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Journal of African Media Studies 14.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of African Media Studies 14.1 is out now!

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

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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 14.1

Introduction

Media and the coronavirus pandemic in Africa

MARTIN N. NDLELA

Articles

Language in a pandemic: A multimodal analysis of social media representation of COVID-19

OLUWAYEMISI OLUSOLA ADEBOMI

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 Africa

JOB MWAURA AND UFUOMA AKPOJIVI

Active news audience in COVID-19 pandemic season: Online news sharing motives and secondary gatekeeping decisions by social media users in Nigeria

BABATUNDE RAPHAEL OJEBUYI, ADEOLA OBAFEMI MOBOLAJI AND RIDWAN ABIOLA

KOLAWOLE