Reading tabloids in Zulu: a case study of Isolezwe

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dc.contributor.authorWasserman, Herman
dc.contributor.authorNdlovu, Musawenkosi
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-27T05:58:11Z
dc.date.available2016-07-27T05:58:11Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis article revolves around an analysis of the relationship between Isolezwe newspaper, a South African mass-market tabloid, and its consumers who are mainly Zulu-speaking black readers. In view of the decline in newspaper readership in general, the phenomenal growth of Isolezwe in particular and the absence of scholarship that examines the relationship between Isolezwe and its consumers, the authors set out to explore why the newspaper has become and continues to be highly popular. To answer the question about the reason for its popularity, focus group interviews with readers were conducted to identify why readers chose to read the newspaper. The authors conclude that the comparative preference of Isolezwe over other newspapers in the market is influenced, in part, by mutually reinforcing factors such as social/cultural identity and cultural capital, semantic noise avoidance, language use, gratification of cognitive needs and the audiencecentred definition of news.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWasserman, H., & Ndlovu, M. (2015). Reading tabloids in Zulu: a case study of Isolezwe. Communitas, 20, 140-158.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1023-0556 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2415-0525 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/3866
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherDepartment of Communication Science, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderDepartment of Communication Science, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectGratification of cognitive needsen_ZA
dc.subjectSemantic noise avoidanceen_ZA
dc.subjectCultural capitalen_ZA
dc.subjectNewspapersen_ZA
dc.subjectNewsen_ZA
dc.subjectZuluen_ZA
dc.subjectTabloidsen_ZA
dc.subjectIsolezween_ZA
dc.subjectSocial/cultural identityen_ZA
dc.titleReading tabloids in Zulu: a case study of Isolezween_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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