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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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 pandemic13
An evaluation of constructive journalism in Zimbabwe: A case study of The Herald’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic10
From COVID-19 to COVID-666: Quasi-religious mentality and ideologies in Nigerian coronavirus pandemic discourse7
The why of humour during a crisis: An exploration of COVID-19 memes in South Africa and Zimbabwe6
‘Fake news’ or trust in authorities? The problems of uncertainty at a time of medical crisis6
The societal importance of journalistic health reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa: Impressions from science and health journalism organizations5
Media and global pandemics: Continuities and discontinuities5
Exploring COVID-19 infodemic in rural Africa: A case study of Chintheche, Malawi5
A systematic review of the spread of information during pandemics: A case of the 2020 COVID-19 virus5
CCTV in Africa: Constructive approach to manufacturing consent5
The coronavirus pandemic in Africa: Crisis communication challenges5
‘Subaltern’ pushbacks: An analysis of responses by Facebook users to ‘racist’ statements by two French doctors on testing a COVID-19 vaccine in Africa5
God and COVID-19 in Burundian social media: The political fight for the control of the narrative5
Social media, fake news and fake COVID-19 cures in Nigeria5
Training for English language or indigenous language media journalism: A decolonial critique of Zimbabwean journalism and media training institutions’ training practices5
Infobotting COVID-19: A case study of Ask Nameesa in Egypt5
Communicating COVID-19 to rural dwellers: Revisiting the role of traditional media in crisis communication4
Communication lapses to combating COVID-19 pandemic: Evaluating Ghana’s COVID-19 campaign4
Language in a pandemic: A multimodal analysis of social media representation of COVID-194
Tweeter-in-chief: Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s use of Twitter4
Activism as political action in Uganda: The role of social media4
Fear-arousing persuasive communication and behaviour change: COVID-19 in Kenya3
COVID-19 containment and control: Information source credibility and adoption of prevention strategies among residents in South West Nigeria3
‘You can’t arrest a virus’: The freedom of expression crisis within Egypt’s response to COVID-193
The sociocultural and political influences on the practice of media advocacy: The case of sexual harassment in Egypt3
Online incivility, hate speech and political violence in Zambia: Examining the role of online political campaign messages3
West African-diasporic social media users facing COVID-19: Care, emotions and power during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic3
A framing analysis of mainstream newspaper coverage of the 2013 ‘Coalition of the Willing’ initiative in East Africa3
Influence of conspiracy theories, misinformation and knowledge on public adoption of Nigerian government’s COVID-19 containment policies3
Media representation of China in the time of pandemic: A comparative study of Kenyan and Ethiopian media3
COVID-19 narratives and counter-narratives in Ghana: The dialectics of state messaging and alternative re/de-constructions3
Translating the global climate change challenge into action as reflected in Uganda’s media3
Satirical realities in COVID-19 humour: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Nigerian Facebook posts3
Cultural expression using digital media by students3
Pandemic politics and Africa: Examining discourses of Afrophobia in the news media2
Vibrant and safe media landscape in Ghana: Reality or mirage?2
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
Political communication in East Africa: An introduction2
Information literacy practices of young Internet users related to the production of religious content: 2019 Algerian protests case2
Shaping citizen’s freedom of social media interaction in Tanzania: The role of city policy experts in digital policy-making2
Political communication strategies of sub-Saharan Africa nationalist movements in the era of (de)colonization: The case of the UPC in Cameroon (1948–56)2
Election reporting and githerinization of Kenya’s media2
Music, performance and ZANU-PF’s hegemony in Mugabe’s newly independent Zimbabwe2
Theatricality in the midst of a pandemic: An assessment of artistic responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe2
The role of change agents in the adaptation and use of mobile money services in Kenya2
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, disinformation and the coronavirus: A burgeoning of post-truth in the social media2
Analysing the mythologies and the ideological nuances in photographic representation of COVID-19 containment in Kenya’s newspapers2
Radio edutainment and participatory communication for social change: A case of lived reality among a rural Malawian audience2
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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