
Journal of African Media Studies 14.2 is out now! Special Issue
Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of African Media Studies 14.2 is out now!
Special Issue: ‘Deadly Serious: Pandemic Humour, Media and Critical Perspectives’
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Aims & 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 14.2
Introduction
Deadly serious: Pandemic humour, media and critical perspectives
VICTORIA BERNAL
Articles
The why of humour during a crisis: An exploration of COVID-19 memes in South Africa and Zimbabwe
MBONGENI JONNY MSIMANGA, LUNGILE AUGUSTINE TSHUMA AND TRUST MATSILELE
Viral giggles: Internet memes and COVID-19 in Malawi
EMMANUEL NGWIRA
Is Koro indeed our man? Exploring the intertextual role of humour in the Twitter age
BUKOLA CHRISTIANA AJALA
Suffering and smiling: Nigerians’ humorous response to the coronavirus pandemic
AMINU ALI
Satirical realities in COVID-19 humour: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Nigerian Facebook posts
CHIOMA DEBORAH ONWUBIKO
Nigerians and COVID-19 humour: Discursivity and public engagement through pandemic internet memes
BIMBO LOLADE FAFOWORA AND MISTURA ADEBUSOLA SALAUDEEN
NKULULEKO SIBANDA AND CLETUS MOYO
MTISUNGE ISABEL KAMLONGERA
Hausa film industry and the ‘menace’ of appropriation of Indian romantic movies
MUHAMMAD MUHSIN IBRAHIM