东京热

Prof Anthony Ambala

Prof
Name: Anthony Ambala
Location: FL 126 FADA Building Bunting Road Campus Bunting Road Campus
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Tel: +27 (0) 11 559 1354

Email:听aambala@uj.ac.za

About Prof Anthony Ambala

Prof Ambala is Associate professor in the Multimedia Department, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, at the 东京热. He holds a PhD and MA from Wits University.

His research interests are in participatory, inclusive, interactive and immersive media from an Afrikan lens, focusing on marginalized, co-opted and 鈥榦thered鈥� communities, and working within film, digital, gamified, virtual reality and other visual media spaces.

He has lectured film and television studies, scriptwriting, documentary studies, film editing and directing, and digital content design at The University of the Witwatersrand, AFDA Film School and The 东京热.

Prof Ambala has supervised and graduated several postgraduate practice and 鈥榯raditional鈥� research projects at Honours, Masters, Doctoral and Post-doctoral levels.

He is a practitioner in the film, television and digital media-scape having worked as an actor, a scriptwriter and live Outside Broadcasting (OB) technical crew for television shows on KBC and SABC. His first feature length screenplay Chameleons featured at the Maisha screenwriters鈥� lab overseen by renowned filmmaker Mira Nair.

Prof Ambala headed the Multimedia department at FADA, UJ, for two-three year terms and was Ag Vice Dean, Research and Internationalisation at FADA for 13 months.

Here is a selection of some of his recent academic work

Khoza, B.J., Mabale, N.P., and Ambala, A.T. 2025. 鈥楧esigning an effective emergency online teaching and learning experience using the Conversational Framework approach鈥�. African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning (APoRTAL) Special Issue. 9(6), 795 鈥� 807. DOI: . ISSN Print: 2521-0262 ISSN Online: 2662-012X.

Ambala, AT. 2023. 鈥業llusions of participation in Kenya鈥檚 contemporary television broadcastscape鈥� in the journal,听Communicatio. 49:3-4, 88-103, DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2023.2285300

Ayesh, I and Ambala, AT. 2023. 鈥楨ncouraging Humanitarian Assistance in Conflict Zones through Animated Public Service Announcements鈥�. Cumulus: Connectivity and Creativity in times of Conflict. Conference Proceedings. 392 鈥� 396. ISBN: 978 94 014 9647 6.

Ambala, AT. 2023. 鈥楴ovelty or plagiarism? Bricolage in Ofentse Mwase鈥檚 Shorts鈥�. Paper presented at the SACOMM Conference, 27 to 29 September, 2023 at AFDA, Johannesburg

Ambala, AT. 2022. 鈥榁oicing ordinary people and everyday narratives through participatory cinema鈥�. Journal of African Cinemas, 13:2 & 3, pp. 119鈥�133, _00049_1.

Ambala, AT. 2021. 鈥楶ositioning Afro-diasporic speculative design episteme in South African higher education institutions鈥�. DE+AFRIKA+4IR+ Design Education/Afrika / 4^th Industrial Revolution Conference. Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA), 16th Conference Proceedings. 183 鈥� 193. ISBN: 978-0-620-97912-2 (e-book).

Ambala, AT. 2020. ‘Adapting Digital Storytelling Methods to African Contexts: Insights from the Utaifa Project’,听African Journalism Studies, 41:4, 22-34, DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1840413.

Ambala, AT. 2020. Voicing ordinary people and everyday narratives through participatory digital storytelling. Presented at the @frica: digital media conference, University of Houston, USA. 28 February 2020.

Ambala, AT. 2019. 鈥淭elevision鈥檚 shifting broadcasting-scape in contemporary Africa鈥� in Media Studies, Chiumbu, Sarah and Iqani, Mehita (eds). Oxford University Press South Africa, Print ISBN: 9780190443535, Extent: 512pp.