[ecrea] Call for Articles: African Journalism Studies (AJS) - African Digital Media Review

Call for Articles:


African Journalism Studies (AJS)’s ‘African Digital Media Review’

As of this year, African Journalism Studies (AJS), formerly known as 
Equid Novi: African Journalism Studies (ENAJS) is increasing its 
frequency from three to four issues per year by incorporating an annual 
issue, themed African Digital Media Review (ADMR). ADMR broadly aims to 
explore the impact of digital technologies on a range of social and 
cultural practices that directly implicate journalism as a social 
practice. It seeks to provide a consolidated and focused forum for 
scholarship that engages with, and invigorates wide-ranging debates on 
the impact of digital technologies on diverse spheres of journalism 
practice on the continent Africa. The emphasis is on taking stock of the 
‘changing journalism landscape’ and to view African journalism/media 
within a more broadly encompassing Global comparative context.


As well as seeking theoretically driven research that uses a wide range 
of empirical evidence, we seek studies that inspire sensitivity to the 
contingent nature of the appropriation of digital technologies in 
African journalism and media. We would particularly welcome studies that 
counter deep-seated ‘technicist’ approaches by considering 
prevailing socio-political, economic and cultural dynamics. The goal is 
to foreground contextually-rooted debates of evolving practices, 
attitudes and patterns of digital media use and appropriation in Africa, 
all of which remain underrepresented in Global journalism scholarship.


We are now seeking full articles for the first issue of ADMR 36(4). 
Topics to be covered may include, but are by no means limited to the 
following issues:



·     Critical empirical and theoretical research that crosses 
disciplinary boundaries but generally constitutes or focuses on 
journalistic cultures and practices in Africa

·     How digital technologies are redefining, supplementing, or 
replacing traditional journalism and media in Africa

·     How digital technologies are impacting on established normative 
values and traditions of journalism in Africa

·     Innovative appropriations in wide-ranging social contexts that 
directly implicate journalism

·     How appropriations of digital technologies in Africa are shaped 
and constrained by specific socio-political, cultural and economic factors

·     Cross-cultural comparisons of digital journalism practices across 
African countries and beyond

·     New forms of citizenship, participatory cultures and the extent 
to which digital media are an empowering force in Africa

·     Methodological challenges posed by new digital technologies to 
the study of journalism and media in Africa etc.



Complete articles fitting within this broadly defined theme must be sent 
to the Special Annual Issue Editor & AJS’s Associate Editor, Dr Hayes 
Mabweazara (hayes.mabweazara /at/ falmouth.ac.uk) by Friday, 29th of May 2015



For further details on the journal and referencing guidelines, please 
see 
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=recq20&page=instructions#.VOKUaks5tg0 





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