Overview
- Explores the contribution of women journalists to South African democracy in the social media age
- Offers a theoretical analysis of the journalism industry
- Looks in-depth at how women are trolled and attacked
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South (PSJGS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited collection examines women journalists’ experiences and obstacles in South Africa’s (SA) democracy. They exercise power, and add a vital diversity, but they are routinely harassed in the online social media space of big tech companies such as Twitter and Facebook by populist and corrupt politicians and their supporters. Using SA as the case study, this book examines attempts to curb women journalists’ freedom combining theory and first-hand accounts. The target audience for the book includes scholars of political philosophy, gender, media, communications, NGOs, media freedom activists and journalists.
Reviews
—Kathleen Magrobi, Quote This Woman+, Johannesburg, South Africa.
“There is a myriad of challenges – misinformation and disinformation, sustainability issues and ongoing technological disruption - facing the media. An intersectional approach would recognise that these challenges have a gendered impact. This is often overlooked as we fight to support the essential role media plays in a democracy. This critical book, with its feminist approach, not only puts these issues on the national agenda but makes the clarion call that without women’s voices, our stories are not truly told and our media not truly free.”
—Paula Fray, fraycollege CEO, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Glenda Daniels is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, SA. She is author of Power and Loss in South African Journalism: news in the age of social media (2020); Fight for Democracy: the ANC and media in South Africa (2012) and co-author of Glass Ceilings: women in South African Media Houses, 2018 (2018).
Kate Skinner is Executive Director of the Association for Independent Publishers, SA. She has been a media freedom activist, researcher and policy analyst for the last 25 years and has worked in the unions, NGOs, government and the media industry to build a diverse, independent media sector.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women Journalists in South Africa
Book Subtitle: Democracy in the Age of Social Media
Editors: Glenda Daniels, Kate Skinner
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12696-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12695-6Published: 24 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12698-7Published: 24 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12696-3Published: 23 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-480X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-4818
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 160
Topics: Journalism, Social Media, Cultural Studies, Social Philosophy, African Culture