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Journal of African Media Studies 13.3 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of African Media Studies 13.3 is out now.

Special Issue: ‘Media and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Africa (Part Two)’

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Aims and Scope

The Journal of African Media Studies (JAMS) is an interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for debate on the historical and contemporary aspects of media and communication in Africa. It hereby aims to contribute to the ongoing re-positioning of media and cultural studies outside the Anglo-American axis. JAMS interprets media in a broad sense, incorporating not only formal media such as radio, television, print, internet and mobile telephony but also considers articles on ‘informal’, ‘small’ or ‘indigenous’ media such as music, jokes and theatre. JAMS welcomes articles that discuss the relation of different media and forms of communication to the broader social, economic, historical and political context in Africa. JAMS has a preference for empirical work that is well grounded in theoretical debates and academic literature, and encourages contributors to include images, photographs or other graphics. JAMS also has a book and film review section and is published three times a year.

Issue 13.3

Editorial

Media and global pandemics: Continuities and discontinuities

TENDAI CHARI AND UFUOMA AKPOJIVI

Articles

‘Subaltern’ pushbacks: An analysis of responses by Facebook users to ‘racist’ statements by two French doctors on testing a COVID-19 vaccine in Africa

SELINA LINDA MUDAVANHU

South African newspaper coverage of COVID-19: A content analysis

HERMAN WASSERMAN, WALLACE CHUMA, TANJA BOSCH, CHIKEZIE E. UZUEGBUNAM AND RACHEL FLYNN

Is we they? A cross-cultural study of responses to COVID-19 updates in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda

ROBERT MADOI NASABA AND NAKIWALA AISHA SEMBATYA

West African-diasporic social media users facing COVID-19: Care, emotions and power during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic