Arnold Shepperson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3924689 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Arnold Shepperson |
| PRENOMES | Arnold |
| SOBRENOME | Shepperson |
| ASSINATURA | SHEPPERSON A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Towards a Theory of Orality in African Cinema
The direct importation into Africa of methods, theories, ideas, and psychoanalytical assumptions developed in First World and applied to African cinema is not without epistemological problems. Marxist, positivist, or liberal-humanist approaches, among others, do not automatically apply in attempts to understand African films and audiences. The call on mainly Lacanian psychoanalysis as an interpretive framework assumes that African viewers have es…
All the world's a brothel
A satirical genuflection to gurudom is offered. Academic practice and the fads which dominate the post-LitCrit paradigm in the humanities are questioned. Problems in methodology, theoreticism and epistemology are revealed. The analogue era and ideas of McLuhan, who foresaw the aesthetics of the (not yet discovered) digital age are revisited, as is the relevance of cultural studies in the digital age, when the idea of culture is under question. Ea…
Media in Africa
This article tackles assumptions made by Louise Bourgault in her pioneering book, Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa. The article discusses her claims about African journalism in relation to her engagement with western approaches, and with regard to issues of orality, the Shannon and Weaver communication model and to the megadiscipline of media studies. Short case studies are provided of the emergence of print media in several African countries (Ni…
Semiotics in an African context
In terms of our approach to the theory of culture, literacy encompasses a collection of talents which people deploy alongside others in their everyday going-on. Following the Peircean-Wittgensteinian ground upon which we develop the discourse of culture, coming-to-be-literate is itself a form of cultural experience in all three dimensions (Experience-First, Experience-Second and Experience-Third) (cf. Tomaselli 1999:39). As First (the encounter),…
After the ball is over
At some stage in this I must confront two things. Firstly, Arendt's distinction between 'race thinking' and 'racism'; and secondly, the shift from creationist to evolutionary thinking in the understanding of the marker 'race'. In the latter it becomes important to distinguish between that which exists as part of a creator's design, and that which has some aspect of the hoary old 'hopeful monster' thesis. Thus the motivations behind Saartjie Baart…
Realism, logic and social communication
The nature of communication study discourse tends to focus on how to teach it, and often hides its pragmatic origins in the field of inquiry. The article uses C.S. Peirce's philosophical realism to address the needs of intellectual inquiry in communications under increasing social and political globalisation. Journalism, media and communication (JMC) studies are treated as institutional functions within a changing, and often shrinking, social rea…
An economy of impossibility
Preface This 'Economy of impossibility' article is testament to Arnold Shepperson because it says something about what we have lost. The fact that it is a draft and unfinished precisely helps to pose questions to think about (see also Julia Clare's article). That's not a bad legacy! Ultimately Arnold was concerned with two troubling problems, both of which derive from his context: 1) being in the Centre for Cultural and Media Studies (CCMS) and 2…
Safety-culture and the logic of hazard
South Africans tend to take a neglectful attitude toward hazard in general.This article identifies and qualifies the forms of practical reasoning that make such negligence possible. The research draws on the methods of logical and pragmatic analysis to clarify the notion of a health and safety-culture as a research problem. These methods are based on the broader logical doctrine of C.S. Peirce's pragmaticism. Elements of Peirce's economy of resea…
Cultural Studies is the Crisis
The sometimes overrated 'crisis in cultural studies' may be to some extent self-inflicted. The authors outline the transformation of the moral or ethical origins of cultural studies as those of what was essentially a research project, into the instrumentalist routines of an academic bureaucracy. Because these developments arise largely from the failure of the political Left to accommodate the collapse of the Cold War ideological stand-off, it is …
Special Issue
“Where's Shaka Zulu?”
