Booing is now part of our democracy, whether you like it or not. It is so mainstream; it cannot be taboo. It happened at the ANC’s Polokwane conference and it happened at Mangaung. It will happen at the next conference. Should it have happened at former president Nelson Mandela’s memorial is the question? Booing shows […]
Glenda Daniels
Glenda Daniels is a senior lecturer at Wits Journalism, where she heads the State of the Newsroom project. She has been a print journalist in SA for over 20 years and started off her career at the then Weekly Mail newspaper as a trainee in 1990. She has a PhD in political studies from Wits University (2011) and is the author of the book Fight for Democracy: The ANC and the Media in South Africa (2012) Wits Press. She is a media freedom, freedom of expression and free flow of information activist but feels that much of social media engagement is banal, narcissistic, egotistical, vain and self-serving.
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The slow descent into social media’s superficiality
I think I know why social media is good for everyone. I just think I do, but don’t really. Besides being a vehicle for sparking Arab Springs, social media is first with the news and enhances your brand if you’re a journalist, editor, social commentator or political analyst. In fact if you’re none of these […]