Category: Book Chapters

Jacinta Mwende Maweu. 2025. Digital Populism, propaganda and the construction of electoral legitimacy in the 2022 Presidential elections in Kenya. Erica Guevara and Anais Theviot (eds) Elections and Social Networks around the World. London: Rotledge p. 260-275 ISBN 9781032572307 Theviot/p/book/9781032572307?srsltid=AfmBOooC_0Ph6zxMCxztD_0-GVEafeXHMy6O- ihX_gVK_UxbYOT8UsDg

Jacinta Maweu. 2024. Undermining Democracy through Social Media. The Impact of Disinformation in the 2017 Elections in Kenya in Duncan Omanga, Admire Mare and Pamela Mainye eds). Digital technologies, elections and Campaigns in Africa. Pp.109-121. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781032551166 (https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Technologies-Elections and-Campaigns-in-Africa/Omanga-Mare-Mainye/p/book/9781032551166)

Maweu, Jacinta. 2023. ‘Election, violence and political legitimation in Africa’ in Uchenna Okeja (eds). The Routledge Handbook of African Political Philosophy, pp. 256-267. London: Routledge. eBook ISBN 9781003143529  (https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-African-Political Philosophy/Okeja/p/book/9780367561536)

Jacinta Maweu and Admire Mare. 2022. Citizen Journalism, electoral conflict and peace-building processes in Kenya and Zimbabwe in The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism edited by Stuart Allan. Routledge(https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-News-and-Journalism/Allan/p/book/9781032005850)

Jacinta Maweu. 2022. Networking Aloneness? Social disconnection in a Socially Connected Media world in Ricarda Drueke and Gmainer Franz (eds) Communication and Media in the Cultural Industry: Life, World and Politics: 195- 209, Peter Lang

Maweu, Jacinta. 2021. ‘Catalysts of conflict or messengers of peace? Promoting interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Kenya through the media’ in Jacinta Maweu & Admire Mare (Eds.)Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344862 pp.113-126

Maweu, Jacinta and Mare, Admire. 2021. ‘Changing the tide: Re-examining the interplay of media, conflict and peacebuilding in Africa’ in Jacinta Maweu & Admire Mare (Eds.). Media,Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344862 pp.  1-16

Nic Cheeseman, Jacinta Maweu and Seth Ouma. 2019. Peace, But at What Cost? Media Coverage of Elections and Conflict in Kenya in Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change: Case studies on Contested Transitions. Voltmer, K., Stremlau, N., Christensen, C., Thomass, B., Vladisavljevic, N., Wasserman, H. eds.Palgrave. 85-105.DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-16748-6(https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-16748-6)

Jacinta Mwende Maweu, 2019. ‘Still Manufacturing Consent in the Digital era: Disinformation,‘Fake News’ and Propaganda in the 2017 Elections in Kenya’. Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent. Alan Macleod Ed. London: Routledge, pp.141-153. DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780429430329.eBook ISBN 9780429430329 (https://www.routledge.com/Propaganda-in-the-Information-Age-Still-Manufacturing-Consent/MacLeod/p/book/9781138366404)

Jacinta Mwende Maweu and Chris Paterson, 2019. Minding the Gap? The Media and the realization of SDG 13 on climate action and change in Kenya.In Maano Ramutsindela and David Mickler, Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals. Switzerland: Springer international publishing AG.( https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-14857-7)