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Exploring the dualisms of 'belonging': Young women's performances of citizenship in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
My research involves a nuanced exploration of 'citizenship', through examining the liberatory potential of young women's use of social media and performance of embodied subjectivities in the post-Apartheid imaginary. By ...
Spinning the truth on social media: A textual analysis of health-related television advertisements
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The theory of multimodality (Kress 2010; Kress and van Leeuwen 2006) has impacted major research fields like Linguistics and Education by significantly extending our understanding of what is meant by communication through ...
A hashtag analysis of racial discourses within #ColouredExcellence: Case of Wayde van Niekerk
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The research study takes into account the apartheid legacy of racial hierarchization and ‘separate development’ (cf Raynard, 2012) which penetrated all aspects of social life. Particularly, it is the sporting domain and ...
“He asked me to pray afterward”: Exploring Cheryl Zondi’s mediated court testimony as a narrative of clergy sexual abuse
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
South Africa has one of the highest rape statistics in the world, and there are increasing reports of women who have been violated and abused in religious institutions, specifically by clergy. Research on clergy sexual ...
Use of social media as a marketing tool by the City of Cape Town Libraries
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Social media has become a popular tool adopted by libraries and play a major role in marketing library services, facilitating communication between libraries and staff, and assisting libraries in connecting with communities. ...
Photography, facebook and virtualisation of resistance in Nigeria
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Nigerian post-independence history (1960 to the present date) is steeped in socio-political upheavals. The majority of the citizens are frustrated with the injustice, inequality and fraudulent politics that pervade the ...
Radical possibilities at the crossroads of African feminism and digital activism
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Studies abound that deal with digital activism and social movements worldwide. Many African
scholars continue to dwell on how the effects of technological advancement and access to social
media are ingrained in class and ...