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Julie Reid
Dr Julie Reid is based at the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and specialises in media studies. Her research interests include the topics of media and communications policy and regulation, and she is a project leader for the Media Policy and Democracy Project (MPDP) – an inter-university collaborative research initiative aimed at promoting participatory media policy-making in the public interest. Reid is an activist for media freedom and communications rights, and former President of the South African Communications Association (SACOMM). She has published widely on the topics of semiotics, visual studies and media regulation, and writes opinion pieces for various newspapers, magazines and online news media, mostly on media politics and issues of communications rights in South Africa. She is the editor and co-author of the book Looking at media: an introduction to visual studies (Pearson 2013).