Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Assessing the role of the media in influencing confidence levels within state institutions
Includes abstract.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Department of Political Studies
2014
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867614173258579968 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Landu, Yoliswa |
| author2 | Saleh, Ibrahim |
| author_browse | Landu, Yoliswa Saleh, Ibrahim |
| author_facet | Saleh, Ibrahim Landu, Yoliswa |
| author_sort | Landu, Yoliswa |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Includes abstract. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/3732 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:47:49.993Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2014 |
| publishDateRange | 2014 |
| publishDateSort | 2014 |
| publisher | Department of Political Studies |
| publisherStr | Department of Political Studies |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/3732 Assessing the role of the media in influencing confidence levels within state institutions Landu, Yoliswa Saleh, Ibrahim Mboyisa, Mlondolozi Political Communication Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. The purpose of this thesis is to determine the role played by the media in creating a level of awareness in the public mind, and an associated level of trust and confidence within the legislative arm of government. This is achieved through a qualitative research methodology that includes indepth interviews with experts in the field of political communication, particularly journalists and politicians who are members of parliament. Detailed in-depth questionnaires were also used to ascertain the views of these respondents on the same topic. The research also does a comparative content analysis of two newspapers the Cape Argus and the New Age. The key finding of this thesis is that the state is responsible for its own confidence levels without the role or impact of the media – a view not shared by some members of parliament and communications experts. Indeed, members of parliament feel strongly that the media does not portray a true understanding of the work of parliament and that they should do more than what is currently presented by the media houses across the spectrum in the field of communication. 2014-07-30T03:46:05Z 2014-07-30T03:46:05Z 2013 Master Thesis Masters MSocSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3732 eng application/pdf Department of Political Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Political Communication Landu, Yoliswa Assessing the role of the media in influencing confidence levels within state institutions |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Assessing the role of the media in influencing confidence levels within state institutions |
| title_full | Assessing the role of the media in influencing confidence levels within state institutions |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the role of the media in influencing confidence levels within state institutions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the role of the media in influencing confidence levels within state institutions |
| title_short | Assessing the role of the media in influencing confidence levels within state institutions |
| title_sort | assessing the role of the media in influencing confidence levels within state institutions |
| topic | Political Communication |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3732 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT landuyoliswa assessingtheroleofthemediaininfluencingconfidencelevelswithinstateinstitutions |