Mulatu Alemayehu Moges
Biographic Data
| ID | 4045924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mulatu Alemayehu Moges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mulatu Alemayehu |
| FAMILY NAME | Moges |
| SIGNATURE | MOGES M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Addis Ababa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5616-881X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Examining op-ed columns in the Ethiopian media: A study of the public sphere
This study investigates the state of the public sphere in the Ethiopian media during the country’s 2018 political reform. It reports on an innovative print format that has proved to be a public sphere. Drawing on methodological insight from quantitative content analysis, the study examines the democratic potential of op-ed columns in the light of public sphere theory. Contrary to the original purpose of op-ed column, our findings indicate that Et…
Hashtags, Hatetags and social media campaigns in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict
This article examines the role of social media, specifically Twitter, in the amplification of violent divisive discourse during Ethiopia's Tigray conflict (2020–2022), introducing the concept of Hatetags to analyze the transforming of hashtags into vehicles of digital conflict. Through a mixed-method approach combining explorative digital methods, qualitative content analysis and qualitative interviews, the study investigates how hashtags evolved…
Ethnic Identity and the Repression of Journalists Covering Conflict: The Case of Ethiopia (2020–2024)
Journalists’ safety and security are real concerns for many countries, specifically in developing countries, where political instability and internal conflicts have been pervasive. This article explores how journalists’ identities could be the cause of their repression in a conflict-prone country such as Ethiopia. The article used qualitative and quantitative approaches to collect data from 2020 to 2024, during which ethnically driven internal co…
Global media framing of conflicts in Ethiopia: A content analysis of war narratives and hegemonic interests
This article critically examines how international media outlets, such as the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and CGTN, have covered conflict stories in Ethiopia from 2020 to 2025, a period widespread of conflicts across many parts of the country. The article used a descriptive quantitative approach. All stories during the sample period were first collected from these four media outlets. Then the article used systematic random sampling and purposive sampli…
The Messenger (not the Medium) Is the Message? Uncovering Journalists’ Perceptions of Digital Disinformation in Conflict Countries
While research on disinformation in Africa is starting to gain attention, only a few of these studies have sought to uncover its connection to conflict contexts, an important area we seek to draw attention to with this study. Furthermore, barely any studies have uncovered journalists and other media workers’ perceptions of disinformation, particularly in countries dominated by conflict. This article uses participatory action research, specificall…
Aren’t we all journalists?” Citizen journalism, disinformation and the weaponization of social media in conflict torn Mali
The study combines domain expertise and computational community detection to uncover what role citizen journalists and social media platforms play in mediating the dynamics of conflict in Mali. Under conditions of the growing conflict in Mali, citizen journalists are opening Twitter (rebranded as X) accounts to stay updated and tweet about the ongoing socio-political tensions, chronicling life in a conflict-ravaged context. This article conceptua…
Redefining Community Broadcasting in Ethiopia: Towards Public Ownership and Engagement
This article scrutinises the nature of community broadcasting, in terms of ownership and public participation, in Ethiopia, using qualitative and quantitative data. While the qualitative data were collected through interviews, focus group discussions with media managers and journalists in nine community radio stations, and document analysis; the quantitative data were collected through questionnaires from 33 community broadcasting stations. Findi…
Social media discourses amidst ethnopolitical extremism and conflict: The case of Ethiopia
This article examines how influencers and political armies in Ethiopia use social media specifically Facebook to propagate sectarian rhetoric and ethnopolitical extremism within a society grappling with protracted internal conflicts, prolonged ethnopolitical extremism, and armed clashes. The study employs qualitative research methodology, using critical discourse analysis (CDA) alongside facets of rhetorical analysis, to examine Facebook posts an…
The vexed question of Ethiopian identity-driven politics and the discourse of political communication in the digital media sphere
