Amid a rise of misinformation worldwide, this paper examines digital misinformation literacy as it relates to COVID-19 news in East Africa. The study is grounded in inoculation theory and contribut...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2329700
Rebecca Pointer
Social media has been highlighted as a tool for social justice organisations to access networks, increase their visibility and thereby increase their power. However, using social media platforms fo...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2328524
Dinfin Mulupi, Lindsey Blumell
This study examined how social institutional and social system level forces influenced Kenyan news coverage of the rape and murder of Sharon Otieno, and the subsequent arrest of a high-ranking poli...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2329705
Meiqi Sun, Jiaqi Liu, Jia Lu
Digital literacy has become indispensable for individuals in the contemporary techno-centric world and imperative for governments to promote equitable growth. Using the fixed effects models to anal...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2321133
Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey
Throughout the development of journalism, several groups have made efforts to gain access to voice and advance specific agendas. The current evolutionary phase of journalism has witnessed the democ...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2293727
Ruth Moon
This study contributes to the study of news production in authoritarian systems by examining the signals of field position embedded in news content about a global crisis produced by journalists in ...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-31DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2024.2308896
Melissa Tully, Jane B. Singer
This study examines fact-checking of the misinformation about COVID-19 circulating in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2020. It uses thematic textual analysis to understand the geographic scope, sources, and ...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-14DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2296100
Stanley Tsarwe, Wellington Gadzikwa
Basing on reported experiences of trainee journalists at the University of Zimbabwe on completing their work-related industrial internship, we give unique perspectives into challenges and contradic...
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This study is aimed at analyzing journalists’ organizational working perceptions in the Ethiopian local media. The study covered six branches of Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). It applied explanato...
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