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Wasserman, Herman (Prof)
No full textDepartment of Journalism and Media Studies Herman Wasserman ORCID 0000-0002-2553-1989 Vice-Chancellor’s Book Award 2011. Prof H J Wasserman: Tabloid Journalism in South Af-rica Top 30 Rhodes Researchers 2010, 2012, 2013</a
Book Review: Herman Wasserman, Media, Geopolitics and Power
No full textThe strength of this book is not only that Herman Wasserman gives us a comprehensive overview of the major changes in South Africa’s journalism industries since the transition to democracy, but that he does it through the theoretical lens of Global South thinking. In order to cover the terrain thoroughly Wasserman draws on years of careful observation of – and his previous writings on – the shifts in the institutions and practices of journalism
Meeting the challenges of information disorder in the Global South
No full textThe research was conducted collaboratively, with regional reports provided by local teams from Research ICT Africa, InternetLab (Latin America and the Caribbean), LIRNEasia (Asia), and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (Middle East and North Africa). This detailed study provides an overview of the entities that are active in the fight against information disorder in the MENA region, and the methods and responses they use. It also discusses and analyzes legal and human rights issues and the context of freedom of opinion and expression in which they operate
Author Talk: Daniel Herman Discusses His Novel, The Feudist
No full textPoster for an event where CWU History professor Daniel Herman discusses his historical novel The Feudisthttps://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1223/thumbnail.jp
Health communication in Southern Africa: Engaging with social and cultural diversity
No full textDoes healthy behaviour have the same predictors whether Zambian or Namibian individuals are concerned? How do social networks in small villages play a role in communicating health information? Do South African mass media affect diverse audiences the same way as mass media do in Western society? Is the design of patient information adequate to help and instruct people who speak Xhosa as their first language? This book presents studies on health communication, in particular HIV/AIDS communication, in southern Africa, from a variety of scientific perspectives. It brings together approaches from usually divergent areas such as psychology, the analysis of social networks, studies of mass communication and the analysis of interpersonal communication, language and document design. These studies, all based on research in southern Africa, show the complexity of social and cultural factors related to health communication. Both established and promising researchers from the USA, Europe, and South Africa provide answers from health communication research in socially and culturally diverse societies in Southern Africa.This overview of scientific approaches is a must-read for students, scholars and practitioners in health communication and public health. It is also an invaluable resource for professionals who are involved in health communication
How much to say or do? : an exploration from a public journalism perspective on the community involvement of the West Coast commercial community newspaper Weslander
No full textThesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2006.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Objectivity, impartiality and neutrality are normative values that South African journalists have
been taught to aspire to. The South African media are still strongly grounded in a western liberal
view of the press as Fourth estate and watchdog, a role that is associated with the
aforementioned values. However, in the last decade some in the media like Thami Mazwai and
scholars like Ngaire Blankenberg, Clifford Christians, Herman Wasserman, Arrie de Beer and
others have questioned the appropriateness of western ethical values like objectivity for the South
African media and suggested that there exists a need to develop an Africanised media theory.
Some of the options that have been considered to find a workable alternative media theory for
South Africa include the African belief system, ubuntuism, and the American public journalism
movement. One of the issues that should come to the fore in these discussions is the
appropriateness of community involvement by community media when addressing problematic
issues in that community. A review of objectivity as ethical value raises the question on what is
the appropriate limits for a newspaper to become involved in addressing and finding solutions for
problems in the community. This thesis explores the community involvement of a commercial
newspaper, Weslanderfrom a public journalism perspective.AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Suid-Afrikaanse joernaliste word geleer om die normatiewe waardes: objektiwiteit, onpartydigheid
en neutraliteit na te streef. Die westerse liberale siening van die pers as die vierde stand en
waghond vorm steeds die grondslag van die Suid-Afrikaanse media, 'n rol wat vereenselwig word
met genoemde normatiewe waardes. Gedurende die afgelope dekade het sommige in die media
soos Thami Mazwai en akademici soos Ngaire Blankenberg, Clifford Christians, Herman
Wasserman, Arrie de Beer en andere die toepaslikheid van westerse etiese waardes soos
objektiwiteit vir die Suid-Afrikaanse media begin bevraagteken en voorgestel dat 'n behoefte aan
ge-Afrikaniseerde media teorie bestaan. Sommige van die opsies wat vir 'n werkbare alternatiewe
media teorie vir Suid-Afrika oorweeg is, sluit in die Afrika geloofsisteem, ubuntuism, en die
Amerikaanse publieke joernalistiek beweging. Een van die kwessies wat in hierdie besprekings
geopper behoort te word, is die toepaslikheid van gemeenskapsbetrokkenheid deur
gemeenskapsmedia wanneer berig word oor probleme in die gemeenskap. Uit 'n hersiening van
objektiwiteit as etiese waarde lei tot die vraagstuk oor hoe die toepaslike limiete dan moet lyk
indien 'n koerant betrokke raak in die aanspreek en vind van oplossings vir probleme in die
gemeenskap. Hierdie tesis ondersoek die gemeenskapsbetrokkenheid van 'n kommersiele
koerant, Weslander, vanuit 'n publieke joernalistiek perspektief.Master
“The Pondering Repose of If”: Herman Melville’s Literary Exegesis
No full textThis study examines how Herman Melville’s oeuvre interacts with Old Testament (OT) wisdom literature (the Books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes). Using recent historical findings on the rise of religious skepticism and the erosion of Biblical authority in both Europe and the United States, I read Melville as an author steeped in the theological controversies of the eighteenth-century. Specifically, I am interested in teasing out the surprising disavowals of overt religious skepticism in Melville’s writing. By tracing the so-called Solomonic wisdom tradition throughout Melville’s oeuvre, I argue that Melville had developed an epistemology of contemplation towards that body of Biblical texts. Scholarship has traditionally painted Melville as a subversive if not downright skeptical religious thinker. Most studies have produced authorial readings, using texts as forensic evidence to make assertions about the author’s psychology. Incidentally, such assessments have confirmed the narrative of Herman Melville as a grand failed author of the nineteenth century, while ignoring the ambivalent attitudes toward Biblical authority, textual history, and skepticism that emerge in Melville’s writing. The present study intervenes by re-addressing several procedural questions about Melville’s literary dealings with the Bible: How does Melville deal with the distinct topics of religion, theology, religious skepticism, and doubt? How does he think through the relationship between science and religion as well as that of personal religion and theology? I claim that Melville’s work can be read as a continuous contemplation of Biblical wisdom. His writing, I argue, deals productively rather than a destructive with the Bible, its textual history, and authority. Melville’s thinking on theological and religious subjects was not merely subversive but constructive. In mounting this argument, I contradict current scholarship that reads Melville as trying to invent a new American Bible. In contrast, I show how Melville’s philosophical forays, even when critical, are dependent on the ethics, language, and thinking of the OT.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
Author Herman Wouk with his dog, ca. 1950s
No full textHerman Wouk, author of "The Caine Mutiny" (1951), "Marjorie Morningstar" (1955), "The Winds of War" (1971), "War and Remembrance" (1978) and many other novels. "The Caine Mutiny" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Photo by Angelo Pinto.Digital imageItem is part of an online exhibition "Jews in America: Our Story," maintained by the Center for Jewish History at http://www.jewsinamerica.org
Herman Leicht
No full textNotes - Mr. Herman Leicht's career and education are discussed including his interest and subsequent career in radio and technology. Details are given of his marriage to Doreen Wilkinson and their family life (1 page
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