[ecrea] Call for articles - African Journalism Studies' Special Annual Issue (African Digital Media Review)

*Call for Articles:*

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*/African Journalism Studies /**(AJS)’s ‘African Digital Media Review’ 
(ADMR) (/Issue/ /No: 4/)*

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/African Digital Media Review /(ADMR), a Special Annual Issue of 
/African Journalism Studies/ (AJS) invites submissions of complete 
articles (6-8000 words) for its fourth installment.

ADMR//broadly exploresthe impact of digital technologies on a range of 
social and cultural practices that directly implicate journalism as a 
social practice. It provides a forum for scholarship that engages with 
and invigorates wide-ranging debates on the impact of digital 
technologies on diverse spheres of journalism (and communication in the 
broader sense) on the continent Africa. The emphasis is on taking stock 
of the ‘changing journalism and communication landscape’ and exploring 
African experiences 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 communication contexts. We 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.

Topics to be covered may include, but should by no means be restricted 
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 
submitted online via the */African Journalism Studies/ ‘**ScholarOne 
Manuscripts* <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/recq>*’*siteby *Friday, 
4^th of July 2018*. For further details on the journal and author 
guidelines, please see ‘*Instructions for authors* 
<http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=recq20&page=instructions#.Vx1j60ve8dt>*’*. 
Kindly direct any queries about this CFPs to the Special Annual Issue 
Editor, Dr Hayes Mabweazara, Falmouth University, UK: 
*(hayes.mabweazara /at/ falmouth.ac.uk)* <mailto:(hayes.mabweazara /at/ falmouth.ac.uk)>


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