Dr Hayes Mabweazara
- Senior Lecturer (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
telephone:
0141 330 4044
email:
Hayes.Mabweazara@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0460-7814Biography
Dr Hayes Mabweazara has long-standing experience in both academic and professional media contexts. He joined the School of Social and Political Sciences from Falmouth University where he taught Journalism Studies for several years. Prior to coming to the UK, he taught journalism and cognate subject areas in his native country, Zimbabwe at the National University of Science and Technology.
A journalism and media studies scholar focused on advancing the understanding of what is happening to news in a rapidly changing media environment, his research concentrates primarily on the intersections between digital media and mainstream journalism practice in Africa and the wider global South. He explores how immediate conditions of practice and broader social circumstances set conditions for distinctive forms of new technology use, as well as how technologies are impacting on traditional journalistic standards, values and practices. His publications in this area feature in a number of international peer reviewed journals and edited book volumes.
Hayes is a Research Associate in the Department of Journalism, Film & Television at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK.
Research interests
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Hayes’s research interests and expertise lie in the field of ‘new’ media and journalism practice in Africa and the wider global South. His PhD research examined how African mainstream journalists appropriate new technologies in their everyday professional practices.
His current research is partly built on the foundations of his PhD. Following the completion of his PhD he was awarded a research grant by The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation to carry out a cross-cultural comparative examination of newsmaking practices in Scottish and Zimbabwean newsrooms with respect to how journalists in the two countries use new information and communication technologies.
In addition to the above, he has particular interest and expertise in the reception of media texts across cultures and has worked on a research project titled, ‘Digital “Pirate” Radio and the Struggle for Democracy in Zimbabwe’, funded by the Centre for Media and Transitional Societies (CMTS) at Carleton University, Canada in collaboration with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
Hayes edited 'Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom' (Routledge, 2015) and 'Online Journalism in Africa' (Routledge, 2014). He has also guest edited a number of journal special issues, including a themed issue of 'Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism' (2011) on the subject of ‘New Media and Journalism Practice in Africa’. His most recent publication is the edited volume Newsmaking Cultures in Africa (Palgrave, 2018).
He is currently working on a monograph titled, Participatory Journalism in Africa (Routledge) and co-editing two Special Issues of African Journalism Studies (Routledge) and 'Communication: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research' (Routledge) on ‘Fake News and Cyber Propaganda in Africa’.
Research groups
- Media, Culture & Society
Publications
2024
Mabweazara, H. M. , Munoriyarwa, A., Adeyanju, A., Amankwah, A. S., Matsilele, T., Ogola, G. and Cheruiyot, D. (2024) Doing journalism research in times of a contagious global health crisis: methodological dilemmas and reflections from sub-Saharan Africa. In: Volkmer, I., Mutsvairo, B., Bebawi, S., Heinrich, A. and Castillo, A. (eds.) Ecologies of Global Risk Journalism: Conceptualizing Local Journalism in an Era of Deep Disruptions. Series: Routledge research in journalism. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032555720 (In Press)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Wamunyu, W. (2024) Revisiting the ethnography of digital journalism. In: Eldridge II, S. A., Cheruiyot, D., Banjac, S. and Swart, J. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies [2nd Ed.]. Series: Routledge journalism companions. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032369808 (In Press)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Pearson, B. (Eds.) (2024) Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance. Series: Palgrave studies in journalism and the global south. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031689611 (In Press)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Pearson, B. (2024) Empirical reflections on cognitive news media capture in Africa and Latin America: Towards a sociological (re)imagination. In: Mabweazara, H. M. and Pearson, B. (eds.) Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance. Series: Palgrave studies in journalism and the global south. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031689611 (In Press)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Pearson, B. (2024) Media capture, power and resistance in transitional democracies: Beyond ‘broad brushstrokes’. In: Mabweazara, H. M. and Pearson, B. (eds.) Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance. Series: Palgrave studies in journalism and the global south. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031689611 (In Press)