This article discusses some of the ideological fall-out of apartheid's discourse of ethnicity as enshrined in the television mini-series Shaka Zulu. After briefly reviewing the various ways that a range of participants in apartheid's final struggles either endorsed or criticized the series, a further look is taken at how, a decade after its first flighting, the series elicited some very different responses, some directly contradicting the earlier…
Ethics
This kind of preamble to any Code of Ethics overcomes all those hoary old arguments about the public's right to know, the so-called free-flow of information, and the conflict between Eurocentric and Afrocentric values
State of the discipline communication studies in South Africa
This article is an abridged version of a longer report commissioned in 1999 by the National Research Foundation (NRF) on the State of the Discipline: Communication Studies. The study reports on the challenges facing the discipline during the post-apartheid, post-disciplinary era. The report deals with communication in general, but focuses on journalism and mass communication teaching. The findings examine how practitioners teaching the discipline…
Restructuring the industry
Contemporary film policy generally focuses on questions concerning content, representation, and profitability. Content in this case covers narrative, documentary, educational and other kinds of film and television. Representation is somewhat stickier, as if debates about content are not themselves subject to more than their fair share of controversy. What or who is represented in the content? Does this representation do justice or injustice to so…
What Relevance Cultural Studies Post-September 11th
Re-Semiotizing the South African Democratic Project
This article reviews the relationship between the semiotic implications of the emerging concept of the African Renaissance, and the historical trajectory of semiotic studies in South Africa. Linked with the residual ideological territories occupied under the rubrics of ‘semiotics’ and/or ‘semiology’ are the ways these discourses have been re-articulated or re-presented within the politics of the post-apartheid era. As a concept of the ‘post’, the…
A Confusion of Cinematic Consciousness
The authors highlight the differences in film consciousness about South Africa in the United States
Sociopolitical Transformation and the Media Environment
In this article the authors develop a critical strategic analysis of the term `African Renaissance', which has become current in the discourse since first enunciated by Nelson Mandela. With the inauguration of Thabo Mbeki as Mandela's successor, the idea of an African Renaissance has taken root in the South African intellectual realm. The article considers the differences between `Renaissance' as a retrospective reconstruction of a specific histo…
The Australian journalism vs cultural studies debate
South African Cinema Beyond Apartheid
2000). South African Cinema Beyond Apartheid: Affirmative Action in Distribution and Storytelling. Social Identities: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 323-343
The poverty of journalism
1999). The poverty of journalism: Media studies and ‘science’. Continuum: Vol. 13, Information Technology Now, pp. 237-253
Rounding up the usual suspects
Cultural studies and theoretical impoverishment
(1998). Cultural studies and theoretical impoverishment. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 89-99
Misreading theory, sloganising analysis
Negotiations, transitions and uncertainty principles
Special Issue
Restructuring the industry
Contemporary film policy generally focuses on questions concerning content, representation, and profitability. Content in this case covers narrative, documentary, educational and other kinds of film and television. Representation is somewhat stickier, as if debates about content are not themselves subject to more than their fair share of controversy. What or who is represented in the content? Does this representation do justice or injustice to so…
Tits 'n' bums
Re-Semiotizing the South African Democratic Project
This article reviews the relationship between the semiotic implications of the emerging concept of the African Renaissance, and the historical trajectory of semiotic studies in South Africa. Linked with the residual ideological territories occupied under the rubrics of ‘semiotics’ and/or ‘semiology’ are the ways these discourses have been re-articulated or re-presented within the politics of the post-apartheid era. As a concept of the ‘post’, the…
The Australian journalism vs cultural studies debate
South African Cinema Beyond Apartheid
2000). South African Cinema Beyond Apartheid: Affirmative Action in Distribution and Storytelling. Social Identities: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 323-343
The poverty of journalism
1999). The poverty of journalism: Media studies and ‘science’. Continuum: Vol. 13, Information Technology Now, pp. 237-253
Misreading theory, sloganising analysis
All the world's a brothel
A satirical genuflection to gurudom is offered. Academic practice and the fads which dominate the post-LitCrit paradigm in the humanities are questioned. Problems in methodology, theoreticism and epistemology are revealed. The analogue era and ideas of McLuhan, who foresaw the aesthetics of the (not yet discovered) digital age are revisited, as is the relevance of cultural studies in the digital age, when the idea of culture is under question. Ea…
Negotiations, transitions and uncertainty principles
Beyond scholarship? Ethnographic film and academic practice
Media in Africa
This article tackles assumptions made by Louise Bourgault in her pioneering book, Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa. The article discusses her claims about African journalism in relation to her engagement with western approaches, and with regard to issues of orality, the Shannon and Weaver communication model and to the megadiscipline of media studies. Short case studies are provided of the emergence of print media in several African countries (Ni…
Safety-culture and the logic of hazard
South Africans tend to take a neglectful attitude toward hazard in general.This article identifies and qualifies the forms of practical reasoning that make such negligence possible. The research draws on the methods of logical and pragmatic analysis to clarify the notion of a health and safety-culture as a research problem. These methods are based on the broader logical doctrine of C.S. Peirce's pragmaticism. Elements of Peirce's economy of resea…
Cultural Studies is the Crisis
The sometimes overrated 'crisis in cultural studies' may be to some extent self-inflicted. The authors outline the transformation of the moral or ethical origins of cultural studies as those of what was essentially a research project, into the instrumentalist routines of an academic bureaucracy. Because these developments arise largely from the failure of the political Left to accommodate the collapse of the Cold War ideological stand-off, it is …
A Confusion of Cinematic Consciousness
The authors highlight the differences in film consciousness about South Africa in the United States
Sociopolitical Transformation and the Media Environment
In this article the authors develop a critical strategic analysis of the term `African Renaissance', which has become current in the discourse since first enunciated by Nelson Mandela. With the inauguration of Thabo Mbeki as Mandela's successor, the idea of an African Renaissance has taken root in the South African intellectual realm. The article considers the differences between `Renaissance' as a retrospective reconstruction of a specific histo…
Cultural studies and theoretical impoverishment
(1998). Cultural studies and theoretical impoverishment. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 89-99
Tits 'n' bums
Beyond scholarship? Ethnographic film and academic practice
Misreading theory, sloganising analysis
Negotiations, transitions and uncertainty principles
Rounding up the usual suspects
Cultural studies and theoretical impoverishment
(1998). Cultural studies and theoretical impoverishment. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 89-99
The poverty of journalism
1999). The poverty of journalism: Media studies and ‘science’. Continuum: Vol. 13, Information Technology Now, pp. 237-253
A Confusion of Cinematic Consciousness
The authors highlight the differences in film consciousness about South Africa in the United States
Sociopolitical Transformation and the Media Environment
In this article the authors develop a critical strategic analysis of the term `African Renaissance', which has become current in the discourse since first enunciated by Nelson Mandela. With the inauguration of Thabo Mbeki as Mandela's successor, the idea of an African Renaissance has taken root in the South African intellectual realm. The article considers the differences between `Renaissance' as a retrospective reconstruction of a specific histo…
The Australian journalism vs cultural studies debate
South African Cinema Beyond Apartheid
2000). South African Cinema Beyond Apartheid: Affirmative Action in Distribution and Storytelling. Social Identities: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 323-343
Re-Semiotizing the South African Democratic Project
This article reviews the relationship between the semiotic implications of the emerging concept of the African Renaissance, and the historical trajectory of semiotic studies in South Africa. Linked with the residual ideological territories occupied under the rubrics of ‘semiotics’ and/or ‘semiology’ are the ways these discourses have been re-articulated or re-presented within the politics of the post-apartheid era. As a concept of the ‘post’, the…
“Where's Shaka Zulu?”
