[Commlist] New book: Media in Postapartheid South Africa

new publication from Indiana University Press, which we hope will be of 
interest.

*Media in Postapartheid South Africa***

Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization

*Sean Jacobs***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/media-in-postapartheid-south-africa 
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In /Media in Postapartheid South Africa/, author Sean Jacobs turns to 
media politics and the consumption of media as a way to understand 
recent political developments in South Africa and their relations with 
the African continent and the world. Jacobs looks at how mass media 
define the physical and human geography of the society and what it means 
for comprehending changing notions of citizenship in postapartheid South 
Africa. Jacobs claims that the media have unprecedented control over the 
distribution of public goods, rights claims, and South Africa's 
integration into the global political economy in ways that were 
impossible under the state-controlled media that dominated the apartheid 
years. Jacobs takes a probing look at television commercials and the 
representation of South Africans, reality television shows and South 
African continental expansion, soap operas and postapartheid identity 
politics, and the internet as a space for reassertions and 
reconfigurations of identity. As South Africa becomes more integrated 
into the global economy, Jacobs argues that local media have more weight 
in shaping how consumers view these products in unexpected and 
consequential ways.

*Sean Jacobs*is Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New 
School in New York City. He is founder and editor of /Africa is a Country/.


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