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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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 pandemic10
Reconstructing gendered narratives through digital platforms and inclusive chatbots7
Art, social media and religious discourse in Nigeria: Unpacking Okonkwo’s Facebook challenge illustrations7
Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance and Paradox, Emeka Umejei (2020)6
Digital cities and villages: African writers and a sense of place in short online fiction5
Borrowing lenses from the West: Analysis of an African media representation of western nations5
Safety and security of journalists in Ghana: Policies and journalists’ perception of stakeholders, issues and practices4
Status of women in the Ghanaian media: Are women conscious of their own inequalities?4
COVID-19 and the constructions of Africa in African news media4
The why of humour during a crisis: An exploration of COVID-19 memes in South Africa and Zimbabwe4
Viral giggles: Internet memes and COVID-19 in Malawi3
Racism and the post-apartheid media: Problematizing the racist Clicks advert as a manifestation of token transformation3
Towards media democracy: An examination of media policy reform activism and its impact on Zimbabwean media policy reform process3
Reporting on the shadow pandemic in Nigeria: An analysis of five media organizations’ coverage of gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Young African diaspora: Global African narratives, media consumption and identity formation3
Deadly serious: Pandemic humour, media and critical perspectives3
Welket Bungué, a Balanta griot in transit3
Perception and practice of the watchdog role among journalists in Nigeria3
Suffering and smiling: Nigerians’ humorous response to the coronavirus pandemic3
Pandemic politics and Africa: Examining discourses of Afrophobia in the news media3
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public relations roles: Perspectives of Malawian practitioners2
In Nigeria, it is all about entertainment: A functional analysis of the 2019 presidential campaign commercials of APC and PDP2
Television in Ghana: History, policy, culture and prospects in a globalized media ecology2
Hausa film industry and the ‘menace’ of appropriation of Indian romantic movies2
Active news audience in COVID-19 pandemic season: Online news sharing motives and secondary gatekeeping decisions by social media users in Nigeria2
Political participation and the social media network of young Nigerians2
Technology, language and media sociality in Africa2
Language in a pandemic: A multimodal analysis of social media representation of COVID-192
Conflict journalism, coloniality and election violence in Zimbabwe: The case for Ubuntu ethics2
Social media, socialization and discursive politics1
Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship, Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2022)1
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, disinformation and the coronavirus: A burgeoning of post-truth in the social media1
Linguistic and communication exclusion in COVID-19 awareness campaigns in Malawi1
Is Koro indeed our man? Exploring the intertextual role of humour in the Twitter age1
Cross-cultural adaptation issues and strategies: A study of Nigerian students in China1
Upsetting the gender imbalance in African popular music: The example of Diepreye Osi of the Ịjọ (Ijaw) of Nigeria1
COVID-19 narratives and counter-narratives in Ghana: The dialectics of state messaging and alternative re/de-constructions1
Exploring media representation of Oromo and Amhara protests: A decolonial perspective1
Keeping the Port of Tema afloat during COVID-19: Media responses to user informational and conversational needs1
Popular music and political contestations in Zimbabwe: An analysis of Winky D’s and Jah Prayzah’s music1
Investigative journalism and anti-corruption: Public perception on Anas’s approach in Ghana1
Attitudes of the audience towards media messages on face mask use regarding the COVID-19 pandemic: From compliance to slacking1
Use of Senegalese music to raise coronavirus awareness on social media1
The ethics of the everyday: Mauritian morning talk radio as a space for democratic engagement1
Religion, authority and denunciation in the paradigm of mediatization: The case of the Congolese diaspora of the Salvation Army1
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