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Teaching Tech by Rote: Socialization into Digital Literacies in a Ghanaian Classroom
Rachel Flamenbaum
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Reporting Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis in a Hybrid Media Environment: How Citizen Journalists and Traditional Media Collaborate and Compete
Edwin Nfor
Published online: 22 May 2024
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The Fourth Estate in Ghana’s Fourth Republic: From “Culture of Silence” to Fake News and Post-Truth Politics
Abdul Hakim Ahmed
Published online: 13 May 2024
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“When One Finger Picks Oil, It Reaches Others”: An Examination of Nigerian Journalists’ Perspective on Motivations for Online Harassment
Temple Uwalaka & A. Fred Amadi
Published online: 12 May 2024
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Journalistic Storytelling for Social Justice: A CDA of Global News Coverage of the Otodo Gbame Forced Evictions in Nigeria
Munachim Amah
Published online: 08 May 2024
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Watchdog or Lapdog? South African Broadcasting Corporation News in the Coverage of the 2021 Local Government Elections
Todani Nodoba
Published online: 08 May 2024
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Access to Digital Media and Digital Literacy among Ghanaian Youth: An Explore, Engage, Empower Model Study
Aurelia Ayisi, Abena A. Yeboah-Banin, Annie Oye & Patience Dzandza Emefa Ocloo
Published online: 06 May 2024
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Stewards or Manipulators? Knowledge Brokers’ Complex Positionality in Combating the COVID-19 Infodemic in Malawi
Yamikani Ndasauka & Jimmy Kainja
Published online: 01 May 2024
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Digital Newspaper and Journalism Practices in Tanzania: What Are Journalists’ Perspectives?
Gregory Gondwe & Adenife Modile
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Misinformation Literacy of COVID-19 Digital News in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda
Karen McIntyre, Meghan Sobel Cohen, Brian Semujju, Kioko Ireri & Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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Digital Political Literacy? How Three Community-Based Organisations in Inner-City Johannesburg Miss the Mark on Social Media
Rebecca Pointer
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Gatekeeping Rape Culture: Kenyan News Coverage of Sexual Abuse and Femicide
Dinfin Mulupi & Lindsey Blumell
Published online: 01 Apr 2024
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Fighting Fake News Proliferation Through Digital Literacy in Africa: Perspectives from Nigerian Netizens
Jude Nwakpoke Ogbodo, Emmanuel Chike Onwe, Simon Ugochukwu Nwankwo & Blessing Ewa-Ibe
Published online: 26 Mar 2024
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Digital Literacy in Africa: Exploring its Relationship with Infrastructure, Policy, and Social Inequality
Meiqi Sun, Jiaqi Liu & Jia Lu
Published online: 19 Mar 2024
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From the Classroom to the African Newsroom: How Journalism Education Can Bridge the Gap between the Classroom and the Shrinking Newsroom
Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Book Review

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Humanitarian journalists: covering crises from a boundary zone
by Martin Scott, Kate Wright, and Mel Bunce, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, pp. 146, £44.99 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032407678
Richard Stupart
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Covering COVID-19 in the Global South: Political Position-Taking among Ugandan Journalists
Ruth Moon
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Fact-checking the COVID-19 Infodemic in Sub-Saharan Africa
Melissa Tully & Jane B. Singer
Published online: 31 Jan 2024
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Becoming a Journalist: Experiences of Trainee Journalists in Zimbabwe
Stanley Tsarwe & Wellington Gadzikwa
Published online: 14 Jan 2024
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Solutions Journalism as a Tool to Erode Polarisation in the Media and Society
Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey & Anthea Garman
Published online: 10 Sep 2021
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