Targema, T. S., Mabweazara, H. M. and Esuh, P. (2024) The media and civil protests in Africa: contextualising Nigerian press coverage of #EndSARS. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, (doi: 10.1080/17447143.2024.2394105) (Early Online Publication)
2023
Mabweazara, H. M. and Matsilele, T. (2023) Recruitment and retention practices in a changing African news media ecosystem. In: Bélair-Gagnon, V., Holton, A.E., Deuze, M. and Mellado, C. (eds.) Happiness in Journalism. Routledge (Taylor & Francis). ISBN 9781003364597
Mabweazara, H. M. (2023) Rethinking African journalism cultures in the context of global professional interdependences. In: Mutsvairo, B., Bebawi, S. and Borges-Rey, E. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South. Routledge (Taylor & Francis). ISBN 9781003298144
2022
Mabweazara, H. M. , Cleophas, T. and Ndlovu, F. (2022) Perverted loyalties: media capture, control and patrimonialism in sub-Saharan Africa. In: Mano, W. and El Mkaouar, L. (eds.) Media Ownership in Africa in the Digital Age: Challenges, Continuity and Change. Series: Routledge contemporary Africa. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367482077
Happer, C. , Schlesinger, P. , Langer, A. I. , Mabweazara, H. and Hinde, D. (2022) Scotland’s Sustainable Media Future: Challenges and Opportunities: a Stakeholder Analysis. Project Report. Glasgow University Media Group and Centre for Cultural Policy Research.
2021
Mutsvairo, B., Borges-Rey, E., Bebawi, S., Márquez-Ramírez, M., Mellado, C., Mabweazara, H. M. , Demeter, M., Głowacki, M., Badr, H. and Thussu, D. (2021) Ontologies of journalism in the Global South. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 98(4), pp. 996-1016. (doi: 10.1177/10776990211048883)
Mabweazara, H.M. and Mare, A. (2021) Participatory Journalism in Africa: Digital News Engagement and User Agency in the South. Series: Disruptions. Routledge. ISBN 9780367197292
Cheruiyot, D., Wahutu, j. S., Mare, A., Ogola, G. and Mabweazara, H. M. (2021) Making news outside legacy media: peripheral actors within an African communication ecology. African Journalism Studies, 42(4), pp. 1-14. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2021.2046397)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2021) Towards reimagining the ‘digital divide’: impediments and circumnavigation practices in the appropriation of the mobile phone by African journalists. Information, Communication and Society, 24(3), pp. 344-364. (doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1834602)
2020
Mabweazara, H. M. , Moyo, D. and Mare, D. (2020) Special Issue: Fake News [Guest Editor]. Communicatio, 46(4),
Schoon, A., Mabweazara, H. M. , Bosch, T. and Dugmore, H. (2020) Special Issue: African Digital Media Research Methods [Guest Editor]. African Journalism Studies, 40(4),
Schoon, A., Mabweazara, H. M. , Bosch, T. and Dugmore, H. (2020) Decolonising digital media research methods: positioning African digital experiences as epistemic sites of knowledge production. African Journalism Studies, 41(4), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1865645)
Moyo, D., Mare, A. and Mabweazara, H. M. (2020) Social media, the press, and the crisis of disinformation in Africa. Communicatio, 46(4), pp. 1-6. (doi: 10.1080/02500167.2020.1862966)
Mabweazara, H. M. , Muneri, C. T. and Ndlovu, F. (2020) News “media capture”, relations of patronage and clientelist practices in sub-Saharan Africa: an interpretive qualitative analysis. Journalism Studies, 21(15), pp. 2154-2175. (doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2020.1816489)
2019
Mabweazara, H. , Moyo, D. and Mare, A. (2019) Special Issue: 'Fake News' and Cyber-Propaganda in Africa [Guest Editor]. African Journalism Studies, 40(4),
Sampaio-Dias, S., Mabweazara, H. M. , Townend, J. and Osman, I. (2019) Special Issue: Practices, Policies and Regulation in African Journalism: Mapping a Research Agenda [Guest Editor]. African Journalism Studies, 40(3),
Mare, A., Mawindi Mabweazara, H. and Moyo, D. (2019) “Fake news” and cyber-propaganda in sub-Saharan Africa: recentering the research agenda. African Journalism Studies, 40(4), pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2019.1750197)
