The role of the media in a changing South Africa

Giffard, C. Anthony

doi:10.1177/001654929004600301

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“…Each of these bodies of work mobilized a plethora of different concepts, but for the sake of simplicity, we shall use a single label for each of them. The category 'democratization' thus encompasses work that ranges from debates on the decline of censorship and emergence of free speech to the analysis of media and democratization and the shifting nature of mediated politics in the contemporary world, across a range of political and historical contexts (e.g., Giffard, 1990;Lee and Chan, 1990;Taylor and Kent, 2000). The category consumerism and similar.…”

Section: Role Of Media and Communication In Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The category ‘democratization’ thus encompasses work that ranges from debates on the decline of censorship and emergence of free speech to the analysis of media and democratization and the shifting nature of mediated politics in the contemporary world, across a range of political and historical contexts (e.g. Giffard, 1990; Lee and Chan, 1990; Taylor and Kent, 2000). The category ‘commercialization’ covers debates on the changing political economy of communication systems, work tackling processes such as ownership concentration, privatization, the rise of consumerism and similar.…”

Section: Approaches To Media Communication and Social Change: A Typologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Theorizing media, communication and social change: towards a processual approach

Mihelj

Stanyer

2018

Media, Culture & Society

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Debates about the role of media and communication in social change are central to our discipline, yet advances in this field are hampered by disciplinary fragmentation, a lack of shared conceptual language, and limited understanding of long-term shifts in the field. To address this, we first develop a typology that distinguishes between approaches that foreground the role of media and communication as an agent of change, and approaches that treat media and communication as an environment for change. We then use this typology to identify key trends in the field since 1951, including the sharp downturn in work focusing on economic aspects of change after 1985, the decline of grand narratives of social change since 2000, and the parallel return to media effects. We conclude by outlining the key traits of a processual approach to social change, which has the capacity to offer the basis for shared language in the field. This language can enable us to think of media, communication and social change across its varied temporal and social planes, and link together the processes involved in the reproduction of status quo with fundamental changes to social order.

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Section: Role Of Media and Communication In Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Approaches To Media Communication and Social Change: A Typologymentioning

confidence: 99%