Publications

Publication details [#49285]

Wasserman, Herman. 2005. Debating the media, shaping identity: Postcolonial discourse and public criticism. Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research 31 (1) : 49–60.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

function | identity negotiation | mass media | political system

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores the repositioning of the mass media and their bearing on identity construction in post-apartheid South Africa, through the analysis of some crucial statements made by the South African president and the ruling party during the period 2002-2004, on the role of the media in the new post-apartheid democratic society.