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Information and communication
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2016)
After the Enlightenment of the 18th century concern for the lonesome individual and the need for communication gave birth to the academic disciplines of psychology and communication science. Positivism and the linguistic ...
A drought risk reduction message that sticks: a communication model for foundation phase children
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2016)
Too often, children’s communication needs are not considered when it comes to important messages – especially concerning disaster risk reduction. Drought has a significant impact on children both mentally and physically, ...
Social communication towards sustainable physical science learning environments
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2012)
This article documents how social communication among actors in one of the projects in our academic network creates sustainable learning environments at a school and its local community. Social communication is understood ...
Stakeholder engagement: a crucial element in the governance of corporate reputation
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2011)
The King III Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa (with a separate
chapter on Governing Stakeholder Relationships) highlights the importance of
stakeholder management in corporate governance. For the first ...
Time and communication
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2014)
This article commences by paying attention to the dual role of signs, as physical
subjects and communicative objects – both being correlated with physical law
and communicative principles. In order to show that time ...
The drivers of student enrolment and retention: a stakeholder perception analysis in higher education
(Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, 2013-03)
This study identified the drivers of student participation in the academic programmes of a South African
university department. First, it explored the determinants of student enrolment and retention from
earlier research ...
Different salves for different sores: international research remedies for a South African communication context
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2011)
A fact so widely accepted as to be considered common sense is that communication is
influenced by the context in which it functions. It is for this reason that there is no single
communication-related measurement scale ...
An evaluation of COPE's communication strategy for 2011 municipal elections campaign in the Northern Cape
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2012)
The article is guided by the following research question: What factors found expression, and influenced the extent to which COPE’s 2011 municipal elections campaign in the Northern Cape met the objectives set in the developed ...
Sustaining school-community partnership through effective communication
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2013)
This article investigates the impact of effective communication towards sustaining
school-community partnerships. Motivating the study is the argument that studies
on school-community partnerships within a South African ...
Cinema and communication: 'cinelogic' and 'cinaesthesis'
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2010)
The article explores the various ways in which cinema “communicates” meaning, making use of the five materials of film, namely three of an auditory nature and two of a visual nature: dialogue, soundtrack (music) and noise ...