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Post-apartheid South Africa continues to face challenges in its attempts at economic transformation from decades of apartheid and colonisation. This need for revolution has resulted in various policy initiatives, including the ongoing demands for the nationalisation of the economy. The commercial media has a central role in shaping policy debates. But this media is an ideological tool and an economic resource since it is owned and controlled by people with political and economic interests and, therefore, tends to support and promote their interests.
This book provides a Marxist critique of the representation of the nationalisation of the mines debate by the South African commercial media. Radebe examines corporate control of the media to articulate the interrelations between the State, Capital and the Media and how commercial media represents, shapes and influences public policy. He concludes that beyond factors such as ownership, commercialisation and the influence of advertising on news content, the global capitalist hegemony has a more powerful effect on the commercial media in South Africa than previously thought.
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List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms
Introduction: Nationalisation Discourse in the South African Media
1 The South African Media Landscape
2 The Re-emergence of Nationalisation Post-apartheid: A Historical Background
3 Setting a Neo-liberal Agenda: Nationalisation Discourse in the Commercial Media, 2008-18
4 Framing Nationalisation from a Capitalist Perspective
5 The Media, Capitalism and Ideological Discourse
6 Media Commercialisation and Ideological Discourses
7 Rethinking Media Transformation Post-apartheid
Conclusion: Towards an Alternative Public Media
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
About the author
Mandla J. Radebe is Communications Practitioner, Senior Research Associate at the School of Communication, University of Johannesburg, and a Fellow of Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study.
Summary
This book provides a Marxist critique of the representation of the nationalisation of the mines debate by the South African commercial media.