This study aims to examine the interplay between political communication and discursive practices in the emerging new media landscape after the recent political reform in ethiopia. the study employs interpretative textual analysis in qualitative research approach to analyze political communication texts posted by political party leaders and activists’ official pages through Critical discourse analysis. By using this method, the study critically e…
Contemporary Contested Ethiopian Media Practice and Its Influence on Journalists’ Autonomy and Role
This study explores contemporary journalists' autonomy and role in the Ethiopian contested media practice by taking journalists working in Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). A qualitative research approach was used to collect data from journalists and admin staff. For triangulation, this study combined document analysis and observation. Fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted with purposively selected journalists and admin staff. The interviews …
Exploring Journalists’ Organizational Working Perceptions in the Ethiopian Local Media: A Focus on Amhara Media Corporation
This study is aimed at analyzing journalists’ organizational working perceptions in the Ethiopian local media. The study covered six branches of Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). It applied explanatory sequential mixed research in the course of a survey, in-depth interview, document analysis and observation instruments. To gauge the levels of organizational trust (OT), organizational commitment (OC), job satisfaction (JS), social exchange (SE) and …
Social media hate speech in the walk of Ethiopian political reform: Analysis of hate speech prevalence, severity, and natures
It is evident in this study that the social media sphere which has been highly controlled by the Ethiopian government for a long seems to untie right after the advent of the new political reform commenced in 2018. Following the transition, it is apparent that people are relatively enjoying the freedom of expression. On the contrary, the new digital platform is deemed to be subdued by the emergence of hate speech which is attributed to political, …
Towards ethno-political advocacy: Ethiopian journalists’ professional role perceptions in post-EPRDF interregnum
The study aims at investigating the interplay between the ethnic identity politics and journalists’ role perceptions in contemporary Ethiopian media landscape. Professional roles are a key topic in journalism research along with the fundamental elements in defining journalism as a profession because they suggest and provide insights about the environment surrounding the journalists. Based on the analytical model of journalism culture and social i…
Examining journalists organizational trust pursuant to predictive variables in the Ethiopian media industry: The case study of Amhara Media Corporation
This study aimed at examining journalists’ organizational trust by focusing on the relationships to the predictor variables of organizational commitment, job satisfaction and socio-economic exchanges at Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). Data were collected from self-administered report scales of 250 full-time employed journalists in the head office and across six branches of AMC in Ethiopia. The result of multiple regression analysis showed there w…
Ethnic Orientation over Ethical Underpinnings: Emerging Trends of the Ethiopian Media Landscape
The study aims to assess the interplay between ethnic identity politics and editorial independence of the six purposively selected ethnic-based Ethiopian media through the context of conflict reporting. In so doing, a total of 188 conflict news stories were collected from the selected television outlets and subjected to quantitative content analysis. Descriptive statistics of percentage and a non-parametric test of Chi-square were computed to see…
Why Silence? Reporting Internal Conflict in Ethiopian Newspapers
A Study on How Disaster Issues Reported On the Ethiopian Print Media
As one of the eastern African Countries which are vulnerable for wide range of calamities, Ethiopia is continuingly affected by drought, famine and other disasters. In this context, the role of media is vital in supporting the action to be taken in disaster reduction. The media play in changing the life style and creating the awareness of the pastoral and agro pastoral communities for the betterment of their livelihoods. The overarching objective…
Towards ethno-political advocacy: Ethiopian journalists’ professional role perceptions in post-EPRDF interregnum
The study aims at investigating the interplay between the ethnic identity politics and journalists’ role perceptions in contemporary Ethiopian media landscape. Professional roles are a key topic in journalism research along with the fundamental elements in defining journalism as a profession because they suggest and provide insights about the environment surrounding the journalists. Based on the analytical model of journalism culture and social i…
Aren’t we all journalists?” Citizen journalism, disinformation and the weaponization of social media in conflict torn Mali
