Pub Date : 2024-08-21DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2385916
Solomon Muya Matuku, Suman Mishra
Media and communication scholars have studied climate change from many perspectives. However, much of the scholarship has focused on Western countries, with limited attention paid to African countr...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2388640
Limukani Mathe
The evolving nature of journalism through digital platforms has prompted scholarly enquiry on the narratives, practices and outputs by non-traditional actors in Africa’s communication ecology. Info...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-11DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2385917
Ahmad Muhammad Auwal, Metin Ersoy, Muhammad Jamil Zakari, Sadiya Dalhatu
Periodic changes continue to impact the fortunes of Twitter as a political communication and news-sharing platform, particularly among diverse individual and institutional African users. Yet few st...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-28DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2379829
Franz Krüger
In the discussion of possible solutions to the business crisis facing legacy media, insufficient attention has been paid to existing arrangements that channel public money to media serving marginal...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2365229
Pheladi Sethusa
The Covid-19 pandemic changed the viability of the commercial journalism landscape, through wave after wave of retrenchments and, in some cases, wholesale closures of media outlets. For young stude...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-25DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2361640
Murendehle M. Juwayeyi, Jolly Ntaba
This study assessed public perceptions of the accuracy and credibility of information about the COVID-19 vaccine transmitted by traditional media, social media and human sources, and how this infor...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-24DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2346852
Geremew Chala Teresa, Blessed Ngwenya
This study explores both the coloniality of knowledge and politics of representation and the dominant political ideologies manifested within the Ethiopian Brodcasting Corporation (EBC). It also dee...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-12DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2349097
Temple Uwalaka, A. Fred Amadi
Online harassment of journalists is increasingly becoming a global phenomenon. Many attempts have been made to investigate the prevalence of the phenomenon. Unfortunately, findings prove that onlin...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-08DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2346849
Munachim Amah
Despite the growing discourse on forced evictions around the world, very limited scholarship has explored the constitution, replication and/or transformation of a discourse of urban development and...
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Across Africa, increased availability of mobile devices and internet connectivity means that more young people can participate in digital spaces. Yet media access and use are not universal either a...
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