Senior Lecturer in Communication
Course Leader of Graduate Diploma/Certificate in Media and Communication Studies.
Email: w.mano@wmin.ac.uk

Biography

Winston is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for the Graduate Diploma in Media and Communication Studies. He studied English and Economic History at the University of Zimbabwe (1989-1991) before receiving a scholarship to go to Norway where he studied Media and Communications at the Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Oslo from 1995-1997. He briefly worked as an editor for Africa, Film & TV but later decided to teach Communication Media courses at the University of Zimbabwe from 1997-2000.

Winston joined the University of Westminsters Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) in 2000 on a PhD Teaching Studentship and obtained his doctoral degree in 2004. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in media and supervises dissertation students at masters and doctoral level.

Mano edited (2005) The Media and Zimbabwe, a Special Issue of Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture. He is a founding editor of the Journal of African Media Studies published by Intellect.

Research Statement

Winston Manos research mainly focuses on African Radio, Music, Audiences, Globalisation, Media Democracy and Development. Since 2004, Mano has helped organise the CAMRI Africa Media Series: Reporting Zimbabwe: Before and After 2000 (2005); Media and Social Change in Africa (2006); Media and Democracy in Africa (2007) and the Media and Development in Africa (2008). He is currently researching on African Radio and Modernisation in a Global Context.

Selected Publications

(2008) Africa: Media Systems in Wolfgang Donsbach ed. The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Volume 1. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (pp. 129-136).

Mano W. and W. Willems (2008), Emerging communities, emerging Media: the Case of a Zimbabwean Nurse in the British Big Brother Show Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 20 (1).

(2007), The Impact of Radio Zimbabwe Adult Talk on a National Audience, in Southern Review Vol. 39. Number 3.

(Feb. 2007), Popular Music as Journalism in Zimbabwe in Journalism Studies, Routledge. London.

(2006), African Public Service Radio versus National languages: Mixed Responses to Radio Zimbabwes Bilingual Service in A. Salawou (ed.) Media in Indigenous African Languages. CBAAC, Nigeria ISBN 9789780390242.

(2006), Scheduling for Rural and urban Audiences on Radio Zimbabwe in The Radio Journal- International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, Volume 3 Number 2, London, Intellect Books.

(2005), Press Freedom, Professionalism and Proprietorship: Beyond the Zimbabwean Media Divide in The Media and Zimbabwe, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC), (University of Westminster, London), Special Issue, November 2005: 56-70. ISSN 1744-6708 (Print); 1744-6716 (Online)

(2004), Renegotiating Tradition on Radio Zimbabwe in Media, Culture & Society. Vol. 26, No. 3, 315-336, London: Sage.

Selected Presentations

Mano W. and J. O. Oucho (2008), Zimbabwe, Kenya: Can Africa do Democracy?, Coventry Conversations, 17 April, Coventry University.

Mano W. and N. M. Ndlela (2008) Revisiting Development Communication Theories in Africa, CAMRI Media and Development in Africa Conference, University of Westminster, London: 27-28 March.

(2007) Exploring the Impact of Adult Talk Radio in Zimbabwe, SOAS Seminar Series, University of London, 7 March.

(2006) Music as Journalism in Zimbabwe, African Studies Association 2006 Annual Meeting Re) Thinking Africa and the World: Internal Reflections, External Responses, San Francisco, CA November 16-19.

(2006) African Media Studies at Home and Abroad, CAMRI Internationalising Media Studies Conference, University of Westminster, 15-16 September

(2006) The Popular in Popular Music, Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference, Istanbul University, 20-23 July.

(2005) Radio Zimbabwe Scheduling and Everyday Life, Radio Studies Network Conference, University of Central England, Birmingham, 7 April.

(2005) Press Freedom, Professionalism and Proprietorship: Beyond the Zimbabwean Media Divide, CAMRI Africa Seminar Series, Stanhope Centre/University of Westminster, London, 25 February.

(2004) Tensions over Radio Zimbabwes Dual Language Service, SACOMM , University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 28 Sept.-2 October.

(2004) The Impact of Radio Zimbabwe Adult Talk on a National Audience, Santa Chiara Graduate College, University of Siena, Italy, 26 July-1 August.

(2002) Popular Music on Radio Zimbabwe presented at the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association, MeCCSA Conference, University of Westminster, London, 11-13 January.

(2001) Popular Talk Radio and Everyday Life, Radiocracy Conference, Durban, South Africa, 20-24 September.

(2000) Popular Radio and Everyday Life in Zimbabwe presented at Media, Everyday Life and Identity Conference, Department of Media and Communication, University of Turku, Finland, 8-11 December.

(1998) The Problem of Funding Public Service Television Through Advertising: The Contrasting Case of ZBC and SABC, NUFU Media Research Conference, Department of English, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, 16 May.