DrinkWise, enjoy responsibly: News frames, branding and alcohol

This article examines the communicative activities and press coverage of the alcohol industry-funded social-change organisation DrinkWise. Established in 2005, DrinkWise funds health research in universities, runs public health campaigns and engages in public relations activities. We use a framing analysis to examine the way DrinkWise frames problems, judgements and solutions related to alcohol consumption and policy. The aim of this analysis is to examine how journalistic practice legitimises DrinkWise and facilitates the organisation’s communicative activities. In addition, we consider how DrinkWise’s representation in the press works alongside the organisation’s array of communicative activities to facilitate the commercial objectives of the alcohol industry. We draw on the implications of this analysis to conceptualise how distinct forms of communicative work – such as academic research, policy-making, journalism and marketing, advertising and public relations – are interconnected

DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF A HIGHRISE REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING TO UNBALANCEABLE GYRATORY CRUSHER FORCES.

Three large gyratory ore crushers were mounted on a common reinforced concrete hollow box base 11. 0 multiplied by 20. 0 multiplied by 13. 8 m. This base formed an integral part of an irregular, about ten storey high industrial reinforced concrete framed structure. The objective of the original analysis was to determine the fatigue resistance of the structure, the acceptability of the vibrations to human response and its compliance to the criteria for machine bearing displacements. This paper, however, deals only with a comparison between the predicted and measured dynamic displacements.Conference Pape

The limits of media democratization in South Africa: politics, privatization, and regulation

This paper critically examines the processes that have limited the development of a democratic media system in post-apartheid South Africa. After a brief overview of the formation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, the evolution of the ANC’s economic policies and approach to privatization is discussed. This provides the context in which the transformation of the broadcasting system since 1994 Africa can be understood. The privatization of radio stations in 1996 indicates the political tensions that shape media reform. It is argued that the progress of democratic broadcasting reform is increasingly being dictated by the state’s programme for restructuring the telecommunications sector. In conclusion, it is suggested that the post-1994 period has witnessed a diminution in the influence of independent civil society organizations over media policies, consequent upon an increasingly centralized and bureaucratic emphasis in policy formulation and implementation