Perceptiveness of UFS students towards racial messages in newspapers: a pilot study

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dc.contributor.authorSnyman, Carina F.
dc.contributor.authorPepler, Elsabe
dc.contributor.authorBreytenbach, H. J.
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-12T06:00:17Z
dc.date.available2019-07-12T06:00:17Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractThe South African media was dissected by the Human Rights Commission (HRC) in 1998, following complaints that certain media were allegedly guilty of racism and creating racial stereotypes. However, the process of the Human Rights Commission's inquiry received much criticism from media institutions, on the grounds that the HRC omitted the interpretation of the mass media receiver within this particular communication process. This article tries to fill this void, albeit it in a modest way, by investigating (through structured questionnaires) how students at the University of the Free State (UFS) perceive certain identified newspaper items, which the HRC itself labelled racist. The results indicated that the students did not perceive the media as racist, but that their perceptiveness of racial messages was influenced by their cultural backgrounds.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSnyman, C. F., Pepler, E., & Breytenbach, H. J. (2001). Perceptiveness of UFS students towards racial messages in newapapers: a pilot study. Communitas, 6, 75-83.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1023-0556 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2415-0525 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/10087
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectMediaen_ZA
dc.subjectHuman Rights Commission (HRC)en_ZA
dc.subject1998en_ZA
dc.subjectRacismen_ZA
dc.subjectRacial stereotypesen_ZA
dc.subjectStudentsen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversity of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.titlePerceptiveness of UFS students towards racial messages in newspapers: a pilot studyen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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