Staff supervision topics
Supervision topics
Associate Prof Lesley Marx
- Adaptation (incl. novels, plays, history, biography and the city)
- Girlhood
- Actors and acting
- Melodrama
- Fantasy (incl. gothic and magical realism)
Dr Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk
- South African film
- Film and environment
- Environmental documentary
- Terrence Malick
- Film Noir
Dr Martha Evans
- Political transition and the media
- The history of the media in South Africa
- Live broadcasting and media events theory
- The ethics of narrative literary journalism
- Creative projects: Print journalism
Associate Prof Marion Walton
- Children, youth and digital media;
- Social and mobile media;
- Game studies;
- Search and algorithmic culture, political economy of new media;
- ICT for development (education/literacy);
- Creative projects: Web, mobile, social media mashups, data journalism
Preferred research methods
Ethnography, Discourse, Multimodal and/or visual analysis, Social network analysis
Criteria for potential students
- FAM2009S, FAM3007F & FAM3008S OR equivalent background (e.g. New Media training or programming experience, esp for Creative projects) OR
- Social media elective
Associate Prof Adam Haupt
- Critical race theory & gender politics
- Hip-hop
- Counterculture & youth culture/s
- Intellectual property rights, culture & technology
- Critiques of corporate globalisation
- Political economy of the media / social media
Associate Prof Martin Botha
- South African/African cinema
- Cinema and marginality
- The representation of gays / lesbians in cinema
- Queer Theory
Dr Tanja Bosch
- Youth / children & identity
- Radio studies
- Community media
- Media & conflict
- Media and gender
- Social media
Dr Alexia Smit
- Postfeminist television
- South African television
- Transnational television
- Theories of affect
- Television narrative
Emeritus Prof Ian Glenn
- Afropessimism in the media
- Political advertising and political communication, with a particular focus on Southern Africa
- Nature media, with a particular focus on wildlife documentaries
- Trials and the media in South Africa
Prof Herman Wasserman
- Media Ethics
- Comparative journalism studies
- Media in the BRICS countries (particular focus on China-Africa media relations)
- Media and democratisation
Dr Musa Ndlovu
- Media globalisation / regionalisation / internationalisation
- Youth and news media
- South African media and public sphere
- Political communication (journalism, marketing and branding)
Dr Wallace Chuma
- Media policy and media regulation
- The politics of media framing and representation
- Political communication
- Political economy of the media in Africa