Bio
Lungile Augustine Tshuma is a Researcher in the Centre for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal. Prior to this, he was a senior post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Lungile, an experienced journalist, worked for The Chronicle and The Sunday News publications in Zimbabwe before joining the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe. Lungile’s research interest are on photography, memory, and journalism studies. His work has been published in local and international journals such as Journal of Genocide Research, African Journalism Studies, Critical Arts, Nations and Nationals, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Media, Culture and Society. Lungile has is an author of a monograph Photographing the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe: Politics, Power, and the Images of Zenzo Nkobi, and has edited several titles namely: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism; Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans; Remembering mass atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representation.