Academic Publications

Books

Edited Volumes

1. 100 YEARS OF RADIO IN SOUTH AFRICA: Volume 1 -  South African Radio Stations and Broadcaster: Then & Now. Publisher – Palgrave McMillan

2. 100 YEARS OF RADIO IN SOUTH AFRICA: Volume 2 - Community Radio, Digital Radio and the Future of Radio in South Africa. Publisher – Palgrave McMillan

Journal articles

Published

1. Nkoala, S. 2024. “Balanced-Integration: A Dimension of Supervision to Support Students Navigating Parenthood in Pursuit of a PhD: ”. South African Journal of Higher Education 38 (1), 189-216. https://doi.org/10.20853/38-1-6270.

2. Gachago, D., Hlatshwayo, M., Nkoala, S. and Van Heerden, L., 2024. Two unlikely bedfellows: Towards a decolonial unconference methodology. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 12(SI1), pp.21-43. https://www.epubs.ac.za/index.php/cristal/article/download/2086/1579

3. Nkoala, S., Mukhudwana, R. and Matsilele, T., 2024. African Moral Theory and Media Ethics: An Exploration of Rulings by the South African Press Council 2018 to 2022. Journal of Media Ethics, pp.1-15.

4. Nkoala, S. 2024. Multilingual students’ linguistic repertoires as a resource: a case study of assessments in journalism studies, International Multilingual Research Journal, DOI: 10.1080/19313152.2024.2303570

5. Nkoala, S., 2023. Twitter’s Technological Affordances and Science Journalism in the Global South: A Media Richness Approach from South Africa. Journalism Studies, pp.1-24. 

6. Matsilele, T., & Nkoala, S. 2023. Metavoicing, trust-building mechanisms and partisan messaging: a study of social media usage by selected South African female politicians, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2252862

7. Nkoala, S., 2023. The Message, the Medium and the Means of Argumentation: Towards a More Holistic Approach to the Rhetorical Criticism of Television News Reports. African Journalism Studies, pp.1-14. DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2244539

8. Nkoala, S. and Dlanga, S., 2023. ‘My Fellow South Africans’ Cyril Ramaphosa Emulates Mandela in his COVID-19 Presidential Speeches. African Journal of Rhetoric, 15(1), pp.167-192.

9. Grawe, M.N., Nkoala, S. and Makwambeni, B., 2023. The Use of Social Media for Internal Communication within South African Local Government. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372170396_The_Use_of_Social_Media_for_Internal_Communication_within_South_African_Local_Government

10. Nkoala, S., Magoda, Z., Mashiya, V., Makwambeni, B. & Mugobo, V. 2022. “Use of digital tools for social engagement in remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of a South African university”. IJEDICT

11. Nkoala, S. and Matsilele, T., 2023. The influence of the digital divide on emergency remote student-centred learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of journalism education. SN Social Sciences, 3(3), p.47.

12. Nkoala, S., 2022. Educators’ Experiences of using multilingual pedagogies during emergency remote teaching: a case study of South African universities. International Journal of Multilingualism, pp.1-14. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790718.2022.2074012)

13. Nkoala, S. 2022.  A rhetoric of terror and the terrified. Acta Juridica. pp 119 - 139. 

14. Behari-Leak, K., Nkoala, S., Mokou, G. and Binkowski, H., 2021. Exploring disruptions of the coloniality of knowledge, power and being to enable agency as disciplinary activists for curriculum change. Journal of Decolonising Disciplines, 2(2). https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/jdd/article/download/25/3398

15. Nkoala, S. 2020. Crimes Against Children: Evaluative Language and News Reports on Sentences. Javnost - The Public. doi: 10.1080/13183222.2021.1844500 

16. Nkoala, S.B., 2020. Songs that shaped the struggle: A rhetorical analysis of South African struggle songs. African Yearbook of Rhetoric 10. p7-16. (https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/EJC-20c6b555ff)

17. Nkoala, S.B., 2020. Student perceptions on indigenous languages as a social good in journalism education at a South African university. Paradigms, p.70. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Navindhra-Naidoo/publication/344509614_Fostering_transformative_pedagogy_in_Higher_Education_A_teaching_method_preference_survey_of_Emergency_Medical_Care_students/links/5f7d73a8458515b7cf6c68ff/Fostering-transformative-pedagogy-in-Higher-Education-A-teaching-method-preference-survey-of-Emergency-Medical-Care-students.pdf#page=72)

