Constructing Hegemony
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Constructing Hegemony

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

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
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Constructing Hegemony

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

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. List of Acronyms
  9. Introduction: Nationalisation Discourse in the South African Media
  10. 1 The South African Media Landscape
  11. 2 The Re-emergence of Nationalisation Post-apartheid: A Historical Background
  12. 3 Setting a Neo-liberal Agenda: Nationalisation Discourse in the Commercial Media, 2008–18
  13. 4 Framing Nationalisation from a Capitalist Perspective
  14. 5 The Media, Capitalism and Ideological Discourse
  15. 6 Media Commercialisation and Ideological Discourses
  16. 7 Rethinking Media Transformation Post-apartheid
  17. Conclusion: Towards an Alternative Public Media
  18. Notes
  19. Select Bibliography
  20. Index