ABOUT LAST MOYO

Brief Professional History

Last Moyo is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies. His research interests include new ICTs and participatory democracies in Africa; media political economies; comparative media systems; development communication; and media, peace journalism. Moyo has been in higher education as Lecturer and Researcher since 2001. His experience spans Africa, Europe, and Asia where he taught a broad range of Media Studies subjects at the University of Wales (part-time), the UN-mandated University for Peace Graduate Programme in East Asia (full time), and at the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe (full time).

Teaching and Supervision

Moyo's teaching and supervision interests are in new ICTs, Critical Political Economy, Comparative Media Systems, and Development Communication. He is currently teaching the following undergraduate and post graduate courses in the Department of Media Studies: Political Economy of the Media in Southern Africa, African Media Systems, and New Media and Society

Selected Publications

Moyo, L (2011) The CNN Defect: Representations of Race and Historical Justice in the Zimbabwean Election in Journal of International Communication 17(2) pp107-121

Moyo, L. (2011). Blogging down a dictatorship: Human rights, citizen journalists, and the right to communicate in Zimbabwe. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism (2. 6): 727-745.

Moyo, L. (2010). Language, minority rights and the media in South Africa: A human rights approach. Special Issue: International Communication Gazette Journal (72. 4/5): 425-440.

Moyo, L. (2010). The global citizen and the international media: A Comparative Analysis of CNN and Xinhua’s Coverage of the Tibetan Crisis. International Communication Gazette Journal (72. 2): 191-207.

Moyo, L. (2010). Ethnic minority rights and the media in South Africa. Language and Politics in Africa: Contemporary Issues and Critical Perspectives. London: Cambridge.

Moyo, L. (2010). The Dearth of Public Debate: Policy, polarities and positional reporting in Zimbabwe’s news media. In Moyo, D. & Chuma, W. (Eds.), Policing the Fourth Estate in SADC (pp. 90-110). Pretoria: UNISA.

Moyo, L. (2009). Constructing a Home Away from Home: The Internet, Nostalgia and Identity Politics among Zimbabwean Communities in Britain. Journal of Global Mass Communications (1.2): 66-85.

Moyo, L. (2009). The Digital Divide: The Barons and Paupers of the Information society. In Creeber, G. & Martin, R. (Eds.), Digital Culture: Understanding New Media. London: Open University.

Moyo, L. (2009). Digital Democracy: Enhancing the Public Sphere. In Creeber & Martin (Eds.), Digital Culture: Understanding New Media, London: Open University.

Moyo, L. (2009). Repression, Propaganda and Digital Resistance: New Media and Democracy in Zimbabwe. In Mudhai, F, Tettey, W. & Banda, F. (Eds.), African Media and the Digital Public Sphere. New York: Palgrave.

Moyo, L. (2003) Status of the Media in Zimbabwe. In Johnston, D.H. (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of International Media and Communications. New York: Academic Press.