Sampaio-Dias, S., Mawindi Mabweazara, H. , Townend, J. and Osman, I. (2019) Practices, policies and regulation in African journalism: mapping a research agenda. African Journalism Studies, 40(3), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2019.1750197)
2018
Mabweazara, H. M. (Ed.) (2018) Newsmaking Cultures in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137541086
Mabweazara, H. M. (2018) Reinvigorating 'age-old questions': African journalism cultures and the fallacy of global normative homogeneity. In: Mabweazara, H. M. (ed.) Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 1-27. ISBN 9781137541086 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54109-3_1)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2018) When your 'take-home' can hardly take you home: moonlighting and the quest for economic survival in the Zimbabwean press. In: Mabweazara, H. M. (ed.) Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 99-117. ISBN 9781137541086 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54109-3_5)
White, R. A. and Mabweazara, H. M. (2018) African journalism cultures: the struggle for free expression against neo-patrimonial governance. In: Mabweazara, H. M. (ed.) Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 53-76. ISBN 9781137541086 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54109-3_3)
2017
Mabweazara, H. M. (2017) Contexts, prospects, and contradictions: histories of internet-based digital journalism research in Africa. In: Goggin, G. and McLelland, M. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group: New York, pp. 399-411. ISBN 9781138812161
Mabweazara, H. M. and Mare, A. (2017) Researching the fluid and multisited appropriations of digital technologies in African newsrooms. In: Tong, J. and Lo, S.-H. (eds.) Digital Technology and Journalism: an International Comparative Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 317-345. ISBN 9783319550251 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-55026-8_14)
2015
Mabweazara, H. M. (2015) African journalism in the ‘digital era’: charting a research agenda. African Journalism Studies, 36(1), pp. 11-17. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2015.1008124)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2015) Charting theoretical directions for examining African journalism in the “digital era”. Journalism Practice, 9(1), pp. 106-122. (doi: 10.1080/17512786.2014.928469)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2015) 'A clash of cultures:' pirate radio convergence and reception in Africa. In: Atton, C. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group: London, pp. 494-504. ISBN 9780415644044
Mabweazara, H. M. (2015) 'It's our paper!' ethnic identity politics and indigenous language newspapers readers in Zimbabwe: the case of uMthunywa. In: Mano, W. (ed.) Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 100-116. ISBN 9781780767062
Mabweazara, H. M. (2015) Mainstreaming African digital cultures, practices and emerging forms of citizen engagement. African Journalism Studies, 36(4), pp. 1-11. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2015.1119486)
2014
Mabweazara, H. M. (2014) Special Issue: ‘Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom’: Towards an African Digital Journalism Epistemology [Guest Editor]. Digital Journalism, 2(1),
Mabweazara, H. (Ed.) (2014) Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom: Towards an African Digital Journalism Epistemology. Series: Journalism studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138823839
Mabweazara, H. M. , Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. (Eds.) (2014) Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures. Series: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies. Routledge: New York. ISBN 9781138689190
Mabweazara, H. M. (2014) Zimbabwe's mainstream press in the 'social media age': emerging practices, cultures and normative dilemmas. In: Mabweazara, H., Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. (eds.) Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures. Series: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 65-86. ISBN 9780415503747
Mabweazara, H. M. and Mavhungu, J. (2014) The South African mainstream press in the online environment: successes, opportunities and challenges. In: Mabweazara, H., Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. (eds.) Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures. Series: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 34-48. ISBN 9780415503747
Mabweazara, H. M. , Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. (2014) Introduction: online journalism in Africa: trends, practices and emerging cultures. In: Mabweazara, H., Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. (eds.) Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures. Series: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9780415503747
