African journalism in the ‘digital era’: Charting a research agenda

Title	Journal	Citations	Publication Date
Journalism and social media in the African context	Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies	13	2013
10.4324/9780203382530			2014
10.4324/9780203382530			2014
10.4324/9780203113851			2013
10.1007/978-0-230-34524-9			2011

Title	Journal	Journal Categories	Citations	Publication Date
Managing Difficult Relationships: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in Nigeria, State Officials, and Senior Editors in Overseas Media	Journalism Studies	Social Sciences Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media		2023
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	Media, Culture & Society	Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media Social Sciences: Sociology (General) Social Sciences	1	2022
Gatekeeping, Gatewatching and the Art of Crowdsourcing in African Media Systems: A Case of Zambian Newsrooms	Communicatio	Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media		2021
Digital Technologies and the Changing Journalism Cultures in Zimbabwe: Examining the Lived Experiences of Journalists Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic	Digital Journalism	Social Sciences Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media	12	2021
News in the Digital Age: A Case Study of CITE as a Digital Public Sphere in Zimbabwe	African Journalism Studies	Social Sciences Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media	2	2021

Category	Category Repetition
Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media	10
Social Sciences	9
Social Sciences: Sociology (General)	1

The category Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media 10 is the most commonly referenced area in studies that cite this article. The first research to cite this article was titled Mainstreaming African digital cultures, practices and emerging forms of citizen engagement and was published in 2015. The most recent citation comes from a 2023 study titled Managing Difficult Relationships: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in Nigeria, State Officials, and Senior Editors in Overseas Media. This article reached its peak citation in 2021, with 4 citations. It has been cited in 6 different journals. Among related journals, the African Journalism Studies cited this research the most, with 4 citations. The chart below illustrates the annual citation trends for this article.

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