Digital Media Ethics, Charles Ess: book review
- Authors: Brand, Robert
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454450 , vital:75347 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139905
- Description: Charles Ess' Digital Media Ethics is published by Polity as part of its digital media and society series. Aiming to broaden the readership of the latest research and thinking on digital media and their social net-works, the series examines questions around the influence of network technology and digital media on society, including economically, cultur-ally and politically.
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- Date Issued: 2009
Graphic design, Michael MacGarry: book review
- Authors: Garman, Brian
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454707 , vital:75368 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139903
- Description: When I first saw that this book was out, I looked across at my bookshelf, and wondered if I didn't already have too many design books. If I was going to get this one, it needed to be something different.
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- Date Issued: 2009
Internationalizing Media Studies, Daya Kishan Thussu (Ed.): book review
- Authors: Banda, Fackson
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454572 , vital:75356 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139904
- Description: Debates about the structures and processes of globalisation - along with those of localisation - have important implications for the discipline (or is it still a field?) of media studies. The first implication, framed as a counter-hegemonic resistance to what some might consider to be the totalising tradition of Western media studies scholarship, is that we can no longer continue to look only to Western centres of academe for intellectual edification. The need for a critical deconstruction of Euro-American intellectual centrism, and the need for recognising and thus reconstructing a truly transcultural onto-epistemological agenda for media studies, has become more urgent than ever before.
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- Date Issued: 2009
The both-and edition:
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158817 , vital:40231 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139955
- Description: I was driving down the N2 from Cape Town towards the airport recently and scanning the turn-offs for Vanguard Drive, when suddenly I noticed among the shacks that line the road some really interesting buildings. These were not the pale pink matchboxes that periodically spring up in rows alongside the derelict housing that millions of South Africans call home. They were multi-levelled, had large windows and looked like an architect might have had something to do with them. I was heartened at the sight of housing – at last – with humanity in mind. But as I reread the 2010 pieces in this edition, I’m reminded by Jane Duncan in particular (“Whose World Cup?” page 23) that prettifying the ghastly spaces in our world cup cities that will be visible to those international tourists is high on the agenda for our government. But then, I reason, at least someone will benefit from living along the noisy and congested airport route!.
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- Date Issued: 2009
The Tett offensive: the global financial crisis
- Authors: Rumney, Reg
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454277 , vital:75332 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139939
- Description: Financial journalist Gillian Tett observes in her book - Fool's Gold, How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets, and Unleashed a Catastrophe - that the complexity of finance serves the purpose of the financiers well. ''When bankers talkabout derivatives, they delight in swathing the concept in complex jargon,'' she points out. The resulting opacity ''reduces scrutiny and confers power on the few with the ability to pierce the veil''.
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- Date Issued: 2009
Forerunner to the resistance press The Guardian: The history of South Africa's extraordinary anti-apartheid newspaper, James Zug: latest books
- Authors: Brand, Robert
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454436 , vital:75346 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC140116
- Description: The Guardian is a significant new contribution to the study of South Africa's early resistance press. The fruit of 17 years of research by US historian and journalist James Zug, the books offers a rich tapestry of anecdote, political history and biography spanning 26 years of social turbulence in South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2008
Staying in touch Zimbabwean media
- Authors: Chatora, Arther
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454880 , vital:75383 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC140100
- Description: I have been studying in Grahamstown for five years and I now consider Grahamstown my second home. It has been fairly easy for me to settle here given the fact that Rhodes University is home to many Zimbabwe-an students and academic personnel. Diverse cultures merge in this town, giving it a cosmopolitan feel. Although seemingly far from Gra-hamstown, Zimbabwe gets a lot of representation from different media organisations.
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- Date Issued: 2008
The very thorough lens Photojournalism: the professionals' approach, Kenneth Kobré: latest books
- Authors: Gess, Harold
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455086 , vital:75401 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC140115
- Description: Each edition of Kenneth Kobré's book, Photojournalism: the profes-sionals' approach, has brought his enthusiastic and very thorough lens to bear on the changing terrain of photojournalism.
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- Date Issued: 2008
Intermediating Africa:
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158806 , vital:40230 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC144693
- Description: In July, Vanity Fair, based in New York, did a unique special edition. Editor Graydon Carter explained how it came about: "Earlier this year, Mark Dowley, a marketing polymath at the Endeavour talent agency who has been involved with Bono's (Red) campaign from the start, called to inquire if I would be interested in having him guest edit an issue of the magazine. Interested? I'll say!".
