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Journal of African Media Studies 12.3 is out now!

Journal of African Media Studies 12.3 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Political Communication in East Africa’

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Aims & Scopes

In the current academic climate there is an ongoing repositioning of media and cultural studies outside the Anglo-American axis. The peer-reviewed Journal of African Media Studies contributes to this repositioning by providing a forum for debate on the historical and contemporary aspects of media and communication in Africa.

Issue 12.3

Introduction

Political communication in East Africa: An introduction

KRISTIN SKARE ORGERET AND HELGE RØNNING

Articles

A framing analysis of mainstream newspaper coverage of the 2013 ‘Coalition of the Willing’ initiative in East Africa

JOSEPH NJUGUNA AND MARGARET JJUUKO

Election reporting and githerinization of Kenya’s media

WILSON UGANGU

Translating the global climate change challenge into action as reflected in Uganda’s media

GORETTI NASSANGA

Activism as political action in Uganda: The role of social media