Larry Strelitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Strelitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Strelitz |
| SIGNATURE | STRELITZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Framing Famine: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the 2011 Famine in Somalia
This study examines media coverage of the 2011–2012 famine in Somalia by the websites of BBC News, CNN and Al-Jazeera. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative content analyses, it explores why coverage of the famine began as late as it did, despite ample evidence of its inevitable unfolding, as well as the manner in which the famine was explained in popular news accounts. The study surveys famine-related news reports for evidence of f…
The School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa
Enquête sur la popularité du tabloïd zimbabwéen uMthunywa: Une étude de réception des lecteurs de Bulawayo au cœur du Matabeleland
Alors que la presse populaire de type tabloïd a souvent été accusée de compromettre les fonctions normatives du journalisme et de dépolitiser ses lecteurs en Afrique, il existe peu de tentatives de théorisation des raisons du développement rapide de sa popularité. S’appuyant sur des méthodes de recherche qualitative, notamment une analyse de contenu et des entretiens en profondeur auprès des lecteurs de Bulawayo du tabloïd zimbabwéen uMthunywa en…
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…
Investigating the Popularity of the Zimbabwean Tabloid Newspaper uMthunywa: A Reception Study of Bulawayo Readers
While the tabloid press in Africa has often been criticized for undermining the normative functions of journalism and depoliticizing readers, there has been little attempt to theorize the reasons for its rapid growth in popularity. Drawing on qualitative research methods, principally qualitative content analysis and indepth interviews, with Bulawayo readers of the Zimbabwean vernacular (isiNdebele) tabloid newspaper uMthunywa, this article argues…
The African Reception of Global Media
Biography, Media Consumption, And Identity Formation
This paper proposes that the biographical or narrative interview is an important method in exploring the relationship of media consumption to identity formation. The paper takes issue with those theorists who place media consumption at the centre of identity formation processes. Rather, in line with the work of British social theorist John Tomlinson, the paper argues the need to see the relationship between media and culture, in the process of id…
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)
Against Cultural Essentialism: Media Reception among South African Youth
Drawing on interviews with students on the Grahamstown campus of Rhodes University, South Africa, this article argues against a number of claims central to the media imperialism thesis. It argues that centuries of cultural mixing that have taken place historically between locals from different continents and cultural traditions undermine the claims for an internally pure and authentic indigenous culture which has recently become corrupted by fore…
Global media and symbolic distancing
The idea of ‘self as story’ both overlaps and contrasts with other models of identity. It also extends the idea of ‘culture’ and ‘media’ beyond the organisational structures of, say, the culture industries, broadcasting or the published media, into the everyday modes in which we express and construct our lives in personal terms, telling our own stories. It makes the assumption that it is valuable to look not just at the products of professionals …
Media consumption and identity formation: The case of the ‘homeland’ viewers
This article examines the television consumption patterns of a group of rural African working-class students on the campus of Rhodes University in Grahams-town, South Africa, in order to examine the relationship between media consumption and identity formation. Drawing on interviews with these students, the article points out that their rejection of foreign television programmes is a recent phenomenon, coinciding with their arrival at Rhodes Univ…
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…
And South African television
Journal Article 1922 and South African television Get access Lynette Steenveld, Lynette Steenveld Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Larry Strelitz Larry Strelitz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 35, Issue 1, Spring 1994, Pages 36–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/35.1.36 Published: 01 March 1994
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…
Media consumption and identity formation: The case of the ‘homeland’ viewers
This article examines the television consumption patterns of a group of rural African working-class students on the campus of Rhodes University in Grahams-town, South Africa, in order to examine the relationship between media consumption and identity formation. Drawing on interviews with these students, the article points out that their rejection of foreign television programmes is a recent phenomenon, coinciding with their arrival at Rhodes Univ…
Investigating the Popularity of the Zimbabwean Tabloid Newspaper uMthunywa: A Reception Study of Bulawayo Readers
While the tabloid press in Africa has often been criticized for undermining the normative functions of journalism and depoliticizing readers, there has been little attempt to theorize the reasons for its rapid growth in popularity. Drawing on qualitative research methods, principally qualitative content analysis and indepth interviews, with Bulawayo readers of the Zimbabwean vernacular (isiNdebele) tabloid newspaper uMthunywa, this article argues…
And South African television
