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Authors: Young, Charles S , Strelitz, Larry N
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143705 , vital:38275 , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
Description: There has been much debate over whether the use of social network sites isolate people and truncate their relationships or alternatively, provide beneficial connections with others. This debate has been framed by a growing international literature which explores the triadic relationship between the intensity of use of Facebook to the maintenance of social capital and in turn the relationship between social capital and wellbeing and loneliness. A random list of 1168 Rhodes University students was drawn from the total student body and invited to participate in an online survey. In total, 491 students completed the survey (42% response rate). Hierarchical regression analyses demonstrate that intensity of Facebook usage adds a very small contribution to social capital, is very weakly associated with loneliness, and is not associated with wellbeing. Results contrast with international studies that fail to recognise the extent to which race and class cleavages impact on access to and use of social media.
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Date Issued: 2015

Authors: Malila, Vanessa , Duncan, Jane , Costera Meijer, Irene , Drok, Nico , Garman, Anthea , Strelitz, Larry N , Steenveld, Lynette N , Bosch, Tanja , Ndlovu, Musa
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159780 , vital:40343 , https://research.vu.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/3635364/Baseline+study+single+column+(1).pdf
Description: The project on youth identity, the media and the public sphere in South Africa was led by Prof Jane Duncan, Highway Africa Chair of Media and Information Society, at Rhodes University in South Africa. The research project was funded by the South Africa Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD), and partnered in the Netherlands with Prof Irene Costera Meijer (of VU University of Amsterdam) and Prof Nico Drok (of Windesheim University).
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Date Issued: 2013

Authors: Wasserman, Herman , Steenveld, Lynette N , Strelitz, Larry N , Amner, Roderick J , Boshoff, Priscilla A , Mathurine, Jude , Garman, Anthea
Date: 2012
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143571 , vital:38263 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/ruhome/documents/JMS Submission to Press Freedom Commission.pdf
Description: Prof Duncan has outlined the relative merits and demerits of self-regulation, co-regulation and deregulation, with which we are in broad agreement. She has also ably dealt with the three functions of regulatory bodies, namely the setting of ground rules for the industry to ensure best practice; enforcement of these; and adjudication of claims and counter claims re journalistic practice (Duncan 2012, p17). Finally, she has also taken up the issue of the necessity of accepting Third Party Complaints as one of the fundamental mechanisms by which citizens can make complaints on the basis of principle, rather than being personally aggrieved. While we are in broad agreement with her on these issues, we would like to highlight some further points for consideration.
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Date Issued: 2012

Authors: Strelitz, Larry N , Steenveld, Lynette N
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159825 , vital:40347 , DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2005.9653337
Description: A popular view of tabloids is that they pander to the lowest common denominator of public taste, they simplify complex issues, and they generally fail to provide information that citizens need in order to make informed political judgments - the latter being the raison d’etre of serious newspapers. In summary, tabloids “lower the standards of public discourse” (Ornerbring and Jonson, 2004:283).
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Date Issued: 2010

Authors: Strelitz, Larry N
Date: 2008
Language: English
Type: text , Conference paper
Identifier: vital:6324 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008550
Description: I see this inaugural lecture as an opportunity to trace my journey into the field of media studies, showing how significant youthful experiences with the media set me off on my particular research trajectory. In this address I will use the umbrella term ‘mass media’ to cover both the traditional news media as well as forms of popular culture such as soap operas, popular music and so on. Sometimes we use the terms ‘popular culture’ and ‘mass media’ interchangeably as they both constitute the cultural life of ordinary people.
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Date Issued: 2008

Authors: Strelitz, Larry N , Boshoff, Priscilla A
Date: 2008
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143527 , vital:38254 , ISBN 9781473971752 , https://books.google.co.za/books?id=pfRcCwAAQBAJanddq=The+African+Reception+of+Global+Mediaandlr=andsource=gbs_navlinks_s
Description: This chapter engages debates concerning the impact of global media on local youth audiences in Africa. Recognizing the profound rootedness of media consumption in everyday life, the chapter specifically examines the way selected South African youth audiences, differentially embedded in their particular economic and ideological formations, use local and global media texts as part of their ongoing attempts to make sense of their lives.
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Date Issued: 2008

Authors: Strelitz, Larry N
Date: 2005
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159266 , vital:40282 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146405
Description: "African journalism" is a composite term, each element of which is problematic, and is open to differing interpretations. I'll deal with each in turn. An identity of any sort is always relational. Thus "Africa" and things "African" have meaning in relation to what is non-African - usually European or American.
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Date Issued: 2005

Authors: Strelitz, Larry N , Steenveld, Lynette N
Date: 2005
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159215 , vital:40278 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146377
Description: As well as pandering to the lowest common denominator and simplifying complex issues, tabloids are also condemned for generally failing to provide information that citizens need in order to make informed political judgements - the latter being the raison d'etre of serious newspapers. In summary, tabloids "lower the standards of public discourse" (Ornerbring and Jonson, 2004: 283).
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Date Issued: 2005

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