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Adelina Mbinjama is a Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa. Her teaching and research interests are in social media-communications, cyber-ethics, black feminism and representation of women in the media. She holds a doctoral degree in Media Studies from the Nelson Mandela University.
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The work of American television producer Shonda Rhimes is influential both in terms of on-screen representations and the wider media industry. In the contemporary moment, women working in television and film are fighting against many social injustices, and Rhimes, through her advocacy work, is a powerful ally in the fourth wave feminist movement. A...
The disappearance, rape, and murder of women and children is high in South Africa (SA). Anger and outrage followed the 2 September 2019 discovery of the body of University of Cape Town student Uyinene Mrwetyana, who was missing since 24 August 2019. She was raped and murdered in a post office (located near a police station) by a man who worked ther...
Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action and discourse ethics as a theoretical basis merges several factors that have an impact on the use of digital media by internet users. This article provides a qualitative narrative analysis of a study of five South African-based based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on their experiences with digi...
In recent years, there has been a rise in online movements in the Republic of South Africa, but rarely have they been against a particular governing political party. Corruption within the African National Congress (ANC), the governing political party, has seen many of its leaders facing serious allegations. After the removal of Jacob Zuma as the pr...
This chapter explores the relevance of Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative to critique the unintended, subliminal evil representations in Shonda Rhimes's work. Kant's moral theory is used to rethink evil in the way that Rhimes portrays Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) in How to Get Away with Murder (2014-) as an influential defense attorney and la...
The aim of this paper is to assess the role of ‘dark technology’ in contemporary society, specifically in the context of reprehensible actions in the virtual space of the internet, for example what is known as ‘fake porn’, circulated in the form of ‘deepfake’ videos. This entails the construction of pornographic videos with the faces of ‘celebritie...
The aim of this paper is to assess the role of ‘dark technology’ in contemporary society, specifically in the context of reprehensible actions in the virtual space of the internet, for example what is known as ‘fake porn’, circulated in the form of ‘deepfake’ videos. This entails the construction of pornographic videos with the faces of ‘celebritie...
The issue of ethics on the internet has become complicated due to a number of people placing material on cyberspace. NGOs are increasingly using social media to promote their products and services. Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action and discourse ethics as a theoretical basis to the study merges together several factors which impact on...
The article focuses on impact of social media, language and cultural ideologies of teenagers in rural South Africa. Topics discussed are unexplored impact of social media, preference of black adolescents to appear use western language and appearance, and Facebook group called Xhonglish, which is a mix language of English and South African language...
