Research data
The HSRC Research Data Service provides a digital repository facility for the HSRC's research data in support of evidence based human and social development in South Africa and the broader region. Access to data is dependent on ethical requirements for protecting research participants, as well as on legal agreements with the owners, funders or in the case of data owned by the HSRC, the requirements of the depositors of the data. We facilitate data use by preparing comprehensive metadata and disseminating data and related documents to appropriate target audiences. Data sharing is subject to an End User License agreement. Data sets from the following projects have been curated and are available for use:
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Research data: JOURNALISM
2021 Hack with a grenade: an editor's backstories of SA news
It is a book about journalism but also about South African life. It is also a social commentary that begins to strip away our prejudices as ...
2020 James Matthews: 'black voices shout!'
South African journalist, poet, author and publisher James Matthews was an outspoken critic of apartheid, and a proponent of a form of black...
2020 Benjamin Pogrund: white witness of township life
Acclaimed South African "born journalist and author Benjamin Pogrund is widely known for covering the lives of black South Africans, includi...
2008 The "third arm": new forms of paid-for content in the South African print media
In South Africa and globally, there is an ongoing critique of commercial media's relationship with advertising interests and a concern that ...