Wallace Chuma
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 217084 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wallace Chuma |
| PRENOMES | Wallace |
| SOBRENOME | Chuma |
| ASSINATURA | CHUMA W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2093-9336 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Digital Technologies and Revolution in Africa
Introductory statement The rise of digital technologies has brought about significant changes in revolutionary projects across Africa. The impact of these technologies on social movements and activism is complex and multi-faceted. This panel examines the role of technology in shaping African revolutionary projects, such as the use of social media platforms for mobilisation and coordination, and the challenges around issues like manipulation and e…
Young African diaspora
This study focused on identity formation and media consumption among first-generation young Africans in the diaspora. It investigated what it means to be African and the impact of multiple identities and forms of belonging within diasporic communities. Emphasis was on how they experience the diaspora as liminal spaces and subsequently negotiate relationships with other Africans in indeterminate diasporic spaces to construct, redefine, negotiate a…
South African newspaper coverage of Covid-19
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has led to unprecedented media coverage globally and in South Africa where, at the time of writing, over 20,000 people had died from the virus. This article explores how mainstream print media covered the COVID-19 pandemic during this time of crisis. The news media play a key role in keeping the public informed during such health crises and potentially shape citizens’ perceptions of the pandemic. Drawing on a cont…
African Journalism Studies
It has been four decades since this journal—then known as Equid Novi—made its debut on what was then a nascent field of journalism and communication studies in South Africa. By all accounts, the 19
Succession Politics and Factional Journalism in Zimbabwe
This paper is a critical exploration of the emergence and manifestations of a phenomenon we refer to as “factional” or “succession” journalism within the state media in the context of the tussle over the succession of the late former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. Using the state-controlled Chronicle daily newspaper as a case study, we seek to examine the role and influence of editors and journalists in the negotiation of power in the context …
Zimbabwe
African countries where democracy and majority rule came about through negotiated transitions are often conflicted polities in which elements of the new order exist uneasily with strong currents of the ancien regime. The media in these ‘transitioning’ societies naturally find themselves at the forefront of interpreting and representing these contradictions through deploying both ‘old’ journalistic frames and creating new narratives. In doing so, …
Print media coverage of service delivery protests in South Africa
In recent years South Africa has seen an increase in 'service delivery protests' – protests related to the inadequate provision of services – as a result of growing citizen frustration resulting from high levels of economic inequality. Unemployment, housing, water and sanitation, electricity, corruption and municipal administration, health and crime, have all been listed as reasons for the protests, often described a 'rebellion of the poor'. Give…
Communication from above and below
Since the end of apartheid, there has been a steady rise in community protests in South Africa. Many of these protests – often cumulatively grouped under the rubric of 'service delivery protests' are not only about the delivery of basic services, but equally about the closing down of democratic/institutional space and process when communities try to raise issues related to services and corruption. If protests are a way for the poor and the margin…
Questioning the media-democracy link
It is often assumed that a robust, free and independent media will contribute to the deepening of democracy by keeping governments accountable and broadening citizen participation in deliberative democratic debates. But in new democracies such as South Africa, the deepening and broadening of democratic participation is often curtailed by challenges such as unequal access to the media, the orientation of mainstream media towards elite audiences an…
Vortextuality
Reporting the Oscar Pistorius trial
The relationship between mainstream media and celebrities is intricate, mutually beneficial and sometimes mutually destructive. The essence of ‘celebrity culture’ is itself deeply rooted in the media. This article discusses the mediation of the Oscar Pistorius trial using the lens of critical political economy of media. A first in South Africa in many ways – including the live televization of court proceedings, the creation of a special dedicated…
The social meanings of mobile phones among South Africa’s ‘digital natives’
The past decade has seen the mobile phone evolve and acquire additional meanings in Africa and elsewhere. From being the relatively expensive yuppie toy of the 1990s to becoming the basic necessity available on the market both as new and used today; from the voice-and-text only functions of yesteryear to the compact multimedia ‘package’ that usurps the roles of earlier technologies like the TV, radio and PC, the mobile phone has been key to the (…
