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Social networking among UWC students: instant messaging genres and registers
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Contemporary research has pointed to the importance of social media in the lives of young people today. This project aims to explore the emerging discourse conventions and generic structures of chat conversations on social networking media...
South African newspaper reports on corruption: A rhetorical analysis of the role of the media in moral formation
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
The premise of this study is that of a reformed theological perspective which holds
that all human beings are corrupt. It sets out to explore whether newspaper reporting,
using rhetorical strategies which build awareness ...
A social semiotic approach to multimodality in the Vagina Varsity YouTube campaign series
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This study investigated the semiotic resources used by Vagina Varsity, a campaign by sanitary towel brand Libresse on the social media platform YouTube to construct meanings around the female body. Vagina Varsity is a South ...
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 ...
Goema’s Refrain: Sonic anticipation and the Musicking Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This thesis traces the making of a social world of the musicking Cape through sound, which it
calls sonic anticipation. Sonic anticipation is threaded through a Cape-based musicking
milieu called goema in the Nineteenth ...
Integrating imago relationship therapy (irt) into a biblical theological approach to marriage counselling
(2013)
in the lives of couples, their children, and society as a whole. The more one works with people one realises that many couples in relationships are just hurting individuals in search of happiness and wholeness. Marriage provides the perfect relationship...
Post–exilic an old South African returns to the new South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
This portfolio of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces is quasi-autobiographical and tracks the trajectory of my life, from childhood in Cape Town (‘pre-exilic’) to emigration abroad (‘exilic’) and return to Cape ...
Stylisation of identities in online discourses related to The Spear on Sowetan LIVE
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study focuses on a story featured on Sowetan LIVE, one of South Africa’s online newspapers. The flexibility of the mode in which the newspaper is produced, enables users to comment on its articles as they are published. The online newspaper...
Things pretty dull: materiality and the making of Muizenberg in the 20th and 21st centuries
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The purpose of this research is to explore processes of historical production and ideas about public space in Muizenberg, South Africa. It argues that the dominant narrative told about Muizenberg from the late nineteenth ...
Language use and mode of communication in community development projects in Nyanza province, Kenya
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
The concept of community development is founded on the premise that changes in the living conditions of people are best effected by the people themselves. The term community evokes the idea of a homogeneous social group who can recognise...