This research explores the role of government communication as a development tool in
Gokwe South Rural District (GSRD) of Zimbabwe. Different paradigms have explored the
development trajectory in the developing world, ...
The South African government uses Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) as a platform in which to interact with the public. As Pasquier (2012) defines it, this is a process where government shares information ...
The study explores the concept of customer focussed governance and examines strategic government communication for service delivery in the Eastern Cape. The conceptual framework for the study is based on the proposition ...
This study uses the November 2017 military assisted political transition in Zimbabwe to critically analyse the role of the media in the political transition in Africa. Scholars contend that the military aided transition ...
This cross-sectional qualitative mixed-methods study explores how news media organisations employ their gatekeeping activities to brand their news outlets and, subsequently, how the brand helps to diffuse their news stories. ...
In South Africa, the usage and positioning of English as the dominant language has led to the marginalisation of African languages. The dominance of the English language in South Africa is rooted in the historical injustices ...
Little is still known in the South African context regarding how political brands can use political brand storytelling with an online political brand persona on social media to differentiate a political brand from the ...
News media play a significant role in creating awareness about human trafficking. This study analysed the manner in which South African newspapers represent the issue of human trafficking. It explored and discussed the ...
This study aimed to analyse the communication strategy that Emalahleni Local Municipality (ELM) is using to raise awareness on air quality improvement. Analysing the communication strategy of an organisation can play an ...
Public relations remains a profession that is admired in most Sub-African countries
including Namibia. According to Grunig (2008, p. 4), public relations and communication
management denote a process of planning, ...
This dissertation underpins a qualitative document analysis of the 2016 South African integrated information and communication technology (ICT) policy: White Paper. However, in this study, this policy is referred to as the ...
The objective of this study was to investigate whether community print media is fulfilling its developmental mandate in society using a comparative study of Alex News and Greater Alex Today community newspapers. This study ...
The concept of SIC in the banking circle specifically in Ghana and generally in Africa has raised concerns for research because it concerns the management of the processes of communication strategies to achieve communication ...
Social media are common channels for organisational communication the world over. This
study explores the perceptions and attitudes towards social media that encourage or impede
the effective use of such media in ...
The study investigates the educational role of the public service broadcaster in post-apartheid South Africa. The aim was to investigate the educational role of the programme Shift as part of the content offering of the ...
This study investigates the portrayal and perception of artificial intelligence (AI) in I, Robot (2004) and Chappie (2015), providing one of the first accounts of the causality between attitudes and expectations in the ...
Media is considered as one of the most powerful tools in disseminating information
thereby shaping people’s lives. While there have been various studies about the
relationship between media and people with disabilities, ...