Research output per year
Research output per year
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Research Interests
Reality dating television, love themed media texts and audience reception as well as participation, relational dialectics in intimate communication, impression management, similarity and difference in intimate contexts, critical media production, multimodal critical discourse analysis.
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Research output
- 13 Article
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Do First Impressions Count? A Gendered Comparative Analysis of Self-Presentations by Contestants in the Bachelor and Bachelorette South Africa
Ngcongo, M., 2025, In: Qualitative Report. 30, 6, p. 3784-3799 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cross-cultural comparisons of social penetration on reality dating television: A look at First Dates UK and First Dates South Africa
Ngcongo, M., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Popular Television. 12, 3, p. 317-330 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring the Virtual Culture of Reality Television Communities: Lessons From #Date My Family
Ngcongo, M., Jan 2024, In: Television and New Media. 25, 1, p. 19-40 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Family Aid in Finding Love Through Beneficial Impression Management on Reality TV: The Case for Representational Social Exchange
Ngcongo, M., 2023, In: South African Review of Sociology. 53, 3, p. 328-341 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Looking back to look forward: re-humanization through conspicuous consumption in four African masculine sartorial subcultures–from diamond field’s dandies to Izikhothane
Mnisi, J. G. & Ngcongo, M., 2023, In: African Identities. 21, 2, p. 341-354 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus)
Press/Media
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Twenty Fellows, Immersive Experiences and the Six-month Odyssey of MTN Media Innovation Program-3
Mpedi, L., Mare, A., Ngcongo, M. & Gamede, S.
29/11/24
1 item of Media coverage
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Izikhothane: a deeper history of a South African youth subculture where luxury items are trashed
31/10/23
2 items of Media coverage
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Black South African youth buy luxury goods only to destroy them publicly. Here’s why
29/10/23
1 item of Media coverage
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Izikhothane: South African subculture where people compete for who is wealthier
28/10/23
1 item of Media coverage
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Izikhothane: a deeper history of a South African youth subculture where luxury items are trashed
27/10/23
1 item of Media coverage
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