African Journalism Studies

Title Publication Date Language Citations
An Exploratory Study of “Fake News” and Media Trust in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa2019/01/02English66
#ThisFlag and #ThisGown Cyber Protests in Zimbabwe: Reclaiming Political Space2017/04/03English33
“Fake News” and Cyber-Propaganda in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recentering the Research Agenda2019/10/02English25
Visibility without voice: Media witnessing irregular migrants in BBC online news journalism2016/01/02English25
When the subaltern speaks: citizen journalism and genocide ‘victims’’ voices online2015/10/02English23
Africa in the click stream: audience metrics and foreign correspondents in Africa2015/10/02English22
Pictures, Protests and Politics: Mapping Twitter Images during South Africa’s Fees Must Fall Campaign2017/04/03English21
Decolonising Digital Media Research Methods: Positioning African Digital Experiences as Epistemic Sites of Knowledge Production2020/10/01English19
A new representation of Africa? The use of constructive journalism in the narration of Ebola byChina Dailyand the BBC2016/07/02English19
Social Media and Elections in Ghana: Enhancing Democratic Participation2018/01/02English17
Social Media as the Fifth Estate in Nigeria: An Analysis of the 2012 Occupy Nigeria Protest2018/10/02English15
Succession Politics and Factional Journalism in Zimbabwe: A Case of The Chronicle in Zimbabwe2020/01/02English15
African journalism: A journey of failures and triumphs2015/01/02English14
Politics Unusual? Facebook and Political Campaigning during the 2013 Harmonised Elections in Zimbabwe2018/01/02English14
Making News Outside Legacy Media2021/10/02English12
Social media as a heteroglossic discursive space and Kenya's emergent alternative/citizen experiment2015/10/02English12
Chinese Media in Africa: Between Promise and Reality2018/04/03English12
Fake News and Journalistic “Rules of the Game”2019/07/08English12
Journalism in Africa: Modernity, Africanity2015/01/02English11
Remaking ‘area studies’ in journalism studies2015/01/02English11
Big Brother is Watching: Surveillance Regulation and its Effects on Journalistic Practices in Zimbabwe2019/07/03English11
Negotiating the Balance between Speed and Credibility in Deploying Twitter as Journalistic Tool at the Daily Nation Newspaper in Kenya2018/01/02English10
Theorising the African digital public sphere: a West African odyssey2015/10/02English10
Journalistic Framing of Electoral Conflict in a Politically Fragile Society: A Comparative Study of the Zimbabwean Weekly Press2019/01/02English10
African journalism in the ‘digital era’: Charting a research agenda2015/01/02English10
Beyond Misinformation: Survival Alternatives for Nigerian Media in the “Post-Truth” Era2018/10/02English10
Digital Media, Fake News and Pro-Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance Cyber-Propaganda during the 2018 Zimbabwe Election2019/10/02English9
Mediating the Climate Change Message: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) of Media Practitioners in Ghana2018/07/03English9
Francophone Africa: The rise of ‘pluralist authoritarian’ media systems?2015/01/02English9
Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: An Agenda for Journalism Research in Africa2021/12/01English9