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Herman Wasserman
Researcher at University of Cape Town
Publications - 140
Citations - 2353
Herman Wasserman is an academic researcher from University of Cape Town. The author has contributed to research in topics: Journalism & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 133 publications receiving 1960 citations. Previous affiliations of Herman Wasserman include Newcastle University & University of Sheffield.
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Mobile Phones, Popular Media, and Everyday African Democracy: Transmissions and Transgressions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine various approaches to the relation between mobile phones and participatory democracy, and argue that mobile phones do not only transmit political information needed for rational deliberation in the public sphere, but also transgress cultural and social borders and hierarchies in the way they refashion identities and create informal economies and communicative net.
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Towards an Open Ethics: Implications of New Media Platforms for Global Ethics Discourse
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an international perspective on how new media technologies are shifting the parameters of debates about journalism ethics. And they argue that new, mixed media help create an open media ethics and offer an exploration of how these developments encourage a transition from a closed professional ethics to an ethics that is the concern of all citizens.
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An Exploratory Study of “Fake News” and Media Trust in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa
TL;DR: In recent years, concerns about the perceived increase in the amount of "fake news" have become prevalent in discussions about media and politics, particularly in the United States and Europe.
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Single photon emission computed tomography op the brain with Tc-99m HMPAO during sumatriptan challenge in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Investigating the functional role of the serotonin auto-receptor
Dan J. Stein,Barend B. Van Heerden,Charmaine Wessels,Jeanine van Kradenburg,James M. Warwick,Herman Wasserman +5 more
TL;DR: Heterogeneity of behavioral response to sumatriptan in OCD is consistent with previous studies demonstrating conflicting and heterogenous behavioral responses to serotonergic challenges, and with underlying heterogeneity in the neurobiology of this disorder.
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Global media ethics revisited: A postcolonial critique
Shakuntala Rao,Herman Wasserman +1 more
TL;DR: In the epistemological discussion of universal ethical principles for media and journalism, little theoretical work from non-western perspectives has entered the discussion as mentioned in this paper. But the increased analysis of media globalizat...