18. Nkoala, S.B., 2020. Student perceptions of multilingualism and the culture of communication in journalism studies in higher education. Reading & Writing, 11(1), p.9 (http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2308-14222020000100006)

19. Nkoala, S., 2019. Internal affairs: an Aristotelian perspective on SABC 3 news. African Journal of Rhetoric, 11(1), pp.224-243. (https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/EJC-1ae3312c23)

20. Nkoala, S.M., 2013. Songs that shaped the struggle: a rhetorical analysis of South African struggle songs. African Yearbook of Rhetoric, 4(1), pp.51-61. (https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/EJC165971)

Book chapters

1. Mbinjama, A. and Nkoala, S., 2024. “I Am the Highest Paid Showrunner in Television!” Shonda Rhimes’ Work and Influence in the Media Industry. In Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism (pp. 147-168). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-49576-2_7

2. Nkoala, S. and Motsaathebe, G., 2023. Community and Online Radio as Emerging Frontiers of South African Audio Broadcasting. In 100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 2: Community Radio, Digital Radio and the Future of Radio in South Africa (pp. 1-8). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 

3. Nkoala, S., 2023. Storytellers, Curators, Watchdogs and Analysts: A Metajournalistic Discourse Analysis of South African Radio Broadcasters’ Role in Agenda-Setting. In 100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 1: South African Radio Stations and Broadcasters Then & Now (pp. 151-170). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 

4. Nkoala, S. and Motsaathebe, G., 2023. A Century of South Africa’s Most Renowned Medium. In 100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 1: South African Radio Stations and Broadcasters Then & Now (pp. 1-10). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 

5. Motsaathebe, G. and Nkoala, S., 2023. The Road Ahead: Community Radio and the Digital Milieu—Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Century of South Africa’s Radio Landscape. 100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 2: Community Radio, Digital Radio and the Future of Radio in South Africa, pp.179-181. 

6. Nkoala, S., 2023. Emergence of Indigenous Language Podcasts in South Africa: Amplifying the Agency of Indigenous Language Speakers in the Digital Public Sphere. In 100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 2: Community Radio, Digital Radio and the Future of Radio in South Africa (pp. 143-159). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 

7. Matsilele, T., Makwambeni, B., Nkoala, S. and Bulani, G.J., 2023. Youth Audiences and Social Media Integration in Community Radio Stations in South Africa: A Case Study of Zibonele FM and Bush Radio. In Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa: Emerging trends and perspectives (pp. 123-153). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

8. Matsilele, T. and Nkoala, S., 2022. COVID-19 and the structural inequalities in South Africa's higher education: A case study of Cape Peninsula University of Technology's journalism programme. In Woyo, E., Mare, A., &  Amadhila, E In Teaching and Learning with Digital Technologies in Higher Education Institutions in Africa (pp. 245-257). Routledge.

9. Nkoala, S. “Metaphors in music as a means of persuasion: A rhetorical analysis of the vocal and non-vocal elements of South African struggle songs.” In Fahnestock, J., & Harris, RA. Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion. Routledge.

10. Nkoala, S., 2022. A Comparative Discourse Analysis of African Newspaper Reports on Global Epidemics: A Case Study of Ebola and Coronavirus. In Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 163-181). Springer, Cham. 

11. Nkoala, S., 2021. The Curious Case of “Coconut Kelz”: Satire as a Critique of Race-Thinking in South Africa. In The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age (pp. 233-247). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mbongeni-Msimanga-2/publication/355891437_Political_Satire_and_the_Mediation_of_the_Zimbabwean_Crisis_in_the_Era_of_the_New_Dispensation_The_Case_of_MAGAMBA_TV/links/618b85ae61f098772079f5ae/Political-Satire-and-the-Mediation-of-the-Zimbabwean-Crisis-in-the-Era-of-the-New-Dispensation-The-Case-of-MAGAMBA-TV.pdf#page=241)

12. Nkoala, S., 2021. Persuasion Across Platforms: A Rhetorical Analysis of Televised and Digitised News Reports on Economic Matters. Television in Africa in the Digital Age, pp.127-144.

13. Nkoala, S. and Matsilele, T., In whose interest is it anyway?: An analysis of the content, discourse and programming strategies of South African business radio shows. In Radio, Public Life and Citizen Deliberation in South Africa (pp. 234-250). Routledge.

14. Nkoala, S.2021. Students’ perspectives of how multilingualism helps or hinders epistemic access in journalism education. In Knowledge beyond colour lines. Pp 99-114. UWC Press.