Journal of African Media Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of African Media Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Radio edutainment and participatory communication for social change: A case of lived reality among a rural Malawian audience23
Nigerian government and management of news and information on the coronavirus pandemic20
Reconstructing gendered narratives through digital platforms and inclusive chatbots12
COVID-19 containment and control: Information source credibility and adoption of prevention strategies among residents in South West Nigeria10
Digital cities and villages: African writers and a sense of place in short online fiction9
Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance and Paradox, Emeka Umejei (2020)9
From COVID-19 to COVID-666: Quasi-religious mentality and ideologies in Nigerian coronavirus pandemic discourse8
Borrowing lenses from the West: Analysis of an African media representation of western nations8
Safety and security of journalists in Ghana: Policies and journalists’ perception of stakeholders, issues and practices7
COVID-19 and the constructions of Africa in African news media7
Status of women in the Ghanaian media: Are women conscious of their own inequalities?7
Viral giggles: Internet memes and COVID-19 in Malawi6
Reporting on the shadow pandemic in Nigeria: An analysis of five media organizations’ coverage of gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Young African diaspora: Global African narratives, media consumption and identity formation6
Perception and practice of the watchdog role among journalists in Nigeria6
The why of humour during a crisis: An exploration of COVID-19 memes in South Africa and Zimbabwe6
Towards media democracy: An examination of media policy reform activism and its impact on Zimbabwean media policy reform process5
Welket Bungué, a Balanta griot in transit5
Deadly serious: Pandemic humour, media and critical perspectives5
Suffering and smiling: Nigerians’ humorous response to the coronavirus pandemic5
Racism and the post-apartheid media: Problematizing the racist Clicks advert as a manifestation of token transformation5
Hausa film industry and the ‘menace’ of appropriation of Indian romantic movies4
Technology, language and media sociality in Africa4
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public relations roles: Perspectives of Malawian practitioners4
Pandemic politics and Africa: Examining discourses of Afrophobia in the news media4
God and COVID-19 in Burundian social media: The political fight for the control of the narrative4
In Nigeria, it is all about entertainment: A functional analysis of the 2019 presidential campaign commercials of APC and PDP4
A systematic review of the spread of information during pandemics: A case of the 2020 COVID-19 virus3
Political participation and the social media network of young Nigerians3
Media and global pandemics: Continuities and discontinuities3
Language in a pandemic: A multimodal analysis of social media representation of COVID-193
Exploring COVID-19 infodemic in rural Africa: A case study of Chintheche, Malawi3
COVID-19 narratives and counter-narratives in Ghana: The dialectics of state messaging and alternative re/de-constructions3
Fear-arousing persuasive communication and behaviour change: COVID-19 in Kenya3
Active news audience in COVID-19 pandemic season: Online news sharing motives and secondary gatekeeping decisions by social media users in Nigeria3
Television in Ghana: History, policy, culture and prospects in a globalized media ecology3
Conflict journalism, coloniality and election violence in Zimbabwe: The case for Ubuntu ethics3
Attitudes of the audience towards media messages on face mask use regarding the COVID-19 pandemic: From compliance to slacking3
Use of Senegalese music to raise coronavirus awareness on social media2
The ethics of the everyday: Mauritian morning talk radio as a space for democratic engagement2
Social media, fake news and fake COVID-19 cures in Nigeria2
Keeping the Port of Tema afloat during COVID-19: Media responses to user informational and conversational needs2
Upsetting the gender imbalance in African popular music: The example of Diepreye Osi of the Ịjọ (Ijaw) of Nigeria2
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, disinformation and the coronavirus: A burgeoning of post-truth in the social media2
An evaluation of constructive journalism in Zimbabwe: A case study of The Herald’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic2
Linguistic and communication exclusion in COVID-19 awareness campaigns in Malawi2
Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship, Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2022)2
Media representation of China in the time of pandemic: A comparative study of Kenyan and Ethiopian media2
‘Fake news’ or trust in authorities? The problems of uncertainty at a time of medical crisis2
Popular music and political contestations in Zimbabwe: An analysis of Winky D’s and Jah Prayzah’s music2
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