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“There Were No Repercussions, Nothing, Life Continued”: Experiences of Harassment by Female Journalists
In: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga, Sadia Jamil (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 15-27
"The chapter explores the challenges associated with harassment for entry-level to mid-career journalists across South Africa’s hybrid media platforms. The study employed a qualitative methodology consisting of semi-structured interviews with 12 entry-level and mid-career journalists with industry
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Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 303 pp.
"This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book
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Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
New York: Routledge (2024), xvii, 251 pp.
"Drawing from case studies from selected African countries, an international team of authors offer a broad insight into the state of harassment across the continent, while building new theoretical perspectives that are also context-specific. The chapters bring previous theories and research up to da
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp
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New Journalism Ecologies in East and Southern Africa: Innovations, Participatory and Newsmaking Cultures
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 319 pp.
"This volume presents case studies of news media employing and integrating social media into their news production practices. It links social media use to journalistic practices and news production processes in the digital age of the Global South. Critically, the chapters look at seminal cases of st
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Online Harassment of Journalists in Zimbabwe: Experiences, Coping Strategies and Implications
In: New Journalism Ecologies in East and Southern Africa: Innovations, Participatory and Newsmaking Cultures
Trust Matsilele, Shepherd Mpofu, Dumisani Moy (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), pp. 95-111
"This chapter examines the safety risks faced by Zimbabwean journalists as they conduct their day-to-day professional work in online spaces. Given that journalists in Africa are increasingly utilising and adopting social media tools for news production and distribution, it is timely to examine the d
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Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 292 pp.
"Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric
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Different Global Journalisms: Cultures and Contexts
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvi, 205 pp.
"This edited collection seeks to better understand how journalism across cultures differs, presenting an in-depth exploration of global practices that departs from the typical Western-centric approach. Journalists across the world are trained, generally speaking, within Western models of reporting a
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Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives
London, New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 271 pp.
"This volume responds to the great need to rethink journalism from various perspectives including journalism training, research, the contents of the news media, language, media ethics, the safety of journalists and gender inequities in the news media." (Publisher description)
Media, conflict and peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and empirical considerations
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London; New York: Routledge (2021), xii, 263 pp.
"This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context. The role of the media in conflict is often depicted as either 'good' (as symbol
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Media, Diaspora and Conflict
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xxiii, 240 pp.
"This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland. Considering the impacts of conflict on migration in the past decades, it is important to understand the capac
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Participation, Citizen Journalism and the Contestations of Identity and National Symbols: A Case of Zimbabwe’s National Heroes and the Heroes’ Acre
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 3 (2016), pp. 85-106
"This article constitutes an examination on how citizen journalism has challenged Robert Mugabe’s authoritarian regime on issues pertaining to national heroes and usages of the Heroes’ Acre as central national identity markers. Under Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, Zimbabwe has seen the public being limited
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Zimbabwe’s State-Controlled Public Media and the Mediation of the 1980s Genocide 30 Years On
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 145-165
"Since the end of genocide in 1987 Zimbabwe has remained a zone of ‘conflicts’, and the enduring debates surrounding this genocide, especially in public-owned but state-Controlled media, call for critical attention. Three years after independence, in 1980, Zimbabwe was plunged into a genocide na
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African Digital Media Review, Issue 2
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 4 (2016), pp. 1-136
Digital Activism in the Social Media Era: Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xv, 341 pp.
"This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil action across Africa. In a continent booming with mobile innovation and a plethora of social networking sites, the Internet is considered a powerful platform used by pr
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When the Subaltern Speaks: Citizen Journalism and Genocide ‘victims’ Voices Online
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 82-101
"The study uses online observation and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine how ‘Ndebeles’ [= Ndebele-speaking people of Zimbabwe] discuss the 1980s genocide and how citizen journalism has generally revolutionised their participation in debates silenced by the ruling elite. What strongly
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Journalism, Audiences and Diaspora
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xix, 256 pp.
"This collection takes the study of diasporic communication beyond the level of simply praising its existence, to offering critical engagements and analysis with the systems of journalistic production, process and consumption practices as they relate to people who are living outside the borders of t
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Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation
London: Routledge (2015), x, 136 pp.
"Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news. Whilst social media demonstrates an unprecedented ability for
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Social Media and Journalism in Africa
African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 1 (2013), pp. 1-122
