Viola Candice Milton
Biographic Data
| ID | 793513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viola Candice Milton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viola Candice |
| FAMILY NAME | Milton |
| SIGNATURE | MILTON V C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2875-8481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Afrokology and the Right to Communicate in Africa
This article argues for a reconstruction of communication rights theories from an African episteme and experience. It reviews the impact of key national, continental and international legal instruments as they pertain to communication rights in Africa, with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. Using an Afrokological heuristic tool, it critically evaluates how the key legal instruments underpinning the right to communicate are developed …
To listen with decolonial ears: Hein Willemse, hidden histories, and the politics of disruptive intervention
In this article, we canvass some of the ideas around Hein Willemse’s focus on hidden histories, conscious oppositionality, and literature that falls outside the canon, which began to coalesce following contemporary calls for decolonial approaches in the (South) African academy. While the decolonial turn has focused attention on shared histories within Global South contexts, it is through Willemse’s postcolonial teachings that we first came to und…
Decoloniality and the push for African media and communication studies
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book introduces possibilities opened up by Fanon and Ngugi’s writings for historicising African media and communication studies. Chasi similarly responds to the call to carve out space for African theories for the discipline. Chasi asks if strategic communication can be separated from violence and warfare, and draws implications utiliz…
Afrokology of media and communication studies
This chapter constitutes a quarrel from the margins, an explication of Afrokology and an introduction to its counter-hegemonic heuristic approach in media and communication studies. It goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to position Afrokology as a decolonial heuristic tool that is collaborative, convivial and transdisciplinary in its conversation with other forms of knowledge. The cha…
Public Service Broadcasting-Friends groups as a microcosm of public interest media advocacy
This article is concerned with the interdependencies between public service broadcasters and the third sector, an area in which there is little research that has provided in-depth analysis of case studies. It investigates and compares three public service broadcasting (PSB)-Friends groups in the UK, Australia, and South Africa. By means of analyzing semi-structured interviews and archival data, we address development, institutionalization and pol…
Civil society coalitions as pathways to PSB reform in Southern Africa
Democracy requires open public service broadcasting (PSB) institutions that constantly interact with active informed citizens. This article posits that a more proactive network of civil society across Southern Africa can produce an impact on PSB institutions in these countries enhancing reform and accountability to the public. We enter this topic by identifying pathways towards increased cooperation among public service broadcasters, civil societ…
Kind of Blue: Can Communication Research Matter
This article explores the linkages between the Humanities, activism and scholarship within the contemporary Communication Science environment in South Africa. It argues that shifting media landscapes lend urgency to sustaining and transforming scholarship in the Humanities to be more responsive to socially relevant research questions cognisant of the lived experiences in the contexts within which we conduct our research. It is argued here that th…
Time's Picturing of HIV/Aids: International perceptions of disease in Africa
This article is an exploration of the February 12, 2001 edition of Time magazine with its focus on Aids in Africa. I explore the extentto which Jo-Ellen Fair's viewpoint on news as reinforcement of the "relations of ruling" holds true. This essay will focus on how the binary oppositions "us" versus "them" came into being and more particularly on how the magazine's depictions of HIV/Aids and HIV+ people intersect with perceptions of race, place an…
Citizen Journalism and the Ebola Outbreak in Africa
This chapter analyses responses to news coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus by African media, a subject that has so far not been adequately discussed. It examines cases from “citizen media responses” in Zimbabwe and South Africa to determine the uniqueness of the African response to an African crisis. It investigates the attitudes and interpretations that were put forward by digital news media and responses from the news users. Our analysis of the n…
Media research: So what difference does it make
Additional informationNotes on contributorsviola candice miltonviola candice milton is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa
Screening culture, tweeting politics1: Media citizenship and the politics of representation on Sabc2
This article considers the concept of media and citizenship in relation to the politics of representation on the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s channel 2 (SABC2). It examines the ways in which a group of audience members negotiate and reflect upon issues of representation on SABC2’s flagship soap opera 7de Laan, which professes to be a multicultural soap opera, paying reverence to the diverse cultural, ethnic and linguistic make-up of S…
Musical parody, “zef” and the politics of belonging: “Dankie vir die antwoord maar wat was die vraag?”
