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Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey, D.o.P

Department of Media, Language and Communication · Durban University of Technology, South Africa — Assistant Professor

Department of Journalism and media Studies · Rhodes University, South Africa — Researcher

Research Areas

  • Journalism
  • Media and Information Literacy
  • Media Audiences
  • Media Systems
  • Media, Information and Communication Technology
  • Public Relations
  • Science Communication
  • Social Media

Ongoing Projects

Taxing big tech to pay for news: Perspectives from Ghana

Data journalism practice in Ghana

Highlighted publications

Adjin-Tettey, T. D., Selormey, D., & Nkansah, H. A. (2021). Ubiquitous technologies and learning: Exploring perceived academic benefits of social media among undergraduate students. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education 18(1), 1-16.

open_in_new doi.org/10.4018/IJICTE.286758

Adjin-Tettey, T. D. (2013). The perception and usage of weather forecast information by residents of ACP estates and farmers in the Pokuase community of the Ga West municipality of Ghana, International Journal of ICT and Management, 1(3), 139-149

Adjin-Tettey, T. D., Bolfrey, A., Bugase, C. A., Adotey, T., Dodoo, S. Jnr. (2013). The influence factor: a study of advertising and use of mobile phones by students of two universities in Ghana, International Journal of ICT and Management, 1(3), 171-178.

Yeboah-Banin, A. A. & Adjin-Tettey, T. D. (2023). Financial viability of Ghanaian media. In State of the Ghanaian Media Report (31 – 46). Accra: University of Ghana Press.

Adjin-Tettey, T. D. (2023). Safety of Journalists in Ghana. In State of the Ghanaian Media Report (60 – 70). Accra: University of Ghana Press.

Adjin-Tettey, T. D. (2020). Healthcare Gets Smarter: Smart and Digital Technology Usage by Maternal and Neo-Natal Healthcare Providers. In S. Umair (Ed.), Mobile Devices and Smart Gadgets in Medical Sciences (pp. 39-55). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

open_in_new doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2521-0.ch003

Adjin-Tettey, T. D. & Akrobotu, V. A. (2018). A critical analysis of the use of mobile devices in the classroom and its implication for effective teaching and learning. In A. Khan, & S. Umair (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Mobile Devices and Smart Gadgets in K-12 Education (pp. 225-239). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

open_in_new doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2706-0.ch014

Adjin-Tettey, T. D., Asuman, M. and Ayim-Segbefia, M.S. (2023). Safety of Journalists from a Gendered Perspective. Evidence from Female Journalists in Ghana’s Rural and Peri-Urban Media, Communitas, 28, 133-150

open_in_new https://doi.org/10.38140/com.v28i.7599

Adjin-Tettey, T. D & Amenaghawon, F. (2024). Countering the threats of dis/misinformation: Fact checking practices of students of two universities in West Africa. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 14 (1), e202409.

open_in_new https://doi.org/10.30935/ojcmt/14134

Muringa, T. & Adjin-Tettey, T. D. (2025). Assessing the responsiveness of journalism curricula to the labour market needs in South Africa: A systematic review. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, (online first), 1-24.

open_in_new https://doi.org/10.1177/10776958251356372

Adjin-Tettey, T.D., Asuman, M.A.K. (2025). Journalism at Risk: Safeguarding Journalism Through Safety and Trauma Education. In: Uzuegbunam, C.E., Aiseng, K. (eds). Navigating Trauma in African Journalism, Volume 2, pp 219–242. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

open_in_new https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94673-8_12

About

Dr Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey is a senior lecturer at the Department of Media, Language and Communication, Durban University of Technology, and a former Research Associate at the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa. She was earlier a postdoctoral fellow on the NRF-funded Licence to Talk research project at the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, from January 2020 to December 2021.

Theodora holds a Master of Philosophy and PhD degrees in Communication Studies from the University of Ghana and the University of South Africa, respectively. She has published academic papers and book chapters in the areas of new media usage and appropriation, body image and influence of media, climate change communication, among others. She co-edited the book, Communication and Social Change in Africa: Selected Case Studies (2025), published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands.

Research projects she has been part of are the sustainable journalism in sub-Saharan Africa study and policy brief, the South African country report on government communications during the pandemic, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Foundation-funded study on global strategies to save Journalism, the Open Society Foundations’ commissioned report on news consumption habits among non-elite audiences in the global south and the State of the Ghanaian Media report funded by the United States Embassy in Accra, Ghana.

Her research interests span emerging (digital) technologies usage and appropriation, journalism and media studies and climate information consumption. Theodora is a member of the African Journalism Educators’ Network (AJEN); an affiliate of the Intercontinental Panel on the Information environment (IPIE), a Switzerland-based organisation devoted to providing policymakers, business, and civil society with unbiased scientific assessments of the global information environment, and serves on its Ethics Committee. She is also an affiliate of the Sustainable Journalism Partnership (SJP).

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