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Ian Glenn

Ian Glenn is research fellow in Communication Science at the University of the Free State and emeritus professor of Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of First safari: searching for Francois Levaillant (2018) and Wildlife documentaries in Southern Africa: from East to South (2024). He is currently working on a study of Levaillant as naturalist and ornithologist and on the history and significance of wilderness trails in South Africa.

Fact-checking the fact-checkers

 Ian Glenn Opinion 2025-01-30

"Logically, what is the justification for fact-checking – and then monitoring and censoring – Facebook or X or Instagram, but not WhatsApp?"

"Standing up for injustices"? – Nine notes on #FeesMustFall

 Ian Glenn Universiteitseminaar | University Seminar 2016-09-28

"The South African movements of 2015–2016 show some of the dangers and difficulties of negotiating in the new media world and of moving from representative student government to a post-truth social media environment where there are no formal gatekeepers."

Coovadia, Coetzee and the literary field of post-apartheid South Africa

 Ian Glenn 2013-01-04 "Coetzee’s departure then becomes a symbolic leaving open of a place for new writers and scholars to tackle the burning issues of the new era, issues on which he claims no authority and perhaps for which he takes no responsibility, for which he feels no affinity."
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