This article discusses some of the ideological fall-out of apartheid's discourse of ethnicity as enshrined in the television mini-series Shaka Zulu. After briefly reviewing the various ways that a range of participants in apartheid's final struggles either endorsed or criticized the series, a further look is taken at how, a decade after its first flighting, the series elicited some very different responses, some directly contradicting the earlier…
Ethics
This kind of preamble to any Code of Ethics overcomes all those hoary old arguments about the public's right to know, the so-called free-flow of information, and the conflict between Eurocentric and Afrocentric values
State of the discipline communication studies in South Africa
This article is an abridged version of a longer report commissioned in 1999 by the National Research Foundation (NRF) on the State of the Discipline: Communication Studies. The study reports on the challenges facing the discipline during the post-apartheid, post-disciplinary era. The report deals with communication in general, but focuses on journalism and mass communication teaching. The findings examine how practitioners teaching the discipline…
Restructuring the industry
Contemporary film policy generally focuses on questions concerning content, representation, and profitability. Content in this case covers narrative, documentary, educational and other kinds of film and television. Representation is somewhat stickier, as if debates about content are not themselves subject to more than their fair share of controversy. What or who is represented in the content? Does this representation do justice or injustice to so…
What Relevance Cultural Studies Post-September 11th
Special Issue
Cultural Studies is the Crisis
The sometimes overrated 'crisis in cultural studies' may be to some extent self-inflicted. The authors outline the transformation of the moral or ethical origins of cultural studies as those of what was essentially a research project, into the instrumentalist routines of an academic bureaucracy. Because these developments arise largely from the failure of the political Left to accommodate the collapse of the Cold War ideological stand-off, it is …
Semiotics in an African context
In terms of our approach to the theory of culture, literacy encompasses a collection of talents which people deploy alongside others in their everyday going-on. Following the Peircean-Wittgensteinian ground upon which we develop the discourse of culture, coming-to-be-literate is itself a form of cultural experience in all three dimensions (Experience-First, Experience-Second and Experience-Third) (cf. Tomaselli 1999:39). As First (the encounter),…
After the ball is over
At some stage in this I must confront two things. Firstly, Arendt's distinction between 'race thinking' and 'racism'; and secondly, the shift from creationist to evolutionary thinking in the understanding of the marker 'race'. In the latter it becomes important to distinguish between that which exists as part of a creator's design, and that which has some aspect of the hoary old 'hopeful monster' thesis. Thus the motivations behind Saartjie Baart…
Realism, logic and social communication
The nature of communication study discourse tends to focus on how to teach it, and often hides its pragmatic origins in the field of inquiry. The article uses C.S. Peirce's philosophical realism to address the needs of intellectual inquiry in communications under increasing social and political globalisation. Journalism, media and communication (JMC) studies are treated as institutional functions within a changing, and often shrinking, social rea…
An economy of impossibility
Preface This 'Economy of impossibility' article is testament to Arnold Shepperson because it says something about what we have lost. The fact that it is a draft and unfinished precisely helps to pose questions to think about (see also Julia Clare's article). That's not a bad legacy! Ultimately Arnold was concerned with two troubling problems, both of which derive from his context: 1) being in the Centre for Cultural and Media Studies (CCMS) and 2…
Safety-culture and the logic of hazard
South Africans tend to take a neglectful attitude toward hazard in general.This article identifies and qualifies the forms of practical reasoning that make such negligence possible. The research draws on the methods of logical and pragmatic analysis to clarify the notion of a health and safety-culture as a research problem. These methods are based on the broader logical doctrine of C.S. Peirce's pragmaticism. Elements of Peirce's economy of resea…
Media in Africa
This article tackles assumptions made by Louise Bourgault in her pioneering book, Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa. The article discusses her claims about African journalism in relation to her engagement with western approaches, and with regard to issues of orality, the Shannon and Weaver communication model and to the megadiscipline of media studies. Short case studies are provided of the emergence of print media in several African countries (Ni…
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