Publications

African Journalism Studies (2013)

Journal of Communication (2020)

Africa’s Media Image (2016)

Visual Communication (2014)

Media, Culture & Society (2020)

Journalism Studies (2018)

African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives (2014)

Communication, Culture, Critique (2016)

Journal articles

- Nothias, T. (2020) – “Postcolonial Reflexivity in the News Industry: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in Kenya and South Africa”, Journal of Communication, 70(2): 245-273.
  - Paper awarded the 2021 ICA Outstanding Article Award.
- Nothias, T. (2020) – “Access Granted: Facebook’s Free Basics in Africa”, Media, Culture, & Society, 42(3): 329-348.
- Nothias, T & Cheruiyot, D. (2019) – “A ‘Hotbed’ of Digital Empowerment? Media Criticism in Kenya between Playful Engagement and Co-option“. International Journal of Communication, 136-159.
  - Paper awarded the 2018 Stuart Hall Award from the IAMCR.
- Nothias, T. (2018) – “How Western Journalists Actually Write About Africa“, Journalism Studies, 19(8): 1138-1159.
- Paterson, C. & Nothias, T. (2016) – “Representation of China and the US in Africa in Online Global News“, Communication, Culture, Critique, 9(1), 107-125.
- Nothias, T. (2014) – ” ‘Rising’, ‘Hopeful’, ‘New’: Visualizing Africa in the age of globalization“, Visual Communication, 13(3), 323-339.
- Nothias, T. (2013)- ” ‘It’s Struck a Chord We Have Never Managed to Strike’: Frames, Perspectives and Remediation Strategies in the International News Coverage of Kony2012 , Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 34(1), 123-129.
  - Reprinted in Social Media and Journalism in Africa (2014), Chapter 12, Routledge: London, 126-132.
- Nothias, T (2012) – “Definition and Scope of Afro-pessimism: Mapping the Concept and its Usefulness for Analysing News Media Coverage of Africa“, Leeds African Studies Bulletin, 74: 54-62.

Book chapters and encyclopedia entries

- Nothias, T. (2020) – “Representation and Journalism”. Encyclopaedia essay for The Oxford University Press Research Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies.
- Nothias, T. (2018) “Researching and Teaching African Media Studies from the “Centre”: Challenges and Opportunities for epistemic resistance”, in Palgrave Handbook on Media and Communication Research in Africa, Mustvairo, B. (ed). Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke.
- Nothias, T. (2016) “Mediating the Distant Other for the Distant Audience: How Foreign Correspondents in East and Southern Africa Talk About Their Audience”, in Africa’s Media Image in the 21st century: From the Hopeless Continent to Africa Rising, Bunce, M., Franks, S. and Paterson, C. (eds). Routledge (Communication and Society Series): London.
- Nothias, T. (2014) “Afro-pessimism in the French and British Press Coverage of the 2010 South African World Cup”, in African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives: The Legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup, Chari, T. and Mhiripiri, N. (eds). Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, 285-304.
- Nothias, T. and Painter, J. (2013) “Country Result: France”, in Climate Change in the Media: Reporting Risk and Uncertainty, Painter, J. I.B. Tauris: London, 89-98.

Reports, Commentaries and Short Essays

- Nothias, T., Beauvoir, S., Jasper, K., Vavrosky, A., and Bernholz, L. (2021) “Digital Surveillance, the Media and Civil Society during the COVID-19 pandemic” Digital Civil Society Lab Report, Stanford University
- Bernholz, L. and Nothias, T. (2021) “Can Free Assembly Survive the Internet?” Public Books.
- Nothias, T. (2020) “Facebook’s Ongoing Scramble for Africa”, Decoding Digital Democracy in Africa series, edited by Lisa Garbe and Nic Cheeseman (Democracy in Africa).
- Nothias, T. (2020) “The Rise and Fall … and Rise Again of Facebook’s Free Basics. Civil Society and the Challenge of Resistance to Corporate Connectivity Projects”, Network Sovereignty Blog, edited by Lisa Parks and Ramesh Srinivasan (MIT Global Media Technologies and Culture Lab).
- Nothias, T. and Kagumire, R. (2020)“Digital Radical Rudeness: The story of Stella Nyanzi”, The Digital Radical, Center on Digital Culture and Society (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania).
- Nothias, T. (2019) “Why was Africa Rising? The roots and perils of Afro-idealization”. The Disorder of Things. Symposium on Clive Gabay’s book Imagining Africa. Whiteness and the Western gaze (Cambridge University Press).
- Nothias, T. (2018)“Digital Media in Africa”, Guest editor of a series of research blog posts for Africa is a Country:

Book reviews

- Jonathan Corpus Ong, “The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines”, Journal of Communication, 65(5), E10-12.
- Domingo et al.(eds), “Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers”, Ecquid-Novi African Journalism Studies, 35(1), 164-166.
- Shani Orgad, “Media Representation and the Global Imagination”, Interview with the author, The Global Journal, February 2014.
- Lilie Chouliaraki, “The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism”, The Global Journal, October 2012.