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Mediation, Migration and Xenophobia: Critical Reflections on the Crisis of Representing the Other in an Increasingly Intolerant World Read chapter Read first chapter

2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

3. Talk Radio and the Mediation of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa

Authors : Dumisani Moyo, Sarah Helen Chiumbu

Published in: Mediating Xenophobia in Africa

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This study seeks to provide insight into the ways audiences of Radio 702, an urban commercial South African radio station, talk about and engage with issues of xenophobia and immigrants, with a particular focus on how the host of the show navigates the debates. This study contributes to the existing body of research on mediated forms of xenophobia. Theoretically, the notions of the public sphere and the imagined community inform the chapter. Of interest is how the callers and the host, by using the deixis of ‘we/us/our’ or ‘them/they/their’, construct multiple imagined communities and narratives of exclusion or inclusion. Methodologically, a combination of thematic and discourse analysis is employed to analyse selected experts from the talk show data sets.

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Metadata
Title
Talk Radio and the Mediation of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa
Authors
Dumisani Moyo
Sarah Helen Chiumbu
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Mediating Xenophobia in Africa

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-61235-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-61236-8

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61236-8_3