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Dr. Gilbert Motsaathebe graduated with a Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Mass Communication Department at the United Arab Emirates University. He has been enlisted, in the years preceding this, as a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa and held a substantive Senior Lecturer position at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology for ten years. In the intervening years, Motsaathebe rendered his services at the Office of the Premier, North West Provincial Government in South Africa as Manager of Media Relations. Prior to that, he plied his trade as News Producer and Out-put Editor for television stations such as Bop TV, SABC, and e-TV, and taught at educational institutions in South Africa and Japan. Besides the slew of supervised students and published papers, ranging from the IBSS-accredited Journal of African Media Studies to the SCOPUS-indexed Communicatio journal, Dr. Motsaathebe is an accredited Mentor and Assessor in the field of journalism with 22 years of the media industry and academic experience. His research interests include topics on media and gender, journalism education and practice, post-apartheid cinema, and indigenous language media. He has published numerous academic articles and chapters in accredited peer-reviewed journals and books, and has reviewed papers for several top-ranking academic journals such as the Journal of Black Studies (ISSN: 0021-9347), the Journal of African Media Studies (ISSN: 2040199X), African Journal of Rhetoric (ISSN1998-2054), Educational Research (ISSN: 2141-5161), Educational Review (ISSN: 0013-1911) and the Global Journal of Political Science and International Relations (GJPSIR), among others. He is the recipient of several awards including the prestigious SEPHIS Award (2011) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) Award for an Established Researcher (2018). He was selected by the US Department of State for the acclaimed International Visiting Leadership Program (IVLP) in 2016. He remains an active member of various academic societies and organizations relevant to his field such as the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC), the South African Communication Association (SACOMM), the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), as well as the Higher Education, Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA) and is a regular presenter at conferences organized by these societies. He has actively chaired sessions, panel discussions, delivered keynote addresses, and read more than twenty papers at national and international conferences.