Wits Media Studies

Based in central Johannesburg, Wits Media Studies is the preeminent location for critical study of media, culture & society in Southern Africa

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📢📢📢WE'RE HIRING 📢📢📢
Wits Media Studies is recruiting a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer. These are permanent full-time posts in a dynamic and research-active department. Deadline is 28 February. Please share widely!

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We're back in Solomon House today for the orientation session for Media Studies Honours 2024. Always exciting to meet a new PG class.

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On Juneteenth, we want to raise awareness of current #AIHarms: Surveillance cameras, facial recognition used to monitor, evict public housing residents
via @washingtonpost by @dmac1

https://t.co/csLnObWiU0

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Winter storms have contributed to a "severe blood stock shortage" in the Western Cape. https://t.co/FesEfGcB9l

[IOL News @IOL]

The Western Cape Blood Service is appealing to members of the public to donate #blood as stocks are #critically low.
#WINTER
https://t.co/lTq4rOMARJ

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And finally, Karabo Peter on the intersections between hustle culture and hegemonic masculinity

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Kamohelo Mtwanabi on the marketised black beauty of influencer Kay Yarms

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Rejoice Olaniran on Kim Seon Ho's cancellation and subsequent in-cancellation

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Wandile Nhlapo offers an intersectional feminist reading of the Netflix show You.

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Santhuri Moodliar on contemporary ways of seeking advice online: real people on Reddit's #BORU, #AITA and #RelationshipAdvice

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Phomello Mogale: information disorder in the Russia-Ukraine war

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Precious Modipane discusses the Netflix movie Fatherhood and its unusually positive representation of black fatherhood, in comparison to films like Daddy's Little Girl

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Sinethemba Matokazi asks what it means that black women dominate SA influencer culture, and asks how these women present themselves

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@KaraboKgoleng It's an Honours research presentation, so hasn't been written yet

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Tebogo Mkhwanazi analyses season 3 of Real Housewives of Durban: how do transnational television forms operate in the global south?

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Hlayisani Kwinika analyses factors influencing consumer choice, from aspiration to celebrity influence

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Sibulele Mgijima on Nespresso's AAA sustainable campaign: how does this company market itself through 'ethical consumption'?

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@ZwaneSiguqa Hopefully she'll publish it eventually!

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Lesedi Mensele analyses representations of black pain on Moja Love

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Busisiwe Mahlambi on wayward feminities: how do unconventional women appear in the South African media?