Sisanda Nkoala (0000-0003-3863-7392)

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I'm Sisanda Nkoala, an Associate Professor at the University of the Western Cape. I hold a PhD in Rhetoric Studies from the University of Cape Town, where my research focused on the persuasive aspects of television news reports about crime and justice.

My research interests are in the rhetoric and language of media ecologies in South Africa, covering topics like multilingual education, journalism education, media law, and court and crime reporting. I've presented my research at international and national conferences, and published extensively in peer reviewed journals including Journalism Studies, Information, Communication & Society and International Journal of Multilingualism.

I am an associate editor of the Journal of Communication Technology and am finalising a special issue as a guest editor of the African Journalism Studies journal. I have two edited book volumes published by Palgrave Macmillan on 100 Years of Radio in South Africa

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University of the Western Cape: Cape Town, ZA

2024-01-01 to present | Associate Professor (Linguistics)

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3863-7392

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University of the Western Cape: Cape Town, ZA

University of South Africa: Pretoria, ZA

Cape Peninsula University of Technology: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

Cape Peninsula University of Technology: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

Cape Peninsula University of Technology: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

University of Cape Town: Rondebosch, Western Cape, ZA

South African Broadcasting Corporation: Johannesburg, ZA

Good Hope Fm: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

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University of Cape Town: Rondebosch, Western Cape, ZA

University of Cape Town: Rondebosch, Western Cape, ZA

University of Cape Town: Rondebosch, Western Cape, ZA

University of Cape Town: Rondebosch, Western Cape, ZA

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National Communication Association: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

South Afrian National Editors Forum: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

South African Communicaiton Association: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

International Association for Media and Communication Research: Eugene, OR, US

University of Johannesburg: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

South African Communication Association: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

Western Cape Government: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Pretoria, ZA

Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

International Communication Association: Washington, DC, US

South African Centre for Digital Language Resources: Mahikeng, ZA

Cape Peninsula University of Technology: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

Southern African Freelancers' Association: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

Association of Commonwealth Universities: London, GB

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Digitisation of the Early Black Press in South Africa for use in a multi-lingual journalism curriculum

An exploration of student's perceptions and input on the implementation and impact of multi-lingualism in journalism education in a South African context

Towards a multilingual and decolonialised “Journalism and Society” curriculum through digitised readings from the Early South African black press.

Digitisation of the Early Black Press in South Africa

Works (33)

A Century of South Africa’s Most Renowned Medium

Community and Online Radio as Emerging Frontiers of South African Audio Broadcasting

Concluding Remarks

Emergence of Indigenous Language Podcasts in South Africa: Amplifying the Agency of Indigenous Language Speakers in the Digital Public Sphere

Storytellers, Curators, Watchdogs and Analysts: A Metajournalistic Discourse Analysis of South African Radio Broadcasters’ Role in Agenda-Setting

The Road Ahead: Community Radio and the Digital Milieu—Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Century of South Africa’s Radio Landscape

“I Am the Highest Paid Showrunner in Television!” Shonda Rhimes’ Work and Influence in the Media Industry

How radio influences indigenous language podcasts in South Africa: A case study of Epokothweni and iLukuluku

Two unlikely bedfellows: Towards a decolonial unconference methodology

African Moral Theory and Media Ethics: An Exploration of Rulings by the South African Press Council 2018 to 2022

Balanced-integration: A dimension of supervision to support students navigating parenthood in pursuit of a PhD

Multilingual students’ linguistic repertoires as a resource: a case study of assessments in journalism studies

Educators’ Experiences of using multilingual pedagogies during emergency remote teaching: a case study of South African universities

Youth Audiences and Social Media Integration in Community Radio Stations in South Africa: A Case Study of Zibonele FM and Bush Radio

Twitter’s Technological Affordances and Science Journalism in the Global South: A Media Richness Approach from South Africa

Use of digital tools for social engagement in remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of a South African university

The influence of the digital divide on emergency remote student-centred learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of journalism education

COVID-19 and the structural inequalities in South Africa's higher education

Persuasion in Songs of Protest

A rhetoric of terror and of the terrified

Persuasion and the" mediatisation" of culture

A Comparative Discourse Analysis of African Newspaper Reports on Global Epidemics

In whose interest is it anyway?: 235An analysis of the content, discourse and programming strategies of South African business radio shows

Persuasion Across Platforms: A Rhetorical Analysis of Televised and Digitised News Reports on Economic Matters

The Curious Case of “Coconut Kelz”: Satire as a Critique of Race-Thinking in South Africa

Students’ perspectives of how multilingualism helps or hinders epistemic access in journalism education

Crimes Against Children: Evaluative Language and News Reports on Sentences

Exploring disruptions of the coloniality of knowledge, power and being to enable agency as disciplinary activists for curriculum change

paradigms

Student perceptions of multilingualism and the culture of communication in journalism studies in higher education

Internal affairs: an Aristotelian perspective on SABC 3 news

A rhetorical analysis of SABC3's flagship Bulletin: In what ways does the SABC succeed and/or fail in persuading viewers that its version of the news is credible?

Songs that shaped the struggle: A rhetorical analysis of South African struggle songs

Peer review (3 reviews for 2 publications/grants)