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, ...
This study was an investigation of the effect of political communication strategies on voting behaviour. The area of study was Diepsloot in the north of Johannesburg. Various questions were explored such as; what kind of ...
Housing delivery has been in a state of crisis long before the realisation of democracy in South Africa and still remains a point of contention for the poor. Issues of service delivery, particularly housing delivery, have ...
The success of an organisation in what is now a dynamic and increasingly competitive business environment relies on an engaged workforce, achieved through internal communication. Engaged employees are generally more ...
This thesis examines organisational transparency in South African banking after the financial crisis of 2007-2009. The crisis upset the global economy and resulted in general mistrust in banks and the global financial ...
There is a growing recognition of the role internal communications play in the overall
functioning of an organisation. Scholars link effective internal communications with
business performance and in the context of a ...
Mergers have become a common feature for South African organisations since the
dawn of democracy in 1994. There are several studies completed internationally and
locally on how to handle mergers in general. There is ...
Since the first diagnosis of HIV/AIDS more than three decades ago, the epidemic remains a
humanitarian challenge. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the infection rate has escalated at an
alarming rate over the years. Lesotho is no ...