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| South African journalism and the Marikana massacre: A case study of an editorial failure J Duncan The Political Economy of Communication 1 (2), 2013 | 78 | 2013 |
| The rise of the securocrats: the case of South Africa J Duncan (No Title), 2014 | 72 | 2014 |
| Another journalism is possible: Critical challenges for the media in South Africa J Duncan Centre for Civil Society, 2003 | 52 | 2003 |
| A political economy of press self-regulation: The case of South Africa J Duncan Media, Culture & Society 36 (2), 167-182, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Toward a measurement tool for the monitoring of media diversity and pluralism in South Africa: A public-centred approach J Duncan, J Reid Communicatio 39 (4), 483-500, 2013 | 46 | 2013 |
| Broadcasting and the national question: South African broadcast media in an age of neo-liberalism J Duncan Freedom of Expression Institute, 2001 | 46 | 2001 |
| Media and democracy in South Africa J Duncan, M Seleoane HSRC Press, 1998 | 46 | 1998 |
| Talk left, act right: what constitutes transformation in Southern African media? J Duncan Taylor & Francis Group 26 (2), 52-59, 2000 | 44 | 2000 |
| Mobile network society? Affordability and mobile phone usage in Grahamstown East J Duncan Communicatio 39 (1), 35-52, 2013 | 41 | 2013 |
| A baseline study of youth identity, the media and the public sphere in South Africa V Malila, J Duncan, I Costera Meijer, N Drok, A Garman, LN Strelitz, ... | 39 | 2013 |
| The uses and abuses of political economy: The ANC's media policy J Duncan Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 70 (1), 1-30, 2009 | 38 | 2009 |
| Public Broadcasting in the era of cost recovery: a critique of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's crisis of accountability C Tleane, J Duncan (No Title), 2003 | 38 | 2003 |
| Stopping the spies: Constructing and resisting the surveillance state in South Africa J Duncan NYU Press, 2018 | 36 | 2018 |
| Turning points in South African television policy and practice since 1990 J Duncan, I Glenn Media policy in a changing Southern Africa: Critical reflections on media …, 2010 | 36 | 2010 |
| Executive overstretch: South African broadcasting independence and accountability under Thabo Mbeki J Duncan Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research 34 …, 2008 | 27 | 2008 |
| Voice, political mobilisation and repression under Jacob Zuma J Duncan A Decade of Dissent: Reflections on Popular Resistance in South Africa 2010 …, 2000 | 26 | 2000 |
| The politics of counting protests J Duncan Mail and Guardian 17, 2014, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |
| The ANC's poverty of strategy on media accountability J Duncan Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies 32 (2), 90-105, 2011 | 23 | 2011 |
| Why student protests in South Africa have turned violent J Duncan The conversation 29, 2016 | 22 | 2016 |