Mabweazara, H. M. (2014) Introduction, ‘Digital technologies and the evolving African newsroom’: towards an African digital journalism epistemology. Digital Journalism, 2(1), pp. 2-11. (doi: 10.1080/21670811.2013.850195)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2014) Readers comments on Zimbabwean newspaper websites: how audience voices are challenging and (re)defining traditional journalism. Digital Journalism, 2(1), pp. 44-61. (doi: 10.1080/21670811.2013.850200)
2013
Mabweazara, H. M. (2013) ‘Ethnography as negotiated lived experience’: researching the fluid and multi-sited uses of digital technologies in journalism practice. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 9(3), pp. 97-120. (doi: 10.16997/wpcc.175)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2013) ‘Pirate’ radio, convergence and reception in Zimbabwe. Telematics and Informatics, 30(3), pp. 232-241. (doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2012.02.007)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2013) Normative dilemmas and issues for Zimbabwean print journalism in the "information society" era. Digital Journalism, 1(1), pp. 135-151. (doi: 10.1080/21670811.2012.740272)
2012
Mabweazara, H. M. and Taylor, A. (2012) Exploring effective pedagogies for delivering journalism work-based learning in UK higher education. Journal of Media Practice, 13(2), pp. 125-142. (doi: 10.1386/jmpr.13.2.125_1)
2011
Atton, C. and Mabweazara, H. (2011) New media and journalism practice in Africa: an agenda for research. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 12(6), pp. 667-673. (doi: 10.1177/1464884911405467)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2011) Between the newsroom and the pub: the mobile phone in the dynamics of everyday mainstream journalism practice in Zimbabwe. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 12(6), pp. 692-707. (doi: 10.1177/1464884911405468)
Atton, C. and Mabweazara, H. (2011) Special Issue: New Media and Journalism Practice in Africa: An Agenda for Research [Guest Editor]. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 12(6),
Mabweazara, H. and Atton, C. (2011) New Media and Journalism Practice in Africa [editors]. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 12(6),
Mabweazara, H. M. (2011) The internet in the print newsroom: trends, practices and emerging cultures in Zimbabwe. In: Domingo, D. and Paterson, C. (eds.) Making Online News. Volume 2: Newsroom Ethnography in the Second Decade of Internet Journalism. Series: Digital formations. Peter Lang Publishing Inc, pp. 45-56. ISBN 9781433110641
Mabweazara, H. M. (2011) Newsmaking practices and professionalism in the Zimbabwean press. Journalism Practice, 5(1), pp. 100-117. (doi: 10.1080/17512786.2010.493331)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2011) 'Wiring' African newsrooms: the internet and mainstream print journalism practice in Zimbabwe. In: Wachanga, D. N. (ed.) Cultural Identity and New Communication Technologies: Political, Ethnic and Ideological Implications. IGI Global, pp. 144-162. ISBN 9781609605919 (doi: 10.4018/978-1-60960-591-9.ch008)
2010
Mabweazara, H. M. (2010) Researching the use of new technologies (ICTs) in Zimbabwean newsrooms: an ethnographic approach. Qualitative Research, 10(6), pp. 659-677. (doi: 10.1177/1468794110380516)
Downing, J. D. H., Hadland, A., Mudhai, O. F., Tyson, R. and Mabweazara, H. M. (2010) Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production, by Chris Paterson and David Domingo (Eds.). Peter Lang, 2008. ISBN: 9781433102141. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 31(1), p. 236. (doi: 10.1080/02560054.2010.9653414)[Book Review]
Mabweazara, H. M. (2010) 'New' technologies and journalism practice in Africa: towards a critical sociological approach. In: Hyde-Clarke, N. (ed.) The Citizen in Communication: Re-visiting Traditional, New and Community Media Practices in South Africa. Juta & Co.: Capetown, pp. 11-30.
Mabweazara, H. M. (2010) 'When your "take-home" can hardly take you home': moonlighting and the quest for economic survival in the Zimbabwean press. African Communication Research, 3(3), pp. 431-450.
2009
Mabweazara, H. M. (2009) Regional identity and the politics of belonging in the consumption of Zimbabwe's vernacular tabloid newspaper, uMthunywa in Bulawayo. Journal of African Media Studies, 1(3), pp. 449-467. (doi: 10.1386/jams.1.3.449/1)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Strelitz, L. N. (2009) Investigating the popularity of the Zimbabwean tabloid newspaper uMthunywa: a reception study of Bulawayo readers. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 30(2), pp. 113-133. (doi: 10.1080/02560054.2009.9653398)
2008
Atton, C., McCleery, A., Mabweazara, H. and Ward, S. (2008) Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities. Final Report. Project Report. Million+, Edinburgh.