Framing the Cape Town World Cup stadium in the media
In June/July 2010, South Africa successfully hosted the FIFA Soccer World Cup, the largest sporting and media event on earth. It was the first time the mega-spectacle was held on African soil. It offered the host country the opportunity to showcase it as a successful ‘African event’, hereby celebrating contemporary African culture while simultaneously challenging commonly held prejudices about the continent. Within South Africa itself, the event …
Mediating the 2000 Elections in Zimbabwe
This article analyzes the framing of the 2000 elections in Zimbabwe through editorials and selected front page news reports in selected Zimbabwean newspapers. It argues that three models of journalism, namely, "patriotic," "oppositional," and "independent nationalist" were applied in framing the election. These models were the offspring of a society at political crossroads, where public life became bifurcated, and where the press became one of th…
Zimbabwe
A rapidly changing socio-political and economic environment characterised the period 1991 to 2003 in Zimbabwe. The press both shaped and was shaped by the shifting contestation(s) within and between different centres of power during the second and part of the third decade of independence. While the adoption of free market reforms and liberalisation in 1991 encouraged a signifi cant expansion of the press, representation of critical national debat…
Mediating the 2000 Elections in Zimbabwe
This article analyzes the framing of the 2000 elections in Zimbabwe through editorials and selected front page news reports in selected Zimbabwean newspapers. It argues that three models of journalism, namely, "patriotic," "oppositional," and "independent nationalist" were applied in framing the election. These models were the offspring of a society at political crossroads, where public life became bifurcated, and where the press became one of th…
Print media coverage of service delivery protests in South Africa
In recent years South Africa has seen an increase in 'service delivery protests' – protests related to the inadequate provision of services – as a result of growing citizen frustration resulting from high levels of economic inequality. Unemployment, housing, water and sanitation, electricity, corruption and municipal administration, health and crime, have all been listed as reasons for the protests, often described a 'rebellion of the poor'. Give…
Communication from above and below
Since the end of apartheid, there has been a steady rise in community protests in South Africa. Many of these protests – often cumulatively grouped under the rubric of 'service delivery protests' are not only about the delivery of basic services, but equally about the closing down of democratic/institutional space and process when communities try to raise issues related to services and corruption. If protests are a way for the poor and the margin…
Questioning the media-democracy link
It is often assumed that a robust, free and independent media will contribute to the deepening of democracy by keeping governments accountable and broadening citizen participation in deliberative democratic debates. But in new democracies such as South Africa, the deepening and broadening of democratic participation is often curtailed by challenges such as unequal access to the media, the orientation of mainstream media towards elite audiences an…
The social meanings of mobile phones among South Africa’s ‘digital natives’
The past decade has seen the mobile phone evolve and acquire additional meanings in Africa and elsewhere. From being the relatively expensive yuppie toy of the 1990s to becoming the basic necessity available on the market both as new and used today; from the voice-and-text only functions of yesteryear to the compact multimedia ‘package’ that usurps the roles of earlier technologies like the TV, radio and PC, the mobile phone has been key to the (…
Zimbabwe
A rapidly changing socio-political and economic environment characterised the period 1991 to 2003 in Zimbabwe. The press both shaped and was shaped by the shifting contestation(s) within and between different centres of power during the second and part of the third decade of independence. While the adoption of free market reforms and liberalisation in 1991 encouraged a signifi cant expansion of the press, representation of critical national debat…
Mediating the 2000 Elections in Zimbabwe
This article analyzes the framing of the 2000 elections in Zimbabwe through editorials and selected front page news reports in selected Zimbabwean newspapers. It argues that three models of journalism, namely, "patriotic," "oppositional," and "independent nationalist" were applied in framing the election. These models were the offspring of a society at political crossroads, where public life became bifurcated, and where the press became one of th…
Framing the Cape Town World Cup stadium in the media
In June/July 2010, South Africa successfully hosted the FIFA Soccer World Cup, the largest sporting and media event on earth. It was the first time the mega-spectacle was held on African soil. It offered the host country the opportunity to showcase it as a successful ‘African event’, hereby celebrating contemporary African culture while simultaneously challenging commonly held prejudices about the continent. Within South Africa itself, the event …
