Imasa’s Herman Wasserman joins authoritative new global information environment expert panel
Herman Wasserman, Director of the Institute for Media Analysis in South Africa, has been invited to join a new international authoritative panel of experts who will address threats to the global information environment. The International Panel on the Information...
Media capture and information laundering – China and Russia’s propaganda assault on Africa
One of the ways in which foreign influence operations gain traction in African societies is through influencing local media. This influence can range from subtle attempts to influence editorial agendas to outright capture of media outlets. China has been...
Prof Herman Wasserman visited the University of Miami to give a talk on disinformation in the Global South and discuss partnerships
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An interview with Prof Herman Wasserman by Yuval Katz from The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg, University of Pennsylvania, has been released as a podcast
Herman Wasserman, “The Ethics of Engagement: Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa” (Oxford UP, 2020)New Books in African Studies Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our host Yuval...
Research done by Herman Wasserman and Tanja Bosch shows that South African tabloids did not conform to stereotypes of sensationalism, but provided relevant, contextual coverage of the Covid19 pandemic (repost the piece from The Conversation
Tabloid newspapers are seen as sensationalist – but South Africa’s Daily Sun flipped that script during COVID-19 Tabloid journalism usually refers to short, easily readable and mostly human-interest news, presented in a highly visual and sensationalist style....
PROF HERMAN WASSERMAN,
Director
An internationally leading researcher in journalism and media studies. A distinguished academic leader with more than years of international experience in higher education, media production, journalism, and consulting environments. Widely published on global media, with a focus on media in Africa and the Global South...