The history of South African journalism and mass communication (JMC) scholarship at
university level stretches back to the 1960s. Five primary paradigms could be distinguished …

The debate about journalism education has several dimensions. The debate is not only a
South African one, nor is it only a recent one. In South Africa, however, the debate about …

This study reports on a social-realist analysis of collaborative curriculum development in a
journalism and media studies (JMS) department at a South African university. Archer's social …

A discussion of the history of journalism and mass communication studies, in relation to its
alter ego, media studies, provides the backdrop to an analysis of the role played by the …

This article tackles assumptions made by Louise Bourgault in her pioneering book, Mass
Media in Sub-Saharan Africa. The article discusses her claims about African journalism in …

A number of epistemological skirmishes illustrating the nature of debate, and which
comment on broader, often antagonistic, assumptions held by communication science vis-à …

This article is an abridged version of a longer report commissioned in 1999 by the National
Research Foundation (NRF) on the State of the Discipline: Communication Studies. The …

Extracted from text... Tomaselli & Shepperson: State of the discipline: South African
Communication Studies in the 1990s 131 KG Tomaselli A Shepperson State of the …

The reporting of truth, ethical obligations and good writing are principles denied by
Australian media theory programmes. This damning criticism is offered by Keith …

We have had the opportunity to reflect on a few issues that Windschuttle (1998) raised in his
reply to our response to his objection to the influence of media studies on journalism …