Qualifications:
BSc (Pretoria), Diploma Film and Television Technology (Pretoria Technikon), Hons Journalism and Media Studies (Wits), MA (Rhodes), PhD (UCT)
Room 111 Africa Media Matrix
Upper Prince Alfred Street
Makhanda
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Rhodes University
PO Box 94
Makhanda 6140
1998-2005 Television series director, documentary film director, educational television producer, content producer, script supervisor (Kagiso Television, Mail & Guardian Television, Special Assignment, Ochre Media, Curious Pictures)
1994-1997 Freelance television researcher, junior director (CVET, Free Filmmakers, Tshomo Pictures, African Bandits)
1992-1993 Community media trainer (CECS Athlone: Western Cape Media Trainers Forum)
JMS4: Television production, documentary filmmaking, video production for the Multimedia Storytelling course
Postgraduate electives: The pirate's guide to the internet, Everyday life and mobile communications, Afrofuturism and the Anthropocene, Navigating the post-truth world
2020 Rhodes University Covid-19 Communications Team
2018-2019 Land video project with Hunterstoun Research Unit at Fort Hare
2018 Ran a digital animation workshop for local hip hop artists during the Creativate project of the National Arts Festival
2014-2016 Produced a series of music videos in collaboration with local hip hop artists
Mentor for the African Humanities Project
Member of the IAMCR
Digital media
Digital media research methods
Documentary filmmaking
Mobile communications
Participatory filmmaking
Science communication
Lead editor on a special 2020 issue on Digital Media Research Methods for African Digital Media, an annual edition of the journal African Journalism Studies.
Collaborator on Immersive technologies, race and the environment research project with colleague Rod Amner and colleagues from Syracuse University
Using video production for social research in collaboration with the Hunterstoun Institute at Fort Hare
Science Communication research project with sugarcane growers (led by Prof Janice Limson)
Documenting the history of Scifest Africa and its role in developing Science Communication in South Africa with Prof Janice Limson
De Lanerolle, I., Schoon, A., & Walton, M. (2020). Researching Mobile Phones in the Everyday Life of the “Less Connected”: The Development of a New Diary Method. African Journalism Studies, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2020.1813785
Schoon, A. 2019. Hip Hop as a valorising practice. In A. Haupt, Q. E. Williams, H. S. Alim, & E. Jansen (Eds.), Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa. HSRC Press.
Dalvit, L., Schoon, A., 2018. Siyashuta! Capturing police brutality on mobile phones in South Africa. In Schleser, M., Berry, M. (Eds.), Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 129–137.
Schoon, A. (2020). SciFest Africa, a model for science communication in Africa. In L. Peschke (Ed.), Let’s Write About Science: Case studies and best practices of science popularization and storytelling. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/
Schoon, A., Mabweazara, H.M., Bosch, T. and Dugmore, H. (2020) Decolonising digital media research methods: positioning African digital experiences as epistemic sites of knowledge production. African Journalism Studies. 41 (4). p.1-15.
Makhotso Wild on Wheels won the Audience Award at the 1st Perspectiva Film Festival in Moscow.
Pephile's Story was selected to represent South African television at the Input Festival, Cape Town as well as Asia Regional Input Festival, Hong Kong.
Schoon, A. Invited Speaker. Creating for digital platforms part III: tips from the experts. National Arts Festival Webinar. Zoom, Makhanda. South Africa. 27 May 2020.
Schoon, A. and Jacobs, J. Webinar Co-Hosts. Journalists, scientists, whistle Blowers, governments: who are the truth-tellers? Highway Africa Webinar Series Zoom, Makhanda. South Africa. 5 August 2020.
Multimedia project on the intellectual history of the Eastern Cape