[Commlist] CFP: Media and the Corona Pandemic in Africa

*Call for Papers *

*Special issue - Media and the Corona Pandemic in Africa ***

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The *Journal of African Media Studies* is cordially inviting you to  
submit a paper to be included in a thematic issue on Media and the  
Corona Pandemic in Africa. Since its outbreak in China, the coronavirus  
 (Covid-19) pandemic has brought the world into a standstill, through  
various forms of lockdown, social distancing and self-quarantine. In  
Africa, as in other parts of the world, the pandemic is affecting every  
 sphere of life including travel, education, business, informal sector,  
 religion, health and entertainment. The public demand for information  
is  unprecedented. The pandemic is attracting a huge amount of attention  
in  media. Conversation issues in social media revolve around Covid-19.  
We  invite articles that focus on the unfolding corona-crisis in Africa.  
 What are the stories emerging from the continent? How is the media  
depicting the coronavirus pandemic? Articles for this special issue will  
 focus on a number of issues around the Covid-19 pandemic and the media  
 in Africa.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

●Media coverage and representation of the pandemic

●Mainstream media and alternative narratives about Covid-19

●Indigenous language media and Covid-19

●User-generated images and memes on Covid-19

●The use of satire, music and comedy

●Social media and proliferation of fake news, dodgy health advice and  
fake ‘cures’

●Conspiracy theories, misinformation, and disinformation related to the  
 coronavirus pandemic

●Discourse about poverty, migration, racism, religion and xenophobia

●Minority voices in the media

●The role of micro-celebrities

●Media and information literacy

●Rooted cosmopolitans and support networks

●International relations, post-colonialism

●Screen media and creativity

All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under  
consideration by other publications. Articles published in JAMS are  
subjected to a blind peer-reviewing process and should not normally  
exceed 6,000 words in length. For more information on requirements and  
submission procedures see  
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-african-media-studies_.___

If interested, please send a 300-word abstract and short biography to  
Martin Ndlela (martin.ndlela /at/ inn.no) <mailto:(martin.ndlela /at/ inn.no)>__by 30  
 April 2020. The deadline for full articles is 1^st September 2020

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