Journal of African Media Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of African Media Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
South African newspaper coverage of COVID-19: A content analysis18
Guardians of truth? Fact-checking the ‘disinfodemic’ in Southern Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic15
An evaluation of constructive journalism in Zimbabwe: A case study of The Herald’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic12
Social media, fake news and fake COVID-19 cures in Nigeria8
From COVID-19 to COVID-666: Quasi-religious mentality and ideologies in Nigerian coronavirus pandemic discourse8
‘Fake news’ or trust in authorities? The problems of uncertainty at a time of medical crisis8
The societal importance of journalistic health reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa: Impressions from science and health journalism organizations7
Exploring COVID-19 infodemic in rural Africa: A case study of Chintheche, Malawi6
God and COVID-19 in Burundian social media: The political fight for the control of the narrative6
‘Subaltern’ pushbacks: An analysis of responses by Facebook users to ‘racist’ statements by two French doctors on testing a COVID-19 vaccine in Africa6
The why of humour during a crisis: An exploration of COVID-19 memes in South Africa and Zimbabwe6
Language in a pandemic: A multimodal analysis of social media representation of COVID-196
A systematic review of the spread of information during pandemics: A case of the 2020 COVID-19 virus5
Media and global pandemics: Continuities and discontinuities5
Infobotting COVID-19: A case study of Ask Nameesa in Egypt5
The coronavirus pandemic in Africa: Crisis communication challenges5
Communicating COVID-19 to rural dwellers: Revisiting the role of traditional media in crisis communication4
Online incivility, hate speech and political violence in Zambia: Examining the role of online political campaign messages4
COVID-19 narratives and counter-narratives in Ghana: The dialectics of state messaging and alternative re/de-constructions4
Media representation of China in the time of pandemic: A comparative study of Kenyan and Ethiopian media4
Tweeter-in-chief: Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s use of Twitter4
Communication lapses to combating COVID-19 pandemic: Evaluating Ghana’s COVID-19 campaign4
Fear-arousing persuasive communication and behaviour change: COVID-19 in Kenya4
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, disinformation and the coronavirus: A burgeoning of post-truth in the social media3
Investigative journalism and anti-corruption: Public perception on Anas’s approach in Ghana3
‘You can’t arrest a virus’: The freedom of expression crisis within Egypt’s response to COVID-193
Influence of conspiracy theories, misinformation and knowledge on public adoption of Nigerian government’s COVID-19 containment policies3
West African-diasporic social media users facing COVID-19: Care, emotions and power during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic3
COVID-19 containment and control: Information source credibility and adoption of prevention strategies among residents in South West Nigeria3
Music, performance and ZANU-PF’s hegemony in Mugabe’s newly independent Zimbabwe3
Satirical realities in COVID-19 humour: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Nigerian Facebook posts3
Digital cities and villages: African writers and a sense of place in short online fiction3
Nigerians and COVID-19 humour: Discursivity and public engagement through pandemic internet memes3
Pandemic politics and Africa: Examining discourses of Afrophobia in the news media2
Shaping citizen’s freedom of social media interaction in Tanzania: The role of city policy experts in digital policy-making2
Racism and the post-apartheid media: Problematizing the racist Clicks advert as a manifestation of token transformation2
Radio edutainment and participatory communication for social change: A case of lived reality among a rural Malawian audience2
Religion, authority and denunciation in the paradigm of mediatization: The case of the Congolese diaspora of the Salvation Army2
Theatricality in the midst of a pandemic: An assessment of artistic responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe2
Suffering and smiling: Nigerians’ humorous response to the coronavirus pandemic2
Analysing the mythologies and the ideological nuances in photographic representation of COVID-19 containment in Kenya’s newspapers2
Imagine dying from an overseas disease, when you do not even own a passport: A critical analysis of Twitter conversations in the wake of COVID-19 in Kenya and South Africa2
Nigerian government and management of news and information on the coronavirus pandemic2
The impact of COVID-19 on science journalists in South Africa: Investigating effects, challenges, quality concerns and training needs2
The role of change agents in the adaptation and use of mobile money services in Kenya2
The Africa the media showed us: A visual content analysis of the 2014 Ebola epidemic2
Unveiling African narratives on Facebook: Media posts and audience engagement2
This is Africa: How young African TikTok trends challenged Afropessimism during COVID-192
Active news audience in COVID-19 pandemic season: Online news sharing motives and secondary gatekeeping decisions by social media users in Nigeria2
Hausa film industry and the ‘menace’ of appropriation of Indian romantic movies2
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