Wits Media Studies

📢📢📢WE'RE HIRING 📢📢📢 Wits Media Studies is recruiting a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer. These are permanent full-time posts in a dynamic and research-active department. Deadline is 28 February. Please share widely!

We're back in Solomon House today for the orientation session for Media Studies Honours 2024. Always exciting to meet a new PG class.

On Juneteenth, we want to raise awareness of current #AIHarms: Surveillance cameras, facial recognition used to monitor, evict public housing residents via @washingtonpost by @dmac1 washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…

Winter storms have contributed to a "severe blood stock shortage" in the Western Cape. #Echobox=1687194744" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">timeslive.co.za/news/south-afr…

The Western Cape Blood Service is appealing to members of the public to donate #blood as stocks are #critically low. #WINTER iol.co.za/news/south-afr…

And finally, Karabo Peter on the intersections between hustle culture and hegemonic masculinity

Kamohelo Mtwanabi on the marketised black beauty of influencer Kay Yarms

Rejoice Olaniran on Kim Seon Ho's cancellation and subsequent in-cancellation

Wandile Nhlapo offers an intersectional feminist reading of the Netflix show You.

Santhuri Moodliar on contemporary ways of seeking advice online: real people on Reddit's #BORU, #AITA and #RelationshipAdvice

Phomello Mogale: information disorder in the Russia-Ukraine war

Precious Modipane discusses the Netflix movie Fatherhood and its unusually positive representation of black fatherhood, in comparison to films like Daddy's Little Girl

Sinethemba Matokazi asks what it means that black women dominate SA influencer culture, and asks how these women present themselves

@KaraboKgoleng It's an Honours research presentation, so hasn't been written yet

@witsMDST Where? I would LOVE to read this!

Tebogo Mkhwanazi analyses season 3 of Real Housewives of Durban: how do transnational television forms operate in the global south?

Hlayisani Kwinika analyses factors influencing consumer choice, from aspiration to celebrity influence

Sibulele Mgijima on Nespresso's AAA sustainable campaign: how does this company market itself through 'ethical consumption'?

@ZwaneSiguqa Hopefully she'll publish it eventually!

@witsMDST Link please ? Please 🙏🏾

Lesedi Mensele analyses representations of black pain on Moja Love

Busisiwe Mahlambi on wayward feminities: how do unconventional women appear in the South African media?