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Here is a list of selected articles from the latest issue of the Journal of African Media Studies (Vol 2, Issue 3, November 2010).    The fulltext is available from EBSCOhost's Communication & Mass Media Complete [only available to the UCT community].

Mobile interconnections: Reinterpreting distance, relating and difference in the Cameroonian Grassfields.Full Text Available By: de Bruijn, Mirjam; Nyamnjoh, Francis; Angwafo, Tseghama. Journal of African Media Studies, Nov2010, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p267-285, 19p; DOI: 10.1386/jams.2.3.267_1

Rethinking rugby and the rainbow nation.Full Text Available By: Vincent, Louise; Stevenson, Sasha. Journal of African Media Studies, Nov2010, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p287-296, 10p; DOI: 10.1386/jams.2.3.287_1

 The road to renaming - what's in a name? The changing of Durban's street names and its coverage in The Mercury.Full Text Available By: Orgeret, Kristin Skare. Journal of African Media Studies, Nov2010, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p297-320, 24p, 5 Color Photographs; DOI: 10.1386/jams.2.3.297_1

Nollywood on the Internet: A preliminary analysis of an online Nigerian video-film audience.Full Text Available By: Obiaya, Ikechukwu. Journal of African Media Studies, Nov2010, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p321-338, 18p; DOI: 10.1386/jams.2.3.321_1

Can the media in Africa shape Africa's political future?Full Text Available By: Mukhongo, Lusike Lynete. Journal of African Media Studies, Nov2010, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p339-352, 14p; DOI: 10.1386/jams.2.3.339_1

Earlier Table of Contents  (abstract and header only) are available from the journal's publishers, Intellect Books.  

The latest issue (Vol 36 No 2) is now available.   It is a special issue with the theme  "Journalism in the global South: South Africa and Brazil".    

The Table of Contents appears below.   Contributors include our own Tanja Bosch of CFMS. 

Editorial
Special issue: Journalism in the global South: South Africa and Brazil	Pages 143 - 147
Authors: Herman Wasserman; Arnold S. de Beer
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485361
Original Articles
The past, present and future of South African journalism research, or: In search of a metatheory for South African journalism research	Pages 148 - 171
Author: Pieter J. Fourie
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485362
Tendencies in the development and consolidation of journalism research in Brazil	Pages 172 - 184
Author: Carlos Eduardo Franciscato
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485364
Journalism education in South Africa: Shifts and dilemmas	Pages 185 - 199
Author: Jeanne Prinsloo
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485365
Journalism/Communication graduate education in Brazil	Pages 200 - 212
Author: Sérgio Mattos
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485366
Looking for journalism education scholarship in some unusual places: The case of Africa	Pages 213 - 226
Author: Arnold S. de Beer
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485367
Challenges for the consolidation of Brazilian scientific journals in the journalism and communication areas	Pages 227 - 239
Author: Elias Machado
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485368
Political journalism in South Africa as a developing democracy - understanding media freedom and responsibility	Pages 240 - 251
Author: Herman Wasserman
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485369
Political journalism in Brazil as a developing democracy: The relationship between government and the media	Pages 252 - 264
Author: Antonio Hohlfeldt
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485372
Digital journalism and online public spheres in South Africa	Pages 265 - 275
Author: Tanja Bosch
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485374
Positioning yet another idea under the glocalisation umbrella: Reader participation and audience communities as market strategies in globalised online journalism	Pages 276 - 287
Author: Marcos Palacios
DOI: 10.1080/02500167.2010.485377

 

Journal of Communication Studies 

Spotted on intute.ac.uk

Global Media Journal  is a full-text scholarly ejournal published by the Global Communication Association, and support by Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana.

There are a number of geographic-specific editions - Australian, Polish, Canadian, and Mediterranean.

Intute has this to say about the Australian version:   This Australian version of the journal has an extensive Australian Advisory Board, and its own content. Articles are freely provided in PDF form. At April 2009 there are three issues online, offering articles, interviews, book reviews and some postgraduate papers. Example articles titles include: 'Source credibility and attitude change in readers of foreign news'; 'Handsome Devils: Mobile Imaginings of Youth Culture'; and 'Citizen Journalism and the Rise of Mass Self-Communication: Reporting the London Bombings', among others. The website has details of the many editors, the large Editorial Board, and the submissions process. Also available at the website is the publication 'Australian Media Monitor'. This is an elegantly designed and useful website and ejournal for researchers in media and communication studies.

'eJournalist: a refereed media journal' is a full-text ejournal, published from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia.

Articles (in pdf) in Vol 8 No 2 include a contribution about using radio as a tool for rural development in Limpopo. 

The 'Web Journal of Mass Communication Research' is a full-text ejournal, that is described as "publishing research at the intersection of the Web and mass communication". The journal is edited from Ohio University.

 

The Journal of e-Media Studies is a blind peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to the scholarly study of the history and theory of electronic media, especially Television and New Media.

Published by Dartmouth College Library (USA)

At February 2009 there is one issue online, offering articles, reviews and interviews in both HTML and PDF formats.

 

'Soundscapes' is an online journal of media culture, freely available in full-text form. At January 2009 the journal has ten volumes online, covering the years 1998 to 2008. The journal is published from the Netherlands, and not all articles or reviews are in English. Many articles are in Dutch, and a few articles are in German. The journal aims to present texts on... "the history and social significance of media culture".

'GameCulture Journal' is a full-text ejournal. The journal is an independent scholarly project, edited by two graduate students at the North Carolina State University and at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The intended audience is informed gamers as well as academics. At January 2009 there are four issues online, as PDF files. The journal contains articles, interviews, and book reviews. The editors publish their own academic articles in the journal, alongside texts by others. Example article titles include: 'Combat & Urban Decay: Class, Ideology, and the Legacy of the Beat 'Em Up'; 'Notes toward a History of Game Space'; 'Games and the Gallery'; and 'Scared of Science: Mad Rationality in the Video Game', among others. The website has details of the editors, and submission details. The Journal is licenced under a Creative Commons licence. There is an associated weblog.