The study combines domain expertise and computational community detection to uncover what role citizen journalists and social media platforms play in mediating the dynamics of conflict in Mali. Under conditions of the growing conflict in Mali, citizen journalists are opening Twitter (rebranded as X) accounts to stay updated and tweet about the ongoing socio-political tensions, chronicling life in a conflict-ravaged context. This article conceptua…
Contemporary Contested Ethiopian Media Practice and Its Influence on Journalists’ Autonomy and Role
This study explores contemporary journalists' autonomy and role in the Ethiopian contested media practice by taking journalists working in Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). A qualitative research approach was used to collect data from journalists and admin staff. For triangulation, this study combined document analysis and observation. Fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted with purposively selected journalists and admin staff. The interviews …
Why Silence? Reporting Internal Conflict in Ethiopian Newspapers
A Study on How Disaster Issues Reported On the Ethiopian Print Media
As one of the eastern African Countries which are vulnerable for wide range of calamities, Ethiopia is continuingly affected by drought, famine and other disasters. In this context, the role of media is vital in supporting the action to be taken in disaster reduction. The media play in changing the life style and creating the awareness of the pastoral and agro pastoral communities for the betterment of their livelihoods. The overarching objective…
Why Silence? Reporting Internal Conflict in Ethiopian Newspapers
Examining journalists organizational trust pursuant to predictive variables in the Ethiopian media industry: The case study of Amhara Media Corporation
This study aimed at examining journalists’ organizational trust by focusing on the relationships to the predictor variables of organizational commitment, job satisfaction and socio-economic exchanges at Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). Data were collected from self-administered report scales of 250 full-time employed journalists in the head office and across six branches of AMC in Ethiopia. The result of multiple regression analysis showed there w…
Ethnic Orientation over Ethical Underpinnings: Emerging Trends of the Ethiopian Media Landscape
The study aims to assess the interplay between ethnic identity politics and editorial independence of the six purposively selected ethnic-based Ethiopian media through the context of conflict reporting. In so doing, a total of 188 conflict news stories were collected from the selected television outlets and subjected to quantitative content analysis. Descriptive statistics of percentage and a non-parametric test of Chi-square were computed to see…
Exploring Journalists’ Organizational Working Perceptions in the Ethiopian Local Media: A Focus on Amhara Media Corporation
This study is aimed at analyzing journalists’ organizational working perceptions in the Ethiopian local media. The study covered six branches of Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). It applied explanatory sequential mixed research in the course of a survey, in-depth interview, document analysis and observation instruments. To gauge the levels of organizational trust (OT), organizational commitment (OC), job satisfaction (JS), social exchange (SE) and …
Social media hate speech in the walk of Ethiopian political reform: Analysis of hate speech prevalence, severity, and natures
It is evident in this study that the social media sphere which has been highly controlled by the Ethiopian government for a long seems to untie right after the advent of the new political reform commenced in 2018. Following the transition, it is apparent that people are relatively enjoying the freedom of expression. On the contrary, the new digital platform is deemed to be subdued by the emergence of hate speech which is attributed to political, …
Towards ethno-political advocacy: Ethiopian journalists’ professional role perceptions in post-EPRDF interregnum
The study aims at investigating the interplay between the ethnic identity politics and journalists’ role perceptions in contemporary Ethiopian media landscape. Professional roles are a key topic in journalism research along with the fundamental elements in defining journalism as a profession because they suggest and provide insights about the environment surrounding the journalists. Based on the analytical model of journalism culture and social i…
The vexed question of Ethiopian identity-driven politics and the discourse of political communication in the digital media sphere
This study aims to examine the interplay between political communication and discursive practices in the emerging new media landscape after the recent political reform in ethiopia. the study employs interpretative textual analysis in qualitative research approach to analyze political communication texts posted by political party leaders and activists’ official pages through Critical discourse analysis. By using this method, the study critically e…
Contemporary Contested Ethiopian Media Practice and Its Influence on Journalists’ Autonomy and Role
