[Air-L] Call for journal articles on African digital media research methods

[Alette Schoon]

Please circulate the call for articles about digital media research methods
for a special journal edition of African Digital Media Review, and annual
publication of African Journalism Studies
<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/recq21/current>, published by Taylor and
Francis.

*CALL FOR DIGITAL MEDIA RESEARCH METHODS JOURNAL ARTICLES - TO BE PUBLISHED
IN THE AFRICAN DIGITAL MEDIA REVIEW 2020*

African Digital Media Review is published annually as a special edition of
the journal African Journalism Studies, published by Taylor & Francis. It
aims to explore the role of new digital technologies in African
communication contexts. The 2020 edition will be dedicated to digital media
research methods.

Scholars from across sub-Saharan Africa are encouraged to submit, as we
hope to represent West, East, Central and Southern Africa. We aim to
include a mix of digital media research methods, and are looking forward to
diverse submissions such as:

·         online digital ethnographic approaches

·         large scale data analysis of social media analytics,

·         textual analysis of web media,

·         visual analysis of social media such as Instagram,

·         to small scale studies of apps and the communities that use them.



We are particularly interested in debates around the methods best suited to
African contexts:

·         What are the epistemological challenges and ethical conundrums
that African socio-political environments present for the use of specific
digital media research methods?

·         How have methods from elsewhere been adapted to diverse contexts
on the continent?

Abstracts of 500 words need to be submitted by the 20th of September.
Please send them to digimethods at ru.ac.za  Once your abstract has been
selected, a completed article of 8000 words needs to be ready for peer
review by the end of January. This edition will be guest-edited by Tanja
Bosch, Harry Dugmore, Hayes Mabweazara and Alette Schoon.

Please see the guidelines for authors here
<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=recq21>
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=recq21