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Journal of African Media Studies 14.2 is out now! Special Issue
Monday, June 06, 2022

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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https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-african-media-studies

 

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

 

Theatricality in the midst of a pandemic: An assessment of artistic responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe

NKULULEKO SIBANDA AND CLETUS MOYO

 

Radio edutainment and participatory communication for social change: A case of lived reality among a rural Malawian audience

MTISUNGE ISABEL KAMLONGERA

 

Hausa film industry and the ‘menace’ of appropriation of Indian romantic movies

MUHAMMAD MUHSIN IBRAHIM