Media and Citizenship: Between Marginalisation and Participation
Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press (2017), xi, 241 pp.
Contains illustrations
ISBN 978-0-7969-2556-5 (pbk); 978-0-7969-2550-3 (pdf)
"Media and Citizenship challenges some assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like South Africa. In a post-apartheid society where an enfranchised majority is still unable to fundamentally practise their citizenship and experiences marginalisation on a daily basis, notions like listening and belonging may be more useful ways of thinking about the role of the media. In this context, protest is taken seriously as a form of political expression and the media’s role is foregrounded as actively seeking out the voices of those on the margins of society. Through a range of case studies, the contributors show how listening, both as a political concept and as a form of practice, has transformative and even radical potential for both emerging and established democracies." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Anthea Garman and Herman Wasserman, vii
PART I. THE MEDIA-CITIZENSHIP NEXUS
1 Citizens and journalists: The possibilities of co-creating the democracy we want / Anthea Garman and Herman Wasserman, 3
2 Listening: A normative approach to transform media and democracy / Tanja Dreher, 16
3 Democracy and political participation: The ambivalence of the Web / Peter Dahlgren, 35
PART II. THE MEDIA-DEMOCRACY PROBLEMATIC
4 Speaking power's truth: South African media in the service of the suburbs / Steven Friedman, 55
5 'Back to the people' journalism: Journalists as public storytellers / Harry C Boyte, 72
6 A better life for all? Consumption and citizenship in post-apartheid media culture / Mehita Iqani, 90
7 'Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument': Reason, emotion and affect in the post-apartheid public sphere / Steven Robins, 105
8 The tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay, Cape Town / Laurence Piper, Bettina von Lieres and Fiona Anciano, 120
9 'Non-poor only': Culture jamming and the limits of free speech in South Africa / Adam Haupt, 139
PART III. ACTS OF CITIZENSHIP
10 Could a 'Noongarpedia' form the basis for an emerging form of citizenship in the age of new media? / Len Collard, John Hartley, Kim Scott, Niall Lucy and Clint Bracknell, with Jennifer Buchanan and Ingrid Cumming, 159
11 The media, Equal Education and school learners: 'Political listening' in the South African education crisis / Azwihangwisi Mufamadi and Anthea Garman, 181
12 Innocence: A free pass into the moral commonweal / Yves Vanderhaeghen, 200
13 We are not the 'born frees': The real political and civic lives of eight young South Africans / Vanessa Malila, 217
PART I. THE MEDIA-CITIZENSHIP NEXUS
1 Citizens and journalists: The possibilities of co-creating the democracy we want / Anthea Garman and Herman Wasserman, 3
2 Listening: A normative approach to transform media and democracy / Tanja Dreher, 16
3 Democracy and political participation: The ambivalence of the Web / Peter Dahlgren, 35
PART II. THE MEDIA-DEMOCRACY PROBLEMATIC
4 Speaking power's truth: South African media in the service of the suburbs / Steven Friedman, 55
5 'Back to the people' journalism: Journalists as public storytellers / Harry C Boyte, 72
6 A better life for all? Consumption and citizenship in post-apartheid media culture / Mehita Iqani, 90
7 'Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument': Reason, emotion and affect in the post-apartheid public sphere / Steven Robins, 105
8 The tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay, Cape Town / Laurence Piper, Bettina von Lieres and Fiona Anciano, 120
9 'Non-poor only': Culture jamming and the limits of free speech in South Africa / Adam Haupt, 139
PART III. ACTS OF CITIZENSHIP
10 Could a 'Noongarpedia' form the basis for an emerging form of citizenship in the age of new media? / Len Collard, John Hartley, Kim Scott, Niall Lucy and Clint Bracknell, with Jennifer Buchanan and Ingrid Cumming, 159
11 The media, Equal Education and school learners: 'Political listening' in the South African education crisis / Azwihangwisi Mufamadi and Anthea Garman, 181
12 Innocence: A free pass into the moral commonweal / Yves Vanderhaeghen, 200
13 We are not the 'born frees': The real political and civic lives of eight young South Africans / Vanessa Malila, 217
