Prof. Dr. Herman Wasserman

Herman Wasserman is Professor of Journalism and Chair of the Department of Journalism at Stellenbosch University.

His research interests include Media, Media Ethics, Conflict and Democracy in Africa, and Media and Disinformation. Wasserman is a leading scholar of South African media, society and culture in the post-apartheid era. He has made significant contributions to the understanding of African journalism and media within a shifting global geopolitical context. He is the author of Tabloid Journalism in South Africa (Indiana University Press), Media, Geopolitics, and Power (University of Illinois Press) and Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa (Oxford University Press). His latest book is Disinformation in the Global South (Wiley-Blackwell). Wasserman has held positions at the universities of Capetown, Sheffield, Newcastle and Rhodes. He has held a Fulbright research fellowship at Indiana University in the US, and has twice been elected a fellow of the media ethics colloquia hosted by the University of Missouri. He is furthermore a recipient of the Georg Forster Award for his research achievements from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

At the invitation of Prof Dr Sahana Udupa (Ethnology, LMU), he is a Visiting Fellow at CAS and part of the CAS Research Group Below the Radar? Messaging Apps, Encryption and the Enticement of Extreme Speech.