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- Date Issued: 2007
Shakespeare's Stories of the English Middle Ages: From Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455779 , vital:75456 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48086
- Description: Here is the story of the history plays from Richard II to Henry 1V (both parts) and Henry V retold in piquant prose sufficiently gripping to hold the attention of anyone willing to make some effort, hi a sense the book reverses the dominant twentieth century pedagogical mantra by turning attention from stage to page, almost novelising the material.[...] the contrast between history proper and the Shakespearean mythography as seen in the plays becomes all the clearer when confronted in this orderly prose exposition, provided you also know the historical versions.[...] the poetry and the vibrant language of the original are missing, and the drama is transmogrified by this very different medium.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Thinking about fear and freedom:
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158794 , vital:40229 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146175
- Description: Some convictions have chrystalised for me in the process of putting together this new edition of Rhodes Journalism Review.
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- Date Issued: 2006
Yours, mine and ours: intellectual property
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158784 , vital:40228 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146169
- Description: When Grocott's Mail in Grahamstown wanted to use the Hector Pieterson photograph for the front cover of a Youth Day supplement celebrating the courage of the Soweto students of 1976, they decided to go the official route by contacting the photographer's agent and paying for the picture. They were told a single use would cost them thousands of rands. Obviously an impossibility for a small-town, community newspaper.
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- Date Issued: 2006
Shakespeare and Africa: the dark lady of his sonnets revamped and other Africa-related associations. Xlibris Corporation
- Authors: Glover, Jayne
- Date: 2005
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457820 , vital:75681 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48069
- Description: This slim volume produced by Robert F. Fleissner addresses some of the connections between Shakespeare and Africa. His lengthy Foreword, in which he sets out, chapter by chapter, the contents of the book (mainly discussions on the identity and race of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady), provides a cogent, flowing argument that, in many ways, presents a clearer picture of Fleissner’s work on race and Shakespeare than the work as a whole, which is pieced together from his many years of research.
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- Date Issued: 2005
A Tale of Two Economies
- Date: 2004-03
- Subjects: South Africa -- Politics and government , South Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: text , newspaper
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/37655 , vital:34204 , Bulk File 7
- Description: This is a newspaper cutting from the Sowetan in the collection of the Unity Movement.
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- Date Issued: 2004-03
Bollywood Twelfth Night: Steven Beresford's Production. Albery Theatre, London, September 2004: theatre review
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2004
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455629 , vital:75444 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48040
- Description: BOLLYWOOD TWELFTH NIGHT : Steven Beresford's Production. Albery Theatre, London, September 2004. LAURENCE WRIGHT A Bollywood Shakespeare? Why not? Steven Beresford's directorial debut in West End theatre was pleasant rather than stunning, and one came away with a sense of the possibilities he had envisioned, more than those he had realized. The show opens with a tropical monsoon, sponsor of comedy's shipwreck. The setting is present-day India, a run-down street in a large city.
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- Date Issued: 2004
Reviewing review:
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2004
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158773 , vital:40227 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146216
- Description: In this 10th year of freedom of media in South Africa, the Rhodes Journalism Review has entered its 14th year as chronicler of media in South Africa. RJR was started in the year that actually unrolled the changes we now live with - 1990 - and attempted to document the complex journey out of apartheid. In the last 10 years Review has been charting the even more complex journey into freedom.
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- Date Issued: 2004
Africa: Media
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158752 , vital:40225 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146281
- Description: Those are our twin concerns as we move into this new moment in human history which is being called the "Information Society" or the "Information Age".
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- Date Issued: 2003
If you think that multi-media is not for Africa
- Authors: Garman, Brian
- Date: 2003
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454723 , vital:75370 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146246
- Description: Over 20 years ago I sat myself down in front of the first Apple Mac to arrive in our department and far from being excited by it, I can remember thinking "this'll never catch on..."
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- Date Issued: 2003
Spray Oils Beyond 2000 Sustainable Pest and Disease Management, GAC Beatie, DM Watson, ML Stevens, DJ Rae and RN Spooner-Hart (Eds.): book review
- Authors: Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2003
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442099 , vital:73955 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC32548
- Description: Spray oils gained popularity as pesticides in the 1950s but were subsequently displaced in the market by synthetic compounds. With recent trends in legislation relating to pesticide residues, interest in these oils is reviving. This saw expression in the convening of the first international conference on spray oils in Sydney, late in 1999. The proceedings of that conference form the contents of this book, which features over 70 papers. The compilers clearly feel that one of the most important contributions is a newly proposed international classification scheme for spray oils, including explicit chemical standards and a common nomenclature, which is aimed at overcoming the existing ambiguous and dialectal system. However, the volume will have relevance to a much wider audience because it provides a broad overview of research into this neglected form of crop protection.
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- Date Issued: 2003
The unbalanced media diet: context gender
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158762 , vital:40226 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146262
- Description: When you look at the Southern African "media diet" served up for Africans to consume, you discover some curious things about the differential reporting on men and women.
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- Date Issued: 2003