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Name: Oswelled Ureke
Location: oswelledu@uj.ac.za Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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About Prof. Oswelled Ureke
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欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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ORCID: 0000-0002-0775-9699
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Oswelled Ureke is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg (UJ). He teaches theory and applied courses in journalism, film and television studies and digital media production. He also supervises post-graduate students in the broad areas of audio-visual communication and journalism. Oswelled was previously a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication, Film and Theatre Arts at Midlands State 欧美福利100000, Zimbabwe. He holds a PhD in Cultural and Media Studies from the 欧美福利100000 of KwaZulu Natal鈥檚 (UKZN) Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS). He is a former 欧美福利100000 of Cape Town (UCT) African Filmmaking Fellow (AFF) and former UJ Global Excellence and Stature (GES) post-doctoral research fellow. Oswelled鈥檚 research interests combine practical and theoretical elements of screen media production and study, journalism as well as political economy of the media. He has authored several peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and acts as peer reviewer for numerous regional and international journals. Oswelled was Chief Reporter for the Daily Mirror (Zimbabwe) and also worked as a Producer for Video Promotions (Pvt) Ltd, where he produced programmes and commercials that aired on Zimbabwean national television and other international broadcasters. Oswelled remains actively engaged in video production in various roles including script-writing, camera work and video editing.
Selected research output:
– Ureke, O. (2021), 鈥榋imbabwe: Cinema exhibition and consumption in a shadow economy, Screen 62(3), DOI: 10.1093/screen/hjab032
– Ureke, O., Mhiripiri, N.A., Mangwana Mubayiwa, M and Midzi, R. (2021), 鈥楢esthetic of innocence: Experiencing Self-filming by the San of Zimbabwe鈥�, Africa Development, XLVI (1), p93-116
-Ureke, O. (2021), 鈥楢esthetic norms and motivations of subaltern video-filmmaking: Comic skits and mobile journalism of the everyday in Zimbabwe鈥� (Chpt 10), in A. Vailati and G. Zamorano (ed) Ethnographies of On-Demand Films, Cham: Springer Nature. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78911-4_10
-Ureke, O. (2020), 鈥楲ocating Semb猫ne鈥檚 尘茅驳辞迟补驳别 in Zimbabwe鈥檚 kiya kiya video-film production鈥�, in Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32(2), p146-160. DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2019.1599829
-Ureke, O. (2020), 鈥楥yberwar and militarization of communication鈥�, in M. Filimowicz and V. Tzankova (eds) Reimagining Communication: Action, London/New York: Routledge, p303-319
– Mhiripiri, N.A and Ureke, O. (2019), 鈥楾heoretical paradoxes of representation and the problems of media representations of Zimbabwe in crisis鈥�, in Critical Arts, 32(5-6), p87-103. DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2018.1548026
– Ureke, O. (2019), 鈥榋imbabwean indigenization and the shadow economy of cinematic production, in Communicatio, 44(4), p32-47. DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2018.1534872
– Ureke, O. (2018), 鈥業ntroducing the 鈥榙rasofi鈥�: A genre of convenience and in Zimbabwean film production, in Journal of African Cinemas, 10(1+2), pp147-164. DOI 10.1386/jac.10.1-2.147_1
– Ureke, O and Tomaselli, K.G. (2017), 鈥淔rom 鈥楢frican cinema鈥� to film services industries: A cinematic fact鈥� in Journal of African Cinemas, Vol. 9(1), p75-92.
Ureke, O. (2016) 鈥楽tate interference, para-politics and editorial control: The Political Economy of 鈥楳irrorgate鈥� in Zimbabwe鈥�, Journal of African Media Studies 8(1), pp17-34.
-Chibuwe, A & Ureke, O. (2016) 鈥樷�淧olitical gladiators鈥� on Facebook in Zimbabwe: A discursive analysis of intra-Zimbabwe African National Union PF cyber wars; Baba Jukwa vs Amai Jukwa,鈥� Media Culture & Society, 38(8), pp1247-1260. DOI: 10.1177/0163443716671492
-Ureke, O and Washaya, Y. (2016), 鈥楽ocial commentary, subaltern voices and the alternative medium of Zimdancehall music. Unpacking the music of Winky D and Sniper Storm,鈥� in Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa, 13(1), pp68-88. DOI