Power, Politics and Identity in South African media

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South Africa offers a rich context for the study of the interrelationship between the media and identity. The essays collected here explore the many diverse elements of this interconnection, and give fresh focus to topics that scholarship has tended to overlook, such as the pervasive impact of tabloid newspapers. Interrogating contemporary theory, the authors shed new light on how identities are constructed through the media, and provide case studies that illustrate the complex process of identity renegotiation taking place currently in post-apartheid South Africa. The contributors include established scholars as well as many new voices. Collectively, they represent some of South Africas finest media analysts pooling skills to grapple with one of the countrys most vexing issues: who are we? For teachers, students and anyone else interested in questions of media, race, power and gender, as well as the manner in which new identities are created and old ones mutate, much of interest will be found within the contributions to this important collection.

• Introduction
• Identity in theoryMedia, youth, violence and identity in South Africa: A theoretical approach
  Abebe ZegeyeEssentialism in a South African discussion of language and culture
  Kees van der Waal

  ‘National’ public service broadcasting: Contradictions and dilemmas
  Ruth Teer-Tomaselli

  Field theory and tabloids
  Ian Glenn and Angie Knaggs

  Identity in post-apartheid South Africa: ‘Learning to belong’ through the (commercial) media
  Sonja Narunsky-Laden

• Media restructuring and identity formation after apartheidFinding a home in Afrikaans radio
  Johannes FronemanThe Daily Sun and post-apartheid identity
  Nicola Jones, Yves Vanderhaegen and Dee Viney

  Online coloured identities: A virtual ethnography
  Tanja Bosch

  The mass subject in Antjie Krogs Country of My Skull
  Anthea Garman

• Expressing identitiesCrime reporting: Meaning and identity-making in the South African press
  Marguerite J. MoritzAfrikaner identity in a post-apartheid South Africa: the Self in terms of the Other
  Wiida Fourie

  Foreign policy, identity and the media: Contestation over Zimbabwe
  Anita Howarth

  Masculine ideals in post-apartheid South Africa: The rise of mens glossies
  Stella Viljoen

  Tsotsis, Coconuts and Wiggers: Black masculinity and contemporary South African media
  Jane Stadler

  The media and the Zuma/Zulu culture: An Afrocentric perspective
  Simphiwe Sesanti

  He lova tata icova sesiya vela: Black masculinity and the tyranny of authenticity in SA popular culture
  Adam Haupt