Journal of African Media Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of African Media Studies is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Is Koro indeed our man? Exploring the intertextual role of humour in the Twitter age22
Viral giggles: Internet memes and COVID-19 in Malawi15
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public relations roles: Perspectives of Malawian practitioners12
Music, performance and ZANU-PF’s hegemony in Mugabe’s newly independent Zimbabwe8
Theatricality in the midst of a pandemic: An assessment of artistic responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe8
Religion, authority and denunciation in the paradigm of mediatization: The case of the Congolese diaspora of the Salvation Army8
Meme-ing Malawi’s 2019 presidential election: Humour, hope and disillusionment7
The impact of COVID-19 on science journalists in South Africa: Investigating effects, challenges, quality concerns and training needs6
Perception and practice of the watchdog role among journalists in Nigeria6
Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies, Winston Mano and viola c. milton (eds) (2021)6
Popular music and political contestations in Zimbabwe: An analysis of Winky D’s and Jah Prayzah’s music6
God and COVID-19 in Burundian social media: The political fight for the control of the narrative6
Hausa film industry and the ‘menace’ of appropriation of Indian romantic movies6
Active news audience in COVID-19 pandemic season: Online news sharing motives and secondary gatekeeping decisions by social media users in Nigeria5
Young African diaspora: Global African narratives, media consumption and identity formation5
Social media, socialization and discursive politics5
Keeping the Port of Tema afloat during COVID-19: Media responses to user informational and conversational needs5
Technology, language and media sociality in Africa5
Infobotting COVID-19: A case study of Ask Nameesa in Egypt4
‘You can’t arrest a virus’: The freedom of expression crisis within Egypt’s response to COVID-194
Radio edutainment and participatory communication for social change: A case of lived reality among a rural Malawian audience4
Media and the coronavirus pandemic in Africa4
Not talking in riddles: How can factual documentary film change understanding and attitudes towards female genital mutilation in The Gambia?3
This is Africa: How young African TikTok trends challenged Afropessimism during COVID-193
Reconstructing gendered narratives through digital platforms and inclusive chatbots3
Nigerian government and management of news and information on the coronavirus pandemic3
In Nigeria, it is all about entertainment: A functional analysis of the 2019 presidential campaign commercials of APC and PDP3
A systematic review of the spread of information during pandemics: A case of the 2020 COVID-19 virus3
Language in a pandemic: A multimodal analysis of social media representation of COVID-193
Cross-cultural adaptation issues and strategies: A study of Nigerian students in China3
The Milkmaid, Desmond Ovbiagele (dir.) (2020), Nigeria: Danono Media3
Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance and Paradox, Emeka Umejei (2020)2
Investigative journalism and anti-corruption: Public perception on Anas’s approach in Ghana2
Television in Ghana: History, policy, culture and prospects in a globalized media ecology2
COVID-19 induced changes to news gathering and news production: Practical experiences from five Ghanaian newsrooms2
Political participation and the social media network of young Nigerians2
Community radio and post-conflict peace building: A study of Orisun 89.5 FM in Ife–Modakeke, Osun State, Nigeria2
Imagine dying from an overseas disease, when you do not even own a passport: A critical analysis of Twitter conversations in the wake of COVID-19 in Kenya and South Africa2
The influence of photographs, music and comedy in Instagram coronavirus messages on adult preventive habits2
COVID-19 containment and control: Information source credibility and adoption of prevention strategies among residents in South West Nigeria2
Racism and the post-apartheid media: Problematizing the racist Clicks advert as a manifestation of token transformation2
‘Subaltern’ pushbacks: An analysis of responses by Facebook users to ‘racist’ statements by two French doctors on testing a COVID-19 vaccine in Africa2
Digital cities and villages: African writers and a sense of place in short online fiction2
Deadly serious: Pandemic humour, media and critical perspectives2
Exploring COVID-19 infodemic in rural Africa: A case study of Chintheche, Malawi2
Reporting on the shadow pandemic in Nigeria: An analysis of five media organizations’ coverage of gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Media and global pandemics: Continuities and discontinuities1
Towards media democracy: An examination of media policy reform activism and its impact on Zimbabwean media policy reform process1
Analysing the mythologies and the ideological nuances in photographic representation of COVID-19 containment in Kenya’s newspapers1
African communication matrix: The influence of the secular on the church in Nigeria1
Conflict journalism, coloniality and election violence in Zimbabwe: The case for Ubuntu ethics1
Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship, Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2022)1
Communicating COVID-19 to rural dwellers: Revisiting the role of traditional media in crisis communication1
Fear-arousing persuasive communication and behaviour change: COVID-19 in Kenya1
South African newspaper coverage of COVID-19: A content analysis1
Identification with internationalism: Socialist China’s media promotion of African cinema (1956–66)1
Unveiling African narratives on Facebook: Media posts and audience engagement1
The coronavirus pandemic in Africa: Crisis communication challenges1
COVID-19 narratives and counter-narratives in Ghana: The dialectics of state messaging and alternative re/de-constructions1
West African-diasporic social media users facing COVID-19: Care, emotions and power during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic1
Beyond western Afro-pessimism: The African narrative in African and non-western countries1
Nigerians and COVID-19 humour: Discursivity and public engagement through pandemic internet memes1
Attitudes of the audience towards media messages on face mask use regarding the COVID-19 pandemic: From compliance to slacking1
New media and re-bargaining patriarchy in Kenyan families1
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