2007
Mabweazara, H. (2007) 'It's our paper': the Bulawayo tabloid uMthunywa. Rhodes Journalism Review(27), pp. 54-55.
2005
Mabweazara, H.M. (2005) Revisiting journalism's self understanding of its social practice in Zimbabwe: some critical reflections for African journalism. In: Conradie, D.P., Fourie, W.E., Wasserman, H. and Muir, C. (eds.) Communication Science in South Africa: Contemporary Issues: Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Communication Association. Juta: Cape Town, S.A., pp. 24-35.
Mabweazara, H. M. (2005) Chapter on Zimbabwe. In: Berger, G. (ed.) Doing Digital Journalism: How South African News Gatherers Are Using ICTs. High Way Africa: Grahamstown, pp. 91-106.
Articles
Targema, T. S., Mabweazara, H. M. and Esuh, P. (2024) The media and civil protests in Africa: contextualising Nigerian press coverage of #EndSARS. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, (doi: 10.1080/17447143.2024.2394105) (Early Online Publication)
Mutsvairo, B., Borges-Rey, E., Bebawi, S., Márquez-Ramírez, M., Mellado, C., Mabweazara, H. M. , Demeter, M., Głowacki, M., Badr, H. and Thussu, D. (2021) Ontologies of journalism in the Global South. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 98(4), pp. 996-1016. (doi: 10.1177/10776990211048883)
Cheruiyot, D., Wahutu, j. S., Mare, A., Ogola, G. and Mabweazara, H. M. (2021) Making news outside legacy media: peripheral actors within an African communication ecology. African Journalism Studies, 42(4), pp. 1-14. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2021.2046397)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2021) Towards reimagining the ‘digital divide’: impediments and circumnavigation practices in the appropriation of the mobile phone by African journalists. Information, Communication and Society, 24(3), pp. 344-364. (doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1834602)
Mabweazara, H. M. , Moyo, D. and Mare, D. (2020) Special Issue: Fake News [Guest Editor]. Communicatio, 46(4),
Schoon, A., Mabweazara, H. M. , Bosch, T. and Dugmore, H. (2020) Special Issue: African Digital Media Research Methods [Guest Editor]. African Journalism Studies, 40(4),
Schoon, A., Mabweazara, H. M. , Bosch, T. and Dugmore, H. (2020) Decolonising digital media research methods: positioning African digital experiences as epistemic sites of knowledge production. African Journalism Studies, 41(4), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1865645)
Moyo, D., Mare, A. and Mabweazara, H. M. (2020) Social media, the press, and the crisis of disinformation in Africa. Communicatio, 46(4), pp. 1-6. (doi: 10.1080/02500167.2020.1862966)
Mabweazara, H. M. , Muneri, C. T. and Ndlovu, F. (2020) News “media capture”, relations of patronage and clientelist practices in sub-Saharan Africa: an interpretive qualitative analysis. Journalism Studies, 21(15), pp. 2154-2175. (doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2020.1816489)
Mabweazara, H. , Moyo, D. and Mare, A. (2019) Special Issue: 'Fake News' and Cyber-Propaganda in Africa [Guest Editor]. African Journalism Studies, 40(4),
Sampaio-Dias, S., Mabweazara, H. M. , Townend, J. and Osman, I. (2019) Special Issue: Practices, Policies and Regulation in African Journalism: Mapping a Research Agenda [Guest Editor]. African Journalism Studies, 40(3),
Mare, A., Mawindi Mabweazara, H. and Moyo, D. (2019) “Fake news” and cyber-propaganda in sub-Saharan Africa: recentering the research agenda. African Journalism Studies, 40(4), pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2019.1750197)
Sampaio-Dias, S., Mawindi Mabweazara, H. , Townend, J. and Osman, I. (2019) Practices, policies and regulation in African journalism: mapping a research agenda. African Journalism Studies, 40(3), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2019.1750197)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2015) African journalism in the ‘digital era’: charting a research agenda. African Journalism Studies, 36(1), pp. 11-17. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2015.1008124)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2015) Charting theoretical directions for examining African journalism in the “digital era”. Journalism Practice, 9(1), pp. 106-122. (doi: 10.1080/17512786.2014.928469)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2015) Mainstreaming African digital cultures, practices and emerging forms of citizen engagement. African Journalism Studies, 36(4), pp. 1-11. (doi: 10.1080/23743670.2015.1119486)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2014) Special Issue: ‘Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom’: Towards an African Digital Journalism Epistemology [Guest Editor]. Digital Journalism, 2(1),