Journal Article 1922 and South African television Get access Lynette Steenveld, Lynette Steenveld Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Larry Strelitz Larry Strelitz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 35, Issue 1, Spring 1994, Pages 36–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/35.1.36 Published: 01 March 1994
Against Cultural Essentialism: Media Reception among South African Youth
Drawing on interviews with students on the Grahamstown campus of Rhodes University, South Africa, this article argues against a number of claims central to the media imperialism thesis. It argues that centuries of cultural mixing that have taken place historically between locals from different continents and cultural traditions undermine the claims for an internally pure and authentic indigenous culture which has recently become corrupted by fore…
The School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa
Enquête sur la popularité du tabloïd zimbabwéen uMthunywa: Une étude de réception des lecteurs de Bulawayo au cœur du Matabeleland
Alors que la presse populaire de type tabloïd a souvent été accusée de compromettre les fonctions normatives du journalisme et de dépolitiser ses lecteurs en Afrique, il existe peu de tentatives de théorisation des raisons du développement rapide de sa popularité. S’appuyant sur des méthodes de recherche qualitative, notamment une analyse de contenu et des entretiens en profondeur auprès des lecteurs de Bulawayo du tabloïd zimbabwéen uMthunywa en…
And South African television
Journal Article 1922 and South African television Get access Lynette Steenveld, Lynette Steenveld Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Larry Strelitz Larry Strelitz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 35, Issue 1, Spring 1994, Pages 36–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/35.1.36 Published: 01 March 1994
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 …
Media consumption and identity formation: The case of the ‘homeland’ viewers
This article examines the television consumption patterns of a group of rural African working-class students on the campus of Rhodes University in Grahams-town, South Africa, in order to examine the relationship between media consumption and identity formation. Drawing on interviews with these students, the article points out that their rejection of foreign television programmes is a recent phenomenon, coinciding with their arrival at Rhodes Univ…
Global media and symbolic distancing
The idea of ‘self as story’ both overlaps and contrasts with other models of identity. It also extends the idea of ‘culture’ and ‘media’ beyond the organisational structures of, say, the culture industries, broadcasting or the published media, into the everyday modes in which we express and construct our lives in personal terms, telling our own stories. It makes the assumption that it is valuable to look not just at the products of professionals …
Against Cultural Essentialism: Media Reception among South African Youth
Drawing on interviews with students on the Grahamstown campus of Rhodes University, South Africa, this article argues against a number of claims central to the media imperialism thesis. It argues that centuries of cultural mixing that have taken place historically between locals from different continents and cultural traditions undermine the claims for an internally pure and authentic indigenous culture which has recently become corrupted by fore…
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)
The African Reception of Global Media
Biography, Media Consumption, And Identity Formation
This paper proposes that the biographical or narrative interview is an important method in exploring the relationship of media consumption to identity formation. The paper takes issue with those theorists who place media consumption at the centre of identity formation processes. Rather, in line with the work of British social theorist John Tomlinson, the paper argues the need to see the relationship between media and culture, in the process of id…
Investigating the Popularity of the Zimbabwean Tabloid Newspaper uMthunywa: A Reception Study of Bulawayo Readers
While the tabloid press in Africa has often been criticized for undermining the normative functions of journalism and depoliticizing readers, there has been little attempt to theorize the reasons for its rapid growth in popularity. Drawing on qualitative research methods, principally qualitative content analysis and indepth interviews, with Bulawayo readers of the Zimbabwean vernacular (isiNdebele) tabloid newspaper uMthunywa, this article argues…
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
Enquête sur la popularité du tabloïd zimbabwéen uMthunywa: Une étude de réception des lecteurs de Bulawayo au cœur du Matabeleland
Alors que la presse populaire de type tabloïd a souvent été accusée de compromettre les fonctions normatives du journalisme et de dépolitiser ses lecteurs en Afrique, il existe peu de tentatives de théorisation des raisons du développement rapide de sa popularité. S’appuyant sur des méthodes de recherche qualitative, notamment une analyse de contenu et des entretiens en profondeur auprès des lecteurs de Bulawayo du tabloïd zimbabwéen uMthunywa en…
Framing Famine: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the 2011 Famine in Somalia
This study examines media coverage of the 2011–2012 famine in Somalia by the websites of BBC News, CNN and Al-Jazeera. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative content analyses, it explores why coverage of the famine began as late as it did, despite ample evidence of its inevitable unfolding, as well as the manner in which the famine was explained in popular news accounts. The study surveys famine-related news reports for evidence of f…
Sociology (12 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works)