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Publications

“Africa, Media, and Globalization.” Guest editor of special issue of Communication, Culture & Critique, 9(1), in press.

“Cartographies of Communication & Critique: Forging a Dialogue on Africa, Media and Globalization.” Communication, Culture & Critique, 9(1), in press.

Communication for Development: Theory and Practice for Empowerment and Social Justice, Third Edition. Co-authored with Srinivas Melkote, New Delhi, Sage, 2015.

Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana.” (2014). Video.

“Discovery Channel’s Jungle Gold in Ghana: Hegemonic Globalization Sparks Resistance and Policy Change.” Co-authored with Senyo Ofori-Parku. Media, Culture & Society, in press.

“The place and role of development communication in directed social change: A review of the field.” (2015). Co-authored with Srinivas Melkote. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2015.1050030.

“Intercultural Dialogue Through Immersive Learning: Media Internships in Ghana, West Africa.” (2014). Co-authored with Ed Madison. In Global Citizenship in a Digital World, MILID Yearbook 2014. Ed by Sherri Hope Culver and Paulette Kerr. Nordicom, pp. 215-226.

“Rejecting erasure tropes of Africa: The Amazing Race episodes in Ghana counter postcolonial critiques.” (2012). Co-authored with Matthew Muspratt, Communication, Culture and Critique, 5(4): 533-540.

“ICT4D, Gender Divides, and Development: The Case of Ghana.” (2012). Co-authored with Janet D. Kwami. In Melkote, S., Ed., Development communication in directed social change: A reappraisal of theories and approaches. Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), pp. 199-217.

“Toward a ‘Macro-Micro’ Analysis of Gender, Power and ICTs: A Response to Micky Lee’s Feminist Political Economic Critique of the Human Development Approach to New ICTs.” (2011). Co-authored with Janet D. Kwami and Brenna Wolf-Monteiro. International Communication Gazette.

The Amazing Race in Burkina Faso.” (2010). In Herman Wasserman, ed., Taking it to the Streets: Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa, Routledge.

“Feminism in the Post-Development Age.” 2009). Co-authored with Luz Estella Porras. In Thomas McPhail, Ed., Development Communication: Reframing the Role of the Media. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 141-158.

“Commodifying Africa on U.S. Network Reality Television.” (2008). Communication, Culture & Critique, 1: 416-446.

“Gender and Development” (2008), and “Development and Spirituality” (2010). Entries in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Communication.