by Hult and Hornberger’s heuristic for considering language planning and policy as a resource, the central question the study seeks to answer is this: Which languages do students use for what kind of assessment and as what k…
Two unlikely bedfellows
This paper examines a specific unconferencing methodology designed for the HELTASA (un)conference, an international online event held in 2021 in South Africa. Drawing from the principles of unconferencing and decolonisation, the description of the unconferencing methodology in this paper is interspersed with collective autoethnographic reflections, collected through individual and collective writing engagements, to engage with our complex narrati…
The influence of the digital divide on emergency remote student-centred learning during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper explores the emergency remote learning experiences of journalism students. It discusses how disparities in access to digital tools and participation in online learning, caused by the digital divide, influenced how some benefitted from the student-centred learning approaches adopted while others could not. The study seeks to answer this question: To what extent did the digital divide influence the experiences of journalism students with…
The Message, the Medium and the Means of Argumentation
This paper argues for developing a more holistic approach to the rhetorical analysis to understand the persuasive communicative work being done by television news as rhetors replicating and performing popular culture. The essay argues that studies on the rhetoricality of television news reports tend to either focus on the reports’ messages through an analysis of the content or consider the medium on which the reports are aired or the form of thes…
Metavoicing, trust-building mechanisms and partisan messaging
This study investigates social media usage patterns, Twitter’ frequency use and message typologies of selected South African female politicians’. Using the digital public sphere theory as a lens, the study considers six hundred Twitter posts from six female politicians from the African National Congress, Democratic Alliance, and Economic Freedom Fighters political parties to examine the potential of social media for visibility and participation, …
Youth Audiences and Social Media Integration in Community Radio Stations in South Africa
Twitter’s Technological Affordances and Science Journalism in the Global South
This study uses media richness theory to examine social media usage in science journalism from the Global South. By analysing content from the Twitter feeds of three South African-based science journalism outfits, the central question is: How do South African science journalism outfits use the affordances of Twitter to engage local audiences with global science issues in contextually relevant ways? The study finds that multilingualism in science …
Educators’ Experiences of using multilingual pedagogies during emergency remote teaching
Since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in 2020, universities worldwide have undergone unanticipated changes in how they operate and deliver the academic programme. Chief among these changes has been a wide-scale adoption of emergency remote teaching (ERT). This phenomenological study draws on critical pedagogy to analyse the experiences of South African academics of how the adoption of ERT influenced their use of …
Exploring disruptions of the coloniality of knowledge, power and being to enable agency as disciplinary activists for curriculum change
The #RhodesMustFall (RMF) movement of 2015 and 2016 challenged universities across the nation to interrogate how the curriculum serves as an alienating and marginalising device that stymies student success. Consequently, the HE sector has been challenged to respond to student calls for decolonisation by reviewing existing university curricula which promote forms of knowledge production that do not reflect an African worldview or a global South co…
Crimes Against Children
This study explores how South African television news reports communicate on sentence proceedings criminal cases involving violent acts against children. These kinds of crimes tend to attract public interest, and the outcomes can be a litmus test on the community's views concerning the justice system. By using cluster criticism to consider the discursive and non-discursive components of selected news reports, the study considers how television ne…
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Crimes Against Children
This study explores how South African television news reports communicate on sentence proceedings criminal cases involving violent acts against children. These kinds of crimes tend to attract public interest, and the outcomes can be a litmus test on the community's views concerning the justice system. By using cluster criticism to consider the discursive and non-discursive components of selected news reports, the study considers how television ne…
Exploring disruptions of the coloniality of knowledge, power and being to enable agency as disciplinary activists for curriculum change
The #RhodesMustFall (RMF) movement of 2015 and 2016 challenged universities across the nation to interrogate how the curriculum serves as an alienating and marginalising device that stymies student success. Consequently, the HE sector has been challenged to respond to student calls for decolonisation by reviewing existing university curricula which promote forms of knowledge production that do not reflect an African worldview or a global South co…
Educators’ Experiences of using multilingual pedagogies during emergency remote teaching
Since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in 2020, universities worldwide have undergone unanticipated changes in how they operate and deliver the academic programme. Chief among these changes has been a wide-scale adoption of emergency remote teaching (ERT). This phenomenological study draws on critical pedagogy to analyse the experiences of South African academics of how the adoption of ERT influenced their use of …
