Resources - Research Reports
Research Reports are indepth, often quantitative reports around our various programme areas.
- Getting the best out of the media, the 2005 16 days report
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The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) found an increase in the amount of coverage provided to the 16 Days of Activism Campaign No Violence Against Women and Children during 2005. The majority of South African media performed particularly well, in some crucial respects the media performed better in comparison to the 16 Days of Activism Campaign in 2004.
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- Revealing Race: an analysis of the coverage of race and xenophobia in the SA print media
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This report forms part of the broader “Revealing Race Project” of the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) funded by the Mott Foundation. The report reveals the results of the monitoring of a sample of Gauteng-based print media undertaken by the MMP from January to May 2006 on the representation of issues of race, ethnicity and xenophobia in the selected mediums.
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- MAP HIV regional findings
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This report covers the regional findings of the HIV and AIDS and Gender Baseline Study carried out as part of the Media Action Plan on HIV and AIDS and Gender (MAP) led by the Southern African Editors’ Forum (SAEF).
The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) that leads the monitoring and evaluation arm of MAP conducted the monitoring, analysed the data and produced the results for the region as well as the individual countries.
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- Whose blacklist is it anyway?
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In a constitutional democracy like the South African, it is commonly accepted and entirely uncontroversial to assert the central role allocated to an independent public service broadcaster in facilitating informed public debate based on the central tenets, as stated in the SABC Charter, of free speech and journalistic and programming independence. However, as witnessed by recent public debate, the SABC is currently being challenged on the extent to which its editorial policy remains in compliance with these basic democratic principles.
In this context, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP), an independent media monitoring organisation which has been monitoring the media since 1993, sees its role as to assess the merits of these claims. As an independent organisation of civil society, the MMP remains independent of all parties and undertakes evaluations of compliance with constitutional principles and professional media practices. In this sense the MMP’s aim is to secure the primacy of the constitution, which constitutes the MMP’s only substantive bias.
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- GMMP South African Country Report
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The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) South African report was launched at Constitutional Hill on 7 March 2006. According to Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, speaking in her keynote address. “In spite of the numerous advances that we have made as a society, it is clear even from the results of the GMMP that high levels of inequality still prevail in our society.”
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- Getting the best out of the media: Analysis of media coverage of the 16 Days of No Violence Against
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The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) found an increase in the amount of coverage provided to the16 Days of Activism Campaign No Violence Against
Women and Children during 2005. The majority of South African media performed particularly well, in some crucial respects the media performed
better in comparison to the 16 Days of Activism Campaign in 2004.
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- What Children Want: Children’s choices in programming
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The Media Monitoring Project (MMP)’s research with children and media challenges a number of preconceived ideas about children’s programming, how it is understood, and how it should be regulated. The study aimed to give practical realisation to children’s right to participate in all matters that affect them, as outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The research was conducted as part of the MMP’s submission on the draft licence conditions of the SABC, and was supported by Save the Children Sweden. The findings have potentially far-reaching implications for ICASA, in line with the best interests of the child.
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- Monitoring Men: An Analysis of the Representation of Men in the Media
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While there has been extensive research into the representation of women in the media, limited research has focused on how the news media tends to represent men and the male role models offered by the media. It would appear that while men make up the majority of those sources frequently accessed for comment in the media, their representation is limited, and in many instances prone to similar stereotyping that women experience.
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- Keeping an eye on the campaign: 2004 16 days final report
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Key findings for the 16 Days of Activism 2004 show an unprecedented high number of female sources: 46% women: 54% men. This, together with the dramatic increase in number of gender-based violence, woman and child abuse stories than in previous MMP research in 1998 is a positive trend.
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- “hisses and whistles”: A baseline study into arts coverage in the SA mass media
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The MMP and Open Research completed both a quantitative and qualitative analysis of arts coverage in South Africa. This research resulted in several key findings, including, the role of advertising in shaping how the arts are covered and the lack of serious arts coverage in most media monitored. Finally, the findings conclude with recommendations by journalists and other stakeholders at a meeting on the 5th April 2006.
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