Unisa Research Output: Recent submissions

  • The virtue of education 
    Higgs, P. (2000)
    Every educational research community is infused with the sensibilities of intellectual epochs and movements that anteceded it and that gave rise to it. In the decade approaching the end of the 20th century educational ...
  • Measuring media audiences 
    Bornman, Elirea (JutaLansdowne:Juta, 2009)
    This chapter deals with the complex, fast-changing and fast-developing world of the measurement of mass media audiences. Important concepts, the reasons for the need for reliable audience information and the nature of the ...
  • The Doric column : a representation of the norms of virtue 
    Mare, E.A. (2000)
    At the previous conference my purpose was to give a rhetorical interpretation to the sacred geometry of the west façade of the Parthenon, the best-known of all Greek tempies, the apogee of Hellenic architecture, built ...
  • Plato's views on crime and punishment 
    Ladikos, A. (2000)
    The immensity of the task I undertook, namely, to venture into the philosophy of Plato regarding his views on crime and punishment, only struck me the moment I started researching his relevant works. Therefore, right from ...
  • Diversity in a multicultural and polyethnic world : challenges and responses 
    Du Toit, C. W. (Verbum et Ecclesia, 2004)
    Today’s world is characterised by multiculturalism. The diversity of cultures and conflicting ethnic groups sharing the same territory pose a threat to both local and world peace. We have come to the end of the ‘nation’ ...
  • Is Ruth the Ēšet Hayil for real? Womanhood between African proverbs and the threshing floor (Ruth1:1-13) 
    Masenya, Madipoane (Journal of the Church History Society of South Africa, 2010-07)
    Contradictory definitions of what worthy womanhood is have, in many contexts, including African contexts, caused divisions within religious institutions, families and communities at large. In Christian African contexts, ...
  • International communication : shifting paradigms, theories and foci of interest 
    Madikiza, Lucky Bornman, Elirea (Unisa Press, 2007)
    This article aims to be a stock-taking exercise of the development of the paradigms and foci of interest in attempts to theorise the vast developments and farreaching changes as well as the impact and effects of global ...
  • Predicting technology acceptance and adoption by the elderly : a qualitative study 
    Renaud, Karen Vera Van Biljon, Judy (2008)
    Technology adoption has been studied from a variety of perspectives. Information systems, Sociology and Human- Computer Interaction researchers have come up with various models incorporating factors and phases to predict ...
  • A critical review on the reporting of surveys in transdisciplinary research : a case study in Information Systems 
    Van Biljon, Judy (2011)
    Variability of goals and evolving research methodologies are fundamental characteristics of transdisciplinary research. This integration of research strategies from different fields complicates the evaluation of ...
  • The Use of anti-patterns in human computer interaction : wise or ill-advised? 
    Van Biljon, Judy Renaud, Karen McGee, Marilyn Seffah, Ahmed (SAICSIT, 2004)
    In this paper the tenability of anti-patterns in Human-Computer Interaction is explored. Patterns have been accepted as being useful in software development and more recently also in Human-Computer Interaction. A concerted ...
  • Mobile phone adoption : optimising value for older adults in a developing country 
    Van Biljon, Judy Van Dyk, Tobie Gelderblom, Helene (2010-11)
    Mobile phones in South Africa have enjoyed an unprecedented technology adoption rate due to their accessibility and usefulness. This prolific adoption of mobile phones diverts attention from their limitations which include ...
  • The Grassland vegetation of Platberg, eastern Free State, South Africa 
    Robert F. Brand, Leslie R. Brown, Pieter J. du Preez (Koedoe, 2011)
    Platberg is an inselberg that presents a refuge for indigenous plants and animals. Uncontrolled human access to this area threatens this sensitive ecosystem. The vegetation of Platberg was investigated to obtain an ...
  • Modelling the factors that influence mobile phone adoption 
    Van Biljon, Judy Kotzé, Paula (2007)
    Technology adoption models specify a pathway of technology acceptance from external variables to beliefs, intentions, adoption and actual usage. Mobile phone adoption has been studied from a variety of perspectives, ...
  • Learning tools in resource constrained environments : learning from e-learning in the time of m-learning 
    Van Biljon, Judy Dembskey, Evan (2011-10-26)
    Developing countries such as South Africa have underdeveloped human resources. Teaching with information communication technology (ICT) as enabling technology has often been proposed as an approach to maximize the development ...
  • Measuring media audiences 
    Bornman, Elirea (Juta, 2009)
    This chapter deals with the complex, fast-changing and fast-developing world of the measurement of mass media audiences. Important concepts, the reasons for the need for reliable audience information and the nature of the ...
  • Identity, social groups and communication : some frontiers for theory and research 
    Bornman, Elirea (2004)
    The recent flourishing in discourses on identity in the social sciences as well as the fact that struggles of identity has become the paradigmatic form of social and political conflict in the modern world, forms the ...
  • Questionnaire surveys in media research 
    Bornman, Elirea (Juta, 2009)
    This chapter deals with questionnaire surveys and in particular the ways in which surveys can be employed in conducting media research. It firstly focuses on the questions of where and when a survey is an appropriate ...
  • Emigrasie onder Afrikaners vandag 
    Bornman, Elirea (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2005)
    Emigration among Afrikaans-speaking whites today In contrast to the optimistic belief that a new dispensation would lead to reconciliation and harmony in the heterogeneous South African population, the post-1994 period ...
  • Emigration among Afrikaners today 
    Bornman, Elirea (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2005)
    In contrast to the optimistic belief that a new dispensation would lead to reconciliation and harmony in the heterogeneous South African population, the post-1994 period has been characterised by an exodus of highly skilled ...
  • How worthy is the woman of worth? : a feminist reading of Proverbs 31: 10-31 
    Masenya, Madipoane (Peter Lang, 2004)
    The life of an African-South African woman is shaped by a variety of factors. The phrase ‘African-South African women’ is used in this work to refer to those women who belong to the indigenous peoples of South Africa: the ...

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