The influence of the digital divide on emergency remote student-centred learning during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper explores the emergency remote learning experiences of journalism students. It discusses how disparities in access to digital tools and participation in online learning, caused by the digital divide, influenced how some benefitted from the student-centred learning approaches adopted while others could not. The study seeks to answer this question: To what extent did the digital divide influence the experiences of journalism students with…
The Message, the Medium and the Means of Argumentation
This paper argues for developing a more holistic approach to the rhetorical analysis to understand the persuasive communicative work being done by television news as rhetors replicating and performing popular culture. The essay argues that studies on the rhetoricality of television news reports tend to either focus on the reports’ messages through an analysis of the content or consider the medium on which the reports are aired or the form of thes…
Metavoicing, trust-building mechanisms and partisan messaging
This study investigates social media usage patterns, Twitter’ frequency use and message typologies of selected South African female politicians’. Using the digital public sphere theory as a lens, the study considers six hundred Twitter posts from six female politicians from the African National Congress, Democratic Alliance, and Economic Freedom Fighters political parties to examine the potential of social media for visibility and participation, …
Youth Audiences and Social Media Integration in Community Radio Stations in South Africa
Twitter’s Technological Affordances and Science Journalism in the Global South
This study uses media richness theory to examine social media usage in science journalism from the Global South. By analysing content from the Twitter feeds of three South African-based science journalism outfits, the central question is: How do South African science journalism outfits use the affordances of Twitter to engage local audiences with global science issues in contextually relevant ways? The study finds that multilingualism in science …
How radio influences indigenous language podcasts in South Africa
Even though radio continues to be the most dominant media platform for black South Africans, the rise in indigenous language podcasts marks a significant milestone in the South African media landscape for speakers of these languages who have previously been afforded limited agency in the sector. The place of podcasts in South Africa must be understood from the rich 100 years of radio in a context where oral media serves as a central platform for …
African Journalism Education Reimagined Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic
Multilingual students’ linguistic repertoires as a resource
This mixed-methods case study develops a monolingual-multilingual continuum that depicts how multilingual students draw on their linguistic repertoire as a resource when undertaking assessments in journalism education. Guided by Hult and Hornberger’s heuristic for considering language planning and policy as a resource, the central question the study seeks to answer is this: Which languages do students use for what kind of assessment and as what k…
Two unlikely bedfellows
This paper examines a specific unconferencing methodology designed for the HELTASA (un)conference, an international online event held in 2021 in South Africa. Drawing from the principles of unconferencing and decolonisation, the description of the unconferencing methodology in this paper is interspersed with collective autoethnographic reflections, collected through individual and collective writing engagements, to engage with our complex narrati…
Baloi, clever blacks and magogo
This study examines online violence against South African female journalists on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), focusing on language as a tool for mob censorship. The study analyses 600 posts directed at selected female journalists targeted because of their gender and their reporting on high-profile individuals and events. Through qualitative content analysis, the study reveals how name-calling and chastisement are used to belittl…
African Journalists’ and Academics’ Perspectives on Knowledge Exchange
This study explores the perceptions of academics and practitioners regarding the impact of journalism studies research and education on journalistic practice in Africa. Drawing on social constructivism theory, the study advances a journalist–academic knowledge exchange (JAKE) framework to assess the extent and perceived relevance of engagements between journalism studies academics and practitioners. Data were collected using in-depth semi-structu…
The Sociotechnical Dynamics of Virtual Work-Integrated Learning in Journalism Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study explores how sociotechnical factors in a virtual work-integrated learning (WIL) environment influenced the development of practical journalism skills and professional socialisation of journalism students at a selected South African university during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a university of technology as a case study, the data for this study were collected using focus group discussions with final-year journalism students and semi-st…
AI Hype Through an African Lens
News media play a crucial role in shaping a public understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and influencing how society interacts with this technology, often contributing to AI hype. This is particularly significant in Africa, where unique socioeconomic dynamics and historical relationships with technology shape news discourse on AI. However, there is limited understanding of how African news media contribute to AI hype. To address this, thi…
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