"Collection of essays, many of which were presented at an international conference in Stellenbosch on the same theme in July 2006..."--P. 3. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Identity in theory. Media, youth, violence and identity in South Africa : a theoretical approach / Abebe Zegeye ; Essentialism in a South African discussion of language and culture / Kees van der Waal ; 'National' public service broadcasting : contradictions and dilemmas / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli ; Field theory and tabloids / Ian Glenn and Angie Knaggs ; Identity in post-apartheid South Africa : 'Learning to belong' through the (commercial) media / Sonja Narunsky-Laden -- Media restructuring and identity formation after apartheid. Finding a home in Afrikaans radio / Johannes Froneman ; The rise of the Daily Sun and its contribution to the creation of post-apartheid identity / Nicola Jones, Yves Vanderhaegen and Dee Viney ; Online coloured identities : a virtual ethnography / Tanja Bosch ; The mass subject in Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull / Anthea Garman -- Expressing identities. Crime reporting : meaning and identitymaking in the South African press / Marguerite J. Moritz ; Afrikaner identity in a post-apartheid South Africa : the Self in terms of the Other / Wiida Fourie ; Foreign policy, identity and the media : contestation over Zimbabwe / Anita Howarth ; Masculine ideals in post-apartheid South Africa : the rise of men's glossies / Stella Viljoen ; Tsotsis, coconuts and wiggers : Black masculinity and contemporary South African media / Jane Stadler ; The media and the Zuma/Zulu culture : an Afrocentric perspective / Simphiwe Sesanti ; Black masculinity and the tyranny of authenticity in South African popular culture / Adam Haupt.
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