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Professor Ruth Teer-Tomaselli (PhD) was previously Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies). Her research includes the political economy of global media, broadcasting and telecommunications, media memory, and research methods. Her current research focusses on the history of broadcasting in South Africa, with specific emphasis on the early years. She holds the UNESCO Chair in Communication, and was a two-time SABC Board Member. She was Vice-President of the IAMCR, and the Chairperson hosting the 2012 IAMCR conference Held in Durban. She has consulted for international agencies across Africa including UNESCO, UNDP, the Forum for African Women Educationists and the World Bank. In May and June she will be travelling to Gavle Sweden, as part of an exchange with the HiG university in that city with CCMS.
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TOP TEN PUBLICATIONS
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McCracken, D. and Teer-Tomaselli, R.E. (2013) Communication in Colonial and Post-colonial Southern Africa. In Simonson, P; Peck, J; Craig, R.T. and Jackson, J. (eds.) The Handbook of Communication History. London: Routledge.
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Teer-Tomaselli, R.E. and Dyll-Myklebust, L. (2012) ‘Finding yourself in the past, the present, the local and the global: Potentialities of mediated cosmopolitanism as a research methodology.’ In Volkmer, I. (ed.) Handbook of Global Media Research. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Teer-Tomaselli, R.E. (2011). Legislation, regulation and management in the South African broadcasting landscape: A case study of the of the South African Broadcasting Corporation’ In Mansel, R. and Raboy, M. (eds.) Handbook on Global Media and Communication Policy. London: Blackwell.
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Olorunnisola, A.A; Tomaselli, K.G. and Teer-Tomaselli, R.E. (2011). Political Economy, Representation and Transformation in South Africa. In Olorunnisola, A.A. and Tomaselli, K.G. (eds.) Political Economy of Media Transformation in South Africa. Inc. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 1-13.
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Teer-Tomaselli, R.E. (2011).Transforming State-Owned Enterprises in the Global Age: Lessons from Broadcasting and Telecommunications in South Africa. In Olorunnisola, A.A. and Tomaselli, K.G. (eds.) Political Economy of Media Transformation in South Africa. Inc. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 133-166.
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Tomaselli, K.G. and Teer-Tomaselli, R.E. (2009). New Public Spheres: The Digital Age and Big Brother. In Mudhai, O.F; Tettey, W. and Banda, F. (eds.) African Media and the Digital Public Sphere. London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
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Teer-Tomaselli, R.E. (2008).Global Trends and National Dilemmas in Broadcasting. In Wasserman, H; Louw, E. and Sesanti, S. (eds.) At the end of the Rainbow: Power, Politics and Identity in Post-apartheid South African Media. South Africa: HSRC Press.
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Teer-Tomaselli, R.E. (2006). Political Broadcasting in South Africa. In Kaid, L.L. and Holtz-Bacha, C. (eds.) Sage Handbook of Political Advertising. London: Sage Publications.
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Teer-Tomaselli, R.E. (2006). Media Markers: Collective memory and Active forgetting. In Volkmer, I (ed.) Global Media Generations: A comparative study from twelve countries. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang Publications.
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Teer-Tomaselli, R.E. (2006). Global Media Generations: A South African case study. In Volkmer, I (ed.) Global Media Generations: A comparative study from twelve countries. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang Publications.
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