Anthea Garman is Professor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in South Africa. She leads two research projects: Licence to Talk, an investigation into the contours of the mediated South African public sphere, and Media and Sociality, a decolonial investigation into how digitality is affecting the socialities of South Africans, particularly those marginalised. She teaches journalism writing, long form journalism and academic writing. She is the co-editor of Media and Citizenship: Between Marginalisation and Participation and author of Antjie Krog and the postapartheid South African public sphere: Speaking poetry to power.