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Tomaselli, Keyan G. — Encountering Modernity
Full text linkKeyan G. Tomaselli est professeur et directeur du département Culture Communication and Media Studies à l’University of KwaZulu-Natal, à Durban (Afrique du Sud). Son livre le plus connu, The Cinema of Apartheid (1988), traitait des liens entre le régime d’apartheid et l’industrie cinématographique sud-africaine, en s’appuyant principalement sur une analyse de l’économie politique à l’origine du développement de cette industrie. Après ces premiers travaux, Tomaselli avait orienté ses centres d..
Encoding/Decoding, the transmission model and a court of law
Full text linkAbstract: Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model is discussed in terms of CS Peirce’s theory of the interpreter and interpretant. This historical semiotic window frames an example to which the Hall model was applied in South Africa to oppose a military dirty tricks campaign that involved a Supreme Court case brought against the Minister of Defence by the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) requiring him to cease his disinformation against the ECC. The Minister’s own expert had proposed a transmission model of communication that was defeated by the Peirce-Hall combination. The author argues that the model can be massively strengthened when combined with Peirceian semiotics
Book review : The American movie industry/Brazilian cinema
No full textReview of: Gorham Kindem (ed.). The American movie industry: the business of motion pictures. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982, and Randal Johnson & Robert Stam (ed.). Brazilian cinema. London: Associated University Presses, 198
Humanities, citations and currency : hierarchies of value and enabled recolonisation
Full text linkAbstract:A comparative analysis examines the relevance of journal measurement indices for the Humanities and the Sciences. It explains how different measurements work, what they measure and their impact on the integrity of research, paradigm change and citation levels. The increasing use by university auditors of impact factors as performance management and research output indicators is critically examined with regard to implications for the humanities. The effect of this neoliberal approach on African-based academic developments is examined, as are the intellectually re-colonising effects of such systems
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