{"title":"Misinformation Literacy of COVID-19 Digital News in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda","authors":"Karen McIntyre, Meghan Sobel Cohen, Brian Semujju, Kioko Ireri, Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2024.2329695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2024.2329695","url":null,"abstract":"Amid a rise of misinformation worldwide, this paper examines digital misinformation literacy as it relates to COVID-19 news in East Africa. The study is grounded in inoculation theory and contribut...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140583603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital Political Literacy? How Three Community-Based Organisations in Inner-City Johannesburg Miss the Mark on Social Media","authors":"Rebecca Pointer","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2024.2329700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2024.2329700","url":null,"abstract":"Social media has been highlighted as a tool for social justice organisations to access networks, increase their visibility and thereby increase their power. However, using social media platforms fo...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"291 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140583607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gatekeeping Rape Culture: Kenyan News Coverage of Sexual Abuse and Femicide","authors":"Dinfin Mulupi, Lindsey Blumell","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2024.2328524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2024.2328524","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined how social institutional and social system level forces influenced Kenyan news coverage of the rape and murder of Sharon Otieno, and the subsequent arrest of a high-ranking poli...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140583602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital Literacy in Africa: Exploring its Relationship with Infrastructure, Policy, and Social Inequality","authors":"Meiqi Sun, Jiaqi Liu, Jia Lu","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2024.2329705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2024.2329705","url":null,"abstract":"Digital literacy has become indispensable for individuals in the contemporary techno-centric world and imperative for governments to promote equitable growth. Using the fixed effects models to anal...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140168174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Classroom to the African Newsroom: How Journalism Education Can Bridge the Gap between the Classroom and the Shrinking Newsroom","authors":"Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2024.2321133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2024.2321133","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the development of journalism, several groups have made efforts to gain access to voice and advance specific agendas. The current evolutionary phase of journalism has witnessed the democ...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140035441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Covering COVID-19 in the Global South: Political Position-Taking among Ugandan Journalists","authors":"Ruth Moon","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2023.2293727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2023.2293727","url":null,"abstract":"This study contributes to the study of news production in authoritarian systems by examining the signals of field position embedded in news content about a global crisis produced by journalists in ...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139911151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fact-checking the COVID-19 Infodemic in Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Melissa Tully, Jane B. Singer","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2024.2308896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2024.2308896","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines fact-checking of the misinformation about COVID-19 circulating in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2020. It uses thematic textual analysis to understand the geographic scope, sources, and ...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139773555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming a Journalist: Experiences of Trainee Journalists in Zimbabwe","authors":"Stanley Tsarwe, Wellington Gadzikwa","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2023.2296100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2023.2296100","url":null,"abstract":"Basing on reported experiences of trainee journalists at the University of Zimbabwe on completing their work-related industrial internship, we give unique perspectives into challenges and contradic...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139471273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Journalists’ Organizational Working Perceptions in the Ethiopian Local Media: A Focus on Amhara Media Corporation","authors":"Abera Yenework Kebede, Adem Chanie Ali, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2023.2280251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2023.2280251","url":null,"abstract":"This study is aimed at analyzing journalists’ organizational working perceptions in the Ethiopian local media. The study covered six branches of Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). It applied explanato...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}