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Use of Senegalese music to raise coronavirus awareness on social media 在社交媒体上使用塞内加尔音乐提高对冠状病毒的认识

IF 0.8 4区文学

Journal of African Media Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00066_1

Estrella Sendra, Journal Rappé

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Pandemic politics and Africa: Examining discourses of Afrophobia in the news media 流行病政治与非洲:检视新闻媒体中的恐非言论

IF 0.8 4区文学

Journal of African Media Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00071_1

Téwodros W. Workneh

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COVID-19 narratives and counter-narratives in Ghana: The dialectics of state messaging and alternative re/de-constructions 加纳的COVID-19叙事和反叙事:国家信息传递的辩证法和替代的重建/解构

IF 0.8 4区文学

Journal of African Media Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00069_1

Kwame Akuffo Anoff-Ntow, Wisdom J. Tettey

引用次数: 1

Media and the coronavirus pandemic in Africa 媒体与非洲冠状病毒大流行

IF 0.8 4区文学

Journal of African Media Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00061_2

Martin N. Ndlela

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Active news audience in COVID-19 pandemic season: Online news sharing motives and secondary gatekeeping decisions by social media users in Nigeria 2019冠状病毒病大流行季节活跃的新闻受众:尼日利亚社交媒体用户的在线新闻分享动机和二级把关决策

IF 0.8 4区文学

Journal of African Media Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00064_1

Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, A. Mobolaji, R. Kolawole

{"title":"Active news audience in COVID-19 pandemic season: Online news sharing motives and secondary gatekeeping decisions by social media users in Nigeria","authors":"Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, A. Mobolaji, R. Kolawole","doi":"10.1386/jams_00064_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jams_00064_1","url":null,"abstract":"Despite its prevalence among Nigerian online readers, the motives for, and implications of, online secondary gatekeeping – a practice where online media audiences select further fragments from published news, aggregate them and share with fellow social media users – have remained unexplored particularly as regards possible sharing of news about the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study examined the motives for online news sharing, the newsworthiness criteria applied by Nigerian social media users while selecting and sharing COVID-19-related news and implications of this practice for users’ general knowledge about the virus. Online survey with 349 social media users and five Focus Group Discussion sessions with purposively selected social media users provided data for the study. Findings show that 94.8 per cent of the respondents shared news items about confirmed cases (48.7 per cent) and recoveries (46.1 per cent), while only 5.2 per cent of the respondents shared information about COVID-19 fatalities. Apart from fact-checking stories to confirm their veracity, users applied various newsworthiness criteria such as intensity (25.2 per cent), proximity (14.0 per cent), consequence (12.3 per cent), bizarre (11.2 per cent) and personality (10.9 per cent). Findings further show that the respondents applied 44.076 times the messages they were exposed to through social media to protect themselves against COVID-19. Nigerian social media users are active online secondary gatekeepers, and exposure to COVID-19 stories through social media during the pandemic enhanced their general knowledge about the virus.","PeriodicalId":43702,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Media Studies","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80267373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Language in a pandemic: A multimodal analysis of social media representation of COVID-19 大流行中的语言:对COVID-19社交媒体表征的多模态分析

IF 0.8 4区文学

Journal of African Media Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00062_1

O. Adebomi

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引用次数: 2

Guardians of truth? Fact-checking the ‘disinfodemic’ in Southern Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic 真理的守护者?在COVID-19大流行期间，对南部非洲的“虚假信息”进行事实核查

IF 0.8 4区文学

Journal of African Media Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00065_1

Admire Mare, Allen Munoriyarwa

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引用次数: 7

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 Africa 想象一下，你甚至没有护照，却死于海外疾病:对肯尼亚和南非新冠肺炎疫情后推特对话的批判性分析

IF 0.8 4区文学

Journal of African Media Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00063_1

J. Mwaura, Ufuoma Akpojivi

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Analysing the mythologies and the ideological nuances in photographic representation of COVID-19 containment in Kenya’s newspapers 分析肯尼亚报纸上关于COVID-19遏制的摄影表现中的神话和意识形态的细微差别

IF 0.8 4区文学

Journal of African Media Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00068_1

Joseph N. Nyanoti

{"title":"Analysing the mythologies and the ideological nuances in photographic representation of COVID-19 containment in Kenya’s newspapers","authors":"Joseph N. Nyanoti","doi":"10.1386/jams_00068_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jams_00068_1","url":null,"abstract":"When the first death from Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was reported in Kenya on 15 March 2020 the mainstream media seemed to play its role of sensitizing the public and giving coverage as the government enforced regulations to fight the pandemic. However, a critical observation indicated that the media were not doing much more than government propaganda. The focus of this study is to analyse the ideology that drives the Kenyan mainstream media. The research particularly focuses on the study of photographs that were published in Kenya’s two leading newspapers, the Daily Nation and The Standard, between 15 March and 30 April 2020, to decode the ideological meanings hidden in the photographs. This study is guided by these three research questions: how is the fight against COVID-19 photographically represented in Kenyan newspapers? What mythic meanings are embedded in these photographs? What ideological nuances can be read in these photographs? The analysis used Roland Barthes’s framework of semiotic analysis. Findings show that the photographs published in the two newspapers in the period of study support the dominant government ideology and promote gender and class inequality.","PeriodicalId":43702,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Media Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82527707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Nigerian government and management of news and information on the coronavirus pandemic 尼日利亚政府和有关冠状病毒大流行的新闻和信息的管理

IF 0.8 4区文学

Journal of African Media Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00070_1

G. Ernest-Samuel, N. Uduma

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