| Domaine de recherche | l'Afrique |
| Pays de résidence | Le Ghana |
| Titre | Assistant Professor |
| Affiliation | Ashesi University College |
| Adresse électronique | joduro-frimpong@ashesi.edu.gh |
| Adresse | Ashesi University College.
1 University Close,
Berekuso, Eastern Region
PMB CT 3, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana. |
| Téléphone/Télécopie | Tel: +233-302-610330
Fax: +233-302-610340 |
| Pays de spécialisation | Ghana |
| Éducation | - Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (PhD., Sociocultural Anthropology)
- Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant (M.A., Human Communication)
- University of Ghana (M.A. Archival Studies)
- University of Ghana (B.A., English and Linguistics) |
| Recherche | Visual Culture Studies
Interpersonal Communication
Popular Culture |
| Enseignement | Ghanaian Popular Culture
Communication and Culture
African Philosophical Thought
Ghanaian Visual Media |
| Publications | 2014 Sakawa Rituals and Cyberfraud in Ghanaian Popular Video-Movies. African Studies Review, 57(2), 131-147.
2014 “Better Ghana Agenda: On Akosua Cartoons and Critical Public Debates in Contemporary Ghana. In "Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of Everyday (Stephanie Newell & Onookome Okome [Routledge])
2011 Semiotic Silence in Intimate Relationships. Journal of Pragmatics 43(9), 2331-2336
2009 Glocalization Trends: Examining the Case of Hip-Life Music in Contemporary Ghana. International Journal of Communication, 1085-1106.
2007 Semiotic Silence: Its’ Use as a Conflict-Management Strategy in Intimate Relationships. Semiotica 167:285-308.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
2011Music and Dissent: Ghana & Nigeria (Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movements Media)
2011 African Video Films & Political Critique (Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movements Media)
2011 White Supremacists’ Tattoos as Alternative Media (Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movements Media)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2015 (Accepted and forthcoming). Review 'African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History' Cinema Journal: Transformative Works and Cultures
2011 Review ‘Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa’ Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 32(2), 138-140.
2008 Ghanaians & Uncomfortable Issues. The New Legon Observer 2 (13). |
| Mots-clés | Ghanaian Popular Culture, Global Media Studies, Visual Culture Studies |
