Constructing Hegemony

The South African Commercial Media and the (Mis)Representation of Nationalisation

Mandla J. Radebe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-63217-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

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.

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	9 Tables, black and white; 14 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-63217-8 / 1032632178
ISBN-13	978-1-032-63217-9 / 9781032632179
Zustand	Neuware