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Elections and TV news in South Africa : desperately seeking depth / Bernadine Jones.

9783030717926 (electronic bk.)
3030717925 (electronic bk.)
9783030717919
3030717917

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-71792-6 doi

PN5477.P6 J66 2021

070.4/49324

This book takes television news seriously. Over the course of nine chapters, Elections and TV News in South Africa shows how six democratic South African general elections, 19942019, were represented on both local and international news broadcasts. It reveals the shifting narratives about South African democracy, coupled with changing and challenging political journalism practices. The book is organised in three parts: the first contains a history of South African democracy and an overview of the South African media environment. The second part is a visual analysis of the South African elections on television news, exploring portrayals of violence, security, power, and populism, and how these fit into normative news values and the ruling partys tightening grip on the media. The final part is a conclusion, a call to action, and a suggestion to improve political journalistic practice. Bernadine Jones is Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Stirling, UK. She was the Next Generation in Social Science Fellow at the University of Cape Town where she completed her PhD, and has published on visual analysis methodology, African representation in news, and political journalism during elections. She is proudly South African.

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