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: MEDIA
2021 Knowledge, the media and anti-immigrant hate crime in South Africa: where are the connections?
There is a growing level of academic interest in how the media covers immigration and xenophobia in South Africa. Various scholars (e.g. Nya...
2021 Evaluating South African and Namibian governments' use of digital media during Covid-19
Governments during the Covid-19 pandemic in response to the challenge of reaching as many of their citizens as quickly as possible have reli...
2020 Media sensation in a time of heightened anxiety: analysing reports in three Western Cape newspapers
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in South Africa, the media has been influential in sharing information around personal protection and curbing...
Download this report2019 An inconvenient marriage: media freedom and access to information in Africa: the South African perspective
In 2013, the African Commission released a model law access to information in Africa, in the midst of what is identified here as growing tre...
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