Desiray Viney

The Role of The Tabloid, Daily Sun in South Africa

A New kind of newspaper for a new kind of audience

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Produktbeschreibung

This work investigates the role of the tabloid newspaper, Daily Sun, in contemporary South Africa by exploring the meanings that readers of the newspaper appropriate through their engagement with it and the uses to which they put these meanings. This audience-based study is informed by theories that relate to: Revised conceptions of the public sphere The potential uses of the media in development contexts Debates over the tabloidization of the press. Qualitative data, collected through focus group discussions and individual in-depth interviews conducted with township dwellers, workers and the unemployed with low English proficiency, reveals that the Daily Sun plays a positive role in the lives of its readers and that this role can best be understood through a combination of perspectives that incorporate the concept of multiple public spheres, culture as development and a revision of the traditional tabloid debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 238g
• ISBN-13: 9783845478661
• ISBN-10: 3845478667
• Artikelnr.: 34157925

Autorenporträt

Desiray Viney MA, lecturer in Media Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research explores how the media can make a meaningful contribution to developing a ¿civil¿ society in a transformational democracy, examining issues and discourses around development, the public sphere and citizenship.