This study explores contemporary journalists' autonomy and role in the Ethiopian contested media practice by taking journalists working in Amhara Media Corporation (AMC). A qualitative research approach was used to collect data from journalists and admin staff. For triangulation, this study combined document analysis and observation. Fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted with purposively selected journalists and admin staff. The interviews …
Aren’t we all journalists?” Citizen journalism, disinformation and the weaponization of social media in conflict torn Mali
The study combines domain expertise and computational community detection to uncover what role citizen journalists and social media platforms play in mediating the dynamics of conflict in Mali. Under conditions of the growing conflict in Mali, citizen journalists are opening Twitter (rebranded as X) accounts to stay updated and tweet about the ongoing socio-political tensions, chronicling life in a conflict-ravaged context. This article conceptua…
Redefining Community Broadcasting in Ethiopia: Towards Public Ownership and Engagement
This article scrutinises the nature of community broadcasting, in terms of ownership and public participation, in Ethiopia, using qualitative and quantitative data. While the qualitative data were collected through interviews, focus group discussions with media managers and journalists in nine community radio stations, and document analysis; the quantitative data were collected through questionnaires from 33 community broadcasting stations. Findi…
Social media discourses amidst ethnopolitical extremism and conflict: The case of Ethiopia
This article examines how influencers and political armies in Ethiopia use social media specifically Facebook to propagate sectarian rhetoric and ethnopolitical extremism within a society grappling with protracted internal conflicts, prolonged ethnopolitical extremism, and armed clashes. The study employs qualitative research methodology, using critical discourse analysis (CDA) alongside facets of rhetorical analysis, to examine Facebook posts an…
Examining op-ed columns in the Ethiopian media: A study of the public sphere
This study investigates the state of the public sphere in the Ethiopian media during the country’s 2018 political reform. It reports on an innovative print format that has proved to be a public sphere. Drawing on methodological insight from quantitative content analysis, the study examines the democratic potential of op-ed columns in the light of public sphere theory. Contrary to the original purpose of op-ed column, our findings indicate that Et…
Hashtags, Hatetags and social media campaigns in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict
This article examines the role of social media, specifically Twitter, in the amplification of violent divisive discourse during Ethiopia's Tigray conflict (2020–2022), introducing the concept of Hatetags to analyze the transforming of hashtags into vehicles of digital conflict. Through a mixed-method approach combining explorative digital methods, qualitative content analysis and qualitative interviews, the study investigates how hashtags evolved…
Ethnic Identity and the Repression of Journalists Covering Conflict: The Case of Ethiopia (2020–2024)
Journalists’ safety and security are real concerns for many countries, specifically in developing countries, where political instability and internal conflicts have been pervasive. This article explores how journalists’ identities could be the cause of their repression in a conflict-prone country such as Ethiopia. The article used qualitative and quantitative approaches to collect data from 2020 to 2024, during which ethnically driven internal co…
Global media framing of conflicts in Ethiopia: A content analysis of war narratives and hegemonic interests
This article critically examines how international media outlets, such as the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and CGTN, have covered conflict stories in Ethiopia from 2020 to 2025, a period widespread of conflicts across many parts of the country. The article used a descriptive quantitative approach. All stories during the sample period were first collected from these four media outlets. Then the article used systematic random sampling and purposive sampli…
The Messenger (not the Medium) Is the Message? Uncovering Journalists’ Perceptions of Digital Disinformation in Conflict Countries
While research on disinformation in Africa is starting to gain attention, only a few of these studies have sought to uncover its connection to conflict contexts, an important area we seek to draw attention to with this study. Furthermore, barely any studies have uncovered journalists and other media workers’ perceptions of disinformation, particularly in countries dominated by conflict. This article uses participatory action research, specificall…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · African history and culture analysis (6 works) · Journalism (6 works) · Social media (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media Influence and Politics (5 works) · Politics (5 works)