Mabweazara, H. M. (2014) Introduction, ‘Digital technologies and the evolving African newsroom’: towards an African digital journalism epistemology. Digital Journalism, 2(1), pp. 2-11. (doi: 10.1080/21670811.2013.850195)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2014) Readers comments on Zimbabwean newspaper websites: how audience voices are challenging and (re)defining traditional journalism. Digital Journalism, 2(1), pp. 44-61. (doi: 10.1080/21670811.2013.850200)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2013) ‘Ethnography as negotiated lived experience’: researching the fluid and multi-sited uses of digital technologies in journalism practice. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 9(3), pp. 97-120. (doi: 10.16997/wpcc.175)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2013) ‘Pirate’ radio, convergence and reception in Zimbabwe. Telematics and Informatics, 30(3), pp. 232-241. (doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2012.02.007)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2013) Normative dilemmas and issues for Zimbabwean print journalism in the "information society" era. Digital Journalism, 1(1), pp. 135-151. (doi: 10.1080/21670811.2012.740272)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Taylor, A. (2012) Exploring effective pedagogies for delivering journalism work-based learning in UK higher education. Journal of Media Practice, 13(2), pp. 125-142. (doi: 10.1386/jmpr.13.2.125_1)
Atton, C. and Mabweazara, H. (2011) New media and journalism practice in Africa: an agenda for research. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 12(6), pp. 667-673. (doi: 10.1177/1464884911405467)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2011) Between the newsroom and the pub: the mobile phone in the dynamics of everyday mainstream journalism practice in Zimbabwe. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 12(6), pp. 692-707. (doi: 10.1177/1464884911405468)
Atton, C. and Mabweazara, H. (2011) Special Issue: New Media and Journalism Practice in Africa: An Agenda for Research [Guest Editor]. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 12(6),
Mabweazara, H. and Atton, C. (2011) New Media and Journalism Practice in Africa [editors]. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 12(6),
Mabweazara, H. M. (2011) Newsmaking practices and professionalism in the Zimbabwean press. Journalism Practice, 5(1), pp. 100-117. (doi: 10.1080/17512786.2010.493331)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2010) Researching the use of new technologies (ICTs) in Zimbabwean newsrooms: an ethnographic approach. Qualitative Research, 10(6), pp. 659-677. (doi: 10.1177/1468794110380516)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2010) 'When your "take-home" can hardly take you home': moonlighting and the quest for economic survival in the Zimbabwean press. African Communication Research, 3(3), pp. 431-450.
Mabweazara, H. M. (2009) Regional identity and the politics of belonging in the consumption of Zimbabwe's vernacular tabloid newspaper, uMthunywa in Bulawayo. Journal of African Media Studies, 1(3), pp. 449-467. (doi: 10.1386/jams.1.3.449/1)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Strelitz, L. N. (2009) Investigating the popularity of the Zimbabwean tabloid newspaper uMthunywa: a reception study of Bulawayo readers. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 30(2), pp. 113-133. (doi: 10.1080/02560054.2009.9653398)
Mabweazara, H. (2007) 'It's our paper': the Bulawayo tabloid uMthunywa. Rhodes Journalism Review(27), pp. 54-55.
