Considerations on the role of media and information in building a new South Africa
If South Africa's potential is to be realized, the nation will need to be fully integrated into the global electronic information age. A future South African government can choose between two basic courses of action: (i) emphasis could be placed on reinforcing and expanding the technological infrastructures required to further the development of a post-Fordist South African information economy or (ii) emphasis could be placed on the modernist industrial base at the expense of the information economy and communication technologies of post-Fordism. The challenge lies in avoiding dependency on the West by accepting the top-down relations associated with multi-national capitalism.
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Africa Media Review
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- In Copyright
- Date Published
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1994
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Articles
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Institute for Communication Development and Research (African Council on Communication Education)
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English
- Pages
- Pages 57-72
- ISSN
- 0258-4913
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