Desperately seeking depth: global and local narratives of the South African general elections on television news, 1994 - 2014

Eric Louw, Jesper Stömbäck, and W. Lance Bennett call the trend in late-20th century political journalism "mediatisation", where the televisualisation of Western elections favours episodic, dramatic, fragmented, and event-driven reporting. This "hype-ocracy" results in narrow and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Bernadine
Other Authors: Evans, Martha
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27846