Books
Mabweazara, H.M. and Mare, A. (2021) Participatory Journalism in Africa: Digital News Engagement and User Agency in the South. Series: Disruptions. Routledge. ISBN 9780367197292
Book Sections
Mabweazara, H. M. , Munoriyarwa, A., Adeyanju, A., Amankwah, A. S., Matsilele, T., Ogola, G. and Cheruiyot, D. (2024) Doing journalism research in times of a contagious global health crisis: methodological dilemmas and reflections from sub-Saharan Africa. In: Volkmer, I., Mutsvairo, B., Bebawi, S., Heinrich, A. and Castillo, A. (eds.) Ecologies of Global Risk Journalism: Conceptualizing Local Journalism in an Era of Deep Disruptions. Series: Routledge research in journalism. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032555720 (In Press)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Wamunyu, W. (2024) Revisiting the ethnography of digital journalism. In: Eldridge II, S. A., Cheruiyot, D., Banjac, S. and Swart, J. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies [2nd Ed.]. Series: Routledge journalism companions. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032369808 (In Press)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Pearson, B. (2024) Empirical reflections on cognitive news media capture in Africa and Latin America: Towards a sociological (re)imagination. In: Mabweazara, H. M. and Pearson, B. (eds.) Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance. Series: Palgrave studies in journalism and the global south. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031689611 (In Press)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Pearson, B. (2024) Media capture, power and resistance in transitional democracies: Beyond ‘broad brushstrokes’. In: Mabweazara, H. M. and Pearson, B. (eds.) Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance. Series: Palgrave studies in journalism and the global south. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031689611 (In Press)
Mabweazara, H. M. and Matsilele, T. (2023) Recruitment and retention practices in a changing African news media ecosystem. In: Bélair-Gagnon, V., Holton, A.E., Deuze, M. and Mellado, C. (eds.) Happiness in Journalism. Routledge (Taylor & Francis). ISBN 9781003364597
Mabweazara, H. M. (2023) Rethinking African journalism cultures in the context of global professional interdependences. In: Mutsvairo, B., Bebawi, S. and Borges-Rey, E. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South. Routledge (Taylor & Francis). ISBN 9781003298144
Mabweazara, H. M. , Cleophas, T. and Ndlovu, F. (2022) Perverted loyalties: media capture, control and patrimonialism in sub-Saharan Africa. In: Mano, W. and El Mkaouar, L. (eds.) Media Ownership in Africa in the Digital Age: Challenges, Continuity and Change. Series: Routledge contemporary Africa. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367482077
Mabweazara, H. M. (2018) Reinvigorating 'age-old questions': African journalism cultures and the fallacy of global normative homogeneity. In: Mabweazara, H. M. (ed.) Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 1-27. ISBN 9781137541086 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54109-3_1)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2018) When your 'take-home' can hardly take you home: moonlighting and the quest for economic survival in the Zimbabwean press. In: Mabweazara, H. M. (ed.) Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 99-117. ISBN 9781137541086 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54109-3_5)
White, R. A. and Mabweazara, H. M. (2018) African journalism cultures: the struggle for free expression against neo-patrimonial governance. In: Mabweazara, H. M. (ed.) Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 53-76. ISBN 9781137541086 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54109-3_3)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2017) Contexts, prospects, and contradictions: histories of internet-based digital journalism research in Africa. In: Goggin, G. and McLelland, M. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group: New York, pp. 399-411. ISBN 9781138812161
Mabweazara, H. M. and Mare, A. (2017) Researching the fluid and multisited appropriations of digital technologies in African newsrooms. In: Tong, J. and Lo, S.-H. (eds.) Digital Technology and Journalism: an International Comparative Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 317-345. ISBN 9783319550251 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-55026-8_14)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2015) 'A clash of cultures:' pirate radio convergence and reception in Africa. In: Atton, C. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group: London, pp. 494-504. ISBN 9780415644044
Mabweazara, H. M. (2015) 'It's our paper!' ethnic identity politics and indigenous language newspapers readers in Zimbabwe: the case of uMthunywa. In: Mano, W. (ed.) Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 100-116. ISBN 9781780767062
