Consumption, Media and Culture in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consumption, Media and Culture in South Africa write by Mehita Iqani. This book was released on 2017-10-02. Consumption, Media and Culture in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first of its kind to bring together a collection of critical scholarly work on consumer culture in South Africa, exploring the cultural, political, economic, and social aspects of consumption in post-Apartheid society. From sushi and Japanese diplomacy to Queen Sophie’s writhing gown, from middle class Sowetan golfers to an indebted working class citizenry, from wedding websites to wedding nostalgia, from the liberation of consuming to the low wage labour of selling, the chapters in this book demonstrate a variety of themes, showing that to start with consumption, rather than ending with it, allows for new insights into long-standing areas of social research. By mapping, exploring and theorizing the diverse aspects of consumption and consumer culture, the volume collectively works towards a fresh set of empirically rooted conceptual commentaries on the politics, economics, and social dynamics of modern South Africa. This effort, in turn, can serve as a foundation for thinking less parochially about neoliberal power and consumer culture. On a global scale, studying consumption in South Africa matters because in some ways the country serves as a microcosm for global patterns of income inequality, race-based economic oppression, and hopes for the material betterment of life. By exploring what consumption means on the ‘local’ scale in South Africa, the possibility arises to trace new global links and dissonances. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts.
Consumption, Media and the Global South
Consumption, Media and the Global South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consumption, Media and the Global South write by Mehita Iqani. This book was released on 2016-01-26. Consumption, Media and the Global South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does consumption in the global south signify, and how are its complexities communicated in media discourses? This book looks at the media representation of consumer culture in Africa, China, Brazil and India through case studies ranging from celebrity selfies, to travel websites, news reports and documentary film.
Special Issue
Special Issue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Special Issue write by . This book was released on 2015. Special Issue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Media in Postapartheid South Africa
Media in Postapartheid South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Media in Postapartheid South Africa write by Sean Jacobs. This book was released on 2019-05-01. Media in Postapartheid South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Media in Postapartheid South Africa, author Sean Jacobs turns to media politics and the consumption of media as a way to understand recent political developments in South Africa and their relations with the African continent and the world. Jacobs looks at how mass media define the physical and human geography of the society and what it means for comprehending changing notions of citizenship in postapartheid South Africa. Jacobs claims that the media have unprecedented control over the distribution of public goods, rights claims, and South Africa's integration into the global political economy in ways that were impossible under the state-controlled media that dominated the apartheid years. Jacobs takes a probing look at television commercials and the representation of South Africans, reality television shows and South African continental expansion, soap operas and postapartheid identity politics, and the internet as a space for reassertions and reconfigurations of identity. As South Africa becomes more integrated into the global economy, Jacobs argues that local media have more weight in shaping how consumers view these products in unexpected and consequential ways.
Everyday Media Culture in Africa
Everyday Media Culture in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Media Culture in Africa write by Wendy Willems. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Everyday Media Culture in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. So far, the bulk of academic research on media and communication in Africa has studied media through the lens of media-state relations, thereby adopting liberal democracy as the normative ideal and examining the potential contribution of African media to development and democratization. Focusing instead on everyday media culture in a range of African countries, this volume contributes to the broader project of provincializing and decolonizing audience and internet studies.
