Browsing by Author "Scharnick-Udemans, Lee-Shae"

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    Public pedagogy and the socio-political economy of religious media: A Qualitative Study of the Advent Cable Network Nigeria (ACNN)
    (University of the Western Cape, 2023) Anthony, Ishaya; Scharnick-Udemans, Lee-Shae
    In Nigeria, academic conversations that intersect religion, media and education are framed mostly from a formal school perspective. Moreover, the dominant narrative on religious media is approached from a Christian Pentecostal paradigm. It entails the commodification and commercialisation of religion, proselytisation, and religious globalisation. Nonetheless, the Nigerian religious media landscape is not monolithic but, rather, a convergence of multiple religious interactions. The multiplicity of religious media sites offers scholars opportunities to extend academic conversations beyond Pentecostalism and outside the context of formal schooling. This qualitative study explores the socio-political economy of an Anglican media site, the Advent Cable Network Nigeria (ACNN). It focuses on how religious media respond to socio-political issues, and their contribution to literacy development.
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    Representations of Islam and Muslims on a public broadcast television programme in South Africa: A Case Study of An Nur the Light
    (University of Western Cape, 2021) Dramat, Sakeenah; Scharnick-Udemans, Lee-Shae
    For decades literature on Islam and Muslims utilised nomenclature which drew from commentary within news and mass media that perpetuated bias representations of Islam and Muslims as dangerous, violent, threats to democratic freedom, oppressors of women, oppressed women, terrorists, fundamentalists and a range of other stereotypes in society. Although Muslims have been an inherent part of South African society for nearly five hundred years, and are protected under ambit of religious freedom granted by the constitution, there is a on-going record micro-aggression and covert discrimination against Muslims from sections of society.