Mabweazara, H. M. (2014) Zimbabwe's mainstream press in the 'social media age': emerging practices, cultures and normative dilemmas. In: Mabweazara, H., Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. (eds.) Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures. Series: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 65-86. ISBN 9780415503747
Mabweazara, H. M. and Mavhungu, J. (2014) The South African mainstream press in the online environment: successes, opportunities and challenges. In: Mabweazara, H., Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. (eds.) Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures. Series: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 34-48. ISBN 9780415503747
Mabweazara, H. M. , Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. (2014) Introduction: online journalism in Africa: trends, practices and emerging cultures. In: Mabweazara, H., Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. (eds.) Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures. Series: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9780415503747
Mabweazara, H. M. (2011) The internet in the print newsroom: trends, practices and emerging cultures in Zimbabwe. In: Domingo, D. and Paterson, C. (eds.) Making Online News. Volume 2: Newsroom Ethnography in the Second Decade of Internet Journalism. Series: Digital formations. Peter Lang Publishing Inc, pp. 45-56. ISBN 9781433110641
Mabweazara, H. M. (2011) 'Wiring' African newsrooms: the internet and mainstream print journalism practice in Zimbabwe. In: Wachanga, D. N. (ed.) Cultural Identity and New Communication Technologies: Political, Ethnic and Ideological Implications. IGI Global, pp. 144-162. ISBN 9781609605919 (doi: 10.4018/978-1-60960-591-9.ch008)
Mabweazara, H. M. (2010) 'New' technologies and journalism practice in Africa: towards a critical sociological approach. In: Hyde-Clarke, N. (ed.) The Citizen in Communication: Re-visiting Traditional, New and Community Media Practices in South Africa. Juta & Co.: Capetown, pp. 11-30.
Mabweazara, H.M. (2005) Revisiting journalism's self understanding of its social practice in Zimbabwe: some critical reflections for African journalism. In: Conradie, D.P., Fourie, W.E., Wasserman, H. and Muir, C. (eds.) Communication Science in South Africa: Contemporary Issues: Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Communication Association. Juta: Cape Town, S.A., pp. 24-35.
Mabweazara, H. M. (2005) Chapter on Zimbabwe. In: Berger, G. (ed.) Doing Digital Journalism: How South African News Gatherers Are Using ICTs. High Way Africa: Grahamstown, pp. 91-106.
Book Reviews
Downing, J. D. H., Hadland, A., Mudhai, O. F., Tyson, R. and Mabweazara, H. M. (2010) Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production, by Chris Paterson and David Domingo (Eds.). Peter Lang, 2008. ISBN: 9781433102141. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 31(1), p. 236. (doi: 10.1080/02560054.2010.9653414)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Mabweazara, H. M. and Pearson, B. (Eds.) (2024) Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance. Series: Palgrave studies in journalism and the global south. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783031689611 (In Press)
Mabweazara, H. M. (Ed.) (2018) Newsmaking Cultures in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137541086
Mabweazara, H. (Ed.) (2014) Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom: Towards an African Digital Journalism Epistemology. Series: Journalism studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138823839
Mabweazara, H. M. , Mudhai, O. F. and Whittaker, J. (Eds.) (2014) Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures. Series: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies. Routledge: New York. ISBN 9781138689190
Research Reports or Papers
Happer, C. , Schlesinger, P. , Langer, A. I. , Mabweazara, H. and Hinde, D. (2022) Scotland’s Sustainable Media Future: Challenges and Opportunities: a Stakeholder Analysis. Project Report. Glasgow University Media Group and Centre for Cultural Policy Research.
Atton, C., McCleery, A., Mabweazara, H. and Ward, S. (2008) Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities. Final Report. Project Report. Million+, Edinburgh.
Supervision
Dr Mabweazara has examined several PhDs in the UK and across a number of African countries.
He welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD applicants with an interest in topics related to digital media and news production processes; media audiences and representations; alternative/citizen media and the sociology of news.
- Clapp, Robb
Media consumption and Environmentalist identity - Kazira, Sarah
The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Transnational Young People of African Migrant Background
Additional information
Since 2015 he has been Associate Editor of the journal, 'African Journalism Studies' (Routledge) and edits the journal’s special annual issue titled, ‘African Digital Media Review’.
He serves on the editorial boards of a number of leading journals, including 'Digital Journalism' (Routledge), 'Journalism Practice' (Routledge) and the 'Journal of Alternative & Community Media' (Griffiths University).
