Lecturer: Media and Society Studies Designation
Qualifications:
- Master of Sciences Media and Society Studies
- Bachelor of Sciences Media and Society Studies Honours
- Post Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education
Research interests:
- Film, journalism, new media
Community service
- Patron of the Media Society club
- Member of departmental rural educational trips coordinating team
- Faculty of Social Science representative on the International Relations Committee
- Resident mentor for students practicing mobile phone media production in collaboration with Her Zimbabwe (2015)
- Departmental representative in the Social Science Faculty research and Ethics committee
- Participated in the formulation of MSU Community Engagement policy
- Member of MSU team consulted by Ministry of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services on the state of the media industry (2015)
Publications
- Ureke, O. (2016), ‘State interference, para-politics and editorial control: The political economy of ‘Mirrorgate in Zimbabwe’ Journal of African Media Studies, 8:1, pp17-34.
- Ureke, O. (in press) ‘Book Review: Katrina Daly Thompson (2013) Zimbabwe’s Cinematic Arts: Language, Power, Identity’ Journal of African Cinemas
- Mhiripiri, N.A and Ureke, O. (2016), ‘Mobile Journalism, Cellphilms and the Use of the StoryMaker Multimedia Software at a Zimbabwean Media Training University’ in L. Briz-Ponce (Ed.), Handbook of Research on
Mobile Devices and Applications in Higher Education
Settings (in press)