Dr Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey is a lecturer at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghana and a Research Associate at the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa. She was 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. 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 give policymakers, business, and civil society with unbiased scientific assessments of the global information environment; as well as an affiliate of the Sustainable Journalism Partnership (SJP).
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
Data journalism practice in Ghana
Highlighted publications
Adjin-Tettey, T. D. & Braimah, S. (2023). Assessing safety of journalism practice in Ghana: Key stakeholders’ perspectives. Cogent Social Sciences, 9 (1), 1-16 (222583).
Adjin-Tettey, T.D. (2022). Teenagers and new media technologies: Gratifications obtained as a factor for adoption. Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa, 41(2), 11-30.
Adjin-Tettey, T. D. & Garman, A. (2022). Lurking as a mode of listening in social media: motivations-based typologies. Digital Transformation and Society, 2(1), 11-26.
Adjin-Tettey, T.D. (2022). Combating fake news, disinformation, and misinformation: Experimental evidence for media literacy education. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 9(1), 2027598.
Adjin-Tettey, T.D. (2021). Covid-19 compelling governments to listen? Evaluating traces of listening to public opinion in Ghana’s Covid- 19 presidential lockdown speeches. African Renaissance, 18(4), 261-283
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.
Adjin-Tettey, T. D., & Garman, A. (2021). Solutions journalism as a tool to erode polarisation in the media and society. African Journalism Studies, 42(2),
Adjin-Tettey, T. D., Allottey, E. Ogoe, A. S. & Anyomi H. (2020). Public relations as strategic management function in selected organisations in Accra, Ghana. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Organizational Studies, 15(1), 13-28.
Adjin-Tettey, T. D (2020). Can ‘digital natives’ be ‘strangers’ to digital technologies? An analytical reflection. Inkanyiso, Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 12(1), 11-23.
Adjin-Tettey, T. D., & Mbatha, B. (2019). Digital natives’ appropriation of new media technologies: A survey of literature. Covenant Journal of Communication (CJOC), 6(2), 47 – 71. h
Adjin-Tettey, T. D. (2019). Coverage of Climate Change: Graduate Students’ Climate Change Policy Awareness and Assessment of Ghanaian Media. The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, 11(3), 35-52.
Adjin-Tettey, T. D., & Mbatha, B. (2019). Use and Appropriation of New Media Technologies by Teens: “The e-Teen Model” perspective. Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies, (1), 16-42, 2658-7734
Adjin-Tettey, T. D. (2017). New media learning practices among higher education students in Ghana. The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 2(3), 1-13.
Adjin-Tettey, T. D. & Bempah, K. (2015). A study exploring the influence of media consumption on body image and beauty among young corporate Ghanaian women in the Greater Accra Region. Journal of Business Research, 9, 28-43
Adjin-Tettey, T. D. (2014). Adoption and utilisation of learning /course management systems: the study of University of Professional Studies, Accra. International Journal of ICT and Management, 2(1), 38-64.
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.
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.
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
Adjin-Tettey, T. D (2023). Ghana’s Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2019: An exploration of its implementation dynamics. The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC), 32, 1-17.
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.
Adjin-Tettey, T.D. (2024). From the classroom to the African newsroom: How journalism education can bridge the gap between the classroom and the shrinking newsroom. African Journalism Studies, 45 (1).
Booker, N., Balliah, D., Mustsvairo, B., Adjin-Tettey, T. D., Holt, K., Tallert, L. & Mujati, J. (2024). Putting forward sustainability as a model for African journalism education and training. Journalism Practice, 18 (4), 1-25.
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