Journal of African Media Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of African Media Studies is 4. 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
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
Safety and security of journalists in Ghana: Policies and journalists’ perception of stakeholders, issues and practices7
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
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
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
Towards media democracy: An examination of media policy reform activism and its impact on Zimbabwean media policy reform process5
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
Hausa film industry and the ‘menace’ of appropriation of Indian romantic movies4
Technology, language and media sociality in Africa4
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