Qualifications:
BA Hons (Rhodes), MA (London), PhD (Rhodes)

Address

Room 205 Africa Media Matrix

Upper Prince Alfred Street

Makhanda

Postal address

School of Journalism and Media Studies

Rhodes University

PO Box 94

Makhanda 6140

Industry experience

1982-1984 Studio camera operator/floor manager SABC

1981-1982 Audiovisual producer

1979-1981 Print journalist on Sunday World and Financial Mail

Courses

Postgraduate: Media Research Methods

Professional involvement

Member of the Southern African Communications Association (Saccom)

Research areas

Audience studies

Global media studies

Media and everyday life studies

Research projects

Member of the Andrew W Mellon-funded project researching Media, Digitality and Sociality

Research publications

2016. Schoon, A. and L. Strelitz. “Mixing with MXit When You’re ‘Mix’: Mobile Phones and Identity in a Small South African Town” in Willems, W. and Mano, W. (eds) Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users. Routledge.

2016. Stupart, R. and L. Strelitz. “Framing Famine: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the 2011 Famine in Somalia.” African Journalism Studies 37: 100-119.

2014. Young, C., & Strelitz, L. Exploring patterns of Facebook usage, social capital, loneliness and well-being among a diverse South African student sample. Communicare 33: 57-72.

Books

2006. Mixed Reception: South African Youth and Their Experience of Global Media. Pretoria: UNISA.