The social meanings of mobile phones among South Africa’s ‘digital natives’
The past decade has seen the mobile phone evolve and acquire additional meanings in Africa and elsewhere. From being the relatively expensive yuppie toy of the 1990s to becoming the basic necessity available on the market both as new and used today; from the voice-and-text only functions of yesteryear to the compact multimedia ‘package’ that usurps the roles of earlier technologies like the TV, radio and PC, the mobile phone has been key to the (…
Vortextuality
Reporting the Oscar Pistorius trial
The relationship between mainstream media and celebrities is intricate, mutually beneficial and sometimes mutually destructive. The essence of ‘celebrity culture’ is itself deeply rooted in the media. This article discusses the mediation of the Oscar Pistorius trial using the lens of critical political economy of media. A first in South Africa in many ways – including the live televization of court proceedings, the creation of a special dedicated…
Questioning the media-democracy link
It is often assumed that a robust, free and independent media will contribute to the deepening of democracy by keeping governments accountable and broadening citizen participation in deliberative democratic debates. But in new democracies such as South Africa, the deepening and broadening of democratic participation is often curtailed by challenges such as unequal access to the media, the orientation of mainstream media towards elite audiences an…
Print media coverage of service delivery protests in South Africa
In recent years South Africa has seen an increase in 'service delivery protests' – protests related to the inadequate provision of services – as a result of growing citizen frustration resulting from high levels of economic inequality. Unemployment, housing, water and sanitation, electricity, corruption and municipal administration, health and crime, have all been listed as reasons for the protests, often described a 'rebellion of the poor'. Give…
Communication from above and below
Since the end of apartheid, there has been a steady rise in community protests in South Africa. Many of these protests – often cumulatively grouped under the rubric of 'service delivery protests' are not only about the delivery of basic services, but equally about the closing down of democratic/institutional space and process when communities try to raise issues related to services and corruption. If protests are a way for the poor and the margin…
Succession Politics and Factional Journalism in Zimbabwe
This paper is a critical exploration of the emergence and manifestations of a phenomenon we refer to as “factional” or “succession” journalism within the state media in the context of the tussle over the succession of the late former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. Using the state-controlled Chronicle daily newspaper as a case study, we seek to examine the role and influence of editors and journalists in the negotiation of power in the context …
Zimbabwe
African countries where democracy and majority rule came about through negotiated transitions are often conflicted polities in which elements of the new order exist uneasily with strong currents of the ancien regime. The media in these ‘transitioning’ societies naturally find themselves at the forefront of interpreting and representing these contradictions through deploying both ‘old’ journalistic frames and creating new narratives. In doing so, …
South African newspaper coverage of Covid-19
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has led to unprecedented media coverage globally and in South Africa where, at the time of writing, over 20,000 people had died from the virus. This article explores how mainstream print media covered the COVID-19 pandemic during this time of crisis. The news media play a key role in keeping the public informed during such health crises and potentially shape citizens’ perceptions of the pandemic. Drawing on a cont…
African Journalism Studies
It has been four decades since this journal—then known as Equid Novi—made its debut on what was then a nascent field of journalism and communication studies in South Africa. By all accounts, the 19
Digital Technologies and Revolution in Africa
Introductory statement The rise of digital technologies has brought about significant changes in revolutionary projects across Africa. The impact of these technologies on social movements and activism is complex and multi-faceted. This panel examines the role of technology in shaping African revolutionary projects, such as the use of social media platforms for mobilisation and coordination, and the challenges around issues like manipulation and e…
Young African diaspora
This study focused on identity formation and media consumption among first-generation young Africans in the diaspora. It investigated what it means to be African and the impact of multiple identities and forms of belonging within diasporic communities. Emphasis was on how they experience the diaspora as liminal spaces and subsequently negotiate relationships with other Africans in indeterminate diasporic spaces to construct, redefine, negotiate a…
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