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(Re)producing cultural narratives on women in public affairs programmes in Uganda Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Emilly Comfort Maractho
Ugandan women have made tremendous strides in public life, and hold strategic positions in politics and policy-making. This increased participation in public life is attributed to Uganda’s focused pro-women constitution and affirmative action policy. In spite of this progress, women’s visibility and voice remain limited in public affairs programming in Uganda. The article examines how mass media reproduce
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New media coming to Kapkoi Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Jessica Gustafsson
This article, by partly adopting a historical perspective, examines the introduction of new media in a Kenyan rural village, Kapkoi, and how it changes the communication ecology in the village. Fur ...
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Navigating precarious visibility: Ugandan sexual minorities on Twitter Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Cecilia Strand
Although invisibility has historically provided a degree of protection, Lesbian, Gay, Bi-, Trans-, Queer and Intersexuals need to materialize publicly as a group to successfully advocate for their ...
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Pan-Africanism as a laughing matter: (Funny) expressions of African identity on Twitter Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 David Cheruiyot, Charu Uppal
Pan-Africanism, a concept that attempts to capture the essence of being an African, needs to be reconsidered in the age of social media. In this article, we examine how Twitter users negotiate the ...
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Radio waves, children’s rights and community communication: A radio for children’s rights project in Africa Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Vicensia Shule, Hugo Boothby, Samah Ahmed, Anders Høg Hansen
This article draws upon research done as part of a formative evaluation of a radio project on children’s rights in Tanzania. Fieldwork was conducted between January and June 2016 followed by a long ...
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Boko Haram in the Nigerian press: The politics of labelling Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Mercy Ette, Sarah Joe
Labels shape and define public discourse. As condensational symbols, they can serve as political tools and instruments of policy due to the media’s tendency to use labels to create meaning and knowledge about political and social reality. This study examines the politics of labelling through a case study of the representation of Boko Haram in a selection of Nigerian national newspapers. Boko Haram
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Mobile social networking applications and the 2012 Occupy Nigeria protest Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Temple Uwalaka, Scott Rickard, Jerry Watkins
Previous studies on the use of social media to facilitate participation in protest have examined established democracies or authoritarian regimes. Participation via social media in nascent democracies has been less well documented, e.g. in those countries that democratized between the 1970s and the 1990s, including those that recently returned to democracy from military dictatorship such as Nigeria
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Interactive programmes on private radio stations in Ghana: An avenue for impoliteness Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Rachel Akusika Thompson, Jemima Asabea Anderson
This study aims at showing the impoliteness strategies employed during some radio interactions. The data used here are mainly recordings of the morning shows of some private radio stations in Ghana. We establish that all the recorded utterances have some features that correspond with at least one of Culpeper’s (1996, 2005) impoliteness strategies, which are bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness
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The structure of news in Community Audio Towers Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2017-06-01 Brian Semujju
This article draws attention to the current sensational modernist conceptualization of news as conflict and prominence to argue that news among the poor be understood as activities happening in a village.
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The mobile phone and society in South Sudan: A critical historical-anthropological approach Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2017-06-01 Inge Brinkman, Jonna Both, Mirjam de Bruijn
This article outlines the development of mobile telephony in the nascent Republic of South Sudan (ROSS). We focus specifically on Juba, during turbulent times from the end of the second Sudanese Civil War in 2005 to just after independence in 2011. We highlight the complicated political relations behind the establishment of mobile networks and the main functions and importance of the mobile phone throughout
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Passages of culture: Media and mediality in African societies Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Till Förster, Judith Schlehe
How do African cultures transform when they appropriate new media? This introduction to the following five articles raises and reflects basic questions related to the many transformations that African societies currently go through when they are faced with new media. It situates the concept of mediality in the social practice of those who deal with and experience media. As instances of the in-between
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Controversies and restrictions of visual representation of prophets in northern Nigerian popular culture Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Abdalla Uba Adamu
Generally, images in art forms occupy a controversial position in the Islamic world. The Sunni branch of Islam, considered more conservative and strict does not approve or condone representational art of the human form for fear that it would eventually turn into an object of worship. The Shi’ite branch of Islam, however, has a radically opposing perspective and consequently allows figurative representation
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The trials of the centuries: Murder and the media in South Africa Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2016-09-01 Kelly Phelps, Ian Glenn
Several important critical perspectives on media coverage of the Pistorius trial emerge in comparison to the most famous murder trial in South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century. In both cases, a well-known sports star shoots a young woman under circumstances that cause speculation and conjecture. The trials led to huge public interest and crowded courtrooms. While there are many points
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State interference, para-politics and editorial control: The political economy of ‘Mirrorgate’ in Zimbabwe Journal of African Media Studies (IF 0.245) Pub Date : 2016-03-01 Oswelled Ureke
Publication by Mr Oswelled Ureke, Lecturer in the Department of Media and Society Studies, Midlands State University
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