This research seeks to investigate, in an explanatory nature, how South Africa’s
broadcast media represents the narrative of gender equality amid the culture of violence
against women (VAW) within this society. Feminist ...
This is a reception study, which explores and evaluates, through in-depth interviews
and surveys, how television audiences or consumers interpret alcohol advertisements.
The aim is to understand the influence of the ...
This study aims to analyse the representations of women in business media through the identification of media discourses and underlying meanings in visual images. Prior research studies have indicated that there is minimal ...
This study argues that social media network Twitter possess underlying political populist rhetoric and uses different discursive practices in the verbal and visual texts primarily to legitimise and/or delegitimise a political ...
This study analyses the extent to which organisational culture influences and shapes an organisation’s communication practice, in the Gauteng Department of Social Development. This emanates from the realisation by the South ...
The Professional Editors Guild is an online-based association for language practitioners in South Africa and designed the e-mail forum intending to reach out to members that could need professional editing support. Since ...
Health campaign messages used for health promotional purposes have always served a
vital role to educate communities on issues that concern their health. However, social and
cultural aspects need to be catered for ...
This research explores the role of government communication as a development tool in
Gokwe South Rural District (GSRD) of Zimbabwe. Different paradigms have explored the
development trajectory in the developing world, ...
The South African government uses Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) as a platform in which to interact with the public. As Pasquier (2012) defines it, this is a process where government shares information ...
The study explores the concept of customer focussed governance and examines strategic government communication for service delivery in the Eastern Cape. The conceptual framework for the study is based on the proposition ...
This study uses the November 2017 military assisted political transition in Zimbabwe to critically analyse the role of the media in the political transition in Africa. Scholars contend that the military aided transition ...
This cross-sectional qualitative mixed-methods study explores how news media organisations employ their gatekeeping activities to brand their news outlets and, subsequently, how the brand helps to diffuse their news stories. ...
In South Africa, the usage and positioning of English as the dominant language has led to the marginalisation of African languages. The dominance of the English language in South Africa is rooted in the historical injustices ...
Little is still known in the South African context regarding how political brands can use political brand storytelling with an online political brand persona on social media to differentiate a political brand from the ...
News media play a significant role in creating awareness about human trafficking. This study analysed the manner in which South African newspapers represent the issue of human trafficking. It explored and discussed the ...
This study aimed to analyse the communication strategy that Emalahleni Local Municipality (ELM) is using to raise awareness on air quality improvement. Analysing the communication strategy of an organisation can play an ...
Public relations remains a profession that is admired in most Sub-African countries
including Namibia. According to Grunig (2008, p. 4), public relations and communication
management denote a process of planning, ...