Tomorrow morning, the Department of Strategic Communication at UJ will host a webinar to discuss the importance of media freedom during conflicts in the digital age. The focus will be on the implications of the banning of the Russian-backed channel Russia Today (RT) by Western controlled platforms which affected broadcasters such as Multichoice.

As the media are always at the centre of global conflicts, issues such as disinformation, censorship and war propaganda are always present during a war.

Title:                          [• Prof. Mr.]

Name:                        [• Mandla Radebe]

Position AND org.:   [• Associate Professor in the Department of Strategic Communication at UJ AND author of ‘Constructing Hegemony: The South African Commercial Media and the (Mis)Representation of Nationalisation]