Drawing on the parodic representations of poor whites in the lyrics and music videos of Die Antwoord and Die Vraag, this paper explores whether mediated representations of poor whites open up a space to contest class-based stereotypes or whether they merely work to perpetuate middle-class white normativity. Drawing on Mason's (2010) assertion that the media constantly "rediscovers" poor white South Africans, we will argue that Die Antwoord as wel…
Bastardised whiteness: Zef'-culture,Die Antwoordand the reconfiguration of contemporary Afrikaans identities
This paper argues that post-apartheid South Africa destabilised what it means to be white and Afrikaans in South Africa. In particular, it explores the emergence into visibility of so-called ‘zef’-culture as mediated through musical acts like Die Antwoord and Jack Parow and to a lesser extent websites such as Watkykjy. The authors argue that the reconfiguration of white Afrikaans identities as mediated through ‘zef’-cultural artefacts is delibera…
Local is lekker: Nation, narration and the sABC's Afrikaans programmes
This article provides an exploration of the role of the SABC's Afrikaans language programmes in contemporary South African constructions of national identity. It examines the programmes’ engagement with the construction of (a) national identity by addressing the SABC's mandated obligation towards nation building, and exploring how the broadcaster's Afrikaans programmes are positioned in this regard. The article suggests that the SABC's task to ‘n…
Bastardised whiteness: Zef'-culture,Die Antwoordand the reconfiguration of contemporary Afrikaans identities
This paper argues that post-apartheid South Africa destabilised what it means to be white and Afrikaans in South Africa. In particular, it explores the emergence into visibility of so-called ‘zef’-culture as mediated through musical acts like Die Antwoord and Jack Parow and to a lesser extent websites such as Watkykjy. The authors argue that the reconfiguration of white Afrikaans identities as mediated through ‘zef’-cultural artefacts is delibera…
Local is lekker: Nation, narration and the sABC's Afrikaans programmes
This article provides an exploration of the role of the SABC's Afrikaans language programmes in contemporary South African constructions of national identity. It examines the programmes’ engagement with the construction of (a) national identity by addressing the SABC's mandated obligation towards nation building, and exploring how the broadcaster's Afrikaans programmes are positioned in this regard. The article suggests that the SABC's task to ‘n…
Local is lekker: Nation, narration and the sABC's Afrikaans programmes
This article provides an exploration of the role of the SABC's Afrikaans language programmes in contemporary South African constructions of national identity. It examines the programmes’ engagement with the construction of (a) national identity by addressing the SABC's mandated obligation towards nation building, and exploring how the broadcaster's Afrikaans programmes are positioned in this regard. The article suggests that the SABC's task to ‘n…
Bastardised whiteness: Zef'-culture,Die Antwoordand the reconfiguration of contemporary Afrikaans identities
This paper argues that post-apartheid South Africa destabilised what it means to be white and Afrikaans in South Africa. In particular, it explores the emergence into visibility of so-called ‘zef’-culture as mediated through musical acts like Die Antwoord and Jack Parow and to a lesser extent websites such as Watkykjy. The authors argue that the reconfiguration of white Afrikaans identities as mediated through ‘zef’-cultural artefacts is delibera…
Musical parody, “zef” and the politics of belonging: “Dankie vir die antwoord maar wat was die vraag?”
Drawing on the parodic representations of poor whites in the lyrics and music videos of Die Antwoord and Die Vraag, this paper explores whether mediated representations of poor whites open up a space to contest class-based stereotypes or whether they merely work to perpetuate middle-class white normativity. Drawing on Mason's (2010) assertion that the media constantly "rediscovers" poor white South Africans, we will argue that Die Antwoord as wel…
Media research: So what difference does it make
Additional informationNotes on contributorsviola candice miltonviola candice milton is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa
Screening culture, tweeting politics1: Media citizenship and the politics of representation on Sabc2
This article considers the concept of media and citizenship in relation to the politics of representation on the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s channel 2 (SABC2). It examines the ways in which a group of audience members negotiate and reflect upon issues of representation on SABC2’s flagship soap opera 7de Laan, which professes to be a multicultural soap opera, paying reverence to the diverse cultural, ethnic and linguistic make-up of S…
Citizen Journalism and the Ebola Outbreak in Africa
This chapter analyses responses to news coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus by African media, a subject that has so far not been adequately discussed. It examines cases from “citizen media responses” in Zimbabwe and South Africa to determine the uniqueness of the African response to an African crisis. It investigates the attitudes and interpretations that were put forward by digital news media and responses from the news users. Our analysis of the n…
Time's Picturing of HIV/Aids: International perceptions of disease in Africa
This article is an exploration of the February 12, 2001 edition of Time magazine with its focus on Aids in Africa. I explore the extentto which Jo-Ellen Fair's viewpoint on news as reinforcement of the "relations of ruling" holds true. This essay will focus on how the binary oppositions "us" versus "them" came into being and more particularly on how the magazine's depictions of HIV/Aids and HIV+ people intersect with perceptions of race, place an…
Kind of Blue: Can Communication Research Matter
This article explores the linkages between the Humanities, activism and scholarship within the contemporary Communication Science environment in South Africa. It argues that shifting media landscapes lend urgency to sustaining and transforming scholarship in the Humanities to be more responsive to socially relevant research questions cognisant of the lived experiences in the contexts within which we conduct our research. It is argued here that th…
Public Service Broadcasting-Friends groups as a microcosm of public interest media advocacy
This article is concerned with the interdependencies between public service broadcasters and the third sector, an area in which there is little research that has provided in-depth analysis of case studies. It investigates and compares three public service broadcasting (PSB)-Friends groups in the UK, Australia, and South Africa. By means of analyzing semi-structured interviews and archival data, we address development, institutionalization and pol…
Civil society coalitions as pathways to PSB reform in Southern Africa
Democracy requires open public service broadcasting (PSB) institutions that constantly interact with active informed citizens. This article posits that a more proactive network of civil society across Southern Africa can produce an impact on PSB institutions in these countries enhancing reform and accountability to the public. We enter this topic by identifying pathways towards increased cooperation among public service broadcasters, civil societ…
Decoloniality and the push for African media and communication studies
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book introduces possibilities opened up by Fanon and Ngugi’s writings for historicising African media and communication studies. Chasi similarly responds to the call to carve out space for African theories for the discipline. Chasi asks if strategic communication can be separated from violence and warfare, and draws implications utiliz…
Afrokology of media and communication studies
This chapter constitutes a quarrel from the margins, an explication of Afrokology and an introduction to its counter-hegemonic heuristic approach in media and communication studies. It goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to position Afrokology as a decolonial heuristic tool that is collaborative, convivial and transdisciplinary in its conversation with other forms of knowledge. The cha…
Afrokology and the Right to Communicate in Africa
This article argues for a reconstruction of communication rights theories from an African episteme and experience. It reviews the impact of key national, continental and international legal instruments as they pertain to communication rights in Africa, with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. Using an Afrokological heuristic tool, it critically evaluates how the key legal instruments underpinning the right to communicate are developed …
To listen with decolonial ears: Hein Willemse, hidden histories, and the politics of disruptive intervention
In this article, we canvass some of the ideas around Hein Willemse’s focus on hidden histories, conscious oppositionality, and literature that falls outside the canon, which began to coalesce following contemporary calls for decolonial approaches in the (South) African academy. While the decolonial turn has focused attention on shared histories within Global South contexts, it is through Willemse’s postcolonial teachings that we first came to und…
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