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The Journalist: September 2018

The Journalist is an independent, not-for-profit organisation working with the academic community and a range of credible entities. We are committed to multimedia offerings that delve more deeply into the complex facets of our reality. We don’t just tell you what happened. We help you understand why. The Journalist has been launched with the support …

Communicare – Volume 37 (1) – July 2018

Communicare: Journal for Communication Sciences in Southern Africa facilitates scholarly discussion on communication phenomena in Southern Africa and how these are in conversation with other regions. Communicareaims to serve as a point of reference for local academic debate and geo-specific theorising, and invites articles that complement or counter global perspectives by amplifying and consolidating regional …

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: African language media development and sustainability

Salawu (2006a) notes that the story of indigenous language newspapers rising and dying is the same across most parts of Africa. In 1930, there were 19 registered African language newspapers in South Africa. They included the isiXhosa Imvo Zabantsundu and Inkundla ya Bantu. Today, most of those newspapers are non-existent. As recently as 1990s, there …

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Social Media and Electoral Democracy in Africa

The new digital environment has ushered social media as an increasingly significant factor in electoral processes across Africa, with Kenya and Zimbabwe as key recent examples. Electoral crises and squabbles between contestants have assumed new dimensions due to the influence of social media. Enhanced sharing and connecting has resulted in new cultures and behaviours involving …

CALL FOR PAPERS: JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA RESEARCH

JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA RESEARCH ISSN 2141 – 5277   ABOUT JCMR The Journal of Communication and Media Research is a research-based and peer-reviewed journal published twice-yearly in the months of April and October by the Association of Media and Communication Researchers of Nigeria (CAC/IT/NO 111018). The journal is addressed to the African and …

JOURNAL : The Journal for African Cinemas

The Journal of African Cinemas will explore the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages. The editors are seeking papers that expound on the identity or …