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Achieving media independence through legal and regulatory measures: A formality or reality?

Nyarko, Jacob; Mensah, Eric Opoku; Owusu-Amoh, Stephen Kwame (University of Cape Coast, 2018-03-26)

Ghana’s Fourth republican constitutional provisions on the independence of the media and of expression were subjected to a qualitative assessment on the question: has it lived up to expectation? The study showed that the ...
Actions and reactions to the evacuation of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Ghana: A content analysis of Daily Graphic Online Reporting

Nyarko, Jacob; Mensah, Eric Opoku; Bossman, Albert (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

The Guantanamo Detention Camp was a facility created by the US government to house enemy combatant captured from war fronts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Amid controversies surrounding the legality of their detention, the ...
An analysis of descriptive features in the english used in an advertising text

Torto, Richard T. (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

The goal of advertising is the persuasion of a customer of the merits of a particular product or service. Whatever the strategy advertisers employ in order to influence the consumer, language is the main carrier of the ...
Aristotelian rhetorical theory as a framework for analyzing advertising texts in the print media in Ghana

Torto, Richard T. (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

Advertisements are fashioned in diverse forms, but in most of them, language is absolutely essential. Although visual images, graphic and color designs and other techniques constitute aspects of print advertising, it is ...
Authenticity and sampling in C-Tests: A schema-Based and Statistical Response to Grotjahn’s Critique

Khodadady, Ebrahim (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

The paper aims to respond to Grotjahn‟s (2012a) critique of Khodadady and Hashemi‟s (2011) paper “Validity and C-Tests: The Role of Text Authenticity” by employing reduced redundancy (RR) and schema theories. It counter ...
Between old and new: Cognitive dissonance and the politics of research

Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

In what ways does academic dissonance influence the conduct of research? Or rather what does it mean to convert from a research tradition that valorizes realism to one that emphasizes the rhizomatic, the postmodern, the ...
Beyond Self Containment: On the Politics of Identity and Culture in a ‘Glocal’ Society

Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

As a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. This ...
Categorial function and lexico-grammatical meaning as new theories in Indonesian linguistics

Sofyan, Agus Nero; Hum, M. (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

This research, entitled “Categorial Function and Lexico-grammatical Meaning as New Theories in Indonesian Linguistics,” aims at introducing and applying new concepts/theories to Indonesian Linguistics. Using qualitative ...
The changing college radio model of broadcasting in Ghana

Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

There is a considerable history of campus radio that is under-developed and analsed as part of the larger communit media movement. This paper situates an account of the history and recent developments at one campus radio ...
Collective memory, merging enemies, consistency of word and place: Nkrumah’s rhetorical artefacts in the “Positive Action” protest

Mensah, Eric Opoku (University of Cape Coast, 2007)
Communication in the world of fantasy: A case of Inez Haynes Gillmore’s Angel Island

Torto, Richard T. (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

One of the greatest classics of feminist fantasy science fiction, Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gillmore, tells the tragic story of what happens when a group of five shipwrecked sailors encounter on an Island five winged-women ...
A comparative study of challenger-incumbent strategies in Ghanaian presidential campaign: The Case of John Agyekum Kufuor

Mensah, Opoku Eric; Sarfo-Adu, Kwasi; Archibald, Afful Joseph Benjamin (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

In recent years, growing research interest in challenger-incumbent campaign communication has provided illuminating insights into the kinds of strategies favoured by challengers and incumbents in presidential elections. ...
The constraint of a rhetorical invention: Kwame Nkrumah and the Organization of African Unity

Mensah, Eric Opoku (University of Cape Coast, 1960)

Rhetorical constraints have the potential to inhibit a successful communication transaction. How they do that sometimes practically remains unclear, especially within the study of rhetoric in the African context. This paper ...
The coverage of Africa in Ghanaian newspapers: The dominant Western voice in the continent’s coverage

Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

A growing literature has emerged that is contesting the validity of Africa’s negative Western media representation as a myth and empirically non-existent. This article examines how four national newspapers in Ghana reported ...
The dilemma of building campus radio stations on a business model: the case of ATL FM in Ghana

Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

The quest for competitiveness and popularity of a campus radio station needs to be balanced with the epistemological frames of community radio, which include participation, community ownership, and opposition to hegemonic ...
Donor aid and private investment: Their interplay with media development

Nyarko, Jacob; Mensah, Eric Opoku; Hamusokwe, Basil (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

Media development requires substantial funding, and therefore, donors, foreign governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and foundations have found a way to play an influential role through their financial support. ...
Establishing ethos and envisioning a new Africa: Kwame Nkrumah’s invention at the 1958 All-African People’s Conference

Mensah, Eric Opoku (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

In 1958, Kwame Nkrumah, the Prime Minister of Ghana, called for a conference of independent heads of state in Africa. It was a novelty in Africa. The conference was to provide a formal continental platform for the political ...
An examination of journalistic codes of ethics in Anglophone West Africa

Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

Ethical scandals involving ournalists in English-speaking West African countries have been documented to include conflict of interest, freebies, intellectual theft, deception, carelessness, kowtowing to advertisers and ...
The Global imperialism project: lessons from television, movies and radio

Opoku, Mensah Eric; Owusu-Amoh, Stephen; Nyarko, Jacob (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

Old and latest trends in discussions in the sphere of the role of mass communication in media and cultural imperialism have centered on cultural hegemony and cultural colonialism among other such lines of ideological debate. ...
The Governmentality of journalism education in Ghana

Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

This study evaluates the role of two state regulatory regimes in shaping journalism education at a public university in Ghana. Focusing on the mandates of the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) and the National ...

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