DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM AND MEDIA STUDIES
INTRODUCTION
Staff from the School of Journalism and Media Studies produced research outputs across a wide range of platforms.
A variety of funded research projects were underway in the School. The project ‘Youth Identity, Media Use and Consumption, and the Public Sphere in South Africa’ is led by Professor Jane Duncan. Professor Larry Strelitz, Professor Lynette Steenveld and Ms Priscilla Boshoff from the School of JMS also participated in the joint project with the University of Cape Town, the Free University of Amsterdam and Media Tenor. The project is funded by the SA-Netherlands Partnership on Alternatives in Development (Sanpad).
Professor Herman Wasserman and Professor Anthea Garman co-direct a Humanities Research Focus Area project on Media and Citizenship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Three MA students, a PhD student and a postdoctoral fellow form part of the research team.
Alongside formal research published as books, book chapters and journal articles, staff also contributed opinion pieces informed by their research to the news media, exhibited photographic work and organized workshops and conferences. Among these were presentations by Professor Jane Duncan to Parliamentary hearings on print media transformation. Prof Anthea Garman convened the Think!Fest series of public lectures at the National Arts Festival.
SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH ALIGNED EVENTS
• Prof Lorenzo Dalvit was invited to give a lecture at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy, and Gill Rennie received a USC Annenberg/Getty Fellowship for Arts Journalists to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA.
• Several staff members contributed to the Rhodes Journalism Review, edited by Professor Anthea Garman.
• Prof Herman Wasserman’s book Tabloid Journalism in South Africa: True Story! was awarded the 2011 Vice-Chancellor’s Book Award. Prof Anthea Garman was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Prof Wasserman received a B2 rating from the National Research Foundation.
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