A watchdog's guide to investigative reporting : a simple introduction to principles and practice in investigative reporting
- Authors: Banda, Fackson
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:6329 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008474
- Description: This article reviews the book by Derek Forbes. It problematises Forbes' a-theoretical approach towards investigative journalism, while giving credit to the case studies of investigative reporting that the book offers.
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Creating knowledge networks
- Authors: Kruss, G , Klerck, Gilton , Paterson, Angus William , Godfrey, S
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:544 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012400
- Description: The new science and technology framework has challenged higher education institutions in South Africa to create research partnerships with industry, to contribute to growing a national system of innovation. Through detailed case studies, this monograph explores how one new organisational form typical of the knowledge society, the network, is currently being created in practice, in all its complex and contingent reality, in three high technology fields. It is the third volume in the Working Partnerships: Higher Education, Industry and Innovation series. The case studies show that knowledge networks are primarily shaped by the competitive dynamics of the industrial sub-sector within which partner enterprises operate, intersecting with the levels of scientific and managerial expertise within higher education partner institutions, and facilitated by government policy steering mechanisms and intermediary partners. The intersection of interests gives all partners a stake in the research project at the heart of the knowledge network, and builds the levels of trust required to succeed. The analysis highlights some of the possibilities and constraints evident in the current policy context, suggesting that state attempts to steer the system need to be more nuanced and targeted, informed by the specificity of sectoral dynamics, and it suggests that universities need to identify their own strategic solutions to develop a flexible and adaptive institutional approach to networks.
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Grahamstown film and heritage as reflected by His Majesty's building
- Authors: Still-Drewett, F
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:6981 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012409
- Description: Grahamstown Film and Heritage as reflected by His Majesty's Building. The building of His Majesty's theatre has had and continues to have an influential and varied history in the town of Grahamstown. The heritage of the building is linked both to its historical purpose and role in the community, and with the imposing architectural features and central locality. In this oral history project HMT became a vehicle for researching broader issues. The following issues arose: the effects of apartheid policy in entertainment areas; the arrival of national franchises and resultant tensions of preservation of building and cultural heritage versus economic development; the impact of new media such as TV and Video on the cinema theatre; and the community Fruit & Veg 'Colour' dispute. Four key informants were selected and 5 oral history interviews conducted in May 2006. The history of the theatre, film and entertainment memoirs, social comment, and a life history were recorded. , The oral history project pertaining to this paper is housed at the Cory Library, Rhodes University. See also Oral History Association of South Africa: http://www.ohasa.org.za/
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Launch of 'Popular Music and Censorship in Africa'
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2006 , 2014-06-12
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7613 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011814
- Description: Address at the launch of 'Popular Music and Censorship in Africa', edited by Drewett, M and Cloonan, M.
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LibQUAL+™ at Rhodes University Library: an overview of the first South African implementation
- Authors: Moon, A E
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:6979 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012407
- Description: When Rhodes University Library closed its LibQUAL+™ survey on 29 August 2005, it became the first of seven university libraries in South Africa to complete this Web-based survey, which measures library users’ perceptions of service quality and identifies gaps between desired, perceived, and minimum expectations of service. This paper focuses on the Rhodes Library’s implementation of the 2005 LibQUAL+™ survey. Results are looked at within the broader context of aggregate scores and score norms from the South African cohort. The library’s first efforts to address areas where perceptions of service quality differed from users’ expectations are described and plans for future efforts are indicated. The paper also details some lessons learnt by other LibQUAL+™ participants, as documented in published case studies.
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Media management training needs assessment within the SADC region : a qualitative study
- Authors: Milne, Claire , du Toit, Peter , Rau, Asta , Mdlongwa, Francis
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7119 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012462
- Description: By exploring the views of editorial and business leaders in the media industry, the Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (SPI) aims to reach a comprehensive understanding of management training issues that are regarded as priorities by leaders in the SADC region. The Institute also aims to create a space for media organisations to share their experiences of management capacity building and explore avenues for future collaboration. It is envisaged that this report will form part of an ongoing dialogue on the needs of media leaders in the region. Representatives from the SPI, the Southern Africa Institute for Media Entrepreneurship Development (SAIMED), the Southern Africa Media Development Fund (SAMDEF) and the Southern African Media Training Trust (NSJ) met to advise the SPI on the industry’s key information needs. The research was then designed to focus on the identified needs. The research was conducted in three phases. In the first phase approximately 75 interviews were conducted with people holding diverse positions in a broad range of print and broadcast media institutions in Botswana, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zambia. The second research phase comprised a workshop held for training providers and media professionals from the SADC region. Findings from the initial phase of the research were presented to workshop delegates for comment and debate. This allowed for the testing and triangulation of initial research findings. In response to comments by delegates, who thought that the research ought to have included countries where the lingua franca of business is not predominantly English, the study was extended to a second set of countries: Angola, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Interviews with 64 informants from this second set of countries constitutes the final phase of the research, Translators were used in this third phase, but other than that, there was a high degree of standardisation across all eight countries with the same methodological approach - including the selection of participants - being used in the first and third phases. As the research is predominantly qualitative, findings are context-specific and not generalisable. The overall impression portrayed by the study is a sense that media managers throughout the SADC region are struggling to overcome the constraints of having received little training other than that acquired in the workplace. There is also a sense that media leaders and managers thirst for the knowledge and skills that will enable them to continually improve and steer their organisations to success. The political and economic contexts of the research countries are, to differing extents, all problematic. Mozambique has the most liberal media climate out of all the countries researched and the Democratic Republic of Congo has the most repressed. But all of the countries suffer some degree of media repression, whether blatant or subtle. It is widely accepted that media plays a vital role in the development and mediation of democracy. With empowerment central to the democratic ethos, it is vital that media leaders and managers are themselves empowered to steer their organisations fairly, freely and effectively. This study contributes to the process by asking media professionals about their perceptions on what kinds of training their leaders and managers need and prefer so that training interventions can be appropriately targeted and designed. And so this research process serves to initiate what the Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership foresees will be an ongoing collaboration with media industry leaders and managers in the SADC region: a cooperate effort to shape solutions to the considerable range of training and management capacity building needs revealed in this study. , Funded by the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NIZA)
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Message to Goedgedacht Forum
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2006 , 2014-06-12
- Subjects: Goedgedact Forum for Social Reflection
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7605 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011800
- Description: Message from Dr Saleem Badat to the Goedgedacht Forum for Social Development in regards to the forum's 10th annivisary celebrations.
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Our society, our university, our challenges and responsibilities
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:574 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006567
- Description: Inaugural address of the Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University, Dr. Saleem Badat
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Rhodes University Research Report 2006
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:561 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011954
- Description: [From Preface] Rhodes University defines as one of its three core activities the production of knowledge through stimulating imaginative and rigorous research of all kinds (fundamental, applied, policy-oriented, etc.), and in all disciplines and fields. Though a small university with less than 6 000 students, the student profile and research output (publications, Master’s and Doctoral graduates) of Rhodes ensures that it occupies a distinctive place in the overall South African higher education landscape. For one, almost 25% of Rhodes’ students are postgraduates. Coming from a diversity of countries, these postgraduates ensure that Rhodes is a cosmopolitan and fertile environment of thinking and ideas. For another, Rhodes has the best research output of all South African universities, a testimony to the dedication and passion of its academics for research and the commitment of the University to nurture and cultivate knowledge production of all kinds. During 2006, Rhodes academics published 113 books and book chapters, 312 articles, and contributed 636 papers to conferences. One hundred and seventy students graduated with Master’s degrees and 47 with Doctorates. In a number of areas Rhodes’ academics are at the cutting-edge of research, pushing the frontiers knowledge production. The award of a Department of Science and Technology sponsored Research Chair in Chemistry to Professor Nyokong is one indicator of national recognition of this reality. Rhodes researchers are at the forefront of a number of national projects, and also continue to attract research funding from a variety of international and national research agencies and industry. Rhodes possesses an admirable research culture, and provides the intellectual space for the flourishing and debate of ideas, as evidenced by the number and diversity of seminars, public lectures, and the quality of local and international academics that visit Rhodes. A number of Rhodes academics also make important contributions to national public debate, enhancing the visibility of Rhodes in the intellectual life of South Africa. Rhodes University is committed to maintain and, in the years to come, to enhance its research output, to broaden its research base, to bring on steam new generations of researchers (who are also increasing women and black), and to continue being a distinctive South